I heard this story on the radio yesterday. Some airline back east is doing this big Christmas event where they put little kids on a plane and "fly" them to the north pole. They taxi around for fifteen minutes and get out at a diferent terminal that is completely decked out for Christmas. Everyone gets to visit with Santa and play in the snow (fake snow, it's all indoors) and eat candy. Sounds cool, right? Except at the end, rather than get back on the plane, the kids get shoved through a door back into the rest of the airport. Kind of ruins the magic, no?
And all they had to do was decorate the door and call it "Santa's magical portal to anywhere you want to go". The elves tell the parents to think about the airport where they left room, the kids close their eyes, they walk through the door...ta da.
Not the idea though.
I think this would be an amazingly cool concept applied to other places. Like your house. If you have appropriately aged kids of course. Or do it at a friends house and take a bunch of kids over. Get one of the neighborhood folk to dress up like Santa Claus and just board up the garage and do it in there. Steal the magic portal idea too. You could really have fun with this and there is no end to how realistic you could make it. The kids get transported to the north pole, visit with santa, help wrap some presents for charity, eat some candy, and get transported back. Why come Halloween is the only time we do walk-thru decorations?
Kids are smart. But not when it comes to Christmas. And we need to keep that going, damn it.
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