Grand Floridian's Gingerbread House

jcodirewolf · Post by **jcodirewolf** » Dec Fri 07, 2007 7:34 am

I agree with you. I'm sure one of the reasons it's built the way it is, is because it's a shop/cart/booth. I doubt there is much in the way of health/life safety regs. But it has to be more sturdy than say the gingerbread/candy village they build at Boma.

I also agree with you the one that you see on TV with Sam Brown, is much more impressive than the one that you see in person (I wonder how they do that? A full scale mock-up of the GF lobby in a secret Disney stage most likely.)

So all in all I have to say I was disappointed in the GF display. And I/we are not among those that she talks about that make a special trip to Disney to see it every year. There are things we go there for like Geek Err ummm Star Wars Weekend.

johno

Post by **js3901** » Dec Fri 07, 2007 8:58 am

it's called creative camera angles and editing in post.

Post by **rdeacon** » Dec Fri 07, 2007 10:58 am

Wifey and I specifically went to the GF to check out the Gingerbread house when we where just down there. Its a sight to see.

I'll have to post some pics of it.

Rich

Joe90 · Post by **Joe90** » Dec Sat 08, 2007 3:40 pm

Is it really made from edible gingerbread?

Yum.

If it is I'm surprised it lasts a month.
Firstly: Doesn't it spoil?
Secondly: If you pipe the smell around the place guests might take bites out of it.

csquare77 · Post by **csquare77** » Dec Mon 10, 2007 8:36 pm

Now that a house! thanks for posting I'll have to send it to a few people, that will like it!

jcodirewolf · Post by **jcodirewolf** » Dec Tue 11, 2007 7:51 am

Gingerbread (infact most breads) which are kept in a dry place will dry out and become stale but won't rot. Part of the reason humans invented bread, it's a preservation technique (like salting.)

While it's edible when it's put up I wouldn't try to eat it once it's put up.

As some of us have pointed out it's a wooden structure covered with gingerbread, and royal icing (which is sugar, egg whites, and water) which becomes pretty hard (the other common icing, which isn't good for construction is butter cream.)

johno

wdw9999 · Post by **wdw9999** » Dec Tue 18, 2007 3:45 pm

Just returned from a trip to WDW and I must say this house was incredible. Wood/gingerbread, it doesn't matter - it's about the magic they create with these things. Someone asked the woman in the gingerbread store if they used the same house next year. She replied "no, when Christmas is over we take it down and send it to never land for the lost boys to eat".

krich07 · Post by **krich07** » Jan Mon 14, 2008 2:51 pm

The gingerbread house always impresses me when I see it. I especially love the smell.

yodiwan1 · Post by **yodiwan1** » Jan Mon 14, 2008 4:32 pm

Does anyone know what they do with all the gingerbread when the season is over? I was helping out at a homelss shelter in December when I began to tihnk of all the food wasted holiday time on stuff like this. I saw the house, took pics of it last year when I went, but I guess now that I see how much people struggle, I feel the food could eb put to use else where. Don't get me wrong. It is a very beautiful site, but they can easily make one out of another material and put it up every year, and contibute the money used for the food, or even donate food to shelters. Just my 2cents, and I hope it didn't offend anyone.

saritajuanita · Post by **saritajuanita** » Jan Mon 14, 2008 4:36 pm

DisBeamer wrote: I don't know what the gingerbread house building code is, but I would think in order for them to shove cast members in there to sell stuff, they'd have to have certain safety standards.

Gingerbread house building code! If anywhere is going to have that, I'm sure it's Orlando.

Thanks for the video - I love stop motion films (I always go into "the Walt Disney Experience" on Main Street in DLR to watch the film of Disneyland going up).

DisBeamer · Post by **DisBeamer** » Jan Tue 15, 2008 11:58 am

yodiwan1 wrote:Does anyone know what they do with all the gingerbread when the season is over? I was helping out at a homelss shelter in December when I began to tihnk of all the food wasted holiday time on stuff like this. I saw the house, took pics of it last year when I went, but I guess now that I see how much people struggle, I feel the food could eb put to use else where. Don't get me wrong. It is a very beautiful site, but they can easily make one out of another material and put it up every year, and contibute the money used for the food, or even donate food to shelters. Just my 2cents, and I hope it didn't offend anyone.

I would assume (but am not sure) that they put the gingerbread on the house with actual glue, as opposed to icing. So it's probably not edible after it's been used on the house. It's a shame though; it'd be nice if they could recycle the cookie parts.

saritajuanita wrote:Gingerbread house building code! If anywhere is going to have that, I'm sure it's Orlando.

*giggle* That, and the fire code for number of dwarfs you can have in a cottage.