More Dressing Up Box than Chocolate Box… During Volvo Snowbombing, Mayrhofen high street is transformed into a surreal catwalk. Spend half an hour at a pavement café and you can bet a superhero, some bloke dressed as a penguin, a root vegetable or a Smurf will stroll past with a snowboard tucked under his arm/wings/ leaves.
We are (or should that be ‘you’) are renowned for stretching the realms of sartorial silliness and donning all kind of outlandish kit on a daily basis and transforming the chocolate box ‘Hansel & Gretel’ alpine village into a huge dressing up box; think “Mr. Benn’s” shop but with snow, sausages and schnapps and you pretty much get the picture…
The result is the following programme of costumed capery. Choose your favourite one and go for it. We don’t expect anyone to don fancy dress on a daily basis except our pal Big Frank from Oswestry, who we’ve never seen in normal clothes for four years now.
MONDAY:
Outer Space – Astronuts & Aliens
An out-of-this-world, gigantic galactic gathering of space cadets! Its lift-off time as silver foil flies off the shelves from the local Spar quicker than a BOGOF in Gazza’s local Bargain Booze. From Star Trek to Alien, from Barbarella to Chewbacca and from infinity to beyond! …yoda be silly to not to take part!
TUESDAY:
Playing Away – Sporting Heroes
As we’ve got two Great British Sporting Heroes attending this year’s VSB (Eddie the Eagle & Mr. Motivator), we figured we’d really go to town and get a few thousand more…So welcome to SPORTING HERO TUESDAY! Expect to spy John McEnroe, WG Grace, Tiger Woods (ladies, watch out!), Wayne Rooney (grandma’s ditto), Michael Jordan, that bald Italian ref, Torville & Dean, Lance Armstrong, Pele or Peter Crouch. You can even be ‘imaginative’ – Robin Hood (Archery), Red Rum (racehorse), John Prescott (Boxing) and Richard Keys & Andy Gray (dinosaurs)…but no Carlos Tevez masks please – don’t want to frighten the local kids.
WEDNESDAY:
Wedding Tackle! – The Volvo Snowbombing Royal Wedding Street Party
Hang out the bunting! We’re throwing the biggest Royal Wedding Street Party anywhere outside the UK! And in true street party tradition decking the main street with The World’s Longest Bunting (an unofficial Guinness World Record attempt), Trestle tables will line the streets with traditional British bites (Iceland’s ‘Party’ range, naturally). Wedding tackle! The fancy dress theme for the day will be attending as either a member of the wedding party or a guest! This could be Kate or Wills (we’ll have masks you can wear), Prince Charles or a dignitary like the Archbishop of Canterbury or a World leader or military type or as a celebrity guest like Elton John, Dizzee Rascal and Lady GaGa for example…or even a fictional character you think William or Kate would like to be there on their big day! All-in-all, it’s a right royal do with 6000 people and will have more people talking than a Duke of Edinburgh gaffe!
THURSDAY:
GangStars – Squeaky Hill presents “Bugsy Malone’s Fat Sam’s Grand Slam Speakeasy”
The year is 1929 and the location New York City. Bugsy Malone is surrounded by a world of prohibition-profiteering gangsters, Charleston‘n’champagne swigging showgirls and goodtime cheesy songs! Expect sing-along’s, cabaret and pray there’s no splurge gun fight!! Think molls and gangsters, pinstripes, violin cases, slicked back hair, cigars, silent movie slapstick, hapless cops and showbiz razzamatazz.
