News PHOTOS - Cinderella Castle at the Magic Kingdom to receive enhancements this summer

[Haymarket2008]

I think a major reason for the castle being colored pink and gold is because Disney needs to find someway to create special anniversary merchandise/promotional material featuring the castle for next year. (Similar to the castle cake being prominent during the 25th Anniversary celebration)

They already gave a glimpse at early merchandise for WDW's 50th Birthday last D23.

A closer look at the logo

Judging by these images, I'm having a feeling glitter will be a major theme for the anniversary. Similar to DL's 60th Anniversary being diamond themed.

Well, the “glitter” thing is just Gold. A Golden anniversary is a 50th anniversary and a Diamond is a 60th. That’s not a Disney specific thing.

 

[tirian]

Last I checked, copper is not gold in color. A brand new penny is quite easy to distinguish as copper, as a gold coin is easy to distinguish as gold.

Which is also why I said golden, a family of colors, not gold. I know that sounds like a backtrack, but it’s true. Still, I’m not going to further detail the thread.

 

[Haymarket2008]

Guys, it’s their GOLDEN anniversary. The 50th anniversary. Disneyland did the same exact thing in 2005. Not their Glitter anniversary.

 

[Otamin]

@TJJohn12 @brb1006

It’s most noticeable in side views.

Before Shanghai, the company chose to keep Cinderella Castle the tallest as a tribute to Walt’s last dream*. But when the Chinese government said it wanted the tallest castle, Iger agreed.

*yes, I know the city of EPCOT was his dream and he wasn’t particularly involved in the MK. Blah blah blah. That doesn’t change the reason the Imagineers made that decision.

Unless I’m mistaken, the difference in height is mainly with the rock work right?

It’s surprisingly hard being able to find detailed comparisons between the two (outside of the obvious differences in colour).

 

[Bocabear]

I can understand how people can think a shiny metal based on a hue of orange v. yellow might be the same, but, shiny unpatinaed copper is very different from gold...

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not only that, it was not a polished copper but a very dull copper...not the color of a new penny at all.

 

[TTA94]

I think a major reason for the castle being colored pink and gold is because Disney needs to find someway to create special anniversary merchandise/promotional material featuring the castle for next year. (Similar to the castle cake being prominent during the 25th Anniversary celebration)

They already gave a glimpse at early merchandise for WDW's 50th Birthday last D23.

A closer look at the logo

Judging by these images, I'm having a feeling glitter will be a major theme for the anniversary. Similar to DL's 60th Anniversary being diamond themed.

Million dollar question what impacts Covid19 has or will have on the original 50th plans. And what’s still going to happen. Not sure anyone actually knows this answer just yet, and we might not know until late this year or early 2021.

 

[SpectroBro]

Drove past today. It doesn’t look nearly as pink in person. Just a tonnnnn of gold. Very shiny.

 

[rreading]

I'm going to be most interested in my impression at the end of my next trip. First impressions are often deceiving; I'm going to curious how it feels after a few days.

but fwiw, I prefer the sparkly white quartz suggestion rather than the pink as well

 

[BigDlover]

I think a major reason for the castle being colored pink and gold is because Disney needs to find someway to create special anniversary merchandise/promotional material featuring the castle for next year. (Similar to the castle cake being prominent during the 25th Anniversary celebration)

They already gave a glimpse at early merchandise for WDW's 50th Birthday last D23.

A closer look at the logo

Judging by these images, I'm having a feeling glitter will be a major theme for the anniversary. Similar to DL's 60th Anniversary being diamond themed.

Beyond merch I believe they just wanted to do something special for the anniversary and gold/sparkly seems very fitting and celebratory. I wouldn't be surprised if it went back to its original color palette after 1.5-2 years or so. The original is iconic and beloved.

 

[IMDREW]

So they had to do PINK, blue and gold and couldnt do WHITE, blue and gold because?....

 

[DarkMetroid567]

I'm honestly glad that they decided to do SOMETHING with the castle. Tokyo's Cinderella may be smaller but anyone who's been to both parks in person can tell you that the Tokyo Cinderella Castle has always looked better.

 

[Animaniac93-98]

Tokyo's Cindy is 168 feet versus MK's 189 feet.

Is there a source for this? In person they look the same.

It sounds extremely odd to build it 21 ft shorter.

 

[Animaniac93-98]

Side view Florida

Side view Tokyo (picture I took)

 

[Animaniac93-98]

Magic Kingdom is built 14' above ground level because of the basement that houses the utilidoors. Maybe they mean 189 from ground level?

 

[TJJohn12]

Magic Kingdom is built 14' above ground level because of the basement that houses the utilidoors. Maybe they mean 189 from ground level?

Can't find an official source from Disney. The 189' measurement is from the moat's surface. I'd assume Tokyo's is the same. Comparing your photos, it looks like the majority of the extra height is in the very base in WDW. Though all the "parts" are there in both your shots, the castles look significantly different in terms of how they are positioned in relations to each other.

 

[Animaniac93-98]

Can't find an official source from Disney. The 189' measurement is from the moat's surface. I'd assume Tokyo's is the same. Comparing your photos, it looks like the majority of the extra height is in the very base in WDW. Though all the "parts" are there in both your shots, the castles look significantly different in terms of how they are positioned in relations to each other.

I can't spot that much of a difference, if any, and building a 9/10th scale replica would also shrink the usable interior space.

The hub and it's moat are absolutely different in Tokyo. The water is noticeably shallower.

 

[TJJohn12]

I can't spot that much of a difference, if any, and building a 9/10th scale replica would also shrink the usable interior space.

The hub and it's moat are absolutely different in Tokyo. The water is noticeably shallower.

Like I said, I think the moat (and the foundation of the castles just above the moat) are the key. I'm on my Chromebook, so don't have great photo editing software available. But I was able to rescale and compare your two photos. Take a look at the difference in where the waterline hits each castle's lower walls:

All of this is of course off topic - though your photos do show why a grey castle is better than the pink one they're installing right now. ;-)

 

[Just another fan]

The castle looks hideous — who thought pink was a good idea? Makes the blue look purple. In fact, looks like a unicorn barfed on it. Keeping the regular stone color but pumping up the blue and gold would have been really sharp. Bad move Disney.

 

[yensidtlaw1969]

Not that anyone asked my opinion, but I feel like all I wanted from a Cinderella Castle repaint was something like this:

Really just some heightened contrast in the colors, crisper forced highlights, some shading under the eaves, and a hint of the iridescence that they seem to be aiming for. A New School treatment of the Old School color palette. Subtle, but refreshing, bringing out the character of the building with paint. I wouldn't hate on a few more gold accents being thrown on over this, that's just tricky to photoshop.

Before and After Gif to help emphasize the difference:

 

[Otamin]

Not that anyone asked my opinion, but I feel like all I wanted from a Cinderella Castle repaint was something like this:

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Really just some heightened contrast in the colors, crisper forced highlights, some shading under the eaves, and a hint of the iridescence that they seem to be aiming for. A New School treatment of the Old School color palette. Subtle, but refreshing, bringing out the character of the building with paint. I wouldn't hate on a few more gold accents being thrown on over this, that's just tricky to photoshop.

Before and After Gif to help emphasize the difference:

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This would’ve been ideal.

I always preferred the extra detailing the Tokyo castle has and it would’ve been nice to see something similar.

Based on the concept art for this project I actually thought we could have got something similar (albeit with a slight shade of pink), but obviously that wasn’t the case...