Let's go back to best of the original St Paul Winter Carnival Ice Palaces so you can be correctly underwhelmed.
1886
![Image](https://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/516x330q90/673/IG7uuy.jpg)
1887
![Image](https://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/220x174q90/537/u2wLhP.jpg)
there were Moose drawn sleds.
![Image](https://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/417x330q90/538/v96EFR.jpg)
1888
![Image](https://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/455x330q90/540/a3htlU.jpg)
1917...ok this one's not that elaborate. But it's nice.
![Image](https://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/413x330q90/909/nWQkWj.jpg)
1937
![Image](https://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/515x330q90/540/Yf463q.jpg)
1986 in Phalen Park
![Image](https://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/850x607q50/673/AMYZjL.jpg)
1992
![Image](https://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/400x267q90/540/IMJ7T0.jpg)
2004
![Image](https://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/440x330q90/913/nAGZJW.jpg)
and now....drum roll.....the Eden Prairie castle of 2015
![Image](https://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640x384q90/912/BXaOu5.jpg)
![Image](https://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640x389q90/673/qEBtlE.jpg)
Really?
It looks like someone left the garden hose on. It looks so cheap. Where's the class and grandeur of the palaces of old?