Year 2002- Inside Cinderella´s Castle

[JacquelineDCP]

Hello Disneylovers

I have a big doubt. I went with mi parents to Magic Kingdom for the first time when i was about 4 years old... on April, 2002 year.
We (in fact, my parents) remember that under Cinderella´s castle there were things made with crystal. Like the pretty disney characters made with crystal that now are in some stores at EPCOT. Specially we remember a cinderella´s shoe

I know that now is the restaurant and Bibibdi B Boutique under the castle. I searched and discovered that the BBB opened in 2009.
So, do you remember what were inside the castle before ? We have that memory, but maybe we are just confused
Thank you everyone !

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(Its my first post here. Sorry if i´ve chosen the wrong place. And i´m just learning english so sorry if i made a mistake)

 

[The Empress Lilly]

There was a shop. Your memory is correct.

Before the MK became princess girly land, the MK was a park for grown men. The BBB space was the King's Gallery. This sold chess boards, clocks, handcrafted goods and the like.

 

[drizgirl]

There was a shop. Your memory is correct.

Before the MK became princess girly land, the MK was a park for grown men. The BBB space was the King's Gallery. This sold chess boards, clocks, handcrafted goods and the like.

So Adventureland, Tomorrowland and Frontierland aren't enough?

 

[The Empress Lilly]

So Adventureland, Tomorrowland and Frontierland aren't enough?

I had rather that the girls joined in buying those chess boards and becoming astronauts than the place being converted into bimboland, with 'girls only' signs.

 

[drizgirl]

I had rather that the girls joined in buying those chess boards and becoming astronauts than the place being converted into bimboland, with 'girls only' signs.

What makes you think they can't do both?

And I'm pretty sure I see a lot of boys young and old enjoying Fantasyland every time I visit.

 

[The Empress Lilly]

I'm pretty sure I see a lot of boys young and old enjoying Fantasyland every time I visit.

That is my point!

And those boys would enjoy it even more if they could still visit the inside of the castle, rather than get security escort them out.

 

[King Racoon 77]

That is my point!

And those boys would enjoy it even more if they could still visit the inside of the castle, rather than get security escort them out.

https://disneyparks.disney.go.com/b...obbidi-boutique-in-disney-springsmarketplace/
Just saying

 

[drizgirl]

https://disneyparks.disney.go.com/b...obbidi-boutique-in-disney-springsmarketplace/
Just saying

They've offered the knight package for a long time. Not sure where the "security escort" comment came from.

 

[The Empress Lilly]

https://disneyparks.disney.go.com/b...obbidi-boutique-in-disney-springsmarketplace/
Just saying

Well, that's DS, not the BBB. Also, realistically, the total makeover thing is a nearly exclusive girl thing. Which six year old boy asks to be hoisted in a prince costume to meet Prince Charming afterwards?
The better equivalent would be the Pirates makeover in AL, but even that faces only very limited success.

Star Wars is more like it. Disney, whose movies and parks were once designed by and for men (I still insist Cinderella is not a girl movie and the MK not a girl park!), now needs to buy content for this demograph.

 

[The Empress Lilly]

Not sure where the "security escort" comment came from.

Imagine a 55 year old man, alone. Let's call him Walter. He saunters about the castle, as he likes to do...hanging around underneath the castle to listen to his favourite music...he wanders into the BBB...admiring the architectural details...taking a few pics...

Walt, erm, Walter, would find himself in the security back office within ten minutes.

 

[King Racoon 77]

 

[drizgirl]

Well, that's DS, not the BBB. Also, realistically, the total makeover thing is a nearly exclusive girl thing. Which six year old boy asks to be hoisted in a prince costume to meet Prince Charming afterwards?
The better equivalent would be the Pirates makeover in AL, but even that faces only very limited success.

Star Wars is more like it. Disney, whose movies and parks were once designed by and for men (I still insist Cinderella is not a girl movie and the MK not a girl park!), now needs to buy content for this demograph.

They do those at the BBB in the MK as well.

Maybe Pirate's League isn't as well received because boys just don't care as much about dress up and make-up. Not everything Disney offers has to appeal to every guest. Maybe Disney offers the BBB as a way to...... promote costume sales? Nah, couldn't be.

Imagine a 55 year old man, alone. Let's call him Walter. He saunters about the castle, as he likes to do...hanging around to listen to his favourite music...he wanders into the BBB...admiring the architectural details...taking a few pics...

Walt, erm, Walter, would find himself in the security back office within ten minutes.

Walter was actually supposed to have an apartment upstairs in the castle. So he would have had a place to hang out there had he lived long enough.

 

[The Empress Lilly]

Maybe Disney offers the BBB as a way to...... promote costume sales? Nah, couldn't be.

Walter was actually supposed to have an apartment upstairs in the castle. So he would have had a place to hang out there had he lived long enough.

Your tone implies disagreement, and then you keep repeating my points?

Yes, the BBB is part of the whole Princess branding thing. Yes, Walt, the single white male of 55 enjoyed the castle that he build according to his personal tastes. Those are my arguments!