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VOLO — The Volo Auto Museum’s latest further is impending completion, and a thesis is decidedly Disney – with a lurch of Looney thrown in for good measure.

Ariel has her waterfall. Belle has her ballroom. Pete’s Garage is underneath roof, a museum member accessible visitors.

The new, 10,000-square-foot, kid-friendly salon will be open Memorial Day weekend, with hide peeks accessible now, pronounced Brian Grams, museum director.

“It’s flattering neat,” he said. “It’s going to be fun in there.”

An whole 200-foot-long wall will be “nothing though Disney and a story of Disney,” Grams said. “In a rafters we’ll be unresolved signs with opposite Disney sayings.”

Along with some gourmet cars, Showroom 5 will underline an endless collection of child favorites, such as a marvellous Seuss-mobile, a Flintstones-mobile, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles van, Herbie – even Lightning McQueen. It also will have kiddie rides, and a tiny museum where animation shorts will be shown.

In addition, a space facilities scarcely $150,000 value of Disney statues that Grams has been shopping adult given Disney Stores national began liquidating them. Finding scarcely 14 sets was something of a coup, he said.

“Many store owners were offered a statues individually,” he said. “Finding them in finish sets, it only doesn’t exist (elsewhere). We have several finish sets, some dating to a early ‘90s.”

On perspective are statuary sets from “Fantasia,” “Beauty and a Beast,” “101 Dalmations” and more.

“Who doesn’t like Disney?” pronounced Grams, a father of dual immature daughters, ages 4 and 8.

Grams combined that this month, a hit told him of a accessibility of a series of Looney Tunes statues that were ostensible to have been broken after Warner Brothers Studios sealed a shops some-more than 10 years ago. Now, about $80,000 value of Looney Tunes statuary, including a 9-foot-tall Daffy Duck, also is targeted for display.

Located during 27582 Volo Village Road, a Volo Auto Museum is open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily and is a family-friendly place in any kind of weather. Exhibits featuring roughly 300 cars are all underneath roof in climate-controlled buildings.

Admission is $11.95 per adult, $6.95 for children ages 6 to 12, and $9.95 for veterans and troops crew with ID. Admission is giveaway for troops crew in uniform and children 5 and younger. Summer rates request starting mid-May and are $2 more. For some-more information, call 815-385-3644 or revisit volocars.com.

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