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| Here in the Queen of Hearts' garden you'll meet the three playing-card gardeners who are busily painting the roses red (not pink, not green, not aquamarine). Just like Annie Louise, you can scramble up their ladder and have your photograph taken among the paintbrushes, buckets and general chaos.
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Next comes the Queen of Heart's garden, presided over by the grinning effigy of the Cheshire Cat. This is quite scary to look at. In the film, the Cheshire Cat was simply a bit weird but the designers of some of the figures in the labyrinth have taken the caricatures just that little bit further.
Indeed, explore the garden a little further and the executioner lurches out at you, bellowing warnings (in French again). Not the sort of thing which helps keep down your lunch of Disneyburgers and Disneycoke - particularly as the Queen of Hearts herself rises out of the bushes not far away and yells, "Coupe la tete, coupe la tete!!!", which, of course, means "Cut off her head, cut off her head"! Fortunately, as we know, "It's all her fancy. They never executes nobody." We hope so, we hope so.
Once again, the sound system does a superb job, providing background music and effects, but in such a way that it never overlaps from scene-to-scene.
Right at the far end of the labyrinth is the Queen of Heart's castle. Not quite as resplendent or as large as Snow White's of course, but you do get an extra treat when you climb to the top - you get a nice slide down to the bottom again. You enter the castle by means of a drawbridge in between two rows of playing-card soldiers. Inside there's a hallway with a few display figures, then it's up the back stairs to the parapet for a nice view over the rest of the park and then that slide down to the ground.
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If you're especially lucky while you're wandering about the park, you might get to meet the Queen of Hearts herself and get her autograph. If you're unlucky, she might just order your head to be chopped off! (Just kidding). Actually the Queen is very tall and quite intimidating, I don't think that I'd like to meet her on a dark night!!!
