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The Brick With Eyes planning Canberra return

The Australian has the news that former Canberra Raiders great Glenn Lazarus is running for a Queensland Senate seat as part of Clive Palmer’s team: Billionaire Clive Palmer unveiled his party’s federal senate candidates in Brisbane today. Lazarus, 47, the only player to win a rugby league premiership with three different clubs, will lead the team. He played [...]

V.Ships Leisure Appointed as Titanic II Ship Manager

Australian billionaire, Clive Palmer, announced this week that the he has appointed V.Ships Leisure as the official ship manager of his Blue Star Line’s Titanic II project.

Eccentric Billionaire Now Filling His ‘Jurassic Park’-Style Resort With Dinosaur Robots

Last time we checked on Australian billionaire Clive Palmer, he had fancy plans to clone dinosaurs for a real Jurassic Park at his Palmer Resort in Coolum, Queensland. He also plans to build a 20-story sky needle and a replica of the London Eye ferris wheel at this same resort. Show More Summary

Billionaire Plans to Fill Parks With Hundreds of Giant Robot Dinosaurs

It may not be a true-to-life Jurassic Park, but it won't be too far removed, either. Australian mining magnate Clive Palmer is in the midst of building two dinosaur-themed resorts, and he's just placed an order for 117 fully animatronic dinosaurs — including a 1.2 ton Brachiosaurus, a 22 foot tall Mamenchisaurus, and 68 foot long Apatosaurus. Read more...

Robotic Jurassic Park Planned By Australian Billionaire Clive Palmer

Brisbane, Australia – An Australian billionaire is planning to build a robotic dinosaur park containing 165 life-size animatronic dinos. Cliver Palmer, whose other hobbies include building and launching a Titanic doppelgänger (coming 2016), has already ordered more than 100 life-size dinosaur robots from China to strut and growl around his dino resort in Brisbane, Australia. [...]Show More Summary

Australian billionaire plans robotic ‘Jurassic Park’

Titanic Reborn?

The sinking of the Titanic is probably the most famous naval disaster in history, and has been the subject of many commemorations. What's not a commemoration is the plan by Australian billionaire Clive Palmer to build a 1:1 scale replica of the Titanic, albeit with some different insides behind the scenes, and sail it on the same route. Show More Summary

Weird Boat Thing: Behold These Ultra-Creepy Interiors From the New 'Titanic'

Photo and rendering via Daily Mail Apparently colonizing neighboring planets and buying entire Hawaiian islands are just so passé for billionaires there days. Australian mining and real estate tycoon Clive Palmer has devised a genius plan to spend millions...

Australian Billionaire Announces Plans to Build a Replica of Titanic

The interest in Titanic had reached a feverish pitch last year as it was exactly a hundred years ago that the giant steamship ‘Royal Mail Steamer’, RMS Titanic sank in the North Atlantic on 15th April 1912 on its maiden voyage after hitting an iceberg. Lot of Titanic memorabilia had appeared on the market. The [...]Show More Summary

Billionaire Clive Palmer Unveils Titanic II Designs

Last spring we told you about an Australian billionaire named Clive Palmer who announced plans to build the Titanic II. We didn't actually think he'd go through with it, but here we are. With new designs.

Australian Billionaire Hopes Not To Repeat History When His Planned ‘Titanic 2? Sets Sail

Let’s hope this ship has a better maiden voyage than its namesake! An Australian billionaire is planning to bring the most infamous nautical disaster of all times back to life… READ ON

Australian Billionaire: “Titanic II” Will NOT Be Unsinkable

By Jonathan Allen NEW YORK (Reuters) – Australian mining entrepreneur Clive Palmer on Tuesday unveiled blueprints for Titanic II, a modern replica of the doomed ocean liner, although he stopped [...]

A Perfect Idea, Obviously

Australian billionaire Clive Palmer is building a replica of the Titanic, because that is just a great idea and who can believe some other billionaire hasn't already done it? (Everyone. Everyone can believe that.) Except for eccentric...Show More Summary

Titanic II is happening, but it’s not the Kate Winslet/Leo DiCaprio reunion you were hoping for

Your decade-old “King of the World” fantasies with Leonardo DiCaprio just got one step closer to reality. Australian billionaire Clive

Billionaire Spills Details of 'Titanic II'

An Australian billionaire has revealed detailed plans for a new Titanic —this one much safer than the original, its designer says. The Titanic II "will be absolutely the most safe cruise ship in the world," says Markku Kanerva, of the Finnish firm behind the replica. That doesn't mean it's "unsinkable,...

Titanic II Interior Plans Revealed

An Australian billionaire has released blueprints for the Titanic II, with plans to set sail across the Atlantic in 2016. Real estate and coal magnate Clive Palmer announced his plans at the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum in New York on Tuesday.  He said...

New Titanic Ocean Liner to be Made in China

Illustration of Titanic II arriving in New York © Blue Star Line One of the luxuries of being astronomically wealthy is having the ability to indulge your whims. Australian billionaire Clive Palmer has decided to spend $200M to build a full-scale, working replica of the notoriously doomed ocean liner of a century ago. The Titanic [...]

Come Aboard! Here's What The 'Titanic II' Will Look Like, Inside And Out

Australian billionaire Clive Palmer announced last year that he would build a replica of the famous passenger ship. Now the new ship's designer has released images of what the ship is due to look like. Would you want to sail on it?

Titanic II: Australian Billionaire Clive Palmer releases plans for Titanic replica set to sail in 2016

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Will the Titanic II be unsinkable?

An Australian billionaire is financing plans to build a replica of the luxury liner.