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

[FrenchDisney1985]

Does anyone know if the extended cranes were gone whilst Mickeys Royal Friendship Faire & Happily Ever After were being performed?

 

[coruscant]

Maybe they will do like they did in Paris in 2011. Part is covered but the top part it's not.

 

[LauraRose]

Does anyone know if the extended cranes were gone whilst Mickeys Royal Friendship Faire & Happily Ever After were being performed?

Someone on my Instagram posted a photo At 5pm the cranes were gone. Don’t know if they went earlier some people have said it was 3pm.

 

[relots]

Serious question, is it not possible to paint the cranes a grey color so as not to stick out so much? Is the orange for safety reasons?? I mean, if they were a grey of sorts they wouldn’t be so obvious in pictures or even in person. (If this has been asked before I apologize, I only skim the threads every now and again)

I can actually answer this one since these particular brand man lifts (or MEWP as the official term) are designed and manufactured in my hometown. The color of the lifts, orange and tan, are the official company colors of the lifts. Orange being that it sticks out for safety purposes.

You can get them painted but there are only a few companies that pay for that service. Sunbelt rentals are famous for their green equipment and usually movie/production companies paint their lifts all flat black.

Additional fun fact: The name JLG that's on the side stands for John L. Grove one of the founders and got started manufacturing wagons for farms and then moved into cranes (usually yellow with GROVE on the side, now owned my Manitowoc but still built locally) and then man lifts like seen here.

Always fun to see some locally made equipment at work at WDW!

 

[FrenchDisney1985]

Someone on my Instagram posted a photo At 5pm the cranes were gone. Don’t know if they went earlier some people have said it was 3pm.

Thanks for the reply. Good news to hear they may not be present all day and impact the shows

 

[Squishy]

MRFF doesn't have pyro anymore.

 

[Touchdown]

MRFF doesn't have pyro anymore.

It did Sunday

 

[wdwmagic]

It did Sunday

The serious work got underway Monday morning, so Sunday may have been the last day for a while.

 

[ryan1]

I was there yesterday and stopped to watch some of the guys working. It looked like they were cleaning the stone base with soapy liquid, we thought it was primer before we got closer, and they were hand wiping the shingles with rags. I didn't see any paint buckets. It looked like prep work.

 

[ImperfectPixie]

I was there yesterday and stopped to watch some of the guys working. It looked like they were cleaning the stone base with soapy liquid, we thought it was primer before we got closer, and they were hand wiping the shingles with rags. I didn't see any paint buckets. It looked like prep work.

Makes perfect sense. Paint won't stick unless the surface is clean.

 

[trainplane3]

We got some new paint:

First Royal Blue Turret Painted for Cinderella Castle Makeover at Magic Kingdom

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FIRST LOOK at "Rose Pink" Paint Color Added to Cinderella Castle for Makeover Project at Magic Kingdom

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(90% sure this isn't the final pink color or if it is, a test patch)

 

[jrhwdw]

MRFF doesn't have pyro anymore.

It did Sunday

The serious work got underway Monday morning, so Sunday may have been the last day for a while.

Is HEA still fully intact? I haven't seen any HEA Streams since the work began.

MRFF Looks awesome at night! We haven't seen this since MSEP went to DL! Can we we keep MRFF in the Afternoon/evenigng after the castle is done?

 

[Lirael]

We got some new paint:

First Royal Blue Turret Painted for Cinderella Castle Makeover at Magic Kingdom

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FIRST LOOK at "Rose Pink" Paint Color Added to Cinderella Castle for Makeover Project at Magic Kingdom

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(90% sure this isn't the final pink color or if it is, a test patch)

Good enough. Now people can resume fighting over what that exact shade is called. I've brought popcorn

 

[Touchdown]

Is HEA still fully intact? I haven't seen any HEA Streams since the work began.

MRFF Looks awesome at night! We haven't seen this since MSEP went to DL! Can we we keep MRFF in the Afternoon/evenigng after the castle is done?

HEA was fully intact Sunday night.

 

[KBLovedDisney]

Good enough. Now people can resume fighting over what that exact shade is called. I've brought popcorn

Rose pink?

Nah, that's peach.

 

[FigmentFan82]

That blue is lookin' nice (chef's kiss)

 

[jrhwdw]

HEA was fully intact Sunday night.

So was MRFF on Sunday it looks like(pyro in the finale)

 

[SpectroBro]

So was MRFF on Sunday it looks like(pyro in the finale)

MRFF won’t have pyro during the castle painting because the pyro fall-out and ash will ruin the wet paint.

 

[jrhwdw]

MRFF won’t have pyro during the castle painting because the pyro fall-out and ash will ruin the wet paint.

That's fine with me. But is Castle pyro cut from HEA? Fantasy pyro?

 

[gerarar]

That's fine with me. But is Castle pyro cut from HEA? Fantasy pyro?

HEA still had castle pyro as of last night (saw on multiple stories on snapchat). I’m betting once scaffolding goes up the pyro will be stopped.