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Narnia in Philly
Mar. 29th, 2009 05:14 pmI almost forgot to write a LJ post about this. XP Tuesday night Alyce came and kidnapped me for a few days of Littlestown fun. We went up to Philly on Wed in order to go to the Franklin Institute because they have a Narnia exhibit going on right now. So of course we were dorks and were all "we have to go!" Though at first I was a bit "...is it really worth the price?" as it was like $24 and I thought it would be a small exhibit. And the large amount of children in the place made me nervous as I really didn't want to be surrounded by them.
But we were waiting for Krys to get into the city so we ended up waiting past the time when the school groups started to leave. So that worked out for the better. Even if Krys ended up not showing up til after we went into the exhibit.
So I really just expected it to be several rooms of displayed items. I had no idea how nice it was going to be. We entered it and the first part was this little waiting room that was set up with displays for the actual books, showing various editions and information on CS Lewis himself. And then when we were ready the employees led us through this door and left us in this second room...and there's the Wardrobe right in front of us. I was squeeing inside as I was all "omg I've always wanted to do this ever since I was a kid!". Yeah I'm a dork. Shush. XP So yeah, they had fake windows that had water falling on them to look like it was raining and the audio starts up with a little introduction and the sound effects from the movie with Peter counting. And then the Wardrobe doors open and we walked through and they had the fur coats on either side so it really felt like you were really going through it. T_T And then they had fake snow coming down on our heads. And yeah, I got a little teary-eyed. I won't lie. lol
It was really really cool! Most of the exhibit was actual items from the sets of the two movies. Including a large amount of the costumes. *_* We drooled over Jadis' first outfit for quite a long time. They had her crowns and scepter. And they had a mock up of her throne you could sit on that was all cold. And of course we all sat on it and had cold bums as a result. XP Then they had the Beavers' (or was it the Badger's from Caspian? Not sure) den set up and you went into it and had to duck your head down. Though I was just short enough that I could stand in there without quite hitting my head. ^^; They had more stuff from the 2nd movie sadly though but I guess it makes sense. They had all the battle outfits from it and Alyce drooled over Susan's for quite some time. lol And they also had a bunch of interactive bits for kids that was pretty cute like they had two guys with a catapult display that would let you try it. XP I kinda wanted to do it even though I knew it was for kids but I didn't want to embarrass myself by doing it, lol. So I pretended I was too cool for it. Haha. They sadly didn't have many of the ending outfits. Just Caspian's which I wasn't very interested in. We were hoping they'd have Susan's so Alyce could take note of all the details since she made that one recently. And at the end they had the crowns from the first movie in a display with a video behind it of Aslan saying "Once a king and queen of Narnia, always a queen and king of Narnia" which made me tear up a bit. I so wanted to take the crowns home with me. They were so pretty.
And then after that was the little gift shop. Didn't see anything I had to have but Alyce bought a Turkish Delight for her and I to share. As we felt the need to finally try it. And we both actually liked it. ^_^ Despite various people saying they thought it tastes awful. But then again this particular one was chocolate covered and rose flavored. XP So not exactly the traditional kind. But whatever. XP
Afterwards we met up with Krys (Ambrosia/Ryoko) and ended up going to King of Prussia mall with her...which is HUGE! o_o And we went to the Sanrio store. Oh god that place. XP lol It was pretty cool how they had a point system. After you buy so much stuff, you get points and you can use the points for free stuff. Brittany got some thanks to her purchases. Then we had some delicious Japanese food and I was dragged into the Betty Johnson boutique with them. Oh god the pink! XP Actually I do find designer outfits pretty interesting especially from a seamstress point of view. But my stomach was hurting so I sat most of the time while Alyce tried on a dress that she ended up going home with. It was really cute. ^^
The rest of the time in Littlestown was spent being introduced to the HBO show Rome which they had the boxset of. Didn't get to see the end but they got me pretty addicted so I am very looking forward to watching the rest next time I go up. XP And I played with many kitties~ Which always makes me happy. ^_^ Finally got to actually see the infamous Lendel and Stavan for more than 10 seconds. XP
~Lyn
But we were waiting for Krys to get into the city so we ended up waiting past the time when the school groups started to leave. So that worked out for the better. Even if Krys ended up not showing up til after we went into the exhibit.
So I really just expected it to be several rooms of displayed items. I had no idea how nice it was going to be. We entered it and the first part was this little waiting room that was set up with displays for the actual books, showing various editions and information on CS Lewis himself. And then when we were ready the employees led us through this door and left us in this second room...and there's the Wardrobe right in front of us. I was squeeing inside as I was all "omg I've always wanted to do this ever since I was a kid!". Yeah I'm a dork. Shush. XP So yeah, they had fake windows that had water falling on them to look like it was raining and the audio starts up with a little introduction and the sound effects from the movie with Peter counting. And then the Wardrobe doors open and we walked through and they had the fur coats on either side so it really felt like you were really going through it. T_T And then they had fake snow coming down on our heads. And yeah, I got a little teary-eyed. I won't lie. lol
It was really really cool! Most of the exhibit was actual items from the sets of the two movies. Including a large amount of the costumes. *_* We drooled over Jadis' first outfit for quite a long time. They had her crowns and scepter. And they had a mock up of her throne you could sit on that was all cold. And of course we all sat on it and had cold bums as a result. XP Then they had the Beavers' (or was it the Badger's from Caspian? Not sure) den set up and you went into it and had to duck your head down. Though I was just short enough that I could stand in there without quite hitting my head. ^^; They had more stuff from the 2nd movie sadly though but I guess it makes sense. They had all the battle outfits from it and Alyce drooled over Susan's for quite some time. lol And they also had a bunch of interactive bits for kids that was pretty cute like they had two guys with a catapult display that would let you try it. XP I kinda wanted to do it even though I knew it was for kids but I didn't want to embarrass myself by doing it, lol. So I pretended I was too cool for it. Haha. They sadly didn't have many of the ending outfits. Just Caspian's which I wasn't very interested in. We were hoping they'd have Susan's so Alyce could take note of all the details since she made that one recently. And at the end they had the crowns from the first movie in a display with a video behind it of Aslan saying "Once a king and queen of Narnia, always a queen and king of Narnia" which made me tear up a bit. I so wanted to take the crowns home with me. They were so pretty.
And then after that was the little gift shop. Didn't see anything I had to have but Alyce bought a Turkish Delight for her and I to share. As we felt the need to finally try it. And we both actually liked it. ^_^ Despite various people saying they thought it tastes awful. But then again this particular one was chocolate covered and rose flavored. XP So not exactly the traditional kind. But whatever. XP
Afterwards we met up with Krys (Ambrosia/Ryoko) and ended up going to King of Prussia mall with her...which is HUGE! o_o And we went to the Sanrio store. Oh god that place. XP lol It was pretty cool how they had a point system. After you buy so much stuff, you get points and you can use the points for free stuff. Brittany got some thanks to her purchases. Then we had some delicious Japanese food and I was dragged into the Betty Johnson boutique with them. Oh god the pink! XP Actually I do find designer outfits pretty interesting especially from a seamstress point of view. But my stomach was hurting so I sat most of the time while Alyce tried on a dress that she ended up going home with. It was really cute. ^^
The rest of the time in Littlestown was spent being introduced to the HBO show Rome which they had the boxset of. Didn't get to see the end but they got me pretty addicted so I am very looking forward to watching the rest next time I go up. XP And I played with many kitties~ Which always makes me happy. ^_^ Finally got to actually see the infamous Lendel and Stavan for more than 10 seconds. XP
~Lyn
