Mardi Gras Float Lady At Disney's Port Orleans Resort-French Quarter: The Everyday Adventures Of The Purple Van March 1, 2010
In case you weren't in New Orleans for Mardi Gras, this will give you a taste of what you missed...
It's a figure like the ones you would see in the Mardi Gras parades.
When it came time to theme the food court, the Disney imagineres wanted the place to look like one of the warehouses where floats are assembled for the many parades each year in New Orleans held during the period leading up the the day before lent starts---Fat Tuesday or Mardi Gras. I must say that it sounds better in French!
If you look at photos of Mardi gras parades, you see that lots of the floats have figures similar to this one.
Apparently, some of the figures hanging in the food court actually came from New Orleans and were used in parade floats...
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Disney's Port Orleans Resort-French Quarter is located in Walt Disney World.
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