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Does anyone know when/why the sign spanning the two turrets at the Castle Stage area of Fantasyland was removed?  :?:
Picture: http://www.flickr.com/photos/djdamian/1 ... 810990914/

[CafeFantasia]

To accommodate taller parade floats?

[Festival Disney]

To accommodate taller parade floats?

Well it's a pretty tall archway, and as I recall the opening day parade had some tall floats :|

[Poppy The Monkey]

it was removed in late 1999 to allow the huge floats for the ImagiNATIONS parade to pass through.

[Martyn]

Shame really, as its quite nice. I've always thought it looks odd without anything joining the turrets.

[dagobert]

In my opinion it looks nicer without the arch. I think that they should add a gate to the two towers.

[Sulley]

Never seen this arch before, it looks way better without it though!

[Festival Disney]

Although I'm not that keen on the archway, I liked how every land of Disneyland Park had a sort of grand entrance sign... The fort, the Bazar, the Discoveryland err... thing and this Arch! All they have now is a little sign to tell you that you've entered Fantasyland. I like how fancyful the writing is

[Riebi]

I liked the archway. Was a nice entrance to fantasyland. But have you seen the wonderful floor on that image??? Hope after the refurb it will look again like this.

[pussinboots]

Building an archway over the parade route is just a bad idea, isn't it. Sooner or later they would have wanted to put on one of their inflatable parades or something similar and it would have had to go. I do agree something is missing in that area, but the arch we can live without.

[Anthony]

I do agree something is missing in that area

A Little Mermaid dark ride?

That photo does show how the gateway nicely frames exactly where Prince Eric's castle would have been.

[Riebi]

Isn´t it wonderful that they designed such sightlines with a future attraction at the end? Would love to see the original mermaid ride there.

[dagobert]

It would be great to see the Little Mermaid attraction at that place. Unfortunately the current plans, if I'm not mistaken, show the ride behind Fantasyland Station. I think at that place there would be no theming required for the building and so it would be cheaper.