August 2009
Titanic Pigeon Forge Draws Attention Along Parkway
PIGEON FORGE, Tenn. (August 2009) -- Titanic is stopping traffic in Pigeon Forge and people are talking.
"How will they get it to the ocean? "I get seasick. Will I have to take Dramamine?" "When will it be ready to sail?"
People say the darndest things when they visit us at our Titanic Preview Center located on the ship's construction site at the north end of Pigeon Forge. Granted, it is a surprising sight to see a big (30,000) square-foot ship taking shape in the Great Smoky Mountains but this is just the beginning. Just wait until they see Titanic in all her glory come next year in April." says Titanic owner John Joslyn.
More than 800 curiosity seekers stop by everyday for a sneak peak of this new landmark development in the making. In addition, a large electronic billboad flanks the museum attraction's entrance, giving passers-by continuous construction updates and headline information.
There are some fine traveling Titanic exhibits on tour, but Titanic Pigeon Forge will be a permanent three-deck structure built firmly on Tennessee soil. Shaped like Titanic herself, it will comfortably hold 20 galleries to display hundreds of authentic, priceless Titanic artifacts that were either carried from the ship and into lifeboats by passengers and crew, or were found afloat soon after the sinking and quickly salvaged by recovery ships.
Thanks to a team of skilled and talented artisans, the museum attraction will also feature finely crafted exact reproductions of the original Titanic’s Marconi Wireless Room, its famous Grand Staircasea First-Class suite and a Third-Class cabin. Guests will be able to walk the fully functional Grand Staircase. It will lead to the First-Class suite, which will be dedicated to the Polk-Carters, a socially prominent American family—with strong ancestral ties to Tennessee—that was returning home to Philadelphia following a trip abroad.
The ship will be anchored in water to create the illusion of Titanic at sea, and a 90-minute self-guided tour will give guests the sensation of sailing on the original ship’s 1912 maiden voyage. Upon entry, each guest will receive a boarding pass bearing the name of an actual Titanic passenger or crew member whose fate will be reveled on the Memorial Wall at tour end. Along the way, powerful emotions will surface as guests…
* Walk Titanic’s Grand Staircase
* Touch the frozen surface of an “iceberg”
* Feel the chill of that fateful “Starry Night
* Study some of the largest, most detailed Titanic models ever built
* Grip the ship’s wheel and follow the Captain’s commands
* Tour world-class galleries and the rare historical artifacts they hold
* Sit in a Titanic lifeboat and listen to actual survivors tell their stories
* Send an SOS from the Marconi Wireless Room
* Test their balance while standing on mini-decks built to show the ever-steeper slope of Titanic as she sank
* Watch children six years and younger explore the special interactive Titanic Tot Play-and-Learn Room
* Dive to Titanic’s wreck site via spectacular underwater camera footage
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Cedar Bay Entertainment is a privately owned entertainment and development company headquartered in Branson, Missouri, the site of Cedar Bay’s first Titanic Museum Attraction. Since its April 2006 grand opening, it has welcomed more than 1.6 million guests.
Contact:
Mary Kellogg
417-334-9500
Web site: www.TitanicPigeonForge.com