{"id":5297,"date":"2012-09-07T10:55:22","date_gmt":"2012-09-07T17:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/?p=5297"},"modified":"2012-09-07T10:55:22","modified_gmt":"2012-09-07T17:55:22","slug":"superman-fans-campaign-for-kansas-city-to-be-renamed-smallville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/superman-fans-campaign-for-kansas-city-to-be-renamed-smallville\/","title":{"rendered":"Superman fans campaign for Kansas city to be renamed Smallville"},"content":{"rendered":"

After 141 years, Hutchinson, Kansas, is ready for a big change \u2014 or at least three of its residents are.<\/p>\n

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Comics fans Ben Eisiminger, KC McNeely and Christopher Wietrick believe their city has so much in common with Smallville, the fictional hometown of Clark Kent, that Hutchinson should change its name.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is a Metropolis [in Illinois],\u201d Wietrick tells KWCH TV, \u201cwhy isn\u2019t there a Smallville?\u201d<\/p>\n

To that end, the aspiring comic artist and his two friends have launched a Facebook page called simply, Hutchinson, KS Should Be Named \u201cSmallville.\u201d \u201cOur hometown has several tourist attractions already,\u201d the page states. \u201cWe would love to see that increase by a great amount and we strongly believe that should this happen it would be a huge economic boost to the city, county and area.\u201d Since its July 15 debut, the page has garnered 1,241 \u201cLikes\u201d \u2014 not bad for a city of 42,080 people a figure that may or may not include a stray Kryptonian or two.<\/p>\n

So what makes Salt City the ideal candidate to become Smallville? Aside from its central Kansas location, Wietrick argues the Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center is the perfect place to store the rocket that brought the infant Kal-El to Earth, and that the Kansas Underground Museum is important \u201cbecause we have a mineral underground, just like Smallville \u2014 thankfully it\u2019s not kryptonite, it\u2019s salt.\u201d As a bonus, the museum already has an exhibit showcasing a Superman costume and other Hollywood memorabilia a secured section of the same mine is devoted to Underground Vaults & Storage, a temperature- and humidity-controlled facility used to house motion picture negatives, television show masters, costumes, medical records and the like.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur ultimate goal is for Warner Bros. and DC Comics to recognize Hutchinson as Smallville, Kanas,\u201d Wietrick says. \u201cIt could be a huge boost to the town.\u201d<\/p>\n

Smallville, which made its comic-book debut in 1949, was given a vague and often changing geographical location until 1986, when it was firmly established in Kansas.<\/p>\n

via Superman fans campaign for Kansas city to be renamed Smallville | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources \u2013 Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After 141 years, Hutchinson, Kansas, is ready for a big change \u2014 or at least three of its residents are. Comics fans Ben Eisiminger, KC McNeely and Christopher Wietrick believe their city has so much in common with Smallville, the fictional hometown of Clark Kent, that Hutchinson should change its name. \u201cThere is a Metropolis […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1opIU-1nr","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3514,"url":"http:\/\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/smallville-season-11-to-be-released-nerd-reactor\/","url_meta":{"origin":5297,"position":0},"title":"Smallville Season 11 to be released \u00ab Nerd Reactor","author":"AJ","date":"February 16, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"DC will be continuing the Smallville series, however, this Smallville series will be continued not as a TV show, but as a comic book. 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