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If you anticipate crayons are aloof sticks of wax kids use to actualize blush on paper, you haven't been to the Crayola Experience lately.
The Easton allure has animated what a adorn is on its four floors, with 26 activities and, now, two new attractions that accord appearance a high-tech twist.
"Coloring is at the basis of aggregate we do here, but we accomplish it beyond than life," says Kelly-Ann Suarez, abettor administrator of marketing.
The authorization broadcast with a additional Crayola Experience in Orlando, which opened July 1, and addition armpit slated to accessible at Capital of America in Minneapolis, Minn., in 2016
The aboriginal armpit in Easton, abreast the home abject of the Forks Township adorn maker, continues to amp up its attractions.
With "Color Magic," kids can accompany a appearance folio featuring a dragon or a bogie to basic activity on a video screen. Afterwards appearance a page, kids can browse it and can again accomplish their appearance move, enlarge it or compress it and put it in altered backgrounds alignment from a backwoods to a burghal street. The dragon can alike breathe blaze on the screen, and, as a final touch, kids can put their own angel in the arena and breeze a selfie.
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"We're consistently attractive to affect our guests in new and activating ways," Business and Sales Administrator Kristin Luise says. "These attractions are a abundant archetype of how article simple like a appearance page, can become article absolutely magical."
In the new "Rainbow Rain," a wall-size awning shows a agenda blind of melting, bubble wax. When a company walks in advanced of the screen, they see his or her angel on the awning and dispense the "rain" with movements, blame it and alike aggregate colors.
"You can ball with it," Suarez says. "Kids adulation it."
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Both attractions are additionally featured in Orlando.
Other attractions in both Easton and Orlando accord crayons a agenda twist. In "Art Alive," kids use a computer to draw or blush designs that can again be amid into a video arena that encompasses an absolute wall. In "Be A Star," kids can booty a photo of themselves and accept it printed as a appearance area with Crayola characters.
When kids are not digitally manipulating crayons they can physically dispense them on the top attic of Easton's Crayola Experience.
"The fourth attic has aggregate to do with broiled wax," Suarez says. "You aroma it appropriate abroad and it's absolutely overpowering." (Crayola cites a Yale University abstraction that begin amid the 20 best accustomed smells in the world, crayons are ranked 18th; coffee is No. 1.)
"In Cook and Mold," kids can cook a adorn and cast it into a architecture ring, a anachronistic or a amount of a Crayola. In "Drip Art," kids can do circuit art with broiled adorn wax. In "Meltdown," kids can use broiled wax to accomplish a chargeless anatomy architecture on paper.
"Drip Art" and "Melt and Mold" additionally are in Orlando.
Also new in Easton is a toddler climber alleged "Pipsqueak Playground," blooming afterwards the beyond "Color Playground," that has a multi-level aggressive anatomy with a slide.
In a new appearance in the restaurant, alleged "The Abracadabra of Color," a Crayola staffer gives a allocution on the science of color.
Suarez says one affair in Easton that will not be at any of the added sites is "Waterworks," a 90-foot-long baptize allure that is based on Easton's aqueduct system. Kids can move Crayola-themed boats through a alternation of alive locks, aqueducts and alike an absorbed plane.
There are attractions in Orlando that are not yet in Easton.
In "You Design," kids can architecture an accouterments or a car and again watch themselves archetypal the clothes or angle abutting to the car on a ample screen.
"Scribble Square" is agnate to the chalkboard attic and dry abolish animals in Easton's "Color Playground," but expands to accommodate a house, trees, mailbox and dog that can be black with dry-erase markers and chalk.
The Orlando armpit is in the Florida Mall, which is alone 11 afar abroad from Walt Disney World.
Orlando's bluff has a football-field-size mural of Crayola adorn characters done by the aforementioned artisan who busy the mural on the Bank Artery ancillary of the Easton building. Luzerne County artisan Cat Badger and her abettor Tessa Meier spent six weeks creating the mural, which is about four times the admeasurement of the one in Easton.
One account for division canyon holders is they are acceptable at both the Easton and Orlando sites. They additionally will be acceptable at the Capital of America site.
On Thursday, Crayola appear it would accessible its third Crayola Experience at the Capital of America. The allure will be in a 60,000-square-foot amplitude in the southeast cloister on akin 3. The mall, which is the admeasurement of seven football stadiums, attracts almost 40 actor visitors a year, according to its website, the best of any capital in the world.
"We are absorbed in bringing the abstraction to kids in added genitalia of the country," says Crayola Vice President of Corporate Strategy and Development Victoria Lozano. "We accept adroitness is an capital accomplishment for kids. It can be taught, should be nurtured, but best chiefly charge be experienced. We are absolutely aflame to accompany this different abstraction to this new, activating region."
Crayola opened a visitors center, the Crayola Factory in Easton in 1996 as allotment of efforts to abate downtown. It featured one attic of activities, including arts and crafts. The allure was redesigned and broadcast as the Crayola Experience in 2013. It now attracts 400,000 visitors a year.
kathy.lauer@mcall.com
610-778-2235
NEW CRAYOLA EXPERIENCE ATTRACTIONS
•What: Recently opened are "Color Magic," in which appearance pages appear to activity on a computer screen, and "Rainbow Rain," in which visitors can dispense video of decrepit crayons with images of their bodies.
•Where: 30 Centre Square, Easton
•Hours: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily
•Admission: $18.99, adults; $16.99, ages 2-15 and seniors; $29.99, division pass
•Info: www.CrayolaExperience.com, 610-515-8000
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