tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3368901063253741756.post3142107647318312633..comments2023-07-19T11:52:50.847-04:00Comments on AstroBoy World: Statuesque!Ninjatronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06422140631759518593noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3368901063253741756.post-297177056520098942009-09-15T22:39:55.980-04:002009-09-15T22:39:55.980-04:00Oh! I just want to add that since Superman was act...Oh! I just want to add that since Superman was actually co-created by a Canadian (Joe Shuster was from Toronto) we can therefore count him as our own... So, let's start raising funds for a Superman statue now. :pAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3368901063253741756.post-33234890205218920822009-09-15T22:37:00.464-04:002009-09-15T22:37:00.464-04:00Yep, I actually knew about the Superman statue. An...Yep, I actually knew about the Superman statue. And we actually do have something like that in Canada. It's in Vulcan, Aberta, where they have a large replica of the Starship Enterprise. It's a way of leveraging the popularity of a pop culture phenomenon for tourism dollars simply because of the similarity in place name, which I am sure is the reasoning behind what they did in Metropolis Illinois with Superman.<br /><br />The only problem is that in Canada we don't have many genre based icons of our own. Star Trek was not created by a Canadian for instance (nor Wolverine, even though yeah he is Canadian in the story). I think the closest we have to a home-grown tourist attraction based on something from Canadian pop culture is the Anne of Green Gables farmhouse in Cavendish, P.E.I.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3368901063253741756.post-24127218122595156902009-09-15T21:13:52.375-04:002009-09-15T21:13:52.375-04:00There's a Superman statue in the actual town o...There's a Superman statue in the actual town of Metropolis, which is in Illinois. A Superman museum is there too. That's about it as far as I know. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolis,_Illinois<br /><br />Canada should have a Wolverine statue!<br /><br />Sayonara.Ninjatronhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06422140631759518593noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3368901063253741756.post-20767055037882362562009-09-15T19:48:08.430-04:002009-09-15T19:48:08.430-04:00I love how prevalent characters from pop culture a...I love how prevalent characters from pop culture are in real life Japan (in the form of statues, but still) and wish we were as open to that here.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com