The jester-type pointed helmet is adorned with silver racing car models.
From tickets to the next events, to signed T-shirts and racing car models, the selection is huge.
Other elements of the production are cartoonish, and calculatedly so — particularly, the vehicles themselves, welded junk-yard behemoths that play like the toluene hallucinations of a kid gluing plastic race-car models too long in a closed basement.
Other elements of the production are cartoonish, and calculatedly so particularly, the vehicles themselves, welded junk-yard behemoths that play like the toluene hallucinations of a kid gluing plastic race-car models too long in a closed basement.
A surprisingly large number look as if they were done for Mattel race cars, Revell models or adolescent puzzles and games.
Opening Ceremony, which in the past has staged elaborate spectacles with its shows — including a play at the Metropolitan Opera, a parade of race cars disgorging models on a pier, and a beauty pageant featuring Whoopi Goldberg as a contestant — announced on Wednesday that it will hold its next fashion show at Disneyland, in March.
The cars include vintage cars from around the world and from the automobile's earliest days to the present, including race cars, custom models and rarities.
"Compared to what we were doing in the 1990s, passing out voter guides, it's like comparing an Indy race car to a Model T Ford," he said.
With 45 other model race car businesses in town, any kid could pretend to be Al Unser or Mario Andretti.
For generations of Cub Scouts, the Pinewood Derby has been a rite of passage -- a pint-size version of a Soap Box Derby in which each Scout saws, whittles, sands and assembles his model race car from a simple kit.
