Had the line above been a book title, it most certainly
would have made it straight to the Top 10 of "Historie's
shortest books". Not that I believe myself to be the only
snowdome-collector in Denmark (I couldn't possibly be, could
I?), but snowdomes - with rare exceptions - simply don't
seem to be manufactored with the Danish market in mind.
Even the few tacky Copenhagen tourist snowdomes are about
to vanish from the stores, only to be substituted by good-for-nothing
photo-snowdomes containing an ugly picture of Nyhavn or
The Little Mermaid. 
As a long-time lover of snowdomes you're bound to wonder why. Personally I can think of countless occasions, places, products and events simply calling for a snowdome.
But yet not a snowdome in sight.
November and December marks the seasonal exception, since in Denmark snowdomes are - if with anything besides bad taste - associated with Christmas. I also have to say, that the variation in nice Christmas domes has actually expanded during the last couple of years. But try asking for a snowdome off-season, and the girl behind the gift-store counter will almost be rolling her eyes at you (provocatively freaky as you prove yourself to be).
Yet I'm always on the lookout (developing a true hawk's eye for that certain flash of light reflected by snowdomes), and occasionally successful. When I brought home a bag of snowdomes from Florida in 1998, my collection started growing for real. Later on I've bought at few nice domes over the Internet too, and a frind of mine has brought home a couple of Hollywood domes for me. But the main part of my collection has been found in Denmark within the last five years, so as you can tell, it's not completely impossible after all.
Still I don't own a single vintage snowdome, and several of my beloved domes are too tacky, or too classy, or standing on black plastic bases, or in other ways "not good" in the eyes of the picky collecter. Only one or two has the name of the destination inside the dome, and I'm sad to say that very few are real souvenir-snowdomes at all.
But now at least you know the reason...
