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

_caleb

_caleb

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Animaniac93-98 said:
In the movie it's really all white. Here's a day and another night shot

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The other hues of blue, and sometimes pink come from changes in lighting to fit the mood of certain scenes.
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BTW- How did you get the screenshots from the movie? I fired up Disney+ and the DRM wouldn't allow it. I had to literally take a photo of my laptop screen with the camera on my phone to get mine!
 
Animaniac93-98

Animaniac93-98

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Cinderella Castle [no possessive] like other Fantasyland attractions at the time, is more based on the idea of the story, than a literal translation of the cartoon. The designs of the characters on the mosaic don't match their movie counterparts either, although the fountain and some sculpted pieces of the mice and birds do.

In the 70s, if you wanted to watch Disney movies you had to wait for a reissue or TV broadcast to do so. The closest other option would have been those storyteller records, or Big Golden Books which also sometimes took artistic license. Most people only had some memory of what the characters and scenes looked like. It wasn't important or relevant if WDW looked the same.

I blame home video and its related merchandising for setting up the expectation that Disney World would look 100% like the movies.
 
Tinkwings

Tinkwings

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LittleBuford said:
I don’t like the colours either, but as regards the bolded, the castle has never much resembled the one in the film. We identify it as Cinderella’s only because that’s what it’s called; it actually looks much more like the castle in Sleeping Beauty.
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Don't you think its hue was intended for fading potential in the Florida sun? I thought it looked good in a video I saw, but guess I shall have to wait til I see it in person to evaluate....which could be a few years so by then it could soften. ;)
 
LittleBuford

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TINKWINGS said:
Don't you think its hue was intended for fading potential in the Florida sun? I thought it looked good in a video I saw, but guess I shall have to wait til I see it in person to evaluate....which could be a few years so by then it could soften. ;)
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I don’t buy that explanation. Can you think of any other building that Disney has deliberately oversaturated so that it would fade over time? Besides, the issue isn’t simply the intensity of the colours, but also their hues relative to each other. The blue and pink clash, and they’ll continue to clash even after they fade.
 
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JoeCamel

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TINKWINGS said:
Don't you think its hue was intended for fading potential in the Florida sun? I thought it looked good in a video I saw, but guess I shall have to wait til I see it in person to evaluate....which could be a few years so by then it could soften. ;)
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I think when you get someone like Eddie Soto dumping on the colors it isn't in question that they went for garish.
Reminds me of a 4 year old getting into mommy's makeup and going heavy on the purple eyes and pink cheeks.

"Aren't I just beautiful?"

 
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MisterPenguin

MisterPenguin

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_caleb said:
BTW- How did you get the screenshots from the movie? I fired up Disney+ and the DRM wouldn't allow it. I had to literally take a photo of my laptop screen with the camera on my phone to get mine!
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Did you try playing it in the browser's windowed mode? The normal screen cap programs worked for me...

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The pink comes from the lighting...

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ToTBellHop

ToTBellHop

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LittleBuford said:
I don’t buy that explanation. Can you think of any other building that Disney has deliberately oversaturated so that it would fade over time? Besides, the issue isn’t simply the intensity of the colours, but also their hues relative to each other. The blue and pink clash, and they’ll continue to clash even after they fade.
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Tower of Terror. Remember the bright purple a few years back? Looks good now.

Splash Mountain.

Painted walkways.

Main Street buildings.

It‘s literally a best practice in FL theme park design.

Also, I thought it looked better in person.
 
lazyboy97o

lazyboy97o

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Animaniac93-98 said:
Cinderella Castle [no possessive] like other Fantasyland attractions at the time, is more based on the idea of the story, than a literal translation of the cartoon. The designs of the characters on the mosaic don't match their movie counterparts either, although the fountain and some sculpted pieces of the mice and birds do.

In the 70s, if you wanted to watch Disney movies you had to wait for a reissue or TV broadcast to do so. The closest other option would have been those storyteller records, or Big Golden Books which also sometimes took artistic license. Most people only had some memory of what the characters and scenes looked like. It wasn't important or relevant if WDW looked the same.

I blame home video and its related merchandising for setting up the expectation that Disney World would look 100% like the movies.
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I think there was also an understanding that the animated films were no longer trying for realism. The backgrounds had become more stylized. They were more of an impression intended to set a mood than an architectural rendering. This is one of those things that until recently had been lost with Pixar's focus on realism, in many ways a limitation of their technology. Sets that are not detailed tend to look poorly executed, so animation now has a greater focus on a sort of tactility that was not previously present. A hand drawn Frozen would not necessarily need all of those finely executed Norwegian details because they could be implied with the right sort of painting instead of explicitly drawn.
 
Tinkwings

Tinkwings

Pfizered Fairy
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In the Parks
No
After looking at dozens of photos.....in different lighting.....I see an extreme difference on the internet of color impression. SO will leave it to personal observation in the park in context of surrounds to judge. I do like the golden bling added for the anniversary.....think I have the most issue with the shade of blue.....
 
LittleBuford

LittleBuford

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MansionButler84 said:
Tower of Terror. Remember the bright purple a few years back? Looks good now.

Splash Mountain.

Painted walkways.

Main Street buildings.

It‘s literally a best practice in FL theme park design.

Also, I thought it looked better in person.
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Let me rephrase. Sure, everything there is painted with the expectation that it’s going to lighten with time—the sun will do that whether one wants it to or not. But that’s not quite the same as what some are suggesting for the castle, which is that its current appearance should be understood as a sort of necessarily garish phase before the whole thing fades into what the designers ultimately intended. There’s no good reason for it not to look splendid now and in its faded state, as had been the case with previous paint jobs (I’m not counting the infamous birthday cake makeover, of course). And along the same lines, the fact it may look better in person doesn’t excuse the way it’s coming out in photographs. Earlier iterations have not had this issue.

The situation is all the more disappointing in light of the concept art, which, even if not universally liked, was so much more attractive than what we’ve actually ended up with.

I post this with a heavy heart as a self-confessed Pixie Duster who normally despairs of the negativity in which these forums are mired. On this issue at least, Team Doom and Gloom is right.
 

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