Museum, the Movieland Wax Museum, the Niagara SkyWheel, Dinosaur Park Mini Putt Golf and Ghostblasters, a haunted house merged with a laser tag game.

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Among the offerings are a bid to park a Mini in a space simply not mini enough for it, a man using a space so small that he has to turn his wheel a dozen times and jolts the neighbouring cars with every movement, and a car reversing heavily into the one behind it - repeatedly.

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Other than pricing, Apple hit it out of the park with the iPad Mini.

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Hong Kong has taken the possibility of a far-in-the- future Disney theme park and a first-step deal between Microsoft and Hong Kong Telecom as excuses for a mini-rally.

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And wander it will, especially when playing the closest thing to a must-have Wii U launch title, NintendoLand, a theme park game inhabited by Miis (Nintendo's virtual caricatures of players) with a dozen mini-games that riff on Nintendo themes and characters.

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