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[DJ Jo-D]

Originally Posted by Dave

Other than that, I have enough clothes, sofas and useless crap, thanks.

I really need to adopt that attitude!

[KimyReizeger]

58,000 people attended over 8 hours yesterday. Incredible. People queuing up at the Apple store for free 'exclusive' Apple T-shirts. In fact, I couldn't understand why the Apple store was so busy. Can anyone explain? What's so interesting about a few gizmos, phones and laptops?

And what'll happen to Union Street, which already looks grubbier and shopper-hostile by the day.

[DJ Jo-D]

Originally Posted by KimyReizeger

58,000 people attended over 8 hours yesterday. Incredible. People queuing up at the Apple store for free 'exclusive' Apple T-shirts. In fact, I couldn't understand why the Apple store was so busy. Can anyone explain? What's so interesting about a few gizmos, phones and laptops?

And what'll happen to Union Street, which already looks grubbier and shopper-hostile by the day.

I heard they were giving away ipods!

[Original Spies]

What a kick in the teeth that would be for suckers like me who paid for one.

[Carrots Gladstone]

I just don't understand the excitement attached to something like this. I couldn't give a fuck about a few new shops, and there's no way in hell I'd go near the place this weekend. It will just be so fucking busy.

I was speaking to a mate who's in the police, and they are treating this weekend as a "major event" with pretty much every police officer in the land being on hand when (not if) trouble and chaos ensues this weekend. The city's infrastructure apparently just won't cope with the amount of traffic that's going to be in and about the centre tomorrow.

I'm off to burgle some houses whilst they're all otherwise occupied.

[Sue Denim..]

I think I might be in an advert for the shopping centre.
Some camera crew came up to me (obviously because they like the 'hung-over look') and asked me to stare into the camera and say "It's Happening!"

I can see the start of a new career on the horizon.

[ca_gere]

Originally Posted by Sue Denim..

I think I might be in an advert for the shopping centre.
Some camera crew came up to me (obviously because they like the 'hung-over look') and asked me to stare into the camera and say "It's Happening!"

I can see the start of a new career on the horizon.

Classic. Did you ask what exactly was 'happening'?

I dunno where I stand on this thing. It's another faceless shopping centre that i'll never buy anything from but if it improves Aberdeen in any way (circulation/parking/etc), i'm all for it.

[RockAustin]

Originally Posted by ca_gere

Classic. Did you ask what exactly was 'happening'?

I dunno where I stand on this thing. It's another faceless shopping centre that i'll never buy anything from but if it improves Aberdeen in any way (circulation/parking/etc), i'm all for it.

It's just a shame that it looks so shit. Would have been a great chance to have something designed well.

[Le Stu]

Originally Posted by KimyReizeger

And what'll happen to Union Street, which already looks grubbier and shopper-hostile by the day.

Hopefully, I'll actually be able to walk down it again without developing a loathing for my fellow man

My hope for the centre is that it'll act like a huge idiot magnet, sucking them away from Aberdeen's metropolitan heart.

[MattJimF]

Originally Posted by ca_gere

I dunno where I stand on this thing. It's another faceless shopping centre that i'll never buy anything from but if it improves Aberdeen in any way (circulation/parking/etc), i'm all for it.

I'm unsure about the circulation thing, due to it being remote from the rest of the city centre.
To get to it you either have to go through the Trinity Centre (Never gonna call it the Mall), down the stairs to the green, down Market or Bridge Street or under Union Street via Correction Wynd (by the grave yard), not the most accessible place for disabled people.
Yes the bus station is there, but surely you would want to visit the other shopping areas.
The crossing point between the Station hotel and the Trinity Centre simply will not cope with the foot fall as the majority of able bodied people will cut through the Trinity Centre, add the chaos that is Guild Street normally and i fear that there may be a few fatalities in that area in the coming months.

Personally i think that when the Trinity Centre was built originally they should have done all the work to link everything up so that there was better access to Union Street from the train and bus station rather than what we have now.

Also do we really need three fucking Next stores??