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Monday, January 10, 2005

Category: Football (our kind)
We went to see the crocodiles at the aquarium today but the queue was way too long and we ended up at the AFL Hall of Fame and Sensation.
The best I can say is that it was a bit lame. It's quite large but it doesn't use the space very well. Some of the exhibits are complete mysteries. One is a car with a body shaped like an assymetric boat. I have no idea why it was there.
There was no indication of any sort of linear progression through the exhibits. In particular, there was a Grand Final multimedia presentation that was labelled something like "the last presentation on your tour" but the doors were closed and after waiting for ten minutes with no sign of when the next "show" was to begin, we moved on.
Some of the exhibits were labeled:
This Interactive is
temporarily out
of order
Please move onto
the next interactive

No punctuation!
Interactive is inconsistently capitalised
Interactive is an adjective not a noun
Given no particular ordering of "interactives", which would be considered "next"?
"onto" not "on to" implies that the "next" "interactive" needed to be mounted in some way. No such "interactives" were sighted

One of the "interactives" allowed kids to build a newspaper article using pictures, words, and their own names. Once completed, the kids could email the result to themselves at home. That's good, but before they could send the email they had to enter street address and phone number!
Instructions for, and even the intention of some of the exhibits was unclear.
To top it all off, Gary Ablett is not in the hall of fame and there's folks as say Wayne Carey will probably not be considered either. Gary "has requested that Geelong stop nominating him for the AFL Hall Of Fame" The Hall of Fame would appear to be a fairly dull concept without these two.
If I had known that Gary Ablett was not in the Hall of Fame at least partly as a conscious decision by those who decide on inductions, I would not have spent a cent going to this "Hall of Fame and Sensation".

- posted by Semi @ 3:43 PM 0 comments