Here's a mystery. In the 50th anniversary film with Steve Martin, Main Street doesn't look right. The trees are too bushy, the doors to the shops are all closed, the flower pots on the lampposts are hung too low, etc. All of this I can blame on set decorating, but the weird one, the thing that I just can't figure out, is the cement grout between the bricks in the sidewalk. The bricks at Disneyland are fitted into each other without grout. Does anyone know where this was shot? Do they have a re-creation of Main Street on the Disney backlot in Burbank? Did they fly Steve Martin and the extras to Hong Kong Disneyland? Who knows the answer to this burning question?
On the other hand, I solved a mystery. Remember when they put those Christmas decorations up on the Castle right after it was unshrouded? And remeber that they took them back down in a day or so? I found them on the
Hong Kong Disneyland website ! Much the same way that Disneyland was introduced to American audiences through the medium of television, Chinese audiences have been getting the same education. Hong Kong pop star Jackie Cheung has been hosting "The Magical World of Disneyland," and the Christmas decorations were for that show's holiday offering. (Beauty and the Beast, if you're interested)