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07-09-2009, 04:11 PM
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#1 | | y'all better put some respeck on my name
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| Chinese group planning Neverland ranch replica
LOL, China replicates everything and anything. Quote:
SHANGHAI (AFP) – A group of businesspeople are proposing to build a replica of Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch on an island north of Shanghai as a tribute to the late singer, state media reported Thursday.
The 100 million-yuan (14.6 million-dollar) replica would be the centrepiece of an agricultural sightseeing park where visitors will be able to sample rural cuisine and listen to Chinese folk music performances, the Shanghai Daily reported.
"We believe the farmland, without the Neverland Ranch, would be too plain," Qiu Xuefan, a chamber of commerce representative for businesspeople from the eastern manufacturing city of Wenzhou told the newspaper.
"We think it would be a good idea to build a place for Chinese fans to remember him," Qiu was quoted as saying, adding inspiration for the replica came after Jackson's death last month.
The report did not specify which parts the group planned to recreate from Jackson's former ranch, which featured a zoo, an amusement park and cinema.
At 667,000 square metres (165 acres), the replica ranch would be one seventeenth the size of the original, the report said, adding the first phase of the project on Chongming Island could be completed as soon as next year.
Wu Pei, another member of the Wenzhou Chamber of Commerce, said the group had contacted people close to Jackson about buying memorabilia for the ranch.
She told the newspaper the group did not believe the Jackson estate would oppose the replica ranch.
"We believe Jackson's cultural relics belong to the whole world," she said. "We don't think there will be a problem with intellectual property rights."
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07-09-2009, 04:32 PM
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They better include a "petting" farm.  | |
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07-09-2009, 04:44 PM
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#3 | | I contribute to threads in the offtopic forum
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Q: How do you know it's bedtime at Neverland Ranch?
A: When the big hand touches the little hand.
RIP MJ.
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07-09-2009, 04:46 PM
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#4 | | Everyone wants a piece of R S...
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Who owns the rights to neverland now? I'm sure they'd get sued
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07-09-2009, 05:12 PM
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Originally Posted by In_MODeration  Who owns the rights to neverland now? I'm sure they'd get sued | they are jus replicating .... thats not illegal...
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07-09-2009, 05:16 PM
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#6 | | I contribute to threads in the offtopic forum
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Originally Posted by In_MODeration Who owns the rights to neverland now? I'm sure they'd get sued | isn't it his accountant or something?
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07-09-2009, 07:17 PM
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#7 | | I WANT MY 10 YEARS BACK FROM RS.net!
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this is 2008 news Quote:
US pop singer Michael Jackson is no longer the owner of the Neverland ranch in California after the deeds for the property were transferred to the Sycamore Valley Ranch Company, which he has a share in...
Sycamore Valley Ranch Company is affiliated to Colony Capital, an investment business that had helped bail Jackson out in March when $24.5m (£16m) was owed on Neverland...
The ranch had to be closed in 2006 after the singer had failed to pay his staff or keep up its insurance properly.
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yes...colony capital LLC is still the owner http://www.ksby.com/Global/story.asp?S=10626320 | |
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07-09-2009, 11:58 PM
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#8 | | Hypa owned my ass at least once
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hm.... a fake neverland
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07-11-2009, 01:27 PM
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#9 | | RS has made me the bitter person i am today!
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fake animals and fake rides??/ COOl.....FAKE MJ!!!
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07-11-2009, 02:17 PM
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#10 | | I'm better than you.
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wtf?
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