The Workshop

LEVEL II is quite an underwhelming blast- but it's not overrated! Ascending up the staircase of the Toys of Magic, you can enter two different worlds of the Winterland. Most of the space used for the second floor has been dedicated to Reindeer Run, the Omnimover dark ride inside Winterland, and First Floor Spaces with achingly high ceilings, like the reindeer enclosure, which is expansive to give the reindeers serving prison time a luxury experience. A viewing chamber, the Balcony, provides a cavern overlooking the roaming reindeer. Here's an overview of the area on Level II

1. Santa's House- Santa's man cave of all things Christmas

2. Upper Floors Worhsop (Toys of Mischief)- You wait here to board the illegal elf sleighs

3. Reindeer Run - A psychedelic tour of Winterland hosted by the Party Elves

4. Control Room - A Dramcorp security room (Employee access only)

5. Reindeer Balcony - View the reindeers from above

Step inside the charming home of the loving and joyful leader of this winter wonderland; Santa Claos*. The surprisingly modest house for a head of a global gift delivery conclomorate is filled with warm wooden accents and modest furniture. The first room is the living room complimented with a large roaring fireplace. Inside the living guests will find Santa himself who is available for pictures and meet and greets with guests. Guests will find when they pull the sockings hung above the fireplace, with care, the fire will go out and the back panel will move allowing one to step inside Santa's office. 

Gone are the humble wood accents; replaced by a hightech surveillence system with a wall of screens providing views into the homes of the world's children. On the modern desk in front of the screens are two buttons; "Naughty" and "Nice" that will categorize the child displayed on the largest screen alongside key facts about them and their behavior this past year. Billy Carmichael stole his sister's favorite toy this year, does that make him naughty? Guess you'll have to decide since Snta isn't here. 

After we've spent some time ruining the lives of random children we don't know we can leave the office through either the fireplace or the side door (less dramatic) into the Claos kitchen. The smell of freshly baked cookies filles the air and if you open up the oven and pantrys every square inch is filled with cookies and cookie ingredients. Top to bottom cookies, literally not a single vegetable in sight. How does one survive off nothing but cookies? Who cares it's the holidays! 

The final room in Santa's house is the bedroom and bathroom. While the bedroom itself is a standard size when one opens the door to the closet they find an endless hallway of the exact same outfit; red pants, jacket, hat, gloves, and tall black boots. It goes on and on. The bathroom itself seems like a standard bathroom until one opens the medcicine cabinet revealing a collection of perscription medications, half of which are antidepressants. 

*All depications of a large cheery man in a red suit who gives gifts are exercised under fair use, Title 17, United States Code, Section 107