note2001
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Nice shots! I took some over the wall shots and then security showed up around 10 minutes later and made me delete them
Wonder what they would have done if you had a 35mm camera.
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Is the clock ticking on the Sorcerer Mickey Hat icon at the Studios? YES!
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Wonder what they would have done if you had a 35mm camera.
xdan0920
Think for yourselfer
Smashed it on the ground in a pixie dust fueled rage.
Timothy_Q
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Mike S
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Nah, they'll smash it with a hammer. Yzma style
midwest_mice
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They'd confiscate it and let the lumberjacks at Epcot destroy it with their axes.
Gator
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Man, I was at least hoping that it would reappear outside the gate or near the Fantasmic! stage.
JenniferS
When you're the leader, you don't have to follow.
Yup, just like that "show" has destroyed my pride in being Canadian.They'd confiscate it and let the lumberjacks at Epcot destroy it with their axes.
AgeEight-E
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I think it's too big to go near Fantasmic. It would probably stick up through the trees and ruin the ToT sightlines.
lazyboy97o
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There are also some bits from Paris.
AgeEight-E
Active Member
All true, though the silhouette is a lot more MK.
lazyboy97o
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The silhouette is very much Cinderella Castle but the parts are more from Sleeping Beauty Castle and Le Chateau de la Belle au Bois Dormant.
BrerJon
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So I hear the plan is to trim it down to a fedora, then spray it brown and have it be Indiana Jones themed.
Seabasealpha1
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You know, if they hack off the brim and weld a flat piece of steel sheet over the top at this point...and maybe find the world's biggest tassel...we could make a very large Fez....
WDWArchitectureGuy
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It's all about Marketing.
Sleeping Beauty's castle was built as a marketing scheme. There are many Disneyland documentaries that mention Walt needed to market his upcoming Feature length animation Sleeping Beauty. In the original plans the Matterhorn was to the focal point or icon of DL. The castle made it possible to make the cartoon seem real and ended up being the focus in crane camera shots at the opening of the park and took the focus off the matterhorn.
And 2 years before Sleeping Beauty was released the castle had/has again a walk through attraction to sell the story and movie. Yesterland has a nice article about the history of the walk through attraction.
imagineer boy
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The theater is just poking from behind the hat going "hello everybody!"
heath.sneyd
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Either way, they're definitely a "visual icon that draws in guests", which is the exact definition of a "weenie"!
You ought to see the droves of people that follow that dang parade around whenever she's in the park!
Anyway, back to Le BAH ( I actually just pronounce it like "Bah Humbug" now...), I'm shedding a tear of joy... It's so beautiful!
The Matterhorn wasn't there at opening.
cspencer96
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The Matterhorn was not in the original plans for Disneyland (nor was it even there until 1959), and it's fairly clear that Sleeping Beauty Castle was intended to be more than just a marketing ploy if Walt placed it at the center of his park. Not saying it wasn't a marketing ploy - Disneyland itself was considered a marketing tool as a whole - just saying that it was the centerpiece, as is Cinderella Castle and the other Disney castles around the world. It sort of started the trend of an iconic element, placed near the center of the park, though not fully. I don't think that design trend for parks really took hold as a standard of practice until 1982. That was continued with WDW's Cinderella Castle, and wavered slightly with Spaceship Earth. It was the first time a Disney park would receive an icon for its theme, and a symbol for its message. Until then, the respective castles were placed there because it was a "Disneyland-style" park. Spaceship Earth is what I think created the assumption that all Disney theme parks needed an icon, because it was the first to have a true, symbolic, iconic structure that would differentiate it from other parks.
WDWArchitectureGuy
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Didn't say it was. The conceptual plan was for it to a focal point.