Latest look at the Beauty and the Beast area construction in the new Fantasyland

[sshindel]

How are the children supposed to learn to read if they can't even fit in the building!!

Any quote from Zoolander makes my day!

Someone brought up a good point, one I'm sure I've read before but cant quite remember. How do they typically keep birds, etc from perching on top of some of these forced perspective buildings and killing the illusion. Are they going to be covered in the little "spikes" that at times keep birds away. I just cant remember this one off the top of my head.

 

[BigThunderMatt]

The Be Our Guest restuarant is going to be in the near vicinity...

Near vicinity? It's directly on top of it. No joke. It's dead center on the roof of the giant warehouse building containing the restaurant. I've seen said warehouse from the back side it's huge.

And to anyone else here asking the same question that has been asked numerous times already...

THE CASTLE IS FAKE. IT'S ONLY 20 FEET TALL AND IS STRICTLY FOR SHOW JUST LIKE HOGWARTS AT IOA AND THE EIFFEL TOWER AT EPCOT.

 

[Tom Morrow]

The castle looks to be only a little bit smaller than Hogwarts at WWoHP. Which makes sense given they don't want to trump Cinderella Castle in any way. I'm not worried about how this will look when finished.

 

[DocMcHulk]

The castle looks really great.

 

[MotherOfBirds]

It does look good, even this early. I am most intrigued, though, to see how everything is landscaped. I still have the first 20 seconds of the prologue from the movie in my head

 

[BigThunderMatt]

I'm not worried about how this will look when finished.

Nor myself. However, I do agree with a previous post that if any of the trees by the back roads are in direct sightlines of the castle that they're going to need to be cut down or, at the very least, trimmed to not ruin the forced perspective.

 

[RAXIP]

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[PurpleRose]

It's amazing to me how much tiny details they will put in that no one will ever see. I think it looks amazing already. This gets me jazzed up!

 

[gamedude]

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Epicer than EPIC!

Thanks so much for that! It looks so much better now.:sohappy:

 

[CastleBound]

Disneyland Paris version

Is the WDW version going to look like this one when its finished?

 

[RSoxNo1]

Is the WDW version going to look like this one when its finished?

In as much as the Eiffel Tower in the France Pavilion looks like the real one in France.

 

[Spike-in-Berlin]

It always comes to me as a major surprise, how many people just cannot read plans or think threedimensional. Perhaps it's my professional background speaking but how could anyone ever believe, that there would be any rooms etc of the new restaurants INSIDE the castle, although it clearly is a miniature in forced perspective. Did these people do not look at the concept art of the FLE? How can you look at the concept art and still expect a second Cinderella's Castle coming to Fantasyland?

 

[jt04]

It always comes to me as a major surprise, how many people just cannot read plans or think threedimensional. Perhaps it's my professional background speaking but how could anyone ever believe, that there would be any rooms etc of the new restaurants INSIDE the castle, although it clearly is a miniature in forced perspective. Did these people do not look at the concept art of the FLE? How can you look at the concept art and still expect a second Cinderella's Castle coming to Fantasyland?

Quite simply it is because our education system (with some exceptions) would rather teach people what to think rather than how to think.

 

[raven]

Beast's "Castle" is just a forced-perspective facade on top of forced-perspective hill. This is just to give the illusion of a large castle in the distance while the structure is really quite small (consider the Eiffel Tower in Epcot's France). The Be Our Guest restuarant is going to be in the near vicinity and it will give the illusion that you're "inside" the castle.

The actual restaurant will be accessed through a rock/mountain facod just under the castle. I was sent a scan of a concept about 4 months ago. I'll see if I can find it and post it.

 

[DisneyParksFan1]

The actual restaurant will be accessed through a rock/mountain facod just under the castle. I was sent a scan of a concept about 4 months ago. I'll see if I can find it and post it.

Thanks in advance!

 

[DisneyLuver91]

Quite simply it is because our education system (with some exceptions) would rather teach people what to think rather than how to think.

I've never heard it put that way, but I wholeheartedly agree with that!

 

[RAXIP]

The tall tower was added to the castle

http://twitpic.com/4k4jq3
http://twitpic.com/4k4jpx

A turret was added to a corner of the restaurant building too. This is near Belle's Village

http://twitpic.com/4k4jqj

 

[FigmentJedi]

It's just a few more towers to go before the primary assembly is done right?

 

[raven]

It's just a few more towers to go before the primary assembly is done right?

Nope, that should be it.

 

[JustInTime]

The tall tower was added to the castle

http://twitpic.com/4k4jq3
http://twitpic.com/4k4jpx

A turret was added to a corner of the restaurant building too. This is near Belle's Village

http://twitpic.com/4k4jqj

I posted that I has thought it was missing a few towers. This looks much better. It gives it the height it was missing and it is now closer to the concept art. Thanks for the updates as always!