Your Castle is Turning Gold

[ToTBellHop]

For those of you who frequent Disneyland, be sure to scope out the changes that are beginning...your castle is already turning gold

 

[RU42]

Wow, it has started already? I didn't think they would start so soon. I will have to check it out this weekend.

RU

 

[ToTBellHop]

Originally posted by RU42
Wow, it has started already? I didn't think they would start so soon. I will have to check it out this weekend.

RU

Yup yup...the trim is being painted now...check it out from all angles

 

[xfkirsten]

Hmmm, I'll have to look.

I will be VERY upset if they paint the untouched spire. Walt left that unpainted for a reason (so it would never be "finished") and I sure hope they don't paint over it.

-Kirsten

 

[DieHardDisney]

Originally posted by xfkirsten
Hmmm, I'll have to look.

I will be VERY upset if they paint the untouched spire. Walt left that unpainted for a reason (so it would never be "finished") and I sure hope they don't paint over it.

-Kirsten

Head's will roll if they do!

 

[imagineer boy]

Originally posted by xfkirsten
Hmmm, I'll have to look.

I will be VERY upset if they paint the untouched spire. Walt left that unpainted for a reason (so it would never be "finished") and I sure hope they don't paint over it.

-Kirsten

Hmm... That's interesting. I never knew that. Which one exactly is the untouched spire?

 

[TravisMT81]

you can go take a look over at mouseinfo!

 

[The_CEO]

Only need 2 gallons of paint to cover that castle!! :lol:

 

[MrNonacho]

I'd never heard of the spire thing either. But I looked and found this from http://www.cafetiki.com/castle/trivia.htm:

The second rumor concerns the gilded spires atop the turrets. One of the spires appears unpainted today, and it is said that this is meant as a physical manifestation of Walt’s credo that “Disneyland will never be complete as long as there is imagination left in the world.” A nice idea, perhaps, but this was never the intent of this spire! Designer Kim Irvine, who oversaw the repainting of the castle in the early 1990s (the bricks in the castle walls became multicolored at this point), replies that this spire was painted a darker color just to look different, and the effects of time and weather have given this spire a quite unintentional unpainted appearance.

 

[xfkirsten]

Well, if that's the "real" story, then they're giving out a load of bull on the Walk in Walt's Footsteps tour. However, since that story has stuck, and it's such a sentimental part of Disneyland history, I would still be VERY ed if they painted it.

-Kirsten

 

[ToTBellHop]

It is, in fact, not an "unfinished spire", however, you are right--there is a sentimental story attached to it now, so it must never change. I don't think it's one of the spires getting crowned so it doesn't really need to get painted...but it might