Let me rephrase. Sure, everything there is painted with the expectation that it’s going to lighten with time—the sun will do that whether one wants it to or not. But that’s not quite the same as what some are suggesting for the castle, which is that its current appearance should be understood as a sort of necessarily garish phase before the whole thing fades into what the designers ultimately intended. There’s no good reason for it not to look splendid now and in its faded state, as had been the case with previous paint jobs (I’m not counting the infamous birthday cake makeover, of course). And along the same lines, the fact it may look better in person doesn’t excuse the way it’s coming out in photographs. Earlier iterations have not had this issue.
The situation is all the more disappointing in light of the concept art, which, even if not universally liked, was so much more attractive than what we’ve actually ended up with.
I post this with a heavy heart as a self-confessed Pixie Duster who normally despairs of the negativity in which these forums are mired. On this issue at least, Team Doom and Gloom is right.
