Rapunzel's tower has arrived.

[lebeau]

Pot, Kettle, and I am calling you black. thanks for showing what a troll is. You were never part of the original conversation, but decided to add your two sense. I have reported you

Which two? I hope sense of smell was one of them. I like smell.

Sorry, I couldn't resist.

 

[WDWFREAK53]

LOL I showed my daughter the pictures of the Tower and said, "This is where Rapunzel lives!"

She said, "That's not where she lives, she lives with rocks all around her."
(Meaning that the tower is surrounded by rocky cliffs)

Wow, already picking up the details!

 

[Magenta Panther]

I saw the tower when I was at WDW yesterday. It's a cute design, but it doesn't exactly use the "forced perspective" trick, so it looks like a more appropriate home for, say, Tinkerbell. Or possibly Chip and Dale.

 

[Murphketeer]

love the pictures. thanks for posting.

 

[Stupido]

I saw the tower when I was at WDW yesterday. It's a cute design, but it doesn't exactly use the "forced perspective" trick, so it looks like a more appropriate home for, say, Tinkerbell. Or possibly Chip and Dale.

Don't forget the area isn't done yet.. I didn't think Beast's Castle worked until I saw the finished product..

 

[Turtle]

Do you think it's odd that you can see Tom Sawyer Island and Big Thunder Mountain Railroad further down the Haunted Mansion queue?

but a big Fantasyland purple tower like less than 30 feet away thematically don't fit as well as Tom Swayer Island or Big Thunder Mountain which are in the same color palette (orange-ish), so it doesn't intrude

 

[Ralphlaw]

I'm thinking about incorporating a Rapunzel tower by one of my bathrooms. The whole idea just resonates with me.

 

[Magic Lamp]

I'm thinking about incorporating a Rapunzel tower by one of my bathrooms. The whole idea just resonates with me.

The tower is located near a wall of waterfalls. If that didn't animate Rapunzel to go to the bathroom every 15 minutes, then I don't know...

 

[dgp602]

Looks great! This is all just going to be a bathroom area,right? This seems like a ton of work for just bathrooms. Although I'm not complaining if it is.....

 

[danlb_2000]

Looks great! This is all just going to be a bathroom area,right? This seems like a ton of work for just bathrooms. Although I'm not complaining if it is.....

Yes, just restrooms, a new path between FL and Liberty Square, and small sitting area.

 

[Rose&Crowner]

"Then they're most elaborate bathrooms ever built if that's all they are" according to the kind old cm parking strollers under it on Monday. Even he acknowledged that nothing has been announced so who knows.

 

[George Lucas on a Bench]

Haunted Mansion used to loom over the river. It looks so dwarfed now between the big tarp covering the hill, the foliage and now this tower.

 

[SilentWindODoom]

Ahhh...I so disagree. Disney prided itself on every single detail, from costuming to the tiniest details in every attraction, in every land. It was designed so guests would continue to notice details they missed before and drew guests back again. Saying you can't go to a Disney Park and not look closely goes against everything all imagineers and Walt ever said.

Not getting the hair color correct is a pretty big ooops. Likely needed to watch the film a few more times.

In a rush since I'm about to leave for Buffalo, but wanted to mention this. End of movie continuity has always been a bit of an ambivalent spot. The reason for this being that the memories we have of the movies are always of the middle, and Disney wants to portray that, even if things drastically changed at the end.

The biggest example of this would be Beauty and the Beast. At the end of the movie, everyone became uncursed, so depictions of "The Beast" should be a human prince and all the servants should be human as well. However, as our nostalgic view of the characters are from the middle of the movie, no one ever portrays them as thus. And if you suggest that it takes place during the movie, then Belle telling the entire story or the stained glass mural of Belle and the Prince makes no sense.

 

[Gabe1]

In a rush since I'm about to leave for Buffalo, but wanted to mention this. End of movie continuity has always been a bit of an ambivalent spot. The reason for this being that the memories we have of the movies are always of the middle, and Disney wants to portray that, even if things drastically changed at the end.

The biggest example of this would be Beauty and the Beast. At the end of the movie, everyone became uncursed, so depictions of "The Beast" should be a human prince and all the servants should be human as well. However, as our nostalgic view of the characters are from the middle of the movie, no one ever portrays them as thus. And if you suggest that it takes place during the movie, then Belle telling the entire story or the stained glass mural of Belle and the Prince makes no sense.

I am so lost as to how this relates to details in my post, nowhere did I even mention Beauty and Beast. Confused, but I would be too if I was heading to Buffalo again.

 

[spacemt354]

I am so lost as to how this relates to details in my post, nowhere did I even mention Beauty and Beast. Confused, but I would be too if I was heading to Buffalo again.

I think what that poster was trying to say was that the end of Disney films are not always the memories and images we take away from them. Ariel throughout the parks is usually depicted as a mermaid, even though she changes into a human at the end of the film. Pinocchio as a puppet, and not a real boy. The list can go on and on.

The point was, you had disagreed with another post and said getting Rapunzel's hair wrong was "a big oops", even though the common image of Rapunzel is with long blonde hair. These types of "errors" in Disney parks compare to the portrayal of characters from films such as Beauty and the Beast, The Little Mermaid, etc, where the portrayals of characters at the end of the films do not necessarily correlate with the park's portrayal of the characters.

This isn't an error, or a big oops. It just makes much more sense when The Little Mermaid is portrayed as a mermaid, the Beast is the Beast, and so on.

 

[danlb_2000]

I think what that poster was trying to say was that the end of Disney films are not always the memories and images we take away from them. Ariel throughout the parks is usually depicted as a mermaid, even though she changes into a human at the end of the film. Pinocchio as a puppet, and not a real boy. The list can go on and on.

The point was, you had disagreed with another post and said getting Rapunzel's hair wrong was "a big oops", even though the common image of Rapunzel is with long blonde hair. These types of "errors" in Disney parks compare to the portrayal of characters from films such as Beauty and the Beast, The Little Mermaid, etc, where the portrayals of characters at the end of the films do not necessarily correlate with the park's portrayal of the characters.

This isn't an error, or a big oops. It just makes much more sense when The Little Mermaid is portrayed as a mermaid, the Beast is the Beast, and so on.

Ariel is a great example of this since she is commonly portrayed both ways in the park. In the M&G she is in mermaid form, but in the parade is in human form.

 

[Gabe1]

This isn't an error, or a big oops. It just makes much more sense when The Little Mermaid is portrayed as a mermaid, the Beast is the Beast, and so on.

Ariel is a great example of this since she is commonly portrayed both ways in the park. In the M&G she is in mermaid form, but in the parade is in human form.

So Ariel can be portrayed in both forms and guests comprehend but the only way to portray Rapunzel is with the wrong color hair to make it work? Interesting theory.

 

[danlb_2000]

Out of curiosity does the Beast ever appear in the parks in human form?

 

[flynnibus]

Out of curiosity does the Beast ever appear in the parks in human form?

I think the problem with the 'princes' is besides Aladdin... I bet most people couldn't tell you which was which. The male face characters have a history of showing up and then disappearing for the most part.

 

[JenniferS]

I think the problem with the 'princes' is besides Aladdin... I bet most people couldn't tell you which was which. The male face characters have a history of showing up and then disappearing for the most part.

Absolutely true.
Some of us have a hard enough time distinguishing the princesses; never mind the princes.
I refer to the princesses as "the pink princess", the "blue princess", "Snow White", "Yellow Belle", "Blue Belle".
The princes are simply " Aladdin et al."