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New Wax Museum Preserves Castle Life from a Bygone Age
Brierpatch, Borderlands - Tourism in the Borderlands has long been considered a lifeless enterprise, but a brand new wax museum is captivating hundreds of visitors every day. The Bygone Brierpatch Historic Park features a complete castle, fully stocked with wax inhabitants, all accurately dressed in period costumes from last century.
"We are offering visitors an authentic glimpse into what life was like decades ago," says Ms. Trezy Faye, the park director.
With the failure of the region's flax crops in recent years, Ms. Faye believes tourism can kickstart the slumbering economy and she hopes visitors will flock to the historic park from far and wide. "Everyone is invited. Everyone. No one must be left out."
The park's attention to detail is staggering. "Sculpting the figures as though they had been frozen--snap!--right in the middle of doing something gives the illusion that these were real people," explains Ms. Faye. Your correspondent can attest to this. The kitchens provide a particularly striking example, in which a cook is positioned grabbing for a cowering kitchen boy. In addition to human figurines comprising a full royal court and staff, the park has even created models of animals. There are horses in the stable, dogs in the courtyard, pigeons on the roof, and even flies on the walls. The lone misstep in the design is the inexplicable placement of a sleeping princess in a spare tower room beside a spinning wheel.
While most of the park's visitors have offered rave reviews, Prince Nomar of Nockturn proved less enthusiastic. "I tried to visit and was refused outright at the gate. It was most unseemly." Several other princes have also come forward with complaints about being barred from the park. Ms. Faye declined to officially comment on the matter but assured The Once Upon A Times that she is identifying all the princes who lodged complaints so they can be properly dealt with.
Based on the Grimm version of Sleeping Beauty, titled "Brier Rose."
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