Goldilocks Zone
Unfortunately, it was too dark in here for me successfully capture ANY of the Fairyland Caverns portion of Rock City. And that's too bad, because these things get really ornate, and the whole thing is huge.
This Goldilocks scene is one of several to see through a series of large windows in the side of the cavern. Each window is about three or four feet wide and covered with bars, and it looks into a room that runs 10 or 15 feet deep. Those adult bears in this image are maybe four feet tall ... and they look freaky. Narratively, this is all supposed to be a dream, but it's the stuff of nightmares.
Other similar rooms shows scenes from Cinderella or Snow White or the Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe. And then you go into a massive room in severe need of some sort of humidity control and orbit a giant scene maybe fifty feet wide, showing all sorts of different nursery rhyme scenes all at once. There's a fairy tale carriage climbing a hill toward a Cinderella castle, and Jack and Jill roll down that hill, and three blind mice tip-toe along the road. Humpty Dumpty sits on a wall awaiting disaster. Little Miss Muffet dines on her curds as spiders lurk. Every rhyme you remember is all acted out by these wooden figures in glowing phosphorescence.
It's probably best that I didn't get a good picture. You really have to see it.
But that's it for Rock City. Tomorrow, we'll wander around the rest of Lookout Mountain.
Goldilocks Zone
Unfortunately, it was too dark in here for me successfully capture ANY of the Fairyland Caverns portion of Rock City. And that's too bad, because these things get really ornate, and the whole thing is huge.
This Goldilocks scene is one of several to see through a series of large windows in the side of the cavern. Each window is about three or four feet wide and covered with bars, and it looks into a room that runs 10 or 15 feet deep. Those adult bears in this image are maybe four feet tall ... and they look freaky. Narratively, this is all supposed to be a dream, but it's the stuff of nightmares.
Other similar rooms shows scenes from Cinderella or Snow White or the Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe. And then you go into a massive room in severe need of some sort of humidity control and orbit a giant scene maybe fifty feet wide, showing all sorts of different nursery rhyme scenes all at once. There's a fairy tale carriage climbing a hill toward a Cinderella castle, and Jack and Jill roll down that hill, and three blind mice tip-toe along the road. Humpty Dumpty sits on a wall awaiting disaster. Little Miss Muffet dines on her curds as spiders lurk. Every rhyme you remember is all acted out by these wooden figures in glowing phosphorescence.
It's probably best that I didn't get a good picture. You really have to see it.
But that's it for Rock City. Tomorrow, we'll wander around the rest of Lookout Mountain.