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| - Oh man, this was something in my Vegas trip I wish I could have my money back.
I didn't have any remorse or regrets when I dropped $40 in the slot machines on any given hour. Somehow even before going inside to the exhibit, I had already regretted spending money here.
We stayed at the Tropicana hotel for the weekend. Before we started hitting back home, my friend and I decided to check out this exhibit as there was a huge buzz regarding this show. I didn't even know there was some controversy surrounding this exhibition until I looked it up on-line.
Let me give some background info regarding this exhibition. The Bodies is about ..the body. What they are showing was an opened & dissected bodies that displayed arrays of different layers of tissues/muscles and bones preserved in a rubberization process. That way it won't decayed or faded in open air or light.
The on-going controversy was sparked by news of the Chinese government letting the exhibit's organizers carped up the body and show different stages of life from an unborn fetus to an adult man/woman have raised some debates and awareness. Then it recent times, it was later revealed that body may or may not be given to the show voluntarily. The dead bodies was supposedly given by the Chinese government was because they were unclaimed by families of the deceased
The only question to me was whether or not this was a fascination of human science or just a shock value for an entertainment in Vegas.
Oh how I wish it was either one!
The mood for the exhibit started out pretty badly. When I was ready to go in and purchase the ticket, I clipped a coupon from a magazine that was given out by the hotel we stayed in (the same one, Tropicana). The ticket counter girl snobbishly returned my coupon and proclaimed it was EXPIRED. I looked at the expired date and it was 11/30/07.
That was fine, but the problem was that the magazine was a recent issue and was given out by the hotel in our hotel room's table. When I went back home, the magazine was a December's issue. So in essence, the hotel screwed up. I was a little peeved by the snobbish attitude of the young lady. When I tried to explain this situation to her, it was fallen on deaf ears. Even worse, I could hear her little voice saying "yeah, but it's still expired".
STFU!!
We paid the tickets and the Young ticket lady did relented to give us the TWO DOLLAR discount that was on the coupon. Honky dory, we moved on to the exhibits in the bottom floor of the hotel.
As we navigate through different rooms where each room represents a different part of the human body. Every room have a skeletal display of dissected body performing some form of activities. The first room showed a male skeleton with muscles tissues throwing a football. It would have a different pose displayed by the dissected bodies.
There were notes and other signs on the case/wall that would explain about the functions of each human organs. If you don't like to read, you can pay $8 extra for an audio device to help you guide through the tour. You would walk about close to 10 different rooms that will last you a good hour or so.
Here's the rub off. That exhibit cost around $32 with the audio portion another $8. I felt like going through an abbreviated text book tour with some close up visuals to help me understand about biology. Once the buzz about the controversy rub off, the exhibits was starting to get boring. Let's be honest, the museum of Natural Science would work the same way, but charged less.
The exhibits tour was brief and the body parts was not all that fascinating. Once we looked at the rubberized plastination of the bodies, you would have ogled at the body parts at first, but then the buzz that got you interested will start to wane as you realized most of these you can get from watching a documentary or reading from your text book.
I just wish they can do something to jazz up the exhibits. Make it more lively like having a video presentation of dissection of the body. The plastinations looked cool up front, but every room was starting to look the same after the third room. Even the fetus section was not controversial enough to keep me going.
Going through the ruddie poo of a ticket girl was one thing. Walking through a repetitive museum tour is another. In the end, that $30 with a $2 discount was not worth the hour I had wasted.
If I knew, I would have played the Wheels of Fortune slot machine for 15 minutes with that $30 than spending it here.
Heck, I even wish I could get two lap dances out of it for $30!
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