Originally Posted By Witches of Morva ORWEN: So, while flying over Disneyland on my broomstick one day, I got to admiring Sleeping Beauty's Castle to the point where I started wondering if it should really be called Sleeping Beauty's Castle after all--no offense to Princess Aurora. But in the movie they called it King Stefan's Castle--not Sleeping Beauty's Castle. Now, maybe King Stefan just went and turned over the whole place to his daughter after she woke up and got married. Or maybe the castle at Disneyland is the same little 'honeymoon cottage' that King Hubert was having built for Phillip and Aurora since he talked about doing that in the movie. What do you ducklings think? ORGOCH: Never mind what the ducklin's think 'cause you've gone an' flipped yer cauldron's lid one time too many with this latest fool question a yers, sister! (Sounds of clangings and bangings followed by a deadly silence...)
Originally Posted By CuriousConstance Well, it was originally suppose to be called Snow White's Castle, but Walt wanted to change the name to Sleeping Beauty's Castle PURELY because the opening of the park would be a good time to promote the new Sleeping Beauty movie. How bout them apples! Walt making a decision purely for promotional gains!
Originally Posted By Witches of Morva ORWEN: Hello, Constance, duckling! I heard that story, too. But even if it had been called Snow White's castle that wouldn't have been right, either, because the castle in Snow White belonged to the evil queen and the castle at the end of the movie belonged to the Prince who carried her off with him so either way the castle would have to be named after either the queen or the prince because Snow White never owned a castle at all!
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt I hate to break it to you ladies, but the castle's name is all marketing synergy, pure and simple.
Originally Posted By Witches of Morva ORWEN: There you go again, Dr. Hans--being all logical and what not. But I'm ready for you THIS time. I went out and bought myself TWO boxes of Krispy Kreme donuts to swallow down all that logic of yours with! (sounds of lips smacking and fracking....)
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt *giggle* What I want to know is why does Sleeping Beauty have TWO different castle designs (Anaheim/Hong Kong and Paris) and Cinderella only has one (Orlando/Tokyo)?
Originally Posted By MrDisneyGeek but wasn’t the evil queen Snow White’s step mother? so it would have been her castle after the queen died anyway
Originally Posted By Witches of Morva ORWEN: Oh, who'd wanna' live in an old dark and dreary place after the wicked queen went and runined it? ORDDU: And to answer my former 'house calling' doctor's question, I don't know why Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella have so many castles named after them. Frankly I couldn't even care less! What I do care about is the rumor I've been hearing, lately, that claims you've been cheating on me with another man!! Why don't we discuss THAT???
Originally Posted By mawnck According to the Marc Eliot book, Walt wanted to call it the Castle Aaaaarrrrrrggghhh, but Roy talked him out of it.
Originally Posted By CuriousConstance "What I want to know is why does Sleeping Beauty have TWO different castle designs (Anaheim/Hong Kong and Paris) and Cinderella only has one (Orlando/Tokyo)?" Because the original Sleeping Beauty castle needed improved upon, and Cinderella got it right the first time?
Originally Posted By DBitz2 According to many guests that I overhear when I'm at Disneyland, it's Cinderella's castle!
Originally Posted By patrickegan You've had to wait a long time to use that Monty Python bit, but good on ya. ;-)
Originally Posted By danyoung Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't it the Sleeping Beauty Castle, not Sleeping Beauty's Castle?
Originally Posted By mawnck >>Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't it the Sleeping Beauty Castle, not Sleeping Beauty's Castle?<< Technically yes, but they really aren't that anal about such things. <a href="http://www.ebay.com/itm/Disneyland-CA-Sleeping-Beautys-Castle-Night-Scene-Postcard-/350500729116" target="_blank">http://www.ebay.com/itm/Disney...00729116</a> Walt accidentally called it Snow White's Castle at one point on the live dedication day telecast in 1955. ;-)
Originally Posted By Witches of Morva ORDDU: It's perfectly all right to refer to the castle as both Sleeping Beauty's Castle OR just Sleeping Beauty Castle. My sisters and I saw an old rerun just recently of the Wonderful World of Disney where Uncle Walt, himself, called it Sleeping Beauty's Castle. So if he can do that we can all do it. ORWEN: Yeah--just like you can say Mr. Toad's Wild Ride, you can say Sleeping Beauty's castle. Both characters own their attractions.
