Intrigued or annoyed, cheerful or disapointed, worried or hungry those are the states of mind guests are in steping in the 4 City Halls of the 5 Magic Kingdoms.
In every Magic Kingdoms, you find them on your left entering the park. In the oldest and youngest Kingdoms the City Halls are quiet the same. As many already know Hong Kong Disneyland Main Street replicates the design of the Motherpark and only differs by the texture and color used to garnish the buildings. Buildings are therefor the very same shape. The city hall is not even different in color, only the roof tiles differ from the original.
Now as for Walt Disney World’s, it is like its Main Street, more New England inspired but poor in colors. Quiet richer and bigger than Disneyland’s as well.
In Paris, the look is more a more general approach of American architecture : red bricks and slate shingle rooves. The one simiral to the American Pavillon in Epcot. The golden elements add some kind of refinement unique to this park along with the 4 sided clock bell tower. Orlando is the only other City Hall to give time to guests.
In Tokyo they don’t really have a City Hall, they have an information point called Main Street House. It is not a singled out building but mainly a store on the front side of the World Bazaar structure. I didn’t think it was relevant to this article.
Disney’s City Hall always fascinated me because they include in the Kingdom theme the idea of an administration that supervise the magic. They stand out on your left like the information and help anchor of your Kingdom.
Only in Disneyland and Walt Disney World can you have your picture taken with the mayor though, I’ve never seen that big belly in Paris.
Credits : Magic Kingdom Park’s City Hall picture is from Flickr user Still Burning
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I love these kind of posts!
Have been so busy – so only catching up now – but fantastic posts with great pictures too :D.