Mathmagic Land: Brazil’s Math Pavilion Adds Up
Apparently no ride exit is complete unless it at least comes close to a store. Along the coaster exit’s left walls are porticos leading to the MATHMAGIC LAND FIVE & PRIME, Mathmagic Land's sole retail outlet. Jerk & Jounce & Crackle & Pop are super merchandisable, lest we forget, so here they are available for purchase, as plushies, as toys, as clothing. Here too is Donald Duck merch, for we’ll be seeing a lot of him later on. Mathematical toys, too, educational offerings, ranging from K*Nex to toddler age counting toys (pegs and spinners and wooden abaci) to jigsaw puzzles and spirographs. All this in something of a stylized corner bodega, one which continues that UPA graphic style which we saw on the coaster. Prime numbers form the bulk of the décor. They form the shelves, the checkout counter, the wall murals…