NiarrNDisney
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Am I the only one who thinks its in a rather odd place?
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Massive King Triton Statue Added-
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novawildcat18
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Ugh that looks awful! Maybe it looks better in person, but it should not be colored that way. If it was an unpainted brown wood, I think it would look great.
Soarin' Over Pgh
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I believe it's Fiberglass... I think it's suppose to be a knod to the bronze statue that sat in the 20k lagoon during the former M&G Area for Ariel.
New version..
Old version
I love the old bronzed fountain one so much more. I remember seeing it at Disneyland and being wowed but how perfect it looked coming out of the water, and when the sun hits it, it looked so pretty. Err, handsome?
I don't know what to think of the faux wooden one. It looks too cartoonish (dumbed down?) and the base doesn't seem to work for me.
It's like an afterthought. That corner didn't have anything so they plopped this massive thing down and called it a day, packed up and went home.
Magenta Panther
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I'd like it better if it weren't painted.
flynnibus
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Looks like a mold of the one attop the DCA TLM attraction (which... was also the triton from the ariel M&G in DL
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flynnibus
Premium Member
No, that's the one from DL Ariel M&G.. which was taken out to make pixie hollow. This was confirmed on the DPB at the time.
ToTBellHop
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I struggle to believe a manly merman like Triton shaves his armpit hair.
Soarin' Over Pgh
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At least his nipples aren't showing...
lazyboy97o
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Maybe he gets them waxed when he gets his chest done.
prfctlyximprct
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I kinda like him! Can't wait to take my picture with him, haha!
Matt_Black
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That's a holdover from his pro-wrestling days, when he was Jerry "The King" Triton.
Oh, half a carving. It just doesn't look nice since it is 1/2 finished and has a big bulky block of wood at the bottom sitting on a couple pieces of wood. It looks like they may change their mind at any minute and pull a forklift under it and take it away. I love everything else around it but that looks out of place.
novawildcat18
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Saw it in person the past week. Did not look plastic-y at all and I think it looked great! Seemed to be a popular photo spot as well.
TP2000
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The Triton's Gardens section of Ariel's Grotto opened at Disneyland in January, 1996. That's when the Triton statue first appeared.
Ariel's Grotto at Disneyland closed in 2008, Triton was removed from his pond, and the Grotto area became Pixie Hollow by that following Christmas. Triton reappeared on top of DCA's The Little Mermaid ride in the spring of 2011. There was a post on the Disney Parks Blog with an Imagineer claiming it was the same exact statue from the Disneyland pond, preserved and repurposed for use on top of the DCA building.
The cloned statue at WDW's Submarine Lagoon didn't appear until later in 1996, and it's obvious the Disneyland and Magic Kingdom versions were clones of each other. This new statue in Fantasyland has a different arm structure, so it's not an exact copy of the original, much less the original statue itself like the DCA version is. Still, it's all very interesting that this Triton figure keeps reappearing over the decades at multiple parks.
Ariel's Grotto at Disneyland closed in 2008, Triton was removed from his pond, and the Grotto area became Pixie Hollow by that following Christmas. Triton reappeared on top of DCA's The Little Mermaid ride in the spring of 2011. There was a post on the Disney Parks Blog with an Imagineer claiming it was the same exact statue from the Disneyland pond, preserved and repurposed for use on top of the DCA building.
The cloned statue at WDW's Submarine Lagoon didn't appear until later in 1996, and it's obvious the Disneyland and Magic Kingdom versions were clones of each other. This new statue in Fantasyland has a different arm structure, so it's not an exact copy of the original, much less the original statue itself like the DCA version is. Still, it's all very interesting that this Triton figure keeps reappearing over the decades at multiple parks.
Captain Neo
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The old statue was a lot classier looking than that garish new one
Mouse_Trap
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Shame, it looks cheap and plasticy, not really in keeping with its surroundings.
Hopefully someone will soon notice and get it sorted.
Hopefully someone will soon notice and get it sorted.
novawildcat18
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The paint job looks almost exactly like this. I said before, once you see it in person, I'm pretty sure you'll hate it less. The picture doesn't really do it justice, it really doesn't look bad in person.
MOXOMUMD
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That's good to know.
The paint job looks almost exactly like this. I said before, once you see it in person, I'm pretty sure you'll hate it less. The picture doesn't really do it justice, it really doesn't look bad in person.