# Baker’s Dozen III **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [August 22, 2022, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093 "2022-08-22T15:39:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 255
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2024, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093/5081 "2024-04-28T15:36:36Z")
**Fictional Museums** 1. Museum of Television and TV - _The Simpsons_ 2. Unnamed toy museum in Japan - _Toy Story 2_ 3. The Palace of Green Porcelain - H.G. Wells’ _The Time Machine_ 4. [Fleet Museum - _Star Trek_](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Fleet_Museum) 5. The Flash Museum - _DC Comics_ 6. Duval’s Cave of Wax - _Get Smart_ 7. Superman’s Fortress of Solitude 8. Trudy’s House of Wax - _House of Wax_ ---
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**Fictional Museums** 1. Museum of Television and TV - _The Simpsons_ 2. Unnamed toy museum in Japan - _Toy Story 2_ 3. The Palace of Green Porcelain - H.G. Wells’ _The Time Machine_ 4. [Fleet Museum - _Star Trek_](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Fleet_Museum) 5. The Flash Museum - _DC Comics_ 6. Duval’s Cave of Wax - _Get Smart_ 7. Superman’s Fortress of Solitude 8. Trudy’s House of Wax - _House of Wax_ 9. George Rogers’ wax museum - H.P. Lovecraft’s _The Horror in the Museum_ ---
**Author:** ![Jegpeg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jegpeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jegpeg)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2024, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093/5083 "2024-04-28T19:53:46Z")
**Fictional Museums** 1. Museum of Television and TV - _The Simpsons_ 2. Unnamed toy museum in Japan - _Toy Story 2_ 3. The Palace of Green Porcelain - H.G. Wells’ _The Time Machine_ 4. [Fleet Museum - _Star Trek_](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Fleet_Museum) 5. The Flash Museum - _DC Comics_ 6. Duval’s Cave of Wax - _Get Smart_ 7. Superman’s Fortress of Solitude 8. Trudy’s House of Wax - _House of Wax_ 9. George Rogers’ wax museum - H.P. Lovecraft’s _The Horror in the Museum_ 10. Jurassic Park ---
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**Fictional Museums** 1. Museum of Television and TV - _The Simpsons_ 2. Unnamed toy museum in Japan - _Toy Story 2_ 3. The Palace of Green Porcelain - H.G. Wells’ _The Time Machine_ 4. [Fleet Museum - _Star Trek_](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Fleet_Museum) 5. The Flash Museum - _DC Comics_ 6. Duval’s Cave of Wax - _Get Smart_ 7. Superman’s Fortress of Solitude 8. Trudy’s House of Wax - _House of Wax_ 9. George Rogers’ wax museum - H.P. Lovecraft’s _The Horror in the Museum_ 10. Jurassic Park 11. Black Museum - _Black Mirror_ ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2024, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093/5085 "2024-04-29T22:01:46Z")
Jurassic Park is a very particular (and particularly dangerous) kind of amusement park and wild-animal preserve, but I don’t think of it as a _museum_. ---
**Author:** ![Jegpeg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jegpeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jegpeg)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2024, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093/5086 "2024-04-29T22:11:59Z")
The natural history museum where people go to see the skeletons on dinosaurs is regarded as a museum. There are living museums like [Beamish](https://www.beamish.org.uk/) which attempt to bring history to life by showing people (and animals) living as they would in the past. So why wouldn’t a place where people go to see dinosaurs live like they did in the past not be a museum. ---
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Well, the final scene of _Jurassic Park_, where the T-Rex kills the Raptors, takes place in a display of dinosaur skeletons, which might be considered a museum of sorts. In play: **Fictional Museums** 1. Museum of Television and TV - _The Simpsons_ 2. Unnamed toy museum in Japan - _Toy Story 2_ 3. The Palace of Green Porcelain - H.G. Wells’ _The Time Machine_ 4. [Fleet Museum - _Star Trek_](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Fleet_Museum) 5. The Flash Museum - _DC Comics_ 6. Duval’s Cave of Wax - _Get Smart_ 7. Superman’s Fortress of Solitude 8. Trudy’s House of Wax - _House of Wax_ 9. George Rogers’ wax museum - H.P. Lovecraft’s _The Horror in the Museum_ 10. Jurassic Park 11. Black Museum - _Black Mirror_ 12. _The Museum of Extraordinary Things_ - Found in the book of the same name by Alice Hoffman ---
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**Fictional Museums** 1. Museum of Television and TV - _The Simpsons_ 2. Unnamed toy museum in Japan - _Toy Story 2_ 3. The Palace of Green Porcelain - H.G. Wells’ _The Time Machine_ 4. [Fleet Museum - _Star Trek_](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Fleet_Museum) 5. The Flash Museum - _DC Comics_ 6. Duval’s Cave of Wax - _Get Smart_ 7. Superman’s Fortress of Solitude 8. Trudy’s House of Wax - _House of Wax_ 9. George Rogers’ wax museum - H.P. Lovecraft’s _The Horror in the Museum_ 10. Jurassic Park 11. Black Museum - _Black Mirror_ 12. _The Museum of Extraordinary Things_ - Found in the book of the same name by Alice Hoffman 13. The Tree Museum – referenced in the Joni Mitchell song, _Big Yellow Taxi_. Admission price is a dollar and a half. …and I pass. _ **-“BB”-** _ ---
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Next topic: **United States Professional Sports Venues Which No Longer Exist** 1. Municipal Stadium - Kansas City, MO ---
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**United States Professional Sports Venues Which No Longer Exist** 1. Municipal Stadium - Kansas City, MO 2. Ontario Motor Speedway – Ontario, CA Motorsports venue in California designed to host evemts by all four major autosport sanctioning bodies at the time (NASCAR, USAC – now know as IndyCar, NHRA, and F1). Opened in 1970; closed in 1980 and was demolished and the land sold for real estate developments. _ **-“BB”-** _ ---
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**United States Professional Sports Venues Which No Longer Exist** 1. Municipal Stadium - Kansas City, MO 2. Ontario Motor Speedway – Ontario, CA 3. Candlestick Park - San Francisco, CA Hosted baseball’s Giants and football’s 49ers, and was the site of the last Beatles live concert before a paying audience. It was demolished in 2015. ---
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**United States Professional Sports Venues Which No Longer Exist** 1. Municipal Stadium - Kansas City, MO 2. Ontario Motor Speedway – Ontario, CA 3. Candlestick Park - San Francisco, CA 4. Tiger Stadium - Detroit, MI ---
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**United States Professional Sports Venues Which No Longer Exist** 1. Municipal Stadium - Kansas City, MO 2. Ontario Motor Speedway – Ontario, CA 3. Candlestick Park - San Francisco, CA 4. Tiger Stadium - Detroit, MI 5. Kingdome - Seattle, WA ---
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**United States Professional Sports Venues Which No Longer Exist** 1. Municipal Stadium - Kansas City, MO 2. Ontario Motor Speedway – Ontario, CA 3. Candlestick Park - San Francisco, CA 4. Tiger Stadium - Detroit, MI 5. Kingdome - Seattle, WA 6. Polo Grounds - New York City ---
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**United States Professional Sports Venues Which No Longer Exist** 1. Municipal Stadium - Kansas City, MO 2. Ontario Motor Speedway – Ontario, CA 3. Candlestick Park - San Francisco, CA 4. Tiger Stadium - Detroit, MI 5. Kingdome - Seattle, WA 6. Polo Grounds - New York City 7. Colt Stadium - Houston Always intended to be a temporary stadium, the Colt 45s/Astros used it until the Dome was ready in 1965. It was dismantled and sold(like a kit) to a baseball team in Torreon, Mexico, and then again to a team in Tampico. Due to its ability to be disassembled and reassembled, the stadium became popularly know as Millon de Tuercas (million screws). Probably the only MLB stadium that was sent down to the minors 🙂 ---
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**United States Professional Sports Venues Which No Longer Exist** 1. Municipal Stadium - Kansas City, MO 2. Ontario Motor Speedway – Ontario, CA 3. Candlestick Park - San Francisco, CA 4. Tiger Stadium - Detroit, MI 5. Kingdome - Seattle, WA 6. Polo Grounds - New York City 7. Colt Stadium - Houston 8. Chicago Coliseum - Chicago ---
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**United States Professional Sports Venues Which No Longer Exist** 1. Municipal Stadium - Kansas City, MO 2. Ontario Motor Speedway – Ontario, CA 3. Candlestick Park - San Francisco, CA 4. Tiger Stadium - Detroit, MI 5. Kingdome - Seattle, WA 6. Polo Grounds - New York City 7. Colt Stadium - Houston 8. Chicago Coliseum - Chicago 9. Ebbets Field - NYC ---
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> [@Bayaker](#): > > Due to its ability to be disassembled and reassembled, the stadium became popularly know as Millon de Tuercas (million screws). This was a fact of which I was unaware. Ignorance fought, once again. > [@Bayaker](#): > > Probably the only MLB stadium that was sent down to the minors OK, this made me laugh. Carry on. ---
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**United States Professional Sports Venues Which No Longer Exist** 1. Municipal Stadium - Kansas City, MO 2. Ontario Motor Speedway – Ontario, CA 3. Candlestick Park - San Francisco, CA 4. Tiger Stadium - Detroit, MI 5. Kingdome - Seattle, WA 6. Polo Grounds - New York City 7. Colt Stadium - Houston 8. Chicago Coliseum - Chicago 9. Ebbets Field - NYC 10. Frank Youell Field - Oakland, CA Raiders home field 1962-65 ---
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**United States Professional Sports Venues Which No Longer Exist** 1. Municipal Stadium - Kansas City, MO 2. Ontario Motor Speedway – Ontario, CA 3. Candlestick Park - San Francisco, CA 4. Tiger Stadium - Detroit, MI 5. Kingdome - Seattle, WA 6. Polo Grounds - New York City 7. Colt Stadium - Houston 8. Chicago Coliseum - Chicago 9. Ebbets Field - NYC 10. Frank Youell Field - Oakland, CA 11. Boston Garden - Boston, MA Longtime home of Boston’s Celtics (basketball) and Bruins (ice hockey). Both teams played at the Garden until 1995. Boston Garden was demolished three years later. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093.md?page=254) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093.md?page=256)