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of pretty much every Disneyland style theme park is the castle it's one of the first things you see
when you walk down Main Street and at some point in the day you know you'll be taking a picture in
front of this magical centerpiece now there's many different castles that can be found at the Disney
parks and each is grand and elegant in their own way the castles help place you in this magical
Disney world you'll be exploring throughout your day at the park now Disney always wants to make
sure that no matter what time of year or day of the week a guest visits the park that everyone
has a very similar experience but in the past there's been some exceptions over many decades
the Disney Castle roster has grown in size and we've seen some interesting things happen to
them they even begun incorporating castles in a non-traditional way into their parks but not
every castle design has received praises from the public so today we're gonna be looking at
a variety of Disney castles and counting down the top 5 biggest Disney Castle mistakes number
five the Stitch Castle well we're gonna kick things off on November 16 2004 at Magic Kingdom
this day marked the official opening of stitches Great Escape and when guests walked through the
turnstiles they were greeted by a giant inflatable stitch in front of the train station nothing too
out of the ordinary well not just yet then as guests walk down Main Street they were greeted
with signs saying stitch was wanted for creating mischief mayhem and pandemonium after seeing the
castle on the ferry boat or a monorail ride into the park guests may have put two and two
together but once the approached Main Street they got a real look well what you see here
is what you would expect your car to look like the night before Halloween that's right stitches
mischief included tp'ing Cinderella's castle what a sight to see toilet paper hanging off the Ella
Cinderella Castle Peaks blowing in the wind the dreams of thousands of guests wanting that perfect
picture in front of the castle just crushed by toilet paper and a sign that said stiches King
it was quite the sight to see now Disney added all the castle decoration overnight and since
the castle is the main focus of the park it would have definitely intrigued guests to find out what
was going on and maybe check out stitches Great Escape so it was a really smart marketing idea
on Disney's part by without advising guests this was happening it could have been disappointing
to see the castle in the state aside from these disappointed guests there are also many people
who found this hilarious now what do you think it definitely received that mixed reaction but
thankfully it was only seen for one day and one day only then on the morning of November 17th the
castle was back to its original royal self number four the crane castle now we all like nice things
on the Disney castles right well since 2007 Cinderella Castle at Magic Kingdom has been
outfitted with two hundred thousand lights just in time for the holiday season but although it's
Disney these lights don't just magically appear it's done with the help from the Magic Kingdom
crane that completes the Cinderella crane Castle people have said Disney's made a big mistake by
ruining its centerpiece with this eyesore of a crane for weeks on end and multiple times
per year the biggest complaint being the crane is ruining pictures if you visit Magic Kingdom
around mid-september or mid-january you'll most likely be greeted by this famous crane
that soars over Cinderella Castle but if you are looking for that perfect picture then you aren't
wrong since the crane is in sight anywhere you stand on Main Street all you need to do though
is just think of it as the giant Mickey hand that used to be over spaceship earth at Epcot
except this time Disney use the crane now after people see the dream lights the crane has slowly
become much more bearable for the weeks it's up for the installation and for the disassembly
but it's taken some time for people to warm up to this castle what started off as what people
described as a dreadful mistake that ruined magical photos has remained a dreadful mistake
for some but a sort of turned into what I guess you could consider a Disney meme for some others
people have begun embracing the crane wanting it in their photos even using the hashtag wwbd
where anytime soon number three the birthday cake Castle Disney has celebrated milestones
in the past with subtle decorations but nothing compares to what happened in 1996 at Magic Kingdom
October 1st 1996 marked the 25th anniversary of Walt Disney World and to celebrate they transform
the elegant and iconic Cinderella Castle into a giant pink birthday cake the cake was completed
and ready for October 1st 1996 and was around until January 31st 1998 that's a 15 month
celebration with this pink cake right in the middle of Magic Kingdom with work on the castle
beginning around August of 1996 they painted it three different shades of pink using more than
400 gallons of paint oh look the Castle crane even made an appearance in 1996 it was decorated with
multicolored sprinkles 26 candles ranging in height from twenty to forty feet 12 five-foot
gumdrops four six-foot stacks of lifesavers 52-foot gumballs plus all the inflatable icing you
can think of there's probably never been anything as bold in a Disney park than this Castle right
here the entire thing was completely decorated except for the back portion of these windows
here and the sides of those base columns it was quite a shock seeing the castle like this for
the first time now we were lucky enough to be at Magic Kingdom on October 2nd 1996 when Roy Disney
was filming a segment for the Walt Disney World inside-out program promoting the 25th anniversary
I thought well yeah I'm Roy Disney no Mickey now 1996 to 1998 where a year is when the internet
wasn't really a thing so no one knew something this drastic was happening to the castle unless
they heard it through word-of-mouth or saw it on TV in some form like in the Disney World
inside-out program on the Disney Channel well there were plenty of guests who walked into Magic
Kingdom during those 15 months who weren't too pleased to say the least if only they recreated
something more along the lines of the one year anniversary Disneyland Paris Castle from 1993
that was much more elegant but still a cake a past cast member in a discussion forum said I
was working there and had to hear complaints every single day about it and I didn't even
work in Magic Kingdom as the celebration went on they began getting referred to as the pepto
bismal castle so it's safe to say that many people would consider it a big mistake that they carried
out this transformation you can only imagine how many complaints guest services received during
those 15 months but luckily this overlay was only temporary and there hasn't been a castle
overlay this drastic since then number two the beasts castle now let's move into something a
bit more recent when Disney announced that New Fantasyland would have the beast castle from
Beauty and the Beast I'm sure a lot of people his first thought was that it would be something big
that could compete with Cinderella Castle now Disney did a great job at recreating immersive
environments in New Fantasyland the whole dining experience at be our guest is incredible right
from the entrance with the stone lions into the main dining hall and the West Wing Imagineers hit
a home run with the interior of the beasts castle but the exterior is where they maybe miss the mark
and made a mistake Disney likes to use a technique called forced perspective we talked about it used
on Cinderella Castle in our top 10 Disney World secrets video if you want to check that video out
there's a card in the right hand side now when creating the exterior of the beasts castle they
also use forced perspective but it really only works when viewing it from far away as you get
closer it's not very convincing the actual size of the castle falls more under a miniature model
you can see the scale of it in relation to the construction worker if you're viewing it from
the side of the bridge and you Fantasyland it's like the castle is too small or the mountains
are too short and doesn't convincingly carry out the illusion when you approach the arch leading
onto the bridge it's much more convincing from here but as you walk closer you sort of lose
that force perspective effect and also lose sight of the castle altogether because of the
rock work the biggest mistake was not designing something that was larger in scale it could have
still appeared as if it was in the distance but it definitely needed to be bigger as you
approach be our guest the doors are massive and the entrance area is very immersive and detailed
but just imagine if as you're walking through the doors you'd be able to look up and see the very
castle you were walking into this is one of those mistakes that's more subjective from person to
person but we're curious to know what you think number one Hong Kong's Sleeping Beauty Castle
as part of the 1.4 billion dollar investment in Hong Kong Disneyland it was announced that their
Sleeping Beauty Castle would receive a complete overhaul Disney said they wanted to draw from a
variety of storybook influences and styles this was the original concept art released in 2016
and you can see how it's taken some inspiration from the Disneyland Paris Castle as well as the
Cinderella castles and even some elements from mystic Manor this would finally give Hong Kong
their own iconic Castle that wasn't just a cheap copy of Anaheim's this concept art seems to work
well then in mid December of 2017 the Disney Parks blog released some new updated concept
art and well this is where they may have made a mistake with this castle Orlando and Tokyo
have Cinderella Castle Paris has their version of Sleeping Beauty Castle Anaheim has the original
Sleeping Beauty Castle Shanghai has the storybook castle which represents all Disney Princesses but
still has an overall thematic flow and fits the look of a Disney Castle and then Hong Kong is
gonna get this it looks like every Disney princess movie just threw up their Castle in Hong Kong and
whatever piece stuck made it into the design it appears that a big mistake was Disney changing the
color palette from the original art you can see in the original that the Sleeping Beauty Castle
was pink color was still very prominent and then the rest of the color scheme of the castle was
much more muted and gave off an elegant royal feel while the new yellow and peach color scheme with
orange flags seems a bit hokey and doesn't give off that elegant Disney Castle feeling maybe it'll
change again but now only time will tell as they start building this new castle so out of the five
castles we spoke about today which one would you say is Disney's biggest castle mistake what would
you have done differently leave a comment down below and start a conversation and these are the
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