Originally Posted By Witches of Morva ORWEN: Actually, Sleeping Beauty Castle WAS pink 15 years ago--cheesybaby. I have pictures to prove it. But it really doesn't matter. The fact that it has much nicer colors, now, which make it stand out more is what's important. My only complaint is that gold railing they still have up. It doesn't belong there. It's left over from the 50t celebration.
Originally Posted By Lady Starlight Manfried, <-- doesn't like gold and can't stand diamonds. Much prefers sterling silver or platinum and black opals.
Originally Posted By KittyPrincess1206 Platinum and pears for me please! Gotta admit though, I love diamonds too...
Originally Posted By Mickeyfan1 I have a guide book from 1957 and the cover photo show the castle pretty much gray on the lower "stone" part and then a light pink above with blue turrets and roofs.
Originally Posted By Witches of Morva ORWEN: In some of the early pictures of the castle, the pink paint was so pale that it didn't show up very well. You had to be there in person to see it but it was there.
Originally Posted By cheesybaby <<Actually, Sleeping Beauty Castle WAS pink 15 years ago--cheesybaby. I have pictures to prove it.>> As recently as 2000 - MUCH less pink: <a href="http://img165.imageshack.us/i/may00castle1smallzb1.jpg/" target="_blank">http://img165.imageshack.us/i/...zb1.jpg/</a> During the last 10 years, yes, the castle has been SuperPink. Like this: <a href="http://disney.rocket9.net/images/Disneyland2009_pano18_CastleMatterhorn.sm.jpg" target="_blank">http://disney.rocket9.net/imag...n.sm.jpg</a> But this was not always the case: <a href="http://www.hollywoodstories.com/pages/images/DisneylandCastle.jpeg" target="_blank">http://www.hollywoodstories.co...tle.jpeg</a> <a href="http://www.seeing-stars.com/imagepages/DisneylandCastleInWinterPhoto.shtml" target="_blank">http://www.seeing-stars.com/im...to.shtml</a>
Originally Posted By Dabob2 The original castle was largely blue-gray (similar to WDW's), but with a pale hint of pink. The real pink came later. I do prefer the current pink to the one just before this one (which was WAY too pink), but I prefer the original barely pink most. If they'd go back to that and keep the more brilliant 50th blue, I'd be happy.
Originally Posted By cheesybaby ^^Each of those photos has pink and/or red in other parts of the photo, so the color is not "off." Look at the 2000 photo (45 years of Magic). There is pink in the banners hanging from the turrets. But the castle itself has very little pink, and only in certain areas, not everywhere. In the "SuperPink" DL castle of 2005-2010, every single possible paintable surface is pink. This is a very recent phenomenon which is very different from the historically normal DL castle.
Originally Posted By Witches of Morva ORWEN: Even in the pictures you just showed, there is a hint of pink on certain portions of the castle, cheesybaby, duckling. And like I already said, you had to be there in person to see it well because the pictures don't always show it as prominently.
Originally Posted By smd4 The original castle exhibited the "veneer of reality" that made the fantasy seem all the more "real." The current Pepto-pink/Tidy-Bowl blue is an abomination--as are the left-over gilded railings that remove all hint of realism. The castle used to look like a real castle; girls--and boys--could imagine themselves in it. It was "real." Now, only the girls can imagine it as their Barbie Dream Castle. A travesty...
Originally Posted By smd4 Walt's Imagineners understood colors in ways that today's college-educated usurpers cannot. All the courses devoted to the ways color affects psychology are useless for people who don't understand colors on an instictive level. Walt's Imaginners were artists; today's are more interested in which colors might put you in a buying mood.
Originally Posted By trekkeruss smd4, I'd be curious to know what you think about Le Chateau de la Belle au Bois Dormant at DLP.
Originally Posted By smd4 The castle in France was built as a PURE fantasy castle. I mean, really...How was Disney goona built a realistic "fake" castle in the heart of Europe? You can't swing a dead cat without hitting an authentic castle in those parts. Therefore Disney needed to take a different tack. They couldn't compete in realism; they had to go fantasy.
Originally Posted By smd4 Walt Disney shot for realism everywhere he could; he could have built a cartoon castle; a cartoon train; a cartoon riverboat; a cartoon Main Street. Heightened realism, definitely, but realism nonetheless. He took the high road--knowing that if he built his fantasies in a realistic manner, both adults and children would be entertained and--dare I say it--even educated.
