Kram Sacul
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The castle is trying too hard to be magical. Painted on sparkles? Might as well add the giant magic wand from Epcot.
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News Sleeping Beauty's Castle to be refurbished
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Ismael Flores
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You guys looking at the same picture I am? It looks like it is ready for Halloween.
that would look so cool as a projection if the Halloween parties were still at Disneyland and not DCA. A decaying look like this would also be cool for Carthay theater with bugs creeping out for the Oogie halloween events
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yensidtlaw1969
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Here's another photo of the castle in a different light:
yensidtlaw1969
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It feels a little "Sleeping Beauty Castle: Presented by Lisa Frank" . . . but at this point I'll wait until the whole thing is revealed before deciding conclusively what I think.
BoarderPhreak
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The new look is just nasty. 
D.Silentu
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The sparkles are gaudy, which I had hoped would be the kind of thing they saved for anniversaries only. Yet, I can see myself acclimating to them and I'm glad the sixtieth decorations are gone. The thing that might bother me when I visit is if there is sun glare from the new towers, as there seems to be in the most recent picture.
Practical Pig
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it's starting to seem to me now that they have interpreted the forced-perspective painted gradations and the "pixie dust" addition in an overly heavy-handed application. In theatrical terms, it seems to be trying hard to project itself to the back balcony of a large proscenium theater (or to the Main Street Train Station), as opposed to an intimate studio theater (the Hub).
But we still haven't seen all of it, the photos are not a naked-eye view, and I'll reserve a final final opinion to seeing it in person.
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Interesting that I'm only now noticing the "pixie dust" sparkles on the roof in the concept rendering.
Practical Pig
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I still can't see them in the concept art (but I do need new glasses). It really undersold that element.
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Practical Pig
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Does this help?
You know? Not really. I see the light and dark blue shingle treatment we see in the photos, meant to project the texture to more distant eyes, and blowing it up, there are some murky shadow base notes under that. But I don't see any bright white, star-shaped sparkles rendered. Maybe it's my eyes. I know one of them now perceives the world at a higher Kelvin rating than the other.
But thanks.
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Kram Sacul
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It's whatever. More depressed about the removal of gardens and trees for line space and stroller parking. Those hurt the park more than a few fake stars.
phantazmick25
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The large turrets look very blue, but I imagine a few months in the California sun will dull them a bit.
I don’t mind the sparkles, judging from the pictures, but I’ll have to see it in-person (which since I’m in Japan, is going to be a while).
I don’t mind the sparkles, judging from the pictures, but I’ll have to see it in-person (which since I’m in Japan, is going to be a while).
SuddenStorm
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Kim Irvine's projects tend to come out worse than what was there before.... I wish I could say I was surprised about the sparkles.
Rich T
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If The Sparkles were a 60's pop band, that would have been such a perfect album title for the period.
The_Mesh_Hatter
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Disney Analyst
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I would like to see it in the quantum dimension.