Alton Towers to build 'fairytale' holiday village

“Wow, nice to see some positive comments on investment.

Ron, I would suggest you looked here at this planning application for the new accommodation and see that a lot of planning has gone into this.

http://tinyurl.com/d88dl7n

See how much planning and consultation has gone into this. Plus add to the Long Term Development Plan (LTDP) You will see that every angle has been investergated, looked at, considered and from what has been researched and reported (not just for the benefit of Alton Towers/Merlin) but also for the local tourism and towards the financial benefit of not just the locals but also the tourism of Staffordshire as a whole.

The LTDP
http://tinyurl.com/bohbvgf”

“What about the "nightmare" village proposals in Barthomley for over 4,000 houses being built in prime farm land wiping out 600 acres of countryside, natural beauty and wildlife habitat, not forgetting taking the tenants' homes over and forcing out those that already live there?”

“are them magic mushrooms for the new councils office garden in that picture???????? :)”

“I don't doubt for one moment that the name "Hobbit" is protected by copyright but I'm sure you'll find that similar type buildings have been going up for years and the design is not copyright. To me it looks uncannily like a nissen hut with earth on top.”

“Thanks I_Norris, couldn't see that planning Ap at all earlier, must need my glasses.

The second photograph, whilst still Hobbit inspired is a lot more acceptable I feel as they have altered it enough to make it original. Something like that I wouldn't have an issue with. It's the image used in this article I feel is a complete rip off of The Shire.”

“Ron DePlume the planning application can be viewed here http://tinyurl.com/d6lnler

and here another view of cabins sadly not in hills, maybe those are VIP ones :(
https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/197547_393637877373329_1093285504_n.jpg

looks awesome, cant wait meself”

“Oh dear once again summertime spectacularly misses the point (you are so good at it now why change?) What he hell has Alton Towers standing in the theme park leagues got to do with infringing copyright? Unless you really do naively believe that just because a business is well known and successful that it couldn't happen?
Lets see, in the recent past Claires Accessories were taken to task for copying jewellery designs from Tatty Devine. Oh, but Claires are a high street store! They wouldn't possibly do that would they!? Then we have H&M in the USA who ripped off some independent T Shirt designs, GAP? Oh yes, them too...
Just because AT is a big, established Theme Park doesn't mean it wont set out to copy ideas, and to some extent thats ok if you put your own spin on it and alter it significantly enough, what they have done here though is blatantly copied something. A cynic would question whether that design would be completely different were the Hobbit not part of a successful Hollywood franchise. Of course AT know about copyright, I imagine they also hope they can fly under the radar and not be noticed much like Claires, H&M, GAP etc did before them.

And are you really so naive to think that the artists impression wouldn't be akin to the finished article? Artists Impression: a sketch or drawing of someone or something, produced when no photograph is available.
They are hardly going to draw a Hobbit house and build a castle now are they?”

“I hope Alton Towers invest in the proposed revitalization of the rail link between Alton and Stoke, creating a great way to journey to the theme park, by train, we can have steam trains pulling lovely carriages carrying persons to their fairy tale vacations. The cities and towns of Staffordshire could benefit even more. Stoke could be the main beneficiary in that the TOURIST WILL WANT TO TRAVEL TO ALTON TOWERS VIA THIS CITY AND IT'S RAIL STATIONS”

“Ron you really are amazing. you claim you have an 'in depth knowledge" of copyright law, ok then you imply that Alton Towers are just some johnny come lately business who will just go out and infringe on every legality they can because they really have no clue what they are doing and so dispel any notion of this in depth knowledge you claim to have.
As I said, Alton Towers have been around a long time, much longer than Universal in Orlando, so I expect they know something about how to run their company, how to improve and build up their theme park without doing it illegally. Apparently you have not noticed that the picture attached to the article is an 'artist's impression' of what is to come, not the real or finished thing and that I imagine it is there so boors like yourself can pontificate about it!”

“I hope one day to create a theme park which I loosely refer to as "Onanist World" Safe to say that once it is in full operation, I shall expect to be involved in litigation with the erstwhile "commentators" on 'ere duck.........”