Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt While under renovations for the 60th, Sleeping Beauty Castle has been covered with a new decorative scrim featuring a ginormous print of Herb Ryman's original concept art of the famous landmark. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B9BpiFiIUAEQc_C.jpg Pretty cool, eh?
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Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan Love this! It's really the best "construction fence" type of thing I've ever seen. Amazing how close to that very early sketch the castle turned out eventually.
Originally Posted By utahjosh I absolutely love it. That concept art has always been one of my favorite pieces of Disneyland history. This is amazing. Give a raise to the genius who thought it.
Originally Posted By CuriousConstance I think it's wonderful. It always surprises me when Disney springs for stuff like this.
Originally Posted By Goofyernmost That would be the main difference between DL and WDW. If they did that in WDW, no matter how well done it was, they would be forming mobs with pitchforks and torches looking for the person that made the decision to cover up the beloved plastic castle. Oh, my... my princess has been looking forward to seeing the castle since she was born. Now in what will, more then likely, be a once in a lifetime trip all we are going to get is a big canvas with a watercolor on it. Our Vacation is ruined and we demand the Disney Comp. our entire trip. Wouldn't it be funny if they are doing the castle over as a castle cake? ;-)
Originally Posted By FerretAfros I really like this. Who ever decided to do this did a great job. It's nice to have photos of the buildings on the scrims (like they currently have on iasw), but for something as iconic as the castle, I'm not sure it would work. Having the sketch allows you to 'see' the castle, while also acknowledging that you really can't see it and tying it into the park's origins with one of my favorite pieces of concept art As for WDW, it constantly amazes me to see the hoops that they jump through to avoid covering their beloved castle. They have a crane hovering over it for several months per year to add and remove the Christmas light, and last year they even did a full repainting in plain sight that lasted several months, because apparently that was preferable to covering the castle for a little bit and getting it done quickly. If they need to repaint it, I'd prefer they go all in and get it done quickly. People will get over it, I promise
Originally Posted By Witches of Morva ORDDU: Sometimes I wish they had gone forward with this original concept idea to build Sleeping Beauty's Castle exactly as they originally intended. It seems as though the original concept art made it appear taller. ORWEN: Still, we like what actually came to be built. ORGOCH: Got frogs in yer moat???
Originally Posted By Yookeroo If you have to put up construction walls, you can't get better than this.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 Totally agree. I really love this. it's the best thing of its type I've ever seen. Is it wrong I'm weirdly disappointed that I won't be seeing what amounts to construction walls in person?
Originally Posted By CuriousConstance Looks like the Dream Home Exhibit closed over the weekend per Miceage's update today. Maybe the 60th anniversary exhibit rumor is true.
Originally Posted By danyoung This is so much better than the blank scrim that they originally put up. Which begs the question - why did they need to put up that blank scrim and then put the painted castle scrim in later?
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan Maybe the blank scrim was just to determine the final sizing before printing it on the material? I dunno the process, that's my guess...
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt "Looks like the Dream Home Exhibit closed over the weekend per Miceage's update today. Maybe the 60th anniversary exhibit rumor is true." MA is on a roll, aren't they?
Originally Posted By FerretAfros >>Which begs the question - why did they need to put up that blank scrim and then put the painted castle scrim in later?<< I don't know why, but I do know that it's standard practice for when they do these sorts of things. They also installed blank scrims at iasw before going back and putting up the printed ones for the current façade refurbishment. Even in WDW, where they do the printed scrims all the time, they still have a couple days at the beginning with the blank ones I suspect 2oony is correct, that they want to ensure that they have the right size/configuration of the material before the print it, so that it will look right when it's installed. If they end up needing more (or less) coverage than they anticipated, that would be hard to compensate for after they have it printed
Originally Posted By CuriousConstance It would be kind of cool to see a video showing how these huge scrims are made.
Originally Posted By CuriousConstance Here is a cute Disney Parks Blog video of a sheep getting all handsome. <a target="blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2015/02/disneyland-park-sheep-gets-a-haircut/">http://disneyparks.disney.go.c...haircut/</a>
