Residents of the British city of Walsall are not happy about the 15 giant green planters recently installed in the city center. Many point out how they look like the warp tubes in town Mario Games.
As reported by Birmingham MailThe pots were bought in town and set up with taxpayers’ money. This has not been well received by the people there, who find the pots ugly and wonder if these Mario-style planters were the right way to spend money on Walsall during a troubled time. The city is currently trying to cut £ 29 million from its budget.
“It begs for faith,” said local florist Andrea Loveridge. “It makes the place like something Super Mario brothers. They look like those chain pipes that Mario jumps off. “
Loveridge, along with others who have spoken to him Birmingham Mailexpressed frustration that the city was spending money on these warp tubes instead of trying to get more business into the downtown area, which has been badly hit by over a year of lengthy closures.
Supermarket worker Sue Morrisson also stated that in a “living, modern city” these Mario pipes could work. But right now the city is “dilapidated and looking tired” so these fun pots just look out of place. Morrisson also said: “Everyone calls them Mario pipes, that makes us a bit ridiculous.” Apparently most of the people in Walsall are Sega fans.
Adrian Andrew, vice chairman of Walsall Council, said in a statement that the planters were installed with funds from the national government’s Accelerated Towns Funding project.
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“Working at Walsall Town Center aims to bring a number of improvements to create a sense of well-being and security and to improve the city center environment,” said Andrew. “And a key element of that work was getting more plants downtown to create a more social space outside of the Walsall Art Gallery.”
If they did this, they should have got it right and taken note of another English city’s approach. Woking, in 1998, installed a 23 foot statue of a Martianto commemorate the destruction of the city in war of the Worlds. This is how it’s done. Start the petition for a giant Bowser sculpture to destroy the main street.
(h / t Eurogamer)
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