Who knew Disneyland employees could be subversive and ironic?

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Neo-Soviet style art at the Innovention Building.

The "The Hospital of Tomorrow" is, like "The House of Tomorrow," hosted in the Innovention Building. And like The House, The Hospital of Tomorrow is very much like The Hospital of Today, only with slightly better scanners and, yes, more and bigger monitors.

A room had a display on "Your Future Health!" One of the looping videos showed an enthusiastic young man and a hapless but well-dressed woman in a cartoonishly decorated examination room. She was holding out her arms and he laid a yellow, foul-looking gelatinous slab across her hands. "What is that?" she asked.

"Ten pounds of fat. Well, it's fake fat, but that's the right color and," he poked at it to make it jiggle, "the right texture." He laid another slab across her arms. "And that's twenty pounds!" Again. "And that's thirty pounds!" A real slab of the stuff was available under the video screen for visitors to poke at.

The woman naturally objects. "Doctor! This is heavy! I can't carry this around all day!"

"If you're thirty pounds overweight, you already are! Every minute of every day, this is exactly what you're carrying around." He poked the plastic fat again to emphasize his point. "Imagine the strain it puts on your hips, your knees, and your ankles. Over time, that adds up and can lead to real injury!"

Star Wars has a hell of a cross-promotion going on with Disney. Throughout the Disneyland Park, I had been seeing adorable small children wearing black T-shirts with the Yoda quote, "Judge me by my size, do you?" It's very cute.

The gift shop in the Innoventions Building is the only shop in the entire park where you can buy that shirt in adult sizes. The most common size stocked is XXL.