The Emperor’s Terracotta Soldiers: Pint-Size Replicas For Sale
We’ve all heard the fairy tale about the emperor’s new clothes, but what about the real life story concerning the emperor’s old army?
Houston, Texas, was the scene of one of the strangest liquidations ever to occur. It concerned the closing of Forbidden Gardens, the Katy Theme Park featuring 6,000 thigh-high terracotta replicas of the army excavated from the tomb of China’s first emperor.
Progress in the form of an expanded Grand Parkway, which connects the city’s suburbs, is forcing the closing of Forbidden Gardens at the end of this month after a successful, 15 year run.
What will become of the garden’s many Chinese-themed decorations? Where will all the terracotta soldier guardians go, not to mention the doll-size Forbidden City and the full-scale copy of the Imperial Dragon Throne?
The lawyer in charge of the sale, Dixon Montague, claims that the founder of the Forbidden Gardens hopes to sell them all in a single lot for the purpose of resurrection in another location.
Montague says that his reclusive client, Forbidden Gardens founder, Ira Poon, hopes that he can find a buyer who shares his dream of establishing such a theme park elsewhere. Any acceptable asking price remains a secret, but Montague is very verbal about the fact that very little time remains for any potential buyer.
The dis-assembly of exhibits has already begun and doors to the gardens will close on February 21.
So check out Craig’s List and get your soldiers now before they go AWOL and can never be found again.
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By MDeeDubroff on 20-02-2011
