Castle Ferrets

Originally Posted By DlandDug

Grrr!

Let's try that again.

Here's the castle under construction:
<a href="http://www.usc.edu/libraries/archives/arc/libraries/regional/images/disney.jpg" target="_blank">http://www.usc.edu/libraries/a
rchives/arc/libraries/regional/images/disney.jpg</a>

Here it is before the renovation:
<a href="http://cache.eb.com/eb/image?id=19463&rendTypeId=4" target="_blank">http://cache.eb.com/eb/image?i
d=19463&rendTypeId=4</a>

And here it is as it appears today:
<a href="http://sherikeyser.googlepages.com/disneyland_castle.jpg/disneyland_castle-full.jpg" target="_blank">http://sherikeyser.googlepages
.com/disneyland_castle.jpg/disneyland_castle-full.jpg</a>

 

Originally Posted By aracuanbird

yeah, they junked up the castle real good. all it needs is hoop earrings and big hair. bret michaels would be all over that.

 

Originally Posted By Witches of Morva

ORWEN: Oh, it's not THAT bad. But I do wish they'd take down all those golden railings that are out of place for a medieval castle.

 

Originally Posted By jonvn

It looks like they took purple and pink crayons and scrawled all over the thing.

Stuck on some chipmunks to make good.

 

Originally Posted By RoadTrip

I like the way it looks now.

 

Originally Posted By p-n-p06

An accurate slingshot would take care of those chipmunks...heh heh heh...

 

Originally Posted By jonvn

I am pretty sure they are chipmunks, and not squirrels, btw. They look like chip and dale to me.

Anyone sure of what they actually are?

 

Originally Posted By FerretAfros

They seem to have pretty bushy tails to be chipmunks. Pretty much the entire top half of the sculptures are the tails, so I would be surprised if they weren't squirrles. They also look just like the ones in the movie.

 

Originally Posted By Witches of Morva

ORWEN: You're wrong jonvn, ducklng. Those are replicas of the same squirrels from Sleeping Beauty. Don't you remember how they danced inside Prince Phillip's stolen boots before they got laid off and had to find new jobs posing for sculptures at Disneyland???

 

Originally Posted By Witches of Morva

ORDDU: Actually, dear, it was the RABBITS from Sleeping Beauty who danced inside those stolen boots--not the squirrels. But, yes, there really were squirrels in the forest home of Briar Rose and they scampered around all over the place and endeared themselves to many who saw the film and that's why they were added to the castle. Ferrets, indeed!! Can't ducklings tell the difference between ferrets and squireels any more? What would Ferret Afros say?

ORGOCH: I think he already said it!!!

 

Originally Posted By FerretAfros

I would say that I think this is a thread about me every time it gets back up near the top. It's kind of scary until I realize what it's about again. : )

 

Originally Posted By jonvn

"Don't you remember how they danced inside Prince Phillip's stolen boots before they got laid off and had to find new jobs posing for sculptures at Disneyland"

Actually, that movie is deadly dull to me. I fast forward through most of it. Nice backgrounds, though.

Yeah, the tails are too bushy to be chipmunks, that seems right.

You know, the castle was modeled after a real castle in Bavaria. It's called Neuschwanstein. Built by mad ludwing.

A couple of articles with pictures of it:

<a href="http://travel.webshots.com/photo/2283539370086505541IOyBBG" target="_blank">http://travel.webshots.com/pho
to/2283539370086505541IOyBBG</a>

<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuschwanstein" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N
euschwanstein</a>


This is what is different between then and now. They built a castle and it was based on a real actual castle. Someone didn't think that was good enough, so they dumped cartoon characters on it and painted it pink.

Oh well.

 

Originally Posted By p-n-p06

Pink stinks...keep it in Toon Town. Love the castle the way it used to look pre-critters.

 

Originally Posted By Witches of Morva

ORWEN: Well, since it's Aurora' home and since SHE likes pink--and so do I--I'm glad they added pink paint to make the castle look more like a fantasy themed home for a princess.

ORDDU: I think SLEEPING BEAUTY is anything BUT deadly dull, myself, but that's just a difference in taste. It's nice to see that this wonderful movie is finally getting the attention it richly deserves. It was released way ahead of it's time. Tony Baxter once mentioned that it was always his favorite Disney movie. He had said this at an NFFC convention many years ago.

 

Originally Posted By DlandDug

>>They built a castle and it was based on a real actual castle. Someone didn't think that was good enough, so they dumped cartoon characters on it...<<

That would be Walt Disney. He named it "Sleeping Beauty Castle," and had it remodeled to accommodate a walk through based on that deadly dull film.

 

Originally Posted By jonvn

"That would be Walt Disney."

No, it wouldn't. It was done about 30 years after he died.

What he built was based on an actual castle in Europe. It was colored as if it were made out of stone. I think if he wanted a pink castle with cartoon squirrels on it, he would have built it that way, or changed it in the ten or so years he was running the place.

 

Originally Posted By DlandDug

Walt named it Sleeping Beauty Castle, and Walt had it remodeled to accommodate a walk through attraction filled with cartoon characters from the film. Further, the upper turrets of the Castle was painted a soft pink while he was still alive.

I don't agree with all the changes that were made in the late 90s. But there was certainly a precedent for them set by Walt himself.

 

Originally Posted By jonvn

"Walt had it remodeled to accommodate a walk through attraction filled with cartoon characters from the film"

Yes, because it was in fantasyland. But he also did not alter the look of the exterior, which was based on a real castle, which is what I am talking about. There used to be a sense of realism to a lot of what was done, a stepping off point of reality into the fantasy. There are actually buildings that look like what the castle used to look like. Now it looks pink.

 

Originally Posted By DlandDug

It is awfully pink these days. It's a vestige of that Euro-Disneyland influence. Remember when iasw was all tarted up? It looks much better in the white/gold/blue color scheme.

 

Originally Posted By jonvn

IASW looks much better all white. And it says we're all one people all over the world. It actually fits with the theme of the ride, and hooks into the finale by having it be all white.