The best candy shop in town!

You already know how much I like the Boardwalk Candy Palace (Disneyland Paris): besides the delicious fudges -on my last day I always buy at least three of them so when I'm back home I can still enjoy the good-ol-times flavours of Main Street U.S.A.- and wide variety of cookies and candies, the shop has always been one of the most charming of all Disneyland, so when I heard for the first time they were renovating it completely, I was a little concerned: well, I was wrong.
They managed to do a wonderful retheming and I'm proud to say it's even better than before. Don't believe me? Take a look at my pictures, then!

Details: star-spangled banner flags

Maybe only a few will notice, especially if you live in the United States and are mainly used to Disneyland's and Magic Kingdom's Main Street's, but these pictures capture one of those little details, those kinetic props, somenthing that has been missing for more than a decade: star-spangled banner flags are back.

In 1992, in order to reinforce the sense of displacement while helping guests from all over Europe to fully understand what Main Street U.S.A. was about, imagineers decided to take advantage of the huge constant winds blowing over Marne-la-Vallée and put on top of most of the buildings of Main Street the famous star-spangled banners flags: that way, just looking around and above, even the most sidetrackable guest would have understood that Main Street was about the United States somewhen in the past: dont't forget that European Audiences don't have the same knowledge and emotional bound to american victorian turn-of-the-century architecture that American audiences have, so imagineers had to remember that when designing the formerly called Euro Disneyland.



Then, the so-called cultural Chernobyl. In a desperate (and quite late in my opinion) effort to soften the critics, most of the signs and props candidly stating their proud americaness, were swiftly put away and forgotten in an oubliette of Sleeping Beauty Castle waiting for the dust to settle and for better times to come.

Something more about me

If in the past months you read this blog and happened to like my posts and wanted to know a little more about myself, you can finally visit Kawaille, my brand new blog excusively designed to house all my personal thoughts and pictures. Beware though: Kawaille speaks Italian only, so it might be a little hard to understand it at first. Nonetheless if you're attending an Italian class and need a little excercise, or always wanted to learn Italian but never knew where to start, this could be just the right place to go!