Miniature World

Frommer's Review

It sounds cheesy -- hundreds of dolls, miniatures, and scenes from old fairy tales, but Miniature World, inside The Fairmont Empress (the entrance is around the corner), is actually kinda cool, and kids ages 5 to 11 love it. You walk in, and you're plunged into darkness, except for a moon, some planets, and a tiny spaceship flying up to rendezvous with an orbiting mother ship. This is the most up-to-date display. Farther in are re-creations of battle scenes, a miniature Canadian Pacific Railway running all the way across a miniature Canada, and a three-ring circus and midway. Better yet, most of these displays do something: The train moves at the punch of a button, and the circus rides whirl around and light up as simulated darkness falls. Allow 30 minutes to an hour to see it all.

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