TheRabbit
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I must say, they look really good!
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Main Street U.S.A. hub redevelopment at the Magic Kingdom
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P_Radden
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Thanks for the photo update. Side note - Now that it's been a couple weeks.. I wanted to say, I really love your new site layout, and viewing this new article today reinforced (for me) how clean and nice the new WDWMagic is. Keep up the hard work!
MerlinTheGoat
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Half of those trees are some variety of magnolia. Magnolia trees have the potential to grow quite tall if you let them (and care for them), but they grow relatively slowly. It can potentially take decades for any substantial growth.
The other half I don't know the specific species, but definitely a coniferous/evergreen variety. Some similar types of trees are capable of growing pretty tall fairly quickly, but it depends on the species. Again I don't know what species they are, but they remind me of ones I am familiar with- leyland cypress or arborvitae (aka thuja). Those two varieties in particular are (in my experience) quite fast growing and can get quite tall if left alone and cared for properly. May not be the case for these in particular, but there are a lot of trees like these that can grow very tall in a surprisingly short amount of time if allowed.
But you can control growth by continually pruning a tree, regardless of the species.
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Father Robinson
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Thank you! I knew as soon as I saw the photo with the trees that I had a photo from 2013 from almost the same exact angle!
Father Robinson
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Question for those who have seen the new turrets in person, do they throw off the perspective of the castle's size and beauty?
Sage of Time
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Adding that changed the scaling drastically.
DisneyJunkie
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I'm not particularly impressed with these new turrets. What's the point of them?
ToTBellHop
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Hide speakers and look pretty (-ier than the predecessor speaker covers).
gmajew
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RandomPrincess
Keep Moving Forward
To hide the equipment for the stage show and projections on the castle.
SpectroMan93
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Kind of random thought, but I wonder if there are plans to put lights on the new turrets during the holiday season.
I don't know for fact, but I would say no.
Bocabear
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OMG I hope not... this show is horribly paced, only the barest minimum of pyro... Looks like a Saturday morning cartoon show...
Looks very cheap... Hoping for WDWs 50th we get a much better show than this... Disney Dreams it Disneyland Paris is a much nicer show...
Slowjack
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Maybe these will grow on me over time, or maybe the effect is different in person, but from the photos, they're throwing off the scale of the castle itself. The high turrets on the castle are forced perspective, of course, meant to appear larger and more distant than they are. Having the turrets at ground level makes the scale evident, and makes the whole vista toy-like.
ToTBellHop
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Maybe eventually, but likely only as part of a Dream Light upgrade--and they just got upgraded this past year to include lights on the trees in the hub, so I wouldn't expect more just yet.
DisneyJunkie
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I would have thought that if they were going anywhere, they'd have been on the opposite sides of the ones that mark the entrance to New Fantasyland (next to Pinocchio Village Haus).....sort of as a way of balancing it out.
Prince Thomas
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The new turrets look beautiful!!!
Brian
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Perhaps they'll put the "dream lights" on them, but probably not the traditional garland/led pieces that you see on Main Street.
trevorfs
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I completely agree!
ToTBellHop
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MK always gets real firework spectaculars. Because they can. It helps to run the town you are in.