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

[Brian]

Thanks! We're already talking about it in the 50th thread.

I knew I couldn't be the first one to see the news!

 

[LittleBuford]

Fine, I guess I'll do it!

First "ribbon" installed overnight.

https://blogmickey.com/2021/04/firs...or-disney-world-50th-anniversary-celebration/

Looking pretty good in this picture, even the pink!

 

[ToTBellHop]

I do like it. I’d like it even better if the 50th was actually starting this summer and not 6 months or so from now. Not sure how far in advance prior overlays like the castle cake were done?

They may have delayed the party but the equipment to set up for it was already scheduled for now.

 

[wdwmagic]

First spire ribbon installed at Cinderella Castle​

First spire ribbon installed at Cinderella Castle

Decorating the castle for the 50th anniversary of the Magic Kingdom continues this week.

www.wdwmagic.com

 

[yensidtlaw1969]

Oof . . . I suspect it will look nice enough from the end of Main Street, but any closer and it looks like a big swing and a miss to me . . .

 

[Walt d]

I really like it

I have to admit it’s beginning to look very 50s and i like the copper or gold big swirls around the spires. Very clean look!

 

[Goofnut1980]

Definately no "Dream Lights" this year for Christmas. I am pretty sure they could have designed that a bit better. The support really stands out. We know why they had to repaint the roof blue, it would not have matched at all.

 

[Disney Analyst]

Definately no "Dream Lights" this year for Christmas. I am pretty sure they could have designed that a bit better. The support really stands out. We know why they had to repaint the roof blue, it would not have matched at all.

If you look at a photo I posted earlier from a Zoomed view, you can see the cage was the old roof colour also, they repainted it blue. So this was initially designed for the new roof colour and changed as well.

 

[SpectroMan93]

They also used cages for Disneyland’s 50th on the castle.

I understand that the blue is supposed to help them blend in with the turrets, but had they gone with the previously used spiral design, it might’ve helped them look better up close.

 

[raymusiccity]

I have to admit it’s beginning to look very 50s and i like the copper or gold big swirls around the spires. Very clean look!

Agreed! I found it funny in the cover article that the full size crane is 'hidden during the day!

 

[Bocabear]

It's funny the Disneyland 50th overlay of WDW's Castle looks WAY more appropriate that painting our castle , Disneyland's color scheme...and the decor as a whole from the old celebrations is more elegant and polished looking.
Don't hate the new cages, but they are way more cartoony...

 

[JoeCamel]

It's funny the Disneyland 50th overlay of WDW's Castle looks WAY more appropriate that painting our castle , Disneyland's color scheme...and the decor as a whole from the old celebrations is more elegant and polished looking.
Don't hate the new cages, but they are way more cartoony...

Yeah, ribbons and drapes vs filigree and golden characters cavorting. Wonder where those characters are today?

 

[LittleBuford]

Oof . . . I suspect it will look nice enough from the end of Main Street, but any closer and it looks like a big swing and a miss to me . . .

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Could you clarify what’s wrong with the close-up?

 

[UNCgolf]

Could you clarify what’s wrong with the close-up?

I assume he means because they're so far away from the turrets that they actually leave a shadow. They don't look like fabric wrapped around the turret.

I personally think the color looks wrong -- they look copper instead of gold. That could be camera/light dependent, though.

 

[yensidtlaw1969]

Could you clarify what’s wrong with the close-up?

Aside from the ribbon itself, which I think looks awkward and clumsily executed, the real offender is the blue cage underneath. It won't be noticeable from a great distance, but it's been painfully noticeable so far in every picture of the castle I've seen that features it.

 

[LittleBuford]

I assume he means because they're so far away from the turrets that they actually leave a shadow. They don't look like fabric wrapped around the turret.

I thought that was deliberate. To me, the floating effect is fittingly magical.

 

[LittleBuford]

Aside from the ribbon itself, which I think looks awkward and clumsily executed, the real offender is the blue cage underneath. It won't be noticeable from a great distance, but it's been painfully noticeable so far in every picture of the castle I've seen that features it.

Thanks for clarifying. It doesn't bother me, but I can see why others feel differently.

 

[yensidtlaw1969]

Thanks for clarifying. It doesn't bother me, but I can see why others feel differently.

Totally fine - I think I may also be secretly comparing this with the gold trimmings added to Sleeping Beauty Castle for Disneyland's 50th, which I thought were genuinely handsome, regal, and appropriate for the occassion. By comparison our first glimpse of WDW's Castle's gilding feels totally value-engineered to me.

This isn't even a particularly great picture of what DL did with its Castle Crowns, and yet it looks so much more legitimate than the WDW photo above:

 

[LittleBuford]

Totally fine - I think I may also be secretly comparing this with the gold trimmings added to Sleeping Beauty Castle for Disneyland's 50th, which I thought were genuinely handsome, regal, and appropriate for the occassion. By comparison our first glimpse of WDW's Castle's gilding feels totally value-engineered to me.

This isn't even a particularly great picture of what DL did with its Castle Crowns:
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Those trimmings were certainly impressive! The ribbon on Cinderella Castle does look underwhelming by comparison, but I'm assuming there's more to come before the makeover is finished.

 

[JoeCamel]

Totally fine - I think I may also be secretly comparing this with the gold trimmings added to Sleeping Beauty Castle for Disneyland's 50th, which I thought were genuinely handsome, regal, and appropriate for the occassion. By comparison our first glimpse of WDW's Castle's gilding feels totally value-engineered to me.

This isn't even a particularly great picture of what DL did with its Castle Crowns, and yet it looks so much more legitimate than the WDW photo above:
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Nice, did they light up?