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Feature: Storyland seeks fairy tale ending

KNIGHT(S) NEEDED Franky Wu is hoping to find some investors that will give his debt-ridden trip down memory lane a cash injection. But no Chinese, please

By Jackie Lin  /  STAFF REPORTER

The budget also spun out of control, he said.

The items displayed in Storyland represent just part of Wu's 20,000-piece collection.

In response to calls from the public, he opened the site for free yesterday to allow visitors to take photographs.

"They've done a good job preserving these traditional things. It'd be a shame if the museum had to be shut down," said a middle-aged woman surnamed Chen, who had brought her seven-year-old son along for a visit.

"Storyland really needed more marketing. I never noticed its existence although I pass by this area a lot," she said.

"They should just ask [Hon Hai Precision Industrial Co (鴻海科技) chairman] Terry Gou (郭台銘) to invest NT$100 million," she said.

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