According to earlier reports on the Themepark.nl (//http://www.themepark.nl) forums, parts of the castle bridge's concrete were containing rot.
The bridge is currently under rehab.
Pictures were taken on the 29th of February 2008 by Mousy.be (//http://www.mousy.be):
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Wow, castle bridge refurbishment! Looks weird, I hope they fix it for good this time.
I guess they have to keep up on top of concrete rot, but this will ruin your photos.
Looks strange, at least they are refubing in now in March and not in a peak time :)
The castle looks a lot less magical with those fences in front of it :( I hope they don't take too long on it as it will ruin a lot of visitor's photos!!!
You can still get excellent pictures of the castle from the side, near Adventureland, without the bridge (//http://www.photosmagiques.com/gallery/disneyland_park/fantasyland/sleeping_beauty_castle/DSC05709.JPG)...
I've heard horror-stories about that bridge, I'm surprised it took them so long to refurb it. And to add... the rehab is not mentioned on the internal rehab schedule.
Quote from: "raptor1982"You can still get excellent pictures of the castle from the side, near Adventureland, without the bridge...
I've heard horror-stories about that bridge, I'm surprised it took them so long to refurb it. And to add... the rehab is not mentioned on the internal rehab schedule.
Aren't only attractions and restaurants mentioned in the Rehab Chedule?
I'm talking about the internal rehab schedule, not the one on the website. All rehabs are mentioned on that.
It´s a bit sad for the front photo shots but that´s always while rehabs. And after some of us has moaning about the slow maintance we should be all happy and clap our hands :lol:
Quote from: "raptor1982"You can still get excellent pictures of the castle from the side, near Adventureland, without the bridge (//http://www.photosmagiques.com/gallery/disneyland_park/fantasyland/sleeping_beauty_castle/DSC05709.JPG)...
I've heard horror-stories about that bridge, I'm surprised it took them so long to refurb it. And to add... the rehab is not mentioned on the internal rehab schedule.
Which was the horror-stories? I´m on the wrong track. Confused :shock: :-k
Maybe they had some ressources cause of the mild winter and decide to make the bridge without taking it in the offical internal rehab plan.
I live in a very small federal state of my state and there´s always not much money. But cause the mild winter of last year they start to "rehab" the whole bigger streets and motorways without big planing details. But now its all new :D
As raptor said you can still get great photos of the castle. Better that they fix this problem then what i hope would never be the case of the bridge breaking or collapsing. Ovbiously they would never let it get to this state. :P
Quote from: "raptor1982"I'm talking about the internal rehab schedule, not the one on the website. All rehabs are mentioned on that.
Sorry, little mistake by me :wink:
QuoteWhich was the horror-stories? I´m on the wrong track. Confused :shock: :-k
Let me say that they have been worried about the bridge for quite some time now.
Oh so I hope they will fix the problems from the basics and do not just a new color scheme [-o<
All I can say is about time, now just hope this means also that at the latest come March 2009 they actually refurbish the whole castle completely :) .
Quote from: "PATMAGIC"All I can say is about time, now just hope this means also that at the latest come March 2009 they actually refurbish the whole castle completely :) .
I agree totaly !
Fix and Re-paint the castle too !
Whoa, that's pretty major. And not a moment too soon.
Looks like 2008 is the year for Fantasyland in the refurbs.
I don't want to sound selfish but Noooooo :cry:
Any ideas how long this will take?
i agree with you vanessa. i'm gutted its going to be covered while im there. ok i know its neccesary, but they could have waited a fortnight they knew i was coming lol.
Quote from: "raptor1982"... And to add... the rehab is not mentioned on the internal rehab schedule.
Is there a way to see what IS on the internal rehab schedule? Is it available somewhere/somehow?
I would be very interested in what else is on the list for 2008.
Well it needed to be done!
Atleast there gettign on with it
It's quite scary if something was wrong with the bridge because nearly everyone going crosses it, well i know i do.
Yeh they shouldve like closed the bridge if its got rot in it as thts dangerous isnt it?
Scrolling back through the Themepark.nl (//http://www.themepark.nl) forums, I found the pic again where you can see the rotten state of the bridge:
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You can see the rotten part towards the bottom right of the pic.
That looks really bad, and so ugly too!
I'm glad they repair it!
Does anyone on the forum know about how long this rehab should take?
hi,
i really want to know how long this rehab will take, because i wil go to on march the 9th to the park. did somebody know if its done then?
thank you.
bye arno
Shame the castle couldn't of been repainted while the bridge was being worked on. Still anytime I see a construction wall I'm happy. It means this beautiful park is getting some much need TLC.
Quote from: "arno-hh"hi,
i really want to know how long this rehab will take, because i wil go to on march the 9th to the park. did somebody know if its done then?
Although I don't know about the rehab dates for the bridge, I can assure you this rehab won't be done by the 9th of March...
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I hope the bridge is ok and will return to its un-rotten way soon ! :)
Photos; Disneytheque.com
It´s intersting that they have so much water there while refurb
The bridge can't be that unsafe as guest are still allowed to walk through, this looks more like a cleaning project.
I was wondering what has rotted concrete to that sort of state, you expect it with wood and steel.....but concrete !! :roll:
I can only guess it's the weight stresses, since the moat water is no-where near it from the photo posted earlier by Remco K , and I would not have thought that rain water could do that much damage. After all look at CDG airport how long that's been erected, a lot longer than 15 years. The C should stand for concrete not Charles in that abbreviation. :roll:
Was it sub-standardised concrete when it was originally build. If this was a standard public bridge, heads would roll for concrete in that state after just 15 years... :shock:
Still I hope the repairs last longer.... :)
It proberbly has concrete cancer thats usually what "rotten" concrete is
I too was under the impression that concrete is a rather solid and almost undestroyable material, so I would be interested in what exactly has happened here? Both terms "concrete rot" and "concrete cancer" mean nothing to me. :?
Quote from: "Malin"The bridge can't be that unsafe as guest are still allowed to walk through, this looks more like a cleaning project.
No, if you read the post before it is because the bridge is "rotting" .
Quote from: "Mobi"I too was under the impression that concrete is a rather solid and almost undestroyable material, so I would be interested in what exactly has happened here? Both terms "concrete rot" and "concrete cancer" mean nothing to me. :?
//http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concrete_cancer
TheoryAs concrete ages, it will begin to deteriorate and, if the cement is too alkaline, the ageing process causes star-shaped cracks to appear which will allow rainwater to penetrate. In wintertime, in cool temperate and in cold climates, the deterioration is accelerated due to freeze-thawing of the water within the cracks. This phenomenon is known as 'concrete cancer'
This photo from mouetto on DCP shows the state of the bridge quite well:
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It looks like only the top "themed" layer of concrete is going, so they probably just moved in to repair it and make sure it doesn't go any deeper through this cancer (which sounds very likely considering the warm/freezing climate Paris gets). I think DLRP would never let anything get to a state where it's unsafe, they'd move in at the tiniest sign of anything. Dirt, yes, safety hazards, no. :lol:
In any case I hope they're giving it a clean at the same time, that bridge is actually quite hideous. :shock:
Yes I don´t think that it´s a security problem. It´s more a deco problem. Hope they could fix it for lonter now!
Quote from: "Owain"Quote from: "Malin"The bridge can't be that unsafe as guest are still allowed to walk through, this looks more like a cleaning project.
No, if you read the post before it is because the bridge is "rotting" .
I did actually read the post and thats why I posted below it. I can't understand why if the Bridge was rotting away like some have stated on here, it would be safe enough to allow guest access to it.
This is why I think it may be something else.
No Malin, there are issues with the bridge, but by fixing it now, they can avoid further problems in the future.
Right with you now, the article on DLRPToday also discussed the subject further. Hopely this will send a sign to DLRP execs that the more you neglect things the more it will cost in the long run.
is It still packed?
[-o< please tell me not
Quote from: "maruychan"is It still packed?
[-o< please tell me not
My uncle went yesterday, acording to him it still is.
i was there sunday to thursday and thursday was very busy but there was a lot of spanish school kids there.
Quote from: "toonarmylass"i was there sunday to thursday and thursday was very busy but there was a lot of spanish school kids there.
Maruychan means is the castle still packed as in is the scaffolding still on it or is it still under construction i think :) .
doh!!!! i got a pic of a workman on the bottom of the bridge working but it didnt come out very well so i doubt i will post it!!!!
i think its really on time for a totally refurb of the whole bridge , maybe the castle is coming up this or hopefully next year for a general refurb ?
Are there any news? I read somewhere that they enlarge the refurb a bit?!
Is the bridge still under construction?
It's still wrapped up in construction fences. I wonder if they'll be down for this weekend, since a major press trip is happening.
Quote from: "raptor1982"It's still wrapped up in construction fences. I wonder if they'll be down for this weekend, since a major press trip is happening.
It would be wise for them to do so, a lot of press will probably want some photos of the castle. Lets just prey that it is finished soon [-o<
Yes lets hope they finish everything on time [-o< . A picture of the castle with the bridge like that would be a very bad picture...
The bridge will probz be down for the press launch as otherwise i would imagine it would get a bad review?
Quote from: "-b-e-n-9-5-"The bridge will probz be down for the press launch as otherwise i would imagine it would get a bad review?
They cant get a bad report for trying to keep there bridge safe :P
Quote from: "Owain"Quote from: "-b-e-n-9-5-"The bridge will probz be down for the press launch as otherwise i would imagine it would get a bad review?
They cant get a bad report for trying to keep there bridge safe :P
:lol: :lol: :lol:
Wouldn´t be the worstest after this times article :lol:
Yeh i dont mind if you cant see the bridge atm as they are just making it safe for the public and it doesnt really matter as the press understand that things have to be reparied etc.
Quote from: "-b-e-n-9-5-"Yeh i dont mind if you cant see the bridge atm as they are just making it safe for the public and it doesnt really matter as the press understand that things have to be reparied etc.
And a talented photographer knows other ways to take nice picture of the castle while avoiding the bridge anyway.
Like Raptor said, I wonder if they will take the scafolding town dureing the press event. Just in case a photographer decides to make a picture with the bridge after all.
i would think disney would take the scaffoldng down before the press release but if its now finished then they wont!
besides if a photographer wants a photo for a paper they can use libarary images
Do you think the bridge will be ready for the start of july?
The bridge is finished scaffolding is coming down, should be all down by Saturday.
Woooohoooooo! Hope we get some pics soooon! And hope it looks wonderful new!
Quote from: "Poppy The Monkey"The bridge is finished scaffolding is coming down, should be all down by Saturday.
hehe, that's what I thought... Press event is this weekend. :lol:
Quote from: "raptor1982"hehe, that's what I thought... Press event is this weekend. :lol:
But didn't they rush things a bit? Or is it all part of some pretty neat planning?
I know it's possible to plan these things, but did they actually know how rotten the bridge was before they started the rehab?
Probably unless it was pointed out by a guest and it might of been an Emergency rehab or repair, at least it will be down for the wonderful press event!
So have they taken down the old bridge and put in a new bridge or have they just taken it down then they are going to work on it after the press?
Noo??!! they haven´t take down the old bridge. It was more a cosmetical problem that could be a bigger problem in the future. Nothing to rip down the whole bridge :wink:
Here´s a dlrptoday article about what they done there:
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Yeah i would of found that a bit strange lol
Disneytheque has a new pic. But you don´t see much:
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Why change the castle? It looks beautiful as it is!
They havnt changed it ?
They refurbed the bridge as it was getting concrete cancer which if not taken care of wouldve come to huge consiquences. Read the pages before there pictures and photos there of it before the refurb.
On photosmagiques are now much better pics:
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Thanks for the pics, this part of the bridge really looks so new and fresh now :)
The Bridge looks splendid now, looking at the pictures you would think it had just been built, it looks that new. :D/
Well done to the renovation team involved. =D>
Some parts look a bit to clean, but time will fix that. :P I must say they rehab team did a great job anyway. :D
QuoteThey havnt changed it ?
They refurbed the bridge as it was getting concrete cancer which if not taken care of wouldve come to huge consiquences. Read the pages before there pictures and photos there of it before the refurb.
I was replying to someone else who said they should repaint the castle!
I love the bridge, but the only thing that strikes me is it looks odd because theres like a patch of fresh new concrete, and the rest looks old...
I was almost going to complain about some sloppy work they did on some moldings, but then I looked at the before pictures again... It's a thousand times better now. Here's hoping they continue on the rest of the castle soon!
I'm so glad it's fixed and looks so great now! I was worried that the bridge would ruin the Disney magic for all the guests.
The bridge looks sooo much better now I think I might have to go back just to see it :lol: can't wait.
Does anyone know if theres something wrong with the bridge again? these photos were taken tuesday 5th;
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I will post some pictures later (still got to upload them somewhere) but the bridge was totally closed on Monday. Sunday you could still cross it, but the sides were all covered, by Monday morning it was all covered :(
Probably another rehab for the start of New Generation Festival? The attractions inside the castle are not on the refurb list coming months, so I guess it's only the bridge they will be painting?
@ Owain and never2old: is only the bridge covered or also other parts of the caste? Thanks for posting the pictures!
Only the bridge when I was there.
Here are some pictures from Monday:
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here's our pics:
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You can see the tractor on the bridge.
I've heard about a foundation repair.
I will try to get new picture during the week?
I've never really thought about this before, but can guests walk under the castle bridge? Only I saw the fence in one of Owain's pictures and just wondered...
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I'm relatively sure you can, or at least could at some point, if you go down to the left as you exit from La Taniere Du Dragon, it leads you around to the Wishing Well - I think it's this route which passes the Disney Sheild on the wall?
Do we know how long this will take?
Quote from: "Scissorsboi"I'm relatively sure you can, or at least could at some point, if you go down to the left as you exit from La Taniere Du Dragon, it leads you around to the Wishing Well - I think it's this route which passes the Disney Sheild on the wall?
Yes, you can walk down there, but the Disney family's coat of arms is located above one of the side entries, you can see exactly where here:
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Thanks for posting the picture Nicolai! I've always wanted to know where the coat of arms of the Disney Family is located at DLP's castle.
I've always thought it is on the castle above the entrance to Fantasyland, like in Disneyland or the Magic Kingdom.
So I presume that every Disney castle has the Disney Family's coat of arms on it.
Quote from: "dagobert"Thanks for posting the picture Nicolai! I've always wanted to know where the coat of arms of the Disney Family is located at DLP's castle.
Same! Can't wait to see it for myself during my next visit! :D
Does someone know how long the refurbishment will take?
It's not even mentioned in the internal rehab schedule, so I assume it was urgent and unplanned?
Thanks for the answer. I hope there is no big problem with the bridge and that the refurbishment will be finished in the next three weeks.
I hope its ready when I visit next sunday 24TH till friday 27TH :cry: i LOVE THE BRIDGE! :(
Couple of new pictures thanks to Dlrpteam (//http://www.dlrptoday.com/2010/01/16/castle-bridge-under-wraps-as-frost-thaws/):
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I'm not sure how long it takes to get something like that covering on the front printed up, but it seems strange they had it ready if the refurbishment wasn't on any schedules. Nice work anyway, the notices read "Royal Decree: Fantasyland is still accessible..."
Ooh, excellent!
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From NewsDLRP, obviously.
translation to english pls
"Royal Decree: During the restoration works, guests are invited to enter this royal residence through the Castle Court in Fantasyland."
That's a very attractive construction fence! Nice to see that they've put a bit of effort in and realised that the standard fence wouldn't make up for having the view of the Castle blocked by it. Looks like quite a serious rehab for them to totally cover the bridge!
well im going with my mum in just under 2 months - it better be finished by then !!!
I hope so too. There are already quite some attractions out of order when we're going, so the castle better be as beautifull as always.
I think that the refurbishment will take some weeks. When we have been to DLRP in September 2008 they rennovated the "Sword in the Stone Place" and it took more than a month and this wasn't a major refurbishment. Rennovating the bridge is a major refurbishment in my opinion and so I expect that the bridge is still closed during our visit in February.
I've just get this info:
This is not a simple refurbishment!
The bridge will be destructed, and replaced by another one, in real stone.
Why? Three reasons:
-it's in the Fantasyland update plan, to welcome the Little Mermaid
-now, the stone is very cheaper than 20 years ago, thanks to LASER
-the stone needs less refurbishement than concrete
It will be finished in mars-avril.
Thanks for the info. So it will not be ready in February for our next visit.
Quote from: "Thedeejay"... The bridge will be destructed, and replaced by another one, in real stone. ...
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Wow, very unexpected! I hope they don't use this opportunity to "optimize" the layout or anything.
No.... They will probably follow the original plans...
Ah damn...that means my little nieces will visit DLP for the very first time on march 12th and won't see the beautifull castle, but those ugly fences... That sucks, I really wanted it to be as magical as can be for them!
The work order I've been shown says refurbishment and replacement of all electric wires. But I'll dig a little bit deeper. You never know, this might be another Kentucky Fried Chicken story. ;-)
Quote from: "Kristof"The work order I've been shown says refurbishment and replacement of all electric wires. But I'll dig a little bit deeper. You never know, this might be another Kentucky Fried Chicken story. ;-)
Is this happening due to the cold weather during the last weeks?
I reckon its going to be something like replacement of electrical wires.
Theres no need to rebuild the bridge, it was built less than 20 years ago and has gone through worse weather than this.
What next, a Burger King in La Gallerie de la Belle au Bois Dormant
Quote from: "dagobert"Thanks for the info. So it will not be ready in February for our next visit.
I'm going in February too :cry:
but it still looks better than the ugly fences they had last winter :roll:
Thanks for the update Thedeejay andi hope Kristof and SM:M3 are right [-o<
I don't want to go off topic but i'm curious to know more about the KFC rumor :mrgreen: I hate KFC btw :|
Quote from: "howtodeal": I hate KFC btw :|
Me too :D
Basically Disneytheque claimed a KFC would go in the Exchange Desk in Disney Village, or above it, or even in a new Virgin Megastore that would replace something in the village, you can find out more in the Resort Forum
Bit gutted about this has there been any offical word on whats happening i am going on the 22nd march with my 5 kids for the first time and rteally want it to be back to normal by then=, has anyone heard the offical story on time scales?
There seems to be some truth about it, a part of the bridge will in fact be replaced.
any news on timescales though, im taking my mum for her forst ever disney trip and I want her to be able to walk here, she is already gutted about POTC
i hope they sort it quickly :( it spoils the overall look of main street so much. I supose its inevitable that its going to have to be done sooner or later, when i went a couple of years ago after a particular bout of bad weather the flooring in some places was breaking up and crumbling.
The view of the castle from Main Street is already spoiled with the new ugly stage on Central Plaza.
i havent been since feb 09 so i havent seen it, could you direct me to a piccy by any chance?
I'm sorry I don't have a picture. I think I have mislead you, because I wanted to say that I THINK that the view is spoiled by the stage. I'm very sorry for that.
But maybe someone has a picture from the castle with the stage in front of it taken from Main Street.
Various photos of the stage here: http://www.dlrptoday.com/2009/03/22/new ... -complete/ (http://www.dlrptoday.com/2009/03/22/new-central-plaza-stage-complete/%22%20onclick=%22window.open(this.href);return%20false;)
It's not a massive issue, the bridge being closed. I presume the whole of the Castle is still open from Fantasyland, and you can still get unspoilt photos of it. Three good places for posed pictures: The path past Adventureland to the left, the bridge leading into La Taniere du Dragon (the Dragon's lair), and the raised platform at the back of Castle Stage, on the right.
Hmmmm, i guess its not as bad as i was expecting. still a bit OTT though. is it going to be removed after mickeys party?
Quote from: "smurfy74"any news on timescales though, im taking my mum for her forst ever disney trip and I want her to be able to walk here, she is already gutted about POTC
I have exactly the same thing with my nieces, also visiting DLP for the first time.
Already hated it that I won't be able to show them my most beloved ride (POTC), and since the bridge is due march/april, they probably won't be able to walk with me through the castle either.
Quote from: "dagobert"The view of the castle from Main Street is already spoiled with the new ugly stage on Central Plaza.
Can't disagree with that...
Nope, staying there for a "new" show called Disney Showtime Spectacular (//http://www.dlrptoday.com/2009/09/22/official-text-confirms-more-new-generation-details/)...
I'm sure that the stage will stay for the next years, because I think Disney invested some money into this huge stage. I really hope that it is not staying there forever.
There are so many stages in the whole park and that's the reason why it is not necessary to have a show on Central Plaza.
Sorry for being off topic.
Quote from: "Annet"Ah damn...that means my little nieces will visit DLP for the very first time on march 12th and won't see the beautifull castle, but those ugly fences... That sucks, I really wanted it to be as magical as can be for them!
Why do you complain? I mean ... yes its always not nice if things are behind fences.But don´t you want our park in good conditions?
Sure I do, I don't really mind the fences myself since I've been there more often. It's just that I want their very first Disney-experience to be as magical as possible, so I'm complaining on behalf of my nieces magical moments ;)
Why don't you make it a bit of an Adventure for them? Walk up to the bridge and go "oh no! It looks like the Castle's closed!", then pretend to explore around for a while and go into the entrance by Taniere Du Dragon (still 'exploring'), then look at the crystals and head up the staircase before emerging inside the Castle. It'll be a magical way for your nieces to discover the castle!
Quote from: "Scissorsboi"Why don't you make it a bit of an Adventure for them? Walk up to the bridge and go "oh no! It looks like the Castle's closed!", then pretend to explore around for a while and go into the entrance by Taniere Du Dragon (still 'exploring'), then look at the crystals and head up the staircase before emerging inside the Castle. It'll be a magical way for your nieces to discover the castle!
That's an awesome idea!
Quote from: "Scissorsboi"Why don't you make it a bit of an Adventure for them? Walk up to the bridge and go "oh no! It looks like the Castle's closed!", then pretend to explore around for a while and go into the entrance by Taniere Du Dragon (still 'exploring'), then look at the crystals and head up the staircase before emerging inside the Castle. It'll be a magical way for your nieces to discover the castle!
That is a very creative and magical way indeed, thanks for the tip! :D
Quote from: "Scissorsboi"Why don't you make it a bit of an Adventure for them? Walk up to the bridge and go "oh no! It looks like the Castle's closed!", then pretend to explore around for a while and go into the entrance by Taniere Du Dragon (still 'exploring'), then look at the crystals and head up the staircase before emerging inside the Castle. It'll be a magical way for your nieces to discover the castle!
that is a fantastic idea!! i will defently have to do that with my son and neice in march!
Does someone know how the refurbishment is coming along?
HI just to let you all know spoken to someone who came back wednesday and The bridge still is boarded up and you cant walk under the castle but you can go inside from Fantasyland the 2 little shops and downstaris to the dragon are still open too. Heres hoping all sorted for march
Quote from: "marksbananas"HI just to let you all know spoken to someone who came back wednesday and The bridge still is boarded up and you cant walk under the castle but you can go inside from Fantasyland the 2 little shops and downstaris to the dragon are still open too. Heres hoping all sorted for march
Hey guys!
Just back from my DLRP trip today...the bridge is still underconstruction... i will upload pictures of the bridge asap ok guys... :D
Quote from: "Donald-Duck-Malta"Quote from: "marksbananas"HI just to let you all know spoken to someone who came back wednesday and The bridge still is boarded up and you cant walk under the castle but you can go inside from Fantasyland the 2 little shops and downstaris to the dragon are still open too. Heres hoping all sorted for march
Hey guys!
Just back from my DLRP trip today...the bridge is still underconstruction... i will upload pictures of the bridge asap ok guys... :D
Hello again guys!
Here are the pics of the bridge as promised...these were taken by me on thursday 28th January 2010...
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thanks for posting the pics. im not really happy they had to close the bridge as the first think i have to do each trip is walk down main st through the castle and onto fantasyland. of course if needs must then i cant complain. hopefully there are actually people working on it rather than just having it covered up.
I took a little look trhought the door from inside the castle, and there were some people inside.
well thats good news at least lol i hope they are working very hard
Please, how long will be this reconstruction?
Quote from: "ulak"Please, how long will be this reconstruction?
As far as I now, nobody knows exactly, since it apparently started out of nowhere and isn't listed anywhere.
Isn't that right foks or am I mistaken?
Quote from: "norhel"Quote from: "ulak"Please, how long will be this reconstruction?
As far as I now, nobody knows exactly, since it apparently started out of nowhere and isn't listed anywhere.
Isn't that right foks or am I mistaken?
Thank you. And what you mean about March?
Hey
is there any news on when the castle bridge will be done? im going next friday and its my birthday and my first trip to disney since i was 3! i really want the castle to be at its best, but i do understand it has to be fixed and improved. i just wondered!
Thanks
ben
The latest rumours about the bridge rehab, is that it won't be finished until end march, begin april. I think they are aiming at finishing it just before New Generation Festival starts at April 2nd. Wouldn't be a nice view if they did a press event with those high crane camera's. From that view, you can't miss the 'refurb scarfolding' if it were up. No official word though.
I've not been through the whole thread so not sure if anyone has posted pics of the boards that are up around the castle bridge.
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Not the best pic but you can get the idea.
Quote from: "littlemermaid83"I've not been through the whole thread so not sure if anyone has posted pics of the boards that are up around the castle bridge.
Not the best pic but you can get the idea.
Yes there are already pics of the boards around the castle but for me this picture is special cause you can see the dimensions better and the "life around the boards". And you can see that it fits for a stupid fence. It´s nice that they make now such fences instead of just a big white something.
I have some board pictures from last Saturday :)
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Scheduled to end Friday 19th March, if anyone missed the news. :)
I think I will genuinely miss the beautifully designed construction wall.
The construction wall looks actually better than the castle decoration.
Quote from: "dagobert"The construction wall looks actually better than the castle decoration.
The wall is done by EDLI, the Castle decorations are... not. :wink:
Quote from: "Kristof"Quote from: "dagobert"The construction wall looks actually better than the castle decoration.
The wall is done by EDLI, the Castle decorations are... not. :wink:
Why is the Entertainment department even allowed to design the seasonal decorations? It would make more sense to me when EDLI would design these kind of things. At least they seem to get it. The Entertainment department should stick to creating shows, parades and character meet 'n greets. Nothing more, nothing less. That way we probably might see some more quality decorations in the future. Just my two cents though.
Quote from: "Maarten"Why is the Entertainment department even allowed to design the seasonal decorations? It would make more sense to me when EDLI would design these kind of things. At least they seem to get it. The Entertainment department should stick to creating shows, parades and character meet 'n greets. Nothing more, nothing less. That way we probably might see some more quality decorations in the future. Just my two cents though.
You are absolutely right. The Entertainment Department should only create shows, maybe they shouldn't even do that and everything like attractions, shows, parades, stage shows/musicals or decorations should be produced by WDI or EDLI.
When DLRP gets a new attraction, restaurant or shop is EDLI also involved in creating them or is this just done by WDI in Glendale? And if EDLI creates, for example a new kiosk for merchandise or food, does it have to be approved by WDI or can EDLI make their own decisions?
Quote from: "dagobert"You are absolutely right. The Entertainment Department should only create shows, maybe they shouldn't even do that...
Best quote of the day... :lol:
EDLI isn't perfect either, but do you remember Its A Small World Celebration a few months ago? Wasn't EDLI responsable for that well executed overlay? It was the highlight of the Christmas season in my opinion.
Everything EDLI (or DLP-I nowadays) has to pitch everything they want to change in the park to WDI in Glendale. They have to approve if the project a) will be done by WDI, b) done by DLP-I, or c) won't happen at all.
QuoteEDLI isn't perfect either, but do you remember Its A Small World Celebration a very months ago? Wasn't EDLI responsable for that well executed overlay? It was the highlight of the Christmas season in my opinion.
Yes, they did the IASW overlay, Belle's Christmas Village, the Disney Village make-over, all the new food kiosks, etc. Basically all smaller things.
QuoteWhen DLRP gets a new attraction, restaurant or shop is EDLI also involved in creating them or is this just done by WDI in Glendale?
In those cases, WDI has the control over everything, but DLP-I is definitely involved in the project as well, but they're supervised by the Glendale Imagineers.
Thanks for the answer Kristof.
Now I have another question: Is DLP-I owned by Euro Disney SCA and supervised by WDI or is it owned by TWDC and leased to Euro Disney SCA?
I couldn't find any information on the Euro Disney SCA homepage.
I didn't want to open a new thread so I'm going to post the great news here!!!
The castle decoration IS GONE, except Tinkerbell:
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I think the picture was taken by "elenasearle"
I've found this picture via the photosmagiques twitter page. It is a new pictures as you can see the castle bridge under refurbishment.
YES! =D>
Now let's hope Tinkerbell goes too. Is she actually needed for anything at all now? It's really irritating knowing that all the castle decorations have all gone except for this one little bit on top.
Quote from: "RnRCj"Now let's hope Tinkerbell goes too. Is she actually needed for anything at all now? It's really irritating knowing that all the castle decorations have all gone except for this one little bit on top.
And - I really hope to be proven wrong but - you just know we'll be saying the same this time next year.
Quote from: "dagobert"I didn't want to open a new thread so I'm going to post the great news here!!!
The castle decoration IS GONE, except Tinkerbell:
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I think the picture was taken by "elenasearle"
I've found this picture via the photosmagiques twitter page. It is a new pictures as you can see the castle bridge under refurbishment.
That's me :D
Tuesday the horrible huge Mickey was still there. Wednesday, GONE!! And yesterday ALL the decorations were gone. I will post some more (better) pictures soon, that was taken with the phone so not the best quality...
the castle looks really nice in your photo and pinker than i remember have they given it a wash :-)
It looked brighter than on previous trips... But it also could have been the sunshine, hadn't seen blue skies like that for some time!!
Any new news on when the bridge will re-open?
Quote from: "Magic M"Any new news on when the bridge will re-open?
It's mentioned by Anthony a few posts back :wink:
The refurb is scheduled to finish on March 19th (this friday!) :)
Quote from: "Magic M"Any new news on when the bridge will re-open?
It will re-open on March 19th (this friday).
Quote from: "Tuvok"Quote from: "Magic M"Any new news on when the bridge will re-open?
It will re-open on March 19th (this friday).
Couldn't of been timed better we are off on monday so really cant wait!! Excellent news
This Saturday. :)
Quote from: "Anthony"Scheduled to end Friday 19th March, if anyone missed the news. :)
That's awesome news. I'll be there on March 22nd so I'll be able to take pictures of the castle with neither naff decorations or white hoardings!
As promised, here are some higher resolution picture of the Castle without its MMP decorations (only Tinkerbell remains)
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Doesn't it look gorgeous??
I can't wait to see pictures with the bridge works finished!
Thanks for the pictures!
The castle is sooo beautiful without the ugly decorations. I really, really hope that the castle will stay this way!
And now please remove Tinkerbell, too.
Yes, I don't see why they keep her there. For Christmas, when they have all the lights, and she lights them all up with the fairy dust, sure, it looks beautiful. But now she's just useless... Should we start a petition?
This was the Castle back in January 2005....
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At least we're getting the bridge back soon. I understand the need for maintenance and all, but I really missed the bridge... The Castle is not complete without it!
This is how the castle should look like!! No decoration and no Tinkerbell.
Now they have to clean the castle and refurbish it a little bit. Some parts really need an attention.
Oh yes. From a distance it looks fine, but if you start looking at it more closely it badly needs some attention. Some of the tiles were looking terrible and some areas need a fresh coat of paint.
Maybe next year, after the NGF, they'll take the time to fix it up a bit?
It would be great to see a refurbished castle for the 20th birthday celebrations. The best time for a refurbishment of the castle would be Spring or Fall.
I also recognized that some tiles were looking terrible and especially the back of the castle needs some fresh paint, because there are some stains, maybe it is mold.
Quote from: "never2old"Maybe next year, after the NGF, they'll take the time to fix it up a bit?
Gawd, we've been saying this years now! It's getting depressing. "Maybe before the 15th... Maybe after the 15th... Maybe before MMP... Maybe after MMP..." One day it'll be true. Before the 20th? :lol:
How long has it been since the ears disappeared now? A week? I think she's staying...
Well, she's no Epcot wand, but it would still be awful if they actually think Tinkerbell will make a nice permanent addition to the castle. The twirly thing in particular is a bit of a distraction.
Maybe they just kept her because she'll have a role in some upcoming show. And they'll take her down next year. Unless there will be another celebration (and another Character Express, and another hub show...) Gah.
If she's not gone by the time I go in June, I shall be removing her myself.
Quote from: "Anthony"How long has it been since the ears disappeared now? A week? I think she's staying...
A bit less than a week... The big Mickey came off last Wednesday, last ears on Thursday.
But I'm with you, she's staying... At least they didn't replace her with Stitch for the NGF :roll:
Quote from: "luke85"If she's not gone by the time I go in June, I shall be removing her myself.
Pack a big ladder! :lol:
Shouldn't the bridge rehab be complete today?
Quote from: "JelleP"Shouldn't the bridge rehab be complete today?
I was thinking the same thing, does anyone have an update?
I know that the refurbishments are over now, but these are a couple of refurb photos I took last Weds (the 17th)
Personally I don't mind Tinkerbell so I don't care wether they keep or remove her :)
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We've such a beautiful Castle... :D
Are the construction walls down already?
et voila!
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Ooh it looks very nice, brand spanking new!
Thumbs up. Good work Disneyland Paris construction dudes :-)
Fences are still up, I saw people from DLP-I checking some details and workers were adding touches of paint to the lamppost. I expect the fences to go down tonight or so. :D
It looks like new! It's time for the castle now..? [-o<
Just got back today. The bridge looks beautiful but the end of it still has the hoardings up. Not sure when it will fully open.
It's certainly looking very fresh and clean now!
I came back yesterday and the bridge is fully open, as of friday the 26th it was all down and fully open and it looks wicked. We had a lovely time and cant wait to go back.
Here's a photo from this weekend:
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They also worked on the lights behind the large stained glass window as the individual colours stood out really well.
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Oh my! Our castle looks gorgeous! Great photo's.
It looks great, especially the new lighting behind the window, but the "real stone" thing is a little confusing to me. Yes it will retain its color, but won't it be aged and distressed as usual? It looks a little new now.
give the Parisien weather 12 months and im sure it will be aged well ;-)
Wow, that is a magnificent restoration, a brilliant view of the Bridge and Castle, especially with the Castle back to it's original form, long may it continue. If you could apply restoration as good as that around the park, it'll all look like the day it opened.. =D>
The bridge is looking great, but its clashing with the castle a bit.
The Castle would look fantastic if it was cleaned and had a fresh coat of paint alongside the newely refurbished bridge.
Wonderful to see the bridge again in this condition. =D> Also you can now clearly see the diffrence of a refurbed bridge and a not refurbed castle.
I got some amazing news today, a refurbishment of the Castle is planned for the Halloween and Christmas season of THIS YEAR. Looks like Tom Staggs' visit paid off a few months ago!
oo o oo oo oo very exciting - seeing as the bridge took months i guess painting takes less time :-)
Quote from: "Kristof"I got some amazing news today, a refurbishment of the Castle is planned for the Halloween and Christmas season of THIS YEAR. Looks like Tom Staggs' visit paid off a few months ago!
Very good to hear, Kristof, but this is an extensive refurb during high season. How will this effect the Castle Lighting Ceremony for example? I would presume they wanted to plan such an refurb during low season (january - march for instance).
Fantastic news Kristof! Can't wait to see our beautiful Château in tip-top condition once again :D
Quote from: "luke85"Fantastic news Kristof! Can't wait to see our beautiful Château in tip-top condition once again :D
How exciting! I cannot wait :D
Finally!!! The castle desperately needs an refurbishment. Hopefully it isn't just a rumour and the refurbishment is definately coming.
Excellent news! And about time too. :lol:
It'll be interesting to see how they cover it. Hopefully it will also mean getting rid of Tinkerbell forever.
So how do they do the Castle Refurbs? When was the last one anyway?
Do they do a bit at a time or do they completely destroy pictures for guests for a while and cover it all in scaffolding! I mean its the heart of Disneyland so can they really just not have it on show for guests?!
Could they just do it at night like when they do the xmas lights and the 15th and MMP decorations each year for example!
No, they'd probably have to cover it in its entirety... They paint Cinderella Castle at the Magic Kingdom from a crane, but this is probably too big of a job for that.
I hope they remove Tinkerbell as well. I also hope they go back to the original shade of pink. But who knows.
Quote from: "pussinboots"I also hope they go back to the original shade of pink. But who knows.
Depends if the paint still available :lol: as it has been a good 10 years, the 90's since this castle had a full refurb right ? ;)
is this planned during halloween and christmas or to be completed by then?
my last trip was when the bridge was being redone and my next will be during halloween. i will be gutted if the castle is covered up, although i do understand that it has to be done.
The mania!!!
Seems like what with all the other rehabs going on they really want to get things ready for the 20th :)
Quote from: "montaguewarner"So how do they do the Castle Refurbs? When was the last one anyway?
Do they do a bit at a time or do they completely destroy pictures for guests for a while and cover it all in scaffolding! I mean its the heart of Disneyland so can they really just not have it on show for guests?!
Could they just do it at night like when they do the xmas lights and the 15th and MMP decorations each year for example!
Last time they covered massive chunks of it up, theres a photo knocking around on the forum somewhere, in this thread I think showing the last (and only ;) ) rehab after the 5th anniversary.
Ok I'm thrilled the castle is finally getting the refurb it needs, what I don't get is why do this during Halloween and Christmas season?
I'm not really looking forward to seeing a large peice of cardboard covering the castle during my visit in October....but I'm sure I can moan about that once I get back lol.
Quote from: "Owain"Depends if the paint still available :lol: as it has been a good 10 years, the 90's since this castle had a full refurb right ? ;)
There's a Castorama at Val d'Europe; just take an old sample and they'll match it at the paint mixing department! Or ask for "Rose Saumon Elégante" rather than "Rose Maison de Rêve Barbie."
But it does seem odd to do it during the Christmas season? The illuminated castle has become the center of the holiday celebrations in recent years.
Quote from: "mommy2ash"is this planned during halloween and christmas or to be completed by then?
my last trip was when the bridge was being redone and my next will be during halloween. i will be gutted if the castle is covered up, although i do understand that it has to be done.
We went in Jan this year and the castle bridge was being done and we are back at halloween. I will be gutted too if the castle is covered up :( Surely halloween is high season and it would be better to get it done when there are less people in the park :thumbs:
Quote from: "pussinboots"Quote from: "Owain"Depends if the paint still available :lol: as it has been a good 10 years, the 90's since this castle had a full refurb right ? ;)
There's a Castorama at Val d'Europe; just take an old sample and they'll match it at the paint mixing department! Or ask for "Rose Saumon Elégante" rather than "Rose Maison de Rêve Barbie."
But it does seem odd to do it during the Christmas season? The illuminated castle has become the center of the holiday celebrations in recent years.
Yep, there's still working that out with entertainment. Gives you a sense how sudden this decision was.
Quote from: "Kristof"Yep, there's still working that out with entertainment. Gives you a sense how sudden this decision was.
I'm not an expert on buildings, but with a camera with a big zoom you can see that the top of the castle is really in a bad condition.
Construction should start sooner than later. I'm very sorry for the people who are going to visit DLRP and are not going to see the castle.
Finally some great news for our castle :D Sure will get a wonderfull look after
Wonderful news!!
Though it is very surprising they're doing this during the busy Halloween and Christmas seasons... Unless they finish just in time for the Christmas week? Because otherwise you're going to have a lot of people who paid a lot of money to spend Christmas in Disneyland Paris, only to have no Castle??
Anyway, I'm really looking forward to seeing the final result!!
It's my Mum's first ever trip to DLP and I can't believe she won't be able to see the castle. This is so sad, I do understand it need doing, but why not do it in Jan / Feb.?????
Well I'm going to DLP during Halloween and Christmas so maybe i'll not going to see the castle in both visits but prefer to have it back in all its glory
Halloween and Christmas is the perfect time to start a refurbishment on the Castle. Guest visiting during this season will be so pre occupied with all the seasonal offerings that loosing the Castle will not make much of a difference. And if anyone is really that bothered at the thought of not seeing the Castle on display, than you can always come back again once the refurbishment is completed.
Quote from: "Kristof"I got some amazing news today, a refurbishment of the Castle is planned for the Halloween and Christmas season of THIS YEAR. Looks like Tom Staggs' visit paid off a few months ago!
Hey Kristof,
Are the refurbishments going to start on the 3rd of october? or on another date, and is this conifrmed please? Hope they start the referbishments after the 10th of october after I leave DLRP so I can enjoy our magical disney castle during my DLRP visit [-o< [-o< [-o< [-o< [-o< [-o< [-o< [-o< [-o< + during my visit im managed to persuea 6 family members to come with me, and i dont want them dissapointed seeing the castle covered on there 1st visit.:/
Quote from: "Tuvok"Quote from: "Kristof"I got some amazing news today, a refurbishment of the Castle is planned for the Halloween and Christmas season of THIS YEAR. Looks like Tom Staggs' visit paid off a few months ago!
Very good to hear, Kristof, but this is an extensive refurb during high season. How will this effect the Castle Lighting Ceremony for example? I would presume they wanted to plan such an refurb during low season (january - march for instance).
I suppose it all depends on how they tackle it. Obviously any refurb work on the castle will never happen at a good time, but given the way that historically the castle has played during during the Christmas season this would initally seem like very bad timing.
However, just a wonder - could they deal with the front of the castle (Main Street) during Halloween, and then move to the back of the Castle (Fantasyland) during Christmas. Obviously there will still be periods of 'disappointment' for the audience, but as the focus at Christmas tends to be the front of the Castle, the lighting cermony etc, could almost continue as normal.
However, that would still leave unaddressed issues for Entertainment as to the use of the front of the Castle for Projection during the various ticketed Halloween Parties.
so how will they tackle the weather? Wet and cold won't make any exterior work easy, or will it be somehow covered?
Quote from: "ICHAPMAN"Quote from: "Tuvok"Quote from: "Kristof"I got some amazing news today, a refurbishment of the Castle is planned for the Halloween and Christmas season of THIS YEAR. Looks like Tom Staggs' visit paid off a few months ago!
Very good to hear, Kristof, but this is an extensive refurb during high season. How will this effect the Castle Lighting Ceremony for example? I would presume they wanted to plan such an refurb during low season (january - march for instance).
I suppose it all depends on how they tackle it. Obviously any refurb work on the castle will never happen at a good time, but given the way that historically the castle has played during during the Christmas season this would initally seem like very bad timing.
However, just a wonder - could they deal with the front of the castle (Main Street) during Halloween, and then move to the back of the Castle (Fantasyland) during Christmas. Obviously there will still be periods of 'disappointment' for the audience, but as the focus at Christmas tends to be the front of the Castle, the lighting cermony etc, could almost continue as normal.
However, that would still leave unaddressed issues for Entertainment as to the use of the front of the Castle for Projection during the various ticketed Halloween Parties.
Totally agree here,gd point bro. :thumbs: How are they going to tackle the Halloween Soriee or mickeys not so scary halloween party with the castle covered? If this happened I think DLRP will lose alot of customers during those periods... :cry: And is this confirmed for sure yet? Cause I don't think it is from my side of the story... [-o<
I think for halloween it could be cool to have a covered castle. Why not make a theme out of it? For the refurb over christmas: Last time they do this job step by step. I clearly know that last time they refurbed the castle about a long time period. I was there over the summer season and you haven´t seen one fence or else. But the castle tower had another color then the rest of the castle (the new pink one). And some other parts of it was also done. So it isn´t that hard and ugly to renovate the castle. They know how to do it with less holiday damage.
Quote from: "Riebi"I think for halloween it could be cool to have a covered castle. Why not make a theme out of it? For the refurb over christmas: Last time they do this job step by step. I clearly know that last time they refurbed the castle about a long time period. I was there over the summer season and you haven´t seen one fence or else. But the castle tower had another color then the rest of the castle (the new pink one). And some other parts of it was also done. So it isn´t that hard and ugly to renovate the castle. They know how to do it with less holiday damage.
gd to hear thanks 4 the info :D/
Lol, another refurb! Its good an all, but I feel for the guests that are visting with construction walls around EVERY corner!
HOW COOL???? We are going to Disneyland at EXACTLY the same time!!! Spooky in more ways than 1! Anyway what this about the castle being rehab'd? I hope it not completely covered - that would be soooo disappointing! Anyway Im still counting the days til my trip! Taking my nephew to the Mickeys not-so-scary Halloween party but cant find much info about it.... Did anyone go last year and let me know what to expect??? Thanks xxx
Try this, and other topics here for last years party
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Quote from: "gailytennant"HOW COOL???? We are going to Disneyland at EXACTLY the same time!!! Spooky in more ways than 1! Anyway what this about the castle being rehab'd? I hope it not completely covered - that would be soooo disappointing! Anyway Im still counting the days til my trip! Taking my nephew to the Mickeys not-so-scary Halloween party but cant find much info about it.... Did anyone go last year and let me know what to expect??? Thanks xxx
Oh coooool :D Who knows,maybe we will meet up 8) Anways about MNSSHP, I have been to the 1st ever one that happened in DLRP in 2008, it was great :) But last years version was even better! =D> So I imagine that this year must be like the best ever to be produced [-o< hehe. Some rides will be open in fantasyland and in adventureland...A special parade and show will also be shown at the end of the party as far as I know too....ITS GONNA BE A BLAST! :D/
Quote from: "Kristof"I got some amazing news today, a refurbishment of the Castle is planned for the Halloween and Christmas season of THIS YEAR. Looks like Tom Staggs' visit paid off a few months ago!
Kristof is there any more news about the castle refurb or have any dates been confirmed yet?
Thanks, Kelly
Quote from: "kelly.dylan"Quote from: "Kristof"I got some amazing news today, a refurbishment of the Castle is planned for the Halloween and Christmas season of THIS YEAR. Looks like Tom Staggs' visit paid off a few months ago!
Kristof is there any more news about the castle refurb or have any dates been confirmed yet?
Thanks, Kelly
Not at the moment, but I'll keep you all posted as soon as I find out more.
Quote from: "Kristof"Quote from: "kelly.dylan"Quote from: "Kristof"I got some amazing news today, a refurbishment of the Castle is planned for the Halloween and Christmas season of THIS YEAR. Looks like Tom Staggs' visit paid off a few months ago!
Kristof is there any more news about the castle refurb or have any dates been confirmed yet?
Thanks, Kelly
Not at the moment, but I'll keep you all posted as soon as I find out more.
Thanks Kristof :)
Thanks Kristof :thumbs:
Quote from: "SM:M3"The mania!!!
Seems like what with all the other rehabs going on they really want to get things ready for the 20th :)
Quote from: "montaguewarner"So how do they do the Castle Refurbs? When was the last one anyway?
Do they do a bit at a time or do they completely destroy pictures for guests for a while and cover it all in scaffolding! I mean its the heart of Disneyland so can they really just not have it on show for guests?!
Could they just do it at night like when they do the xmas lights and the 15th and MMP decorations each year for example!
Last time they covered massive chunks of it up, theres a photo knocking around on the forum somewhere, in this thread I think showing the last (and only ;) ) rehab after the 5th anniversary.
ive just gone through and cant fnd the photo?
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I know it's old news, but here's a pic of the bridge works that i just came across :P
Source: DCP
EDIT: If you're still looking for that shot of the castle when it was in refurb in 97/98, here it is :thumbs:
//http://www.flickr.com/photos/klvinci/3281048143/in/pool-eurosouvenirland
Quote from: "fly_with_me_dumbo"hi i'd read the castle was going to be refurbed over halloween and xmas on here. I emailed the park and they replied with
QuoteThank you for your email.
I kindly inform you that for the moment, we are only aware of refurbishments up to September and therefore have no information concerning Christmas. However it does seem unlikely the Castle will be in refurbishment at such a time, especially as the bridge has been recently refurbished. As we receive refurbishment lists around 3 months before, please recontact us in 3 months to check on this matter.
Kindest regards,
I shared this on another board but thought id put it on here for anyone else who'd read it was being refurbed
so happy, this email is good enough for me =D>
Found this in a different thread :?
I have now read that the castle will be going under refurb from 4th October- July 2011.
I have e-mailed Disney because even though the castle needs a refurb they cannot do it when I'm there lol.
Quote from: "littlemermaid83"I have now read that the castle will be going under refurb from 4th October- July 2011.
I have e-mailed Disney because even though the castle needs a refurb they cannot do it when I'm there lol.
Trust me, Disneyland Won't refurbish the castle during Halloween and christmas! :twisted: They will refurbish the castle during January and March,During Low peak season. :D
A Cast Member over at DCP reports the castle will be refurbished from January to September 2011.
Quote from: "Nicolai"A Cast Member over at DCP reports the castle will be refurbished from January to September 2011.
Good to hear, do you have the link to it please? :thumbs:
Quote from: "Donald-Duck-Malta"Quote from: "Nicolai"A Cast Member over at DCP reports the castle will be refurbished from January to September 2011.
Good to hear, do you have the link to it please? :thumbs:
Will do, but I have to search for it first.
Quote from: "Nicolai"Quote from: "Donald-Duck-Malta"Quote from: "Nicolai"A Cast Member over at DCP reports the castle will be refurbished from January to September 2011.
Good to hear, do you have the link to it please? :thumbs:
Will do, but I have to search for it first.
thank you for your quick reply. :) I shall await for your link. =D>
Hmm, there are now two different dates rumoured over at DCP:
"Phobos" claims the castle will be renovated from January to September 2011 -> SOURCE (//http://disneycentralplaza.englishboard.net/disneyland-paris-f6/calendrier-des-saisons-spectacles-fermetures-et-rehabilitations-t661-400.htm#687499)
"American-Boy" claims that the rehab will be from October 4, 2010 and end on 1st July 2011 -> SOURCE (//http://disneycentralplaza.englishboard.net/disneyland-paris-f6/calendrier-des-saisons-spectacles-fermetures-et-rehabilitations-t661-440.htm#698741)
Both are probably saying the truth, so it all depends which one has the more accurate source it seems.
Also interesting: American-Boy also says the castle will not have the ice palace lights this Christmas because of the rehab and "in spring 2011 BTM will be cleaned and there will be a cover painting for the most damaged rocks".
To me, the most logical period would be january - september, but will this rehab take up to 9 months? Are they going to take the whole castle down and built a brand new one, or what? If it takes that long they sure mean to refurb the whole castle AREA too, right? So that includes the Royal Castle Stage and stuff?
Quote from: "Nicolai"Hmm, there are now two different dates rumoured over at DCP:
"Phobos" claims the castle will be renovated from January to September 2011 -> SOURCE (//http://disneycentralplaza.englishboard.net/disneyland-paris-f6/calendrier-des-saisons-spectacles-fermetures-et-rehabilitations-t661-400.htm#687499)
"American-Boy" claims that the rehab will be from October 4, 2010 and end on 1st July 2011 -> SOURCE (//http://disneycentralplaza.englishboard.net/disneyland-paris-f6/calendrier-des-saisons-spectacles-fermetures-et-rehabilitations-t661-440.htm#698741)
Both are probably saying the truth, so it all depends which one has the more accurate source it seems.
Also interesting: American-Boy also says the castle will not have the ice palace lights this Christmas because of the rehab and "in spring 2011 BTM will be cleaned and there will be a cover painting for the most damaged rocks".
I think Phobos would be more correct on the rehab date as 1-it makes more sense to rehab during unbusy times + rehabing the castle during popular seasons will ruin the castle and make the park less magical.
Disney_tinker on Twitter has email confirmation from guest communications and the dates have been confirmed as "4th Oct-1st July 2011".
Quote from: "Nicolai"Disney_tinker on Twitter has email confirmation from guest communications and the dates have been confirmed as "4th Oct-1st July 2011".
I would'nt count on someone from twitter bro, we shall find out from the official disneyland paris sites official closure and referbishment page.. :? Lets hope they start form Jan [-o<
I would think it would be October - July as they would want it to finished for the busy summer season, right?
friend emailed disney and just had it confirmed as oct 4th to july 2011 - so american boy is lookin to be correct!!
am sure she will update on here later....
Quote from: "scampbunny"friend emailed disney and just had it confirmed as oct 4th to july 2011 - so american boy is lookin to be correct!!
am sure she will update on here later....
Hope hes wrong [-o< lol
I tried emailing disneyland paris but its saying that we cant reply to your quiery at this moment in time.
shes hopin to get sum info about the lightin ceremony, but must admit im gutted bout it.... we havent been for 1 1/2 yrs and this was gonna be a surprise trip, and our last for a while (due to kids ages/school) and for oldests birthday - so wanted it to be special...... and he loves the castle :cry:
u go just before us (14th oct)... guess we can always hope they are late in startin the refurb???
Quote from: "scampbunny"shes hopin to get sum info about the lightin ceremony, but must admit im gutted bout it.... we havent been for 1 1/2 yrs and this was gonna be a surprise trip, and our last for a while (due to kids ages/school) and for oldests birthday - so wanted it to be special...... and he loves the castle :cry:
u go just before us (14th oct)... guess we can always hope they are late in startin the refurb???
Yeah, ill be heading to disneyland on the 5th, but I still don't get why they are referbishing the castle during halloween and christmas! In my opinion I still do belive they won't referbish the castle now as it doesn't make sense to do so especially when the castle is going to be used a lot on the 31st of october and during christmas, who would want to watch a halloween soiree show with a covered castle? :? Does anyone have the emal of disneyland paris so I can send them an email too please? + Is it possible the castle will take from october to july to referbish?
I hope they dont refurb the castle over christmas, one of the things that i am most looking forward to when i go in december is the castle looking all pretty with the lights, seems a bit of an odd time to do a refurb, from what ive read halloween and christmas are really busy times, i just hope its the january 2011-september 2011 dates when it happens xx :belle:
Quote from: stacey-claireI hope they dont refurb the castle over christmas, one of the things that i am most looking forward to when i go in december is the castle looking all pretty with the lights, seems a bit of an odd time to do a refurb, from what ive read halloween and christmas are really busy times, i just hope its the january 2011-september 2011 dates when it happens xx :belle:
ABSOLUTELY RIGHT! :D :thumbs: Lets keep our fingers crossed.
Well, whilst appreciating the need for any part of the Park to be refurbished, will be disappointed it this affects the Christmas lights - was really looking forward to trying my new camera out on it!
Still, if it is the case, I'd rather know now, and have plenty of time to get over the disappointment before my trip in November. Plus it gives me an excuse to go back next Christmas!
Quote from: "fray101"Well, whilst appreciating the need for any part of the Park to be refurbished, will be disappointed it this affects the Christmas lights - was really looking forward to trying my new camera out on it!
Still, if it is the case, I'd rather know now, and have plenty of time to get over the disappointment before my trip in November. Plus it gives me an excuse to go back next Christmas!
Well I appriciate the castle getting refurbished too! I just don't want them to do it during halloween and xmas season!A lot of people are going to get dissapointed :(
Quote from: "Donald-Duck-Malta"Quote from: "fray101"Well, whilst appreciating the need for any part of the Park to be refurbished, will be disappointed it this affects the Christmas lights - was really looking forward to trying my new camera out on it!
Still, if it is the case, I'd rather know now, and have plenty of time to get over the disappointment before my trip in November. Plus it gives me an excuse to go back next Christmas!
Well I appriciate the castle getting refurbished too! I just don't want them to do it during halloween and xmas season!A lot of people are going to get dissapointed :(
Oh, I know - and it still seems a strange time to do it. I'll be one of those disappointed people too - and I can't imagine how disappointing it would be for people making their first visit to the Park, and not being able to see the Castle properly, or indeed at all.
Quote from: "fray101"Quote from: "Donald-Duck-Malta"Quote from: "fray101"Well, whilst appreciating the need for any part of the Park to be refurbished, will be disappointed it this affects the Christmas lights - was really looking forward to trying my new camera out on it!
Still, if it is the case, I'd rather know now, and have plenty of time to get over the disappointment before my trip in November. Plus it gives me an excuse to go back next Christmas!
Well I appriciate the castle getting refurbished too! I just don't want them to do it during halloween and xmas season!A lot of people are going to get dissapointed :(
Oh, I know - and it still seems a strange time to do it. I'll be one of those disappointed people too - and I can't imagine how disappointing it would be for people making their first visit to the Park, and not being able to see the Castle properly, or indeed at all.
For me im not really going to be that dissapointed to be honest.. as I have been to Disneyland for 8 times (9 this october), but the most disapointing is that im bringing 7 family members to disneyland for their 1st time!They are going to be abit dissapointed... :x But not all hope is lost, as according to DCP for halloween and xmas they are saying that they are going to refurbish the rear(meaning the back of the castle) so that they won't lose the magic of the castle during the seasons...HOPE THIS IS TRUE AS IT WOULD LIGHT MY DISSAPOINTMENT UP AND RUNNING AGAIN! [-o<
I would be very dissapointed as its only my second visit to disneyland and my first at christmas, and we are taking a friend for the very first time, if it is only the rear, that would make it better, wouldnt be losing the prettiness at the front xx :belle:
I think, no matter what time disney decides to do the refurb will upset alot of people. Since it looks like it's going to be a pretty lenghty refurb even if they started it during the slower winter months (january/feburary) it would still run through the busy summer season. So basicly, either way it's going to be a bit of a bummer.
I was thinking. They are now, if the information is correct, planning this refurb for a period of 9 months. That is a very long time. Maybe that's because they do not want to cover up the entire castle at once, but just parts of it for a short period and then moving on to the next part. That way, the caste is still largly visible and may cause this refurb to be extended to 9 months, as they don't refurb the whole castle at once? Your thoughts?
Quote from: "Tuvok"I was thinking. They are now, if the information is correct, planning this refurb for a period of 9 months. That is a very long time. Maybe that's because they do not want to cover up the entire castle at once, but just parts of it for a short period and then moving on to the next part. That way, the caste is still largly visible and may cause this refurb to be extended to 9 months, as they don't refurb the whole castle at once? Your thoughts?
That certainly does seem logical and I hope you are right. They can't possibly be working on the whole castle, all the time, for 9 months. And I am optimistic that they will do their best to keep the castle looking as attractive as possible since it is the prominent centrepiece of the park and even more so at Christmas. Fingers crossed, but only time will tell.
Quote from: "Donald-Duck-Malta"But not all hope is lost, as according to DCP for halloween and xmas they are saying that they are going to refurbish the rear(meaning the back of the castle) so that they won't lose the magic of the castle during the seasons...HOPE THIS IS TRUE AS IT WOULD LIGHT MY DISSAPOINTMENT UP AND RUNNING AGAIN! [-o<
that sounds much more promising - then at least it will look fine to us from the front!!! [-o<
I'm Disney_tinker on twitter and I emailed guest communications yesterday. Its a shame that people think I'm a unreliable source, I don't make up lie and rumours. I have had communications throughout the day with DLP about this.
The first email they sent me said :
QuoteThank you for your email
Concerning the refurbishment of Sleeping Beauty Castle, this will take place from October 04th until July 01st.
As we don't have all the details of this refurbishment, we don't know if the whole castle will be hidden by a fake facade or will be partially hidden little by little.
If you really wish to change your holiday dates, i suggest you to contact our team at 08448 008111 to find the best time for you.
Have a magical day,
Marc
Guest Care Team
Disneyland Paris
I then asked how will this effect the Castle lighting at Christmas, they responded with this;
QuoteIn order to get more information on this refurbishment for you (anf for potential future questions or other clients), i am now waiting for more information. It does not seem that this will affect christmas but i will pass you the information when i have them,
Regards,
Marc
Guest Care Team
Disneyland Paris
So I don't tweet unconfirmed rumours like one member posted. I will let you know what they have said when they get back to me about the Castle Lighting. So yeah don't trust anyone on Twitter. :roll:
Quote from: "littlemermaid83"I'm Disney_tinker on twitter and I emailed guest communications yesterday. Its a shame that people think I'm a unreliable source, I don't make up lie and rumours. I have had communications throughout the day with DLP about this.
The first email they sent me said :
QuoteThank you for your email
Concerning the refurbishment of Sleeping Beauty Castle, this will take place from October 04th until July 01st.
As we don't have all the details of this refurbishment, we don't know if the whole castle will be hidden by a fake facade or will be partially hidden little by little.
If you really wish to change your holiday dates, i suggest you to contact our team at 08448 008111 to find the best time for you.
Have a magical day,
Marc
Guest Care Team
Disneyland Paris
I then asked how will this effect the Castle lighting at Christmas, they responded with this;
QuoteIn order to get more information on this refurbishment for you (anf for potential future questions or other clients), i am now waiting for more information. It does not seem that this will affect christmas but i will pass you the information when i have them,
Regards,
Marc
Guest Care Team
Disneyland Paris
So I don't tweet unconfirmed rumours like one member posted. I will let you know what they have said when they get back to me about the Castle Lighting. So yeah don't trust anyone on Twitter. :roll:
Hi Littlemermaid,
Thank you for your help and information. First of all I want to make an aplogy to you, as I thought that a normal user just tweeted on twitter and just making up stuff just 4 fun, so I am deeply sorry. :oops:
Secondly lets hope that the castle does'nt get covered fully [-o< And once again thank you for your post. :D
it seems a very long time to have such a big part of dlp out of use
Quote from: "Donald-Duck-Malta"Quote from: "littlemermaid83"I'm Disney_tinker on twitter and I emailed guest communications yesterday. Its a shame that people think I'm a unreliable source, I don't make up lie and rumours. I have had communications throughout the day with DLP about this.
The first email they sent me said :
QuoteThank you for your email
Concerning the refurbishment of Sleeping Beauty Castle, this will take place from October 04th until July 01st.
As we don't have all the details of this refurbishment, we don't know if the whole castle will be hidden by a fake facade or will be partially hidden little by little.
If you really wish to change your holiday dates, i suggest you to contact our team at 08448 008111 to find the best time for you.
Have a magical day,
Marc
Guest Care Team
Disneyland Paris
I then asked how will this effect the Castle lighting at Christmas, they responded with this;
QuoteIn order to get more information on this refurbishment for you (anf for potential future questions or other clients), i am now waiting for more information. It does not seem that this will affect christmas but i will pass you the information when i have them,
Regards,
Marc
Guest Care Team
Disneyland Paris
So I don't tweet unconfirmed rumours like one member posted. I will let you know what they have said when they get back to me about the Castle Lighting. So yeah don't trust anyone on Twitter. :roll:
Hi Littlemermaid,
Thank you for your help and information. First of all I want to make an aplogy to you, as I thought that a normal user just tweeted on twitter and just making up stuff just 4 fun, so I am deeply sorry. :oops:
Secondly lets hope that the castle does'nt get covered fully [-o< And once again thank you for your post. :D
I'm not sure why anyone would make up anything like that, I'm just as gutted about the castle as everyone else as I go when the refurb starts.
But I accept your apology :thumbs:
I really don't think they will be covering up the castle for Xmas as thats one of the reasons why most people go. If they do then they will have a lot of angry people.
The first email they sent me said :
QuoteThank you for your email
Concerning the refurbishment of Sleeping Beauty Castle, this will take place from October 04th until July 01st.
As we don't have all the details of this refurbishment, we don't know if the whole castle will be hidden by a fake facade or will be partially hidden little by little.
If you really wish to change your holiday dates, i suggest you to contact our team at 08448 008111 to find the best time for you.
Have a magical day,
Marc
Guest Care Team
Disneyland Paris
I then asked how will this effect the Castle lighting at Christmas, they responded with this;
QuoteIn order to get more information on this refurbishment for you (anf for potential future questions or other clients), i am now waiting for more information. It does not seem that this will affect christmas but i will pass you the information when i have them,
Regards,
Marc
Guest Care Team
Disneyland Paris
So I don't tweet unconfirmed rumours like one member posted. I will let you know what they have said when they get back to me about the Castle Lighting. So yeah don't trust anyone on Twitter. :roll:[/quote]
Hi Littlemermaid,
Thank you for your help and information. First of all I want to make an aplogy to you, as I thought that a normal user just tweeted on twitter and just making up stuff just 4 fun, so I am deeply sorry. :oops:
Secondly lets hope that the castle does'nt get covered fully [-o< And once again thank you for your post. :D[/quote]
I'm not sure why anyone would make up anything like that, I'm just as gutted about the castle as everyone else as I go when the refurb starts.
But I accept your apology :thumbs:
I really don't think they will be covering up the castle for Xmas as thats one of the reasons why most people go. If they do then they will have a lot of angry people.[/quote]
hehe thanks! :D Dw, i am gutted sooo much too! 8) Anyways lets just pray the castle will be refurbished bit by bit or at least will be reurbished like the pic of wdw castle below.. :thumbs:
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Gosh that looks awful, like I said on FB If I want to have a photo in front of a cardboard cut out of the castle I could go Ashford International train station for that lol.
I just feel for those going at Christmas, which is why I enquired about the castle lighting ceremony.
Ho what a same I was hoping these rumors we going to come to nothing. How did you get such as quick reponce littlemermaid83. I emailed them weeks ago and never got a reply.
Ho well lets see how they do this. I was so looking forward to seeing the Castle lighting at Christmas.
Well I'm not canceling my trip this Christmas, I've been looking forward to it for months.
If they cover up the castle, I'll just have to go back at Christmas another time :-)
Quote from: "Jonjo"Ho what a same I was hoping these rumors we going to come to nothing. How did you get such as quick reponce littlemermaid83. I emailed them weeks ago and never got a reply.
Ho well lets see how they do this. I was so looking forward to seeing the Castle lighting at Christmas.
Well I'm not canceling my trip this Christmas, I've been looking forward to it for months.
If they cover up the castle, I'll just have to go back at Christmas another time :-)
I said I needed to know as if this is the case I would like to think about changing my dates. I didn't expect to get a reply so fast tbh. But I'm glad its now been confirmed, I will still go for my orginial dates and just hope its not that bad.
I will be there on the 4th Oct so I will tweet a pic of what it looks like first thing that morning during EMH.
i think a lot will be done at night in stages otherwise they wouldnt need sucha long timescale ( fingers crossed anyway )
seems a long time for this to be closed i saw on another thread and they got an email back saying that it would not be closed for such a long period at that time of year. I must try and find it and put it up here seems a lot of confusion regarding this closure and for a refurb to be done at a peak time...one wonders the logic of it why not do after xmas when its the quiet time... will try and find that email....has kristoff or anyone else confirmed this??
Quote from: "Festival Disney"Quote from: "fly_with_me_dumbo"hi i'd read the castle was going to be refurbed over halloween and xmas on here. I emailed the park and they replied with
QuoteThank you for your email.
I kindly inform you that for the moment, we are only aware of refurbishments up to September and therefore have no information concerning Christmas. However it does seem unlikely the Castle will be in refurbishment at such a time, especially as the bridge has been recently refurbished. As we receive refurbishment lists around 3 months before, please recontact us in 3 months to check on this matter.
Kindest regards,
I shared this on another board but thought id put it on here for anyone else who'd read it was being refurbed
so happy, this email is good enough for me =D>
there you go wonder what the story is....
Found this in a different thread :?
the weather at the beginning part of the year isnt the best to do refurb work in to me 9 months sounds about right for such a mammoth task - im with littlemermaid83 on this one
Quote from: "smurfy74"the weather at the beginning part of the year isnt the best to do refurb work in to me 9 months sounds about right for such a mammoth task - im with littlemermaid83 on this one
:thumbs:
Marc at guest services has never given me wrong information before so I'm sticking with his information being correct.
Quote from: "littlemermaid83"Quote from: "smurfy74"the weather at the beginning part of the year isnt the best to do refurb work in to me 9 months sounds about right for such a mammoth task - im with littlemermaid83 on this one
:thumbs:
Marc at guest services has never given me wrong information before so I'm sticking with his information being correct.
Im going to be there on the 5th :thumbs: 1 day after you arrive hehe.
Although it says in teeny writing that images in the brochure are "not contractual", the fact remains that in the latest official brochure, there's a great big photo of the "ice" castle, and it's referred to in the description of the Christmas season.
It's become such an iconic image - I'm sure they'll do all they can to keep it on view at Christmas.
I have some good news for us Halloween and Christmas folk.
My new lovely friend Marc from guest services sent me this today.
QuoteGood morning!
?? ??We finally have all the information concerning this refurbishment.??
??Even if the refurbishment will start on october 04th, the visual impact will start in January;
meaning that for Halloween and Christmas, the guests will not be affected for this.
?? ??Hope you will have a great time in Disneyland Paris with our beautiful castle!!!!?? ??
Have a magical day,?
Marc
Guest Care Team
Disneyland Paris
Posting this from my blackberry so excuse the bad paragraphs lol.
Quote from: "littlemermaid83"I have some good news for us Halloween and Christmas folk.
My new lovely friend Marc from guest services sent me this today.
QuoteGood morning!
?? ??We finally have all the information concerning this refurbishment.??
??Even if the refurbishment will start on october 04th, the visual impact will start in January;
meaning that for Halloween and Christmas, the guests will not be affected for this.
?? ??Hope you will have a great time in Disneyland Paris with our beautiful castle!!!!?? ??
Have a magical day,?
Marc
Guest Care Team
Disneyland Paris
Posting this from my blackberry so excuse the bad paragraphs lol.
HAHA WOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOO I LOVE YOU LITTLE MERMAID! :oops: :D :D :D
Excellent news! Thanks for the update.
Glad to share some good news with you all. I feel for those going in January onwards to July. I hope it won't ruin there trips to much.
I was going to ask if the Christmas shop will be effected during Halloween Season but I think I've harrassed Marc at guest services enough lol.
Quote from: "littlemermaid83"I have some good news for us Halloween and Christmas folk.
My new lovely friend Marc from guest services sent me this today.
QuoteGood morning!
?? ??We finally have all the information concerning this refurbishment.??
??Even if the refurbishment will start on october 04th, the visual impact will start in January;
meaning that for Halloween and Christmas, the guests will not be affected for this.
?? ??Hope you will have a great time in Disneyland Paris with our beautiful castle!!!!?? ??
Have a magical day,?
Marc
Guest Care Team
Disneyland Paris
Posting this from my blackberry so excuse the bad paragraphs lol.
Thats such good news =D> thanks for sharing it with us :thumbs: Cant wait for halloween and then christmas now :D/
yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay - ur a star, and so is marc lol
am so glad that wwe can see the castle now, and the christmas shop is a sacrifice ill make..... i guess lol
thanks for posting :D/
Fantastic news and thank you very much for the update.
Quote from: "Donald-Duck-Malta"Quote from: "littlemermaid83"Quote from: "smurfy74"the weather at the beginning part of the year isnt the best to do refurb work in to me 9 months sounds about right for such a mammoth task - im with littlemermaid83 on this one
:thumbs:
Marc at guest services has never given me wrong information before so I'm sticking with his information being correct.
Im going to be there on the 5th :thumbs: 1 day after you arrive hehe.
I arrive on the 3rd, so techincally 2 days :lol:
Quote from: "littlemermaid83"I have some good news for us Halloween and Christmas folk.
My new lovely friend Marc from guest services sent me this today.
QuoteGood morning!
?? ??We finally have all the information concerning this refurbishment.??
??Even if the refurbishment will start on october 04th, the visual impact will start in January;
meaning that for Halloween and Christmas, the guests will not be affected for this.
?? ??Hope you will have a great time in Disneyland Paris with our beautiful castle!!!!?? ??
Have a magical day,?
Marc
Guest Care Team
Disneyland Paris
Posting this from my blackberry so excuse the bad paragraphs lol.
YYAYYYY! thank you so much for chasing this and posting, littlemermaid! And thank Disney for being sensible! wooo im so relieved
Great news! So that's why the refurb is taking longer. They are going to do this refurb in phases. Nice!
Can they PLEASE send those workers to Adventureland once they're done with the castle?
Thank you for posting that little mermaid, i was so dissapointed that the castle would be covered up at xmas, but finding out it wont has made my day xx :belle:
:thumbs:
Marc at guest services has never given me wrong information before so I'm sticking with his information being correct.[/quote]
Im going to be there on the 5th :thumbs: 1 day after you arrive hehe.[/quote]
I arrive on the 3rd, so techincally 2 days :lol:[/quote]
Haha very funny Little mermaid :D which hotel are you staying in and until when? i'll be in The New York Hotel until the 10th... :D/ Btw do you think the xmas shop in disneyland will be effected? Secondly I think the xmas shop which opens during Halloween in WDS front lot will be open... :twisted:
Quote from: "Donald-Duck-Malta"Haha very funny Little mermaid :D which hotel are you staying in and until when? i'll be in The New York Hotel until the 10th... :D/ Btw do you think the xmas shop in disneyland will be effected? Secondly I think the xmas shop which opens during Halloween in WDS front lot will be open... :twisted:
I'm at the Cheyenne! We leave on the 7th.
I'm not sure if the Christmas shop will be effected inside the castle, it depends where abouts they start there refurb.
I will just have to visit the shop on the 3rd to see if anything catches me eye incase its closed from the 4th onwards.
Quote from: "littlemermaid83"Quote from: "Donald-Duck-Malta"Haha very funny Little mermaid :D which hotel are you staying in and until when? i'll be in The New York Hotel until the 10th... :D/ Btw do you think the xmas shop in disneyland will be effected? Secondly I think the xmas shop which opens during Halloween in WDS front lot will be open... :twisted:
I'm at the Cheyenne! We leave on the 7th.
I'm not sure if the Christmas shop will be effected inside the castle, it depends where abouts they start there refurb.
I will just have to visit the shop on the 3rd to see if anything catches me eye incase its closed from the 4th onwards.
Looool cool, who knows may be we shall bump into each other... :thumbs: hehe. Whilst in disneyland I shall be uploading pictures on facebook :D/
thats great new little mermaid thanks for the follow up....thank god for that am goin on the 8th till the 12th November woo hooo everyone roll on the halloween or christmas time...best time of year there...
We should like launch a party for little mermaid like during our visit at DLRP :D :D/ As a token of our appriciation :thumbs:
Quote from: "Donald-Duck-Malta"We should like launch a party for little mermaid like during our visit at DLRP :D :D/ As a token of our appriciation :thumbs:
LOL its ok, I'm glad to of shared the news with other Magic Forum members. :)
Thank you thank you thank you Little Mermaid!!!!!!!
it's great that rather then moaning about how it might affect your holiday (like i did...ooops) you've found out the REAL story for us all.
This has really made made my day
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QuoteDesigning Disney Exclusive - Disneyland Paris Breaking News: In 2011, Sleeping Beauty Castle will completely be refurbished. Confirmed!
Good, good :thumbs:
Quote from: "Festival Disney"QuoteDesigning Disney Exclusive - Disneyland Paris Breaking News: In 2011, Sleeping Beauty Castle will completely be refurbished. Confirmed!
Good, good :thumbs:
That's good news!!! Do we already know when it is going to happen in 2011? Probably during the warmer months? I can already see people complaining about the refurbishment, but the castle desperately needs a refurb.
Quote from: "dagobert"Quote from: "Festival Disney"QuoteDesigning Disney Exclusive - Disneyland Paris Breaking News: In 2011, Sleeping Beauty Castle will completely be refurbished. Confirmed!
Good, good :thumbs:
That's good news!!! Do we already know when it is going to happen in 2011? Probably during the warmer months? I can already see people complaining about the refurbishment, but the castle desperately needs a refurb.
I thought they were starting now in January, so that it will be finished by the summer
This is indeed good news, but also old news. The refurb of the castle has already begun. From October 4th they are refurbing, but only during after park hours. From january 2011 (just after Disney's Enchanted Christmas ends), they will start with the 'visual' refurb. You can expect that scarfolding will be placed on the castle by that time. The total refurb is scheduled to end when the summer season kicks off in july.
Quote from: "Tuvok"This is indeed good news, but also old news. The refurb of the castle has already begun. From October 4th they are refurbing, but only during after park hours. From january 2011 (just after Disney's Enchanted Christmas ends), they will start with the 'visual' refurb. You can expect that scarfolding will be placed on the castle by that time. The total refurb is scheduled to end when the summer season kicks off in july.
Sounds great :D I just hope that they finally remove Tinkerbell and her silly trail thingymabob [-o<
Much needed refurb, but still very happy it will be ready before the summer. I hope the construction that will be build around it is in the same style as they did in mainstreet, still it will be one less picture point.
I certinaly hope they aren't going to change it all. I can just see Pixar plastered all over it :lol:
Quote from: "Martyn"I certinaly hope they aren't going to change it all. I can just see Pixar plastered all over it :lol:
Maybe they'll finally take down Tinkerbell and replace her with Buzz :lol: :lol:
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Just hope they use the old color scheme and not this pink barbie plastic one. But maybe that´s to much to dream.
Quote from: "Riebi":lol: :lol: :lol:
Just hope they use the old color scheme and not this pink barbie plastic one. But maybe that´s to much to dream.
That would be great, but I think that's too much to dream. Hopefully the will remove Tinkerbell!!! I can't wait to see the castle in its old glory.
Maybe the picture window will be replaced once and for all with Mickey Mouse. :P
There'll be some complex backstory involving Aurora and a friendly rodent she met in the forest to back it up.
Quote from: "dagobert"Quote from: "Riebi":lol: :lol: :lol:
Just hope they use the old color scheme and not this pink barbie plastic one. But maybe that´s to much to dream.
That would be great, but I think that's too much to dream. Hopefully the will remove Tinkerbell!!! I can't wait to see the castle in its old glory.
Maybe they just want to make it a bit more modern and more fitting for families. For this mickey mouse will be a good start. But I think they should involve toy story and the disney princesses more. Maybe they could give every turret a diffrent toy story color and all the lonely grey walls a luscious pink to make a new shiny "Mickey Mouse present the toy story meets disney princesses castle". They could even sell little dresses on the bridge! ...just a dream away! :mrgreen:
But back to topic :D
What I liked much at the old color scheme is that it looked like a "real" fantasy castle and not like another setting for little girls or barbie.
They should simply go again back to the story and back to sleeping beauty (sorry tink but that´s not your story).
Does someone know what's going to happen with the castle? Will Disney just refurbish just the outside or the inside, like the shops and the dragon as well? Hopefully Disney will use a printed cover for the refurbishment, like they did on Main Street.
I really hope that the castle will not be as pink as it is now. Like Riebi said, it looks a bit like a Barbie Castle.
I know everyone is saying this big refurbishment begins in Jan but honestly it is such a cold month with the potential of snow and ice and sub-zero temperatures are they really going to build scaffolding around the castle and have workers up their painting, fixing roofs etc etc in those conditions, I honestly don't think they will....if this rehab is a full scale one I believe they may use Jan,Feb to perhaps complete the base of the castle (like they did at WDW where they covered the scaffolding with a printed scrim of the castle walls) you couldn't even notice it at first glance or even start from inside the castle and once the cold months are over begin the exterior rehab
Is there no official confirmation of this from DLRP? I know we have a few emails floating around from guest services but does DLRP not release its rehab schedule like WDW and DLR do? I am thinking of booking a trip for early Jan (the week after the xmas celebration ends) I think the castle should be fine still I can't imagine they would cover the entire thing in a week and then leave it like that until the summer
Quote from: "Spacemtuk"I know everyone is saying this big refurbishment begins in Jan but honestly it is such a cold month with the potential of snow and ice and sub-zero temperatures are they really going to build scaffolding around the castle and have workers up their painting, fixing roofs etc etc in those conditions, I honestly don't think they will....if this rehab is a full scale one I believe they may use Jan,Feb to perhaps complete the base of the castle (like they did at WDW where they covered the scaffolding with a printed scrim of the castle walls) you couldn't even notice it at first glance or even start from inside the castle and once the cold months are over begin the exterior rehab
Is there no official confirmation of this from DLRP? I know we have a few emails floating around from guest services but does DLRP not release its rehab schedule like WDW and DLR do? I am thinking of booking a trip for early Jan (the week after the xmas celebration ends) I think the castle should be fine still I can't imagine they would cover the entire thing in a week and then leave it like that until the summer
They only release refurb info to the public regarding actual attractions and shows, not decorations like the castle (or Captain Hook's ship for that matter). DLP has confirmed that there will be visual intrusion in january right after the christmas season ends, so yes, you can expect scarfolding. Maybe not around the entire caste, but at least part of it will not be visible.
Latest official closures list has La Taniere du Dragon down from 14th February and then right through March, so it looks like this is definitely getting started. (Never thought I'd see the day!)
Quote from: "Riebi":lol: :lol: :lol:
Just hope they use the old color scheme and not this pink barbie plastic one. But maybe that´s to much to dream.
What was the old colour scheme?
Compare this photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/djdamian/1 ... 810990914/ (http://www.flickr.com/photos/djdamian/1023565992/in/set-72157603810990914/%22%20onclick=%22window.open(this.href);return%20false;)
With this one: http://www.photosmagiques.com/gallery/d ... C05709.JPG (http://www.photosmagiques.com/gallery/disneyland_park/fantasyland/sleeping_beauty_castle/DSC05709.JPG%22%20onclick=%22window.open(this.href);return%20false;)
I dont think it looks that bad. If anything, it looks really faded in that old pic.
The old color scheme was much more realistic. It had diffrent shading and tonality. Similar to the shading that we can find in front lot. For the torrets pikes: I like the new more golden torret pikes more. But the more salmon-like colors combined with the more stonelike colors for the "stone-parts" of the castle were much nearer to a castle where someone can live than the pink barbie house. I like both castles but I like the one more cause it was the more real disney magic less "Disney Princess Brand" one.
I'm going the last week of January so I hope they haven't made too many changed to the castle by then, I'd love to get a picture with the castle before whatever changes are made to it.
Though it can be annoying to have it scaffolded up, I'm so pleased Disney is finally going to refurb the castle, it is the focal point of the parks, and so photographed, can't wait to see it all newly painted and fresh.
Quote from: "Emylicious"I'm going the last week of January so I hope they haven't made too many changed to the castle by then, I'd love to get a picture with the castle before whatever changes are made to it.
Though it can be annoying to have it scaffolded up, I'm so pleased Disney is finally going to refurb the castle, it is the focal point of the parks, and so photographed, can't wait to see it all newly painted and fresh.
Hopefully you will get a nice picture of the castle. That's a little bit annoying that Disney doesn't list the castle on the refurbishment list released to the guests. I know the castle is not a ride, but it's an attraction people want to see. So it would be nice to plan a trip without the refurbishment. Maybe Disney thinks that guests will not come until the refurb is completed.
The problem is that most guests won't even know the Castle is being refurbished... Until they get there and see that it is all covered up!
Quote from: "never2old"The problem is that most guests won't even know the Castle is being refurbished... Until they get there and see that it is all covered up!
I would be so disappointed if i didnt know the castle was being refurbished until i got there! For some people it will be their first visit and the castle is one of the main focal points of the park! One of the first photos i take every trip is of my son on Main street with the castle in the background! Disney should be telling people about the refurb!
Quote from: "kelly.dylan"I would be so disappointed if i didnt know the castle was being refurbished until i got there!
Yes I would too.
But no doubt they'll wave their magic wand and cover it up with the canvas..... I know it wont look the same, but still a nice idea.
Hi guys!
I found a video on youtube where you can see the castle with it`s original colors! I prefer them a looooooot to the newer ones...Watch it and judge yourself!
I´ll just pray,that it will look like this again after the refurb!:-)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OT9ojcgMsrk (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OT9ojcgMsrk%22%20onclick=%22window.open(this.href);return%20false;)
Wonderful to see the whole area in the times of my first visits! Everything so shiny and new!
Actually, the castle itself wasn't as shiny before they applied that high-gloss navy blue paint to the rooftop shingles. But yes, the castle just looks so much more realistic somehow, doesn't it.
Aaand how it does! :lol:
It looked like sleeping beauty acutal lived there and not like a disney princess barbie movie set for her.
Thanks for the video. The castle looked so much better back then. I really hope Disney will bring back the old colour instead of barbie's candy castle.
I read on the Disney Central Plaza forum that "the rehab of the castle has been postponed to March 2011. And that the schedule provides for a scaffolding and a crane on the castle for the summer season 2011."
It better not be over summer, would it really take over 5 months to up-date the castle? (If they do start work in March)
:(
I hope that they get their fingers out and start work soon.
Source: http://disneycentralplaza.englishboard. ... ilitations (http://disneycentralplaza.englishboard.net/t661p960-calendrier-des-saisons-spectacles-fermetures-et-rehabilitations%22%20onclick=%22window.open(this.href);return%20false;) (Is in French)
Oh no, if this gets confirmed I'll probably postpone our trip till after the work is complete.
Personally I am not surprised they have decided to postpone this refurb, after all the snow has probably put them off. Shame this means it will be going on during the summer season, but am sure they will come up with a decent tarp, well I can hope anyway :? .
As seen again on the DisneyCentralPlaza forum and also http://www.dlrptoday.com/ (http://www.dlrptoday.com/%22%20onclick=%22window.open(this.href);return%20false;)
That "Sleeping Beauty Castle's refurbishment appears to have been postponed to March 2011 and will last until September 2011"
So yeah, the other forum said it's because of the 20th birthday of the park, therefore they are meant to be ONLY refurbing the outside and not the inside of the main castle.
This has really annoyed me because I want to go twice next year (July with Family and August for my friends FIRST visit) and that the castle will be under tarps and scaffolding. :(
But of course non of this has been 100% confirmed by the site/company. I think.
The refurb tarp from 1998 looked like this:
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Let's hope the new one will look similar or even better :D
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I have got a trip booked for both feb and august when the refurbs are taking place and if there is too much being done I would rather go for Halloween again so emailed Disney yesterday to see what exactly was happening! Got this reply today....
Dear Kelly Burke,
Thank you for your email.
I kindly inform you that the Parade route will indeed be amended from next week to July over three phases due to the pavement being refurbished, the Sleeping Beauty Castle has been into refurbishment from last October and according to the concerned department it will run until next September with works operating during night over the Summer season to prevent impact during this busy time of the year.
This was not communicated at time of booking because it has just been advised to us and this is always subject to amendment. These refurbishments are needed for the safety of both our Guests and Cast Members.
Amending your August booking to October will not incur admin fees, however should the total be more expensive the extra cost will be due.
Kindest regards,
Anne-Sophie
UK Guest Care Department / CRO
Disneyland® Paris
Tel: 08448 008 111 (Direct enquiries)
but what with the fireworks?? are they going to take place? will they be canceld? or moved to another location? but where?
From reading the email, I'd expect the fireworks to run as per usual, with the refurb work happening after the park has closed. Then again, if a tarp is being used it may not be safe to have the fireworks :P
I suppose they could have fireworks at the Studios or even on lake Disney?
I thought something was up a while back when I noticed La Taniére du Dragon was closed from 14th Feb, instead of early Jan.
I don't mind when the refurb is starting, as long as Disney will refurbish the castle. I am sorry for the people who wre visiting for the first time, but I think it has to be done during warmer weather and the castle definately needs the refurbishment.
Until now we don't know if Disney will use a tarp during high season, maybe it is not necessary.
Looking at the period again, I think we can assume that march-june will be used for the bulk of the refub with tarps in front of the castle. During the summer season they will then refurb the back of the caste en the inside, which allows them to dismantle the tarp so the castle in visible in all it's glory and the fireworks can be launched. At least, that's what I should do.
that's a pitty now, I am taking my two middle ones for their first time in April and my daughter can't wait to see the castle! Well, I hope she won't be too disappointed. I'm sure it will be an amazing stay anyway :D
Quote from: "kmara"that's a pitty now, I am taking my two middle ones for their first time in April and my daughter can't wait to see the castle! Well, I hope she won't be too disappointed. I'm sure it will be an amazing stay anyway :D
my mum's hairdresser is taking her kids in the summer, you should've seen her face when i told her that the castle would be under tarpaulin :|
Thank you for the reports on this, always better to know in advance. I can't work it out - does this mean that the castle, or parts of it, will be under cover 6th - 9th February this year?
Thanks
Rachel
Quote from: "Coastergirl"Thank you for the reports on this, always better to know in advance. I can't work it out - does this mean that the castle, or parts of it, will be under cover 6th - 9th February this year?
Thanks
Rachel
What we think will be happening is that the main part of the castle will be under tarpoulin from March until about July for the repaint and fixing/general maintenance of the structure itself.
The Dragons lair will be having a full refurb from the 14th of Febuary onwards.
They're apparently still doing refurb work right now, but it's all behind the scenes work that doesn't affect the guest.
Thanks so much, much appreciated!
Regards
Rachel
Tinkerbell as finally "flown" away from the castle ready for the refurb soon.
They better keep it plain, it looks better.
http://www.dlrptoday.com/2011/01/18/tin ... rbishment/ (http://www.dlrptoday.com/2011/01/18/tinkerbell-finally-flies-from-sleeping-beauty-castle-ready-for-upcoming-refurbishment/%22%20onclick=%22window.open(this.href);return%20false;)
Thanks for the info! Best news of the day!!!!
Brilliant news! So glad that her trail has gone too, indicating its permenant :D
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Shame there's still that thing sticking out at the top.
Give it time! It's quite bad seeing the turret with all those holes in it too, looks like it's been shot at :P
But surely, if they're up all that way, tthey may as well take everything down?
It seems the refurbishment hast started:
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The new colours look great.
I think the older rustic colours dont look too bad either though.... it looks more like real stone like that. The new coloured stuff doesn't look that real to be honest.
More recent images of more scaffolding around the wall of the castle. :thumbs: Hopefully things will move along fast and be nearly done for the summer season.
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Never thought that the sight of scaffolding would give me so much joy! But weren't they supposed to start in march? I like the fact that they already started, but now I'm realy interesting what the end date will be. Still september?
Good to see the castle under scaffolding! Do you know if it will be covered like Studio 1 during the repainting?
Here's a new picture, I found at disneytheque.com:
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I'm not sure, if the whole castle will be covered. For me it seems that the scaffolding is just for repainting the grey stones, at least for the moment.
Despite beiing bad for this year's visitors, I'm happier with this refurbishment than with any new attraction since TOT and Crush.
Are they planning on covering the scaffolding? It looks so ugly.
I think it looks awful. I know it needs doing but I'm so disappointed- I haven't been since the year it opened and as a family we've never been. The castle is Disneyland to my little girl and now it looks like that. I was worried about rides that we're looking forward to being closed but not the castle looking like that. We're not planning on going to Disneyland more than once either.
My guess is that it will get covered. The scaffolding just looks 'smooth', with nout sticking out etc, nice smooth corners too, for canvas to wrap around.
Disney Gazette reports that le Chateau will definately be getting a tarp very soon!
Here's some of their pictures of the scaffold:
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Am I right in thinking that everything to do with the Castle will get cleaned up? Including the grubby waterfall on the left and those two turrets on the right at the side entrance of Fantasyland?
Quote from: "Festival Disney"Disney Gazette reports that le Chateau will definately be getting a tarp very soon!
Here's some of their pictures of the scaffold:
Am I right in thinking that everything to do with the Castle will get cleaned up? Including the grubby waterfall on the left and those two turrets on the right at the side entrance of Fantasyland?
I think so that everything gets cleaned up. Otherwise they wouldn't have painted the small turret to see how the new color looks. Although it seems to me that they stopped the scaffolding.
The castle is really dirty and I'm happy that it gets fixed. Unfortunately I don't think Disney is returning to the old salmon like color used at the beginning.
I really hope that they get a lot of the main castle done A.S.A.P. Then if they have to clean around the moat and around the waterfall they can remove the tarps for the summer season. =) I highly doubt it will take the 7 entire months to do the entire clean and painting.
I wonder what the tarps will be though....
The scarfolding/tarps will be gone during the summer season. They can't launch the fireworks while those are up, due to safety reasons (catching fire). I think this is the reason why they allready started with the refurb, ahead of schedule/planning, so they can refurb the interior of the castle during the summer months.
This week there were two cranes alongside the castle (unfortunately I have no pictures) after the park closed. They are allready refurbing the upper portion of the castle, by cleaning the white elements on the towers.
Source: Café Mickey
Quote from: "Tuvok"The scarfolding/tarps will be gone during the summer season. They can't launch the fireworks while those are up, due to safety reasons (catching fire). I think this is the reason why they allready started with the refurb, ahead of schedule/planning, so they can refurb the interior of the castle during the summer months.
This week there were two cranes alongside the castle (unfortunately I have no pictures) after the park closed. They are allready refurbing the upper portion of the castle, by cleaning the white elements on the towers.
That's good news. I'm glad Disney already started the refurbishment so that the castel is ready on the outside for the summer season.
Does someone know what is done inside the castle and if the castle gets a makeover for the 20th birthday?
Quote from: "Tuvok"The scarfolding/tarps will be gone during the summer season. They can't launch the fireworks while those are up, due to safety reasons (catching fire). I think this is the reason why they allready started with the refurb, ahead of schedule/planning, so they can refurb the interior of the castle during the summer months.
This week there were two cranes alongside the castle (unfortunately I have no pictures) after the park closed. They are allready refurbing the upper portion of the castle, by cleaning the white elements on the towers.
That's fab news, unless they move the fireworks? But I guess it's just a waiting game on what happens closer to the summer season. (Y)
Hope someone will post pictures of the extra refurb soon.
Thank you. =]
Quote from: "Tuvok"The scarfolding/tarps will be gone during the summer season. They can't launch the fireworks while those are up, due to safety reasons (catching fire). I think this is the reason why they allready started with the refurb, ahead of schedule/planning, so they can refurb the interior of the castle during the summer months.
This week there were two cranes alongside the castle (unfortunately I have no pictures) after the park closed. They are allready refurbing the upper portion of the castle, by cleaning the white elements on the towers.
That's brilliant news and really put a smile on my face; as we're going early September so hopefully the external refurbishments will be finished by then! :thumbs:
I think it was the same way the last time they refurbed the castle.
I remember well that a friend of mine was at DLP during april with a castle behind a big photo print. I was in the same year during the summer season and there was no scarfolding but the tower was already in the new color scheme. I should also have some old pictures of this "state between the colors".
Quote from: "Tuvok"The scarfolding/tarps will be gone during the summer season. They can't launch the fireworks while those are up, due to safety reasons (catching fire). I think this is the reason why they allready started with the refurb, ahead of schedule/planning, so they can refurb the interior of the castle during the summer months.
This week there were two cranes alongside the castle (unfortunately I have no pictures) after the park closed. They are allready refurbing the upper portion of the castle, by cleaning the white elements on the towers.
Source: Café Mickey
But then what does this mean for fireworks due on St. Patrick's Day?? They will still have the scaffolding up then and fireworks are planned over the Castle... :?:
Mika from Disneycentralplaza has posted a new picture:
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It seems Disney doesn't use a printed tarp for covering the scaffolding.
Dirk of Dlp.info has posted some pictures of the Castle Theatre. Many benches were removed. Maybe this are also gets a refurbishment. Hopefully the theatre will not be removed. On the other hand when was it used the last time for a real show?
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Hopefully just so they can replace the floor... But it wouldn't suprise me if something more was to happen :P
As for the tarp, I believe there will be a propper printed one put on eventually, like what happened with Town Square Photography last year. White one first then the nice one followed a few days later [-o<
According to a member on Disney Central Plaza, the benches will not return and neither will the theater. Apparently this is in a work schedule of sorts.
I'm not against change, but Euro Disney have given us absolutely no reason to believe that whatever is going to replace the theater is going to be even remotely appropriate or tasteful. So I really hope it's not true, but it probably is.
More importantly, what could they possibly be planning for this space? Goodness knows it won't be a theater, because they have about five of those that haven't been used in a decade in favor of Mount Hub. I mean, it's a very difficult space to fill up otherwise. You can't build a shop, ride or restaurant because it would ruin the sightline, and you can't really build a character greeting area because it's too vast. (And in any case, the removal of the theater would not have been necessary for that.) Oh God, don't let it be Pixie Hollow!
The only possible thing that they could change it into is a little grass field, which would be a waste.
Oh dear...
Even though its unused, it still looks really good, so I'm quite disappointed its being removed.
those benches are a great place to watch the parade. the removal wouldn't even happen if they hadn't built the central plaza stage
Indeed, now they've built the stage in Central Plaza, they don't really need the castle theatre. I think they should make full use of the indoor theatres when possible, then they can put on a show what ever the weather.
What Disney do not seem to consider in any of this hub nonsense is the shear discomfort of trying to watch a show there! It is difficult to find a decent view and you have to arrive well before showtime only to find people who arrive later, push in and then try to raise their kids on their shoulders to make sure they do a good job of blocking your vew! As for disabled visitors, there seems very little provision for them, how can we make this a better experience for everyone? Now lets think........ If only there was enough room to build a covered theatre somewhere in the park!!! Then we could get our beautiful hub area back in front of our beautiful castle. I despair over the way our park is run by these jokers!!
i feel mixed about this one, a really good show on the central plaza stage with the castle as a back drop, works really well. The 15th anniversary show with the candles on the castle worked very well as did a Christmas show I saw on there. But I think we need the covered theatres open, too that's why I'm glad Tarzan is coming back.
The whole area around the Royal Castle Stage will recieve a complete make-over in April and May this year, at least according to DCP. The benches are being removed due to Guest Safety Department decided that those benches are too dangerous. There seems to be a lot of incidents with guests who are standing on the benches and then fall off.
I'm curious what would replace the Royal Castle Stage, if the info regarding it's permanent removal is accurate.
Perhaps the Royal Castle Stage will be replaced with an outdoor Meet and Greet area? It kind of makes sense.
I've always admired the Théâtre du Château for the way they built it so unobtrusively and naturally, to the right of the castle with all the hardware necessary for a theater venue hidden away in the floor and in those rather splendid metal towers. Let's pay it a moment of appreciation.
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Ah, Le Livre Magique de Mickey. Back when it was still possible to traverse the hub, the Théâtre du Château was home to this simple but very effective show, centered around an oversized pop-up book that had everyone mesmerized. The book itself was — and I'm quoting here — based on a pop-up book by a Polish cartoonist named Jan Pienkowski, was designed in the United States by a company called Animated Ideas Inc. and was so technically complex that it needed five technicians to look after it at all times.
I have a feeling that small, throwaway affair cost more than any of the headlining shows presented on the new hub stage.
Why not elevate the stage a bit more, get rid of all the benches (making it a viewing area where guest have to stand, similar to the Central Plaza Stage) and perform WDW's Dream Along with Mickey show there permanently starting next year? Now that would be a dream come true... for me at least ;-)
How can someone like the Central Plaza Stage? this big mountain in fronmt of the castle is just in the wrong place.
it dosen´t belong there. every show they do on this stage could be done at the castle theatre. it´s okay for me if they
take out the benches, they can esaly make a viewing area without benches. something like the Paradise Pier Viewing area
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I mean, there is still the castle in the backround, the people who watch the show are out of the way, they can bring back the vehicles to mains street to travel around again. also it will be a nice place to sit or stroll around when no show is going on.
the only thing that needs to be removed is the Central Plaza Stage and even more the management, cause they mess up this park. Don´t get me wrong, its great they refurb the castle and the floor of fantasyland, but this park needs more refurbs, and this right now and not in a few years, but no the money for this is spend on another themed year and in a lot of PHOTOLOCATIONS, hello did i missed something, i honestly thought it is DLP and not the next fairground near my place.
Damn better i don´t tell my parents, that they didn´t improve in quality and spend the money in Photolocations, i wan´t them to go there with me this year again...
I get your point, lil-shawn, but I don't agree. I actualy like the Central Plaza Stage. It's impressive, large, well themed and you can always find a spot to watch on every side. You can just 'drop by' and see a show. Side note: way better then the stage right in front of the castle at Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom, cause there, it kind of ruins the view of the castle.
Further more, it has the castle backdrop at the right (front) position and it supports shows where the caste is included (Castle Lighting Ceremony, Halloween Night Show and with the old stage but at the same position: Candlebration, Bouglumination).
I do agree that they need to use the Main Street vehicles more, but I think they can tackle that by removing the 'Character Express' and bring it to the Studios Park.
I would like to see the Central Plaza stage gone. In my opinion it destroys the view from Main Street towards the castle. I still hope that one day the Partners Statue will be moved from the Studios to Central Plaza, where it belongs.
I hope that the Castle stage will stay and I wouldn't mind if the benches are removed. I fear that the whole are will be remodeled into a Pixie Hollow Meet and Greet.
Quote from: "lil-shawn"Don´t get me wrong, its great they refurb the castle and the floor of fantasyland, but this park needs more refurbs, and this right now and not in a few years, but no the money for this is spend on another themed year and in a lot of PHOTOLOCATIONS, hello did i missed something, i honestly thought it is DLP and not the next fairground near my place.
Are you talking about the photolocations posted in the "Magical Moments Festival" thread? Are these really going to be built? That would mean A LOT of photolocations in the parks.
i like the Partners statue in the studios, it looks good when you come out of studio 1, and fits in well with Hollywood Boulevard. I've never understood why some people think the statue only belongs in Disneyland Park. Disneyland, WDW, TDL all have it the same way. I like it that DLP do it differently and have the Partners Statue in the Studios.
QuoteAre you talking about the photolocations posted in the "Magical Moments Festival" thread? Are these really going to be built? That would mean A LOT of photolocations in the parks.
yap was talking about those photolocation postet at the other thread... oh maybe not every one of these will get
build, i think they had some cutbacks again :P
QuoteI would like to see the Central Plaza stage gone. In my opinion it destroys the view from Main Street towards the castle.
I hope that the Castle stage will stay and I wouldn't mind if the benches are removed.
=D> i argee, i argee, i argee.... no word to include here...
Quotei like the Partners statue in the studios, it looks good when you come out of studio 1, and fits in well with Hollywood Boulevard. I've never understood why some people think the statue only belongs in Disneyland Park. Disneyland, WDW, TDL all have it the same way. I like it that DLP do it differently and have the Partners Statue in the Studios.
The statue don´t have to be in Disneyland Park, i argee with you. but the spot where it is now, seems just wrong like the whole entrance of the studios, but this conversation i don´t do on this topic.
Quote from: "lil-shawn"The statue don´t have to be in Disneyland Park, i argee with you. but the spot where it is now, seems just wrong like the whole entrance of the studios, but this conversation i don´t do on this topic.
I know it's off topic, but why don't you like the entrance of the studios. I think Front Lot including Studio 1 is the most beautiful part of WDS.
Now back on topic! :thumbs:
i was also wondering that. Why doesn't he like the entrance of the studios? It is beautifully themed and does look like the entrance of a real film studios.
has a picture tarp gone up yet?
Quote from: "peter"has a picture tarp gone up yet?
No, according to sources, the picture tarp goes up on the 28th this month.
If they're painting the top section of the castle at night, then I don't think the refurbishment will be annoying as it seems.
Quote from: "Alan"Perhaps the Royal Castle Stage will be replaced with an outdoor Meet and Greet area? It kind of makes sense.
Quote from: "pussinboots"Oh God, don't let it be Pixie Hollow!
I was just thinking - the one thing you could get away with here would be some kind of forest area, which would actually add to the landscape. Similar to the idea they tried one Christmas on Central Plaza, which ended up blocking the castle from the most important angle. Of course, it'd have to be filled with Princess photo locations...
The stage is such a wasted opportunity. They could put the best show in the world over on Central Plaza stage but you'd still be craning your neck to see, with aching feet, as people push in front, balloons bob around, and like half the other visitors you give up halfway through and decide you'll watch the end on YouTube when you get home.
I suppose a forest area would be mildly appropriate, considering there's already a hint of that with the pine trees near the castle, and Discoveryland and Fantasyland do need a bit of a thematic buffer. I think it's Pixie Hollow in particular that just churns my stomach (such prime real estate wasted on live advertising for one of the worst DVD sets ever — you just feel sorry for the non-Tinkerbell face characters); but the concept might have merit (yes, merit, yes!).
The Paradise Park idea sounds good as well, as a dual viewing area for parades and castle-based shows, although that's basically the Théâtre du Château without the benches and the stage, isn't it? And then I'm not sure why you'd want to remove the benches. People enjoy sitting, as everyone who's ever tried to watch a show on the new Central Plaza stage knows...
I totaly agree with your comments,Pussinboots, the central plaza has been a disaster as far as I am concerned,I have tried repeatedly to watch shows there but I get bored of standing around or trying to find a decent view and usually end up giving up and moving on. When I watch a show in the Chapperal Theatre I get a reasonable view,get to take the weight of my feet for 20/30 minutes and actually enjoy the experience! Why is this asset so underused?
I think it´s really a shame. The castle stage was always a symbol for great little shows as the livre magic or the first winnie pooh show. It was hard for me to see, that now the stage seems just good enough to present some princesses. It was harder to see this ugly stage octopus on central plaza (Mount Octopus) that block completly the view and took away a wonderful "Sit-and-Watch"-area at the park (I was sitting here long time in my life and it´s sad that you can´t do this anymore). Most of the time the stage ist just ugly. The shows never were that top. Mickey Magical Party was a waste of time and space. And the new shows are better - but not far.
For the visitor it´s clear why there´s not that much traffic for the show on normal show times (that´s not before a firework or else after dark). You stand on the street. Without a very comfortable view (neckproblems).
Enough is enough. Now they simple rip out the castle stage??? Seriously? The benches? Cause of saftey reasons? If you know that people could climb on benches you have to put a CM on show times there to say "No". What´s the next step? Blowing up huge and ugly air bags under the suspension bridge? With this step I think the wish for a free central plaza is far away (in the same way as the wish for Hollywood Studios in WDW without a hat). It´s sad again that they rip of a possible quality entertainment stage (istead of cancel that razzle-dazzle on central plaza).
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As it currently stands, they haven't put in a printed tarp and from the last picture, it is a mixture of clear and white tarps so far.
However, what would you prefer - a white one that ruins the view, but protects the "magic" by not showing the workmen, or a clear one, which will improve the view, especially from a distance, but will show workers?
Sorry for anybody who is also on disboards as I have just posted this there too but thought I would share with you guys and girls here...
I emailed Disney (quite a while back actually) asking about the refurbishment of the castle... Today I received the below email which a lot of people may find VERY interesting, especially considering the original refurb time was advertised as March - September..
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Dear Guest,
Thank you for contacting Disneyland Paris.
We kindly inform you that the Sleeping Beauty Castle is currently under refurbishment and the maintenance work will continue until June 2011. We would like to apologize for any disappointment that this may cause.
Please note that certain parades, attractions, restaurants and shops operate on a seasonal basis and may be closed, delayed or cancelled without prior notice for safety reasons or technical difficulties.
If you have any other question regarding your future stay with us, please feel free to send us an email.
We look forward to welcoming you to Disneyland Paris. Have a magical day!
Yours sincerely
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This I found quite interesting and it does suggest - quite boldly actually - that the castle will be all shiny and completed before the Summer period, as we all expected.
@dagobert
Raining once again, I see. :P But what's interesting about that photo is that another level of scaffolds seems to have been added. They seem to be progressing quite well.
@rottie
I had a feeling that that would be the case. After all, they wouldn't want it to spoil the summer months. Thanks for posting that. :)
Quote from: "rottie155"We kindly inform you that the Sleeping Beauty Castle is currently under refurbishment and the maintenance work will continue until June 2011.
That has seriously cheered up my week. Have been really hoping that would be the result since we all saw the work starting early. My girls actually cried when i mentioned that they might not be able to see the castle when we go, so as long as this goes as planned this will be a very pleasent surprise.
As far as the castle stage is concerned, if they dare touch that lovely arch i'm going to be a grumpy miss. Even if they turn the area into a mini forest, they better keep it there; it's just not right to take away a scenographic marvel like that to replace it with some attraction worth a fraction of the cost.
Can I just ask, what is Pixie Hollow?
I cant wait to see what the castle look likes when it finished :)
If they do change the stage into a foresty area they could make a meet and greet with the characters of bambi or even a new winnie the pooh meet and greet.
Quote from: "Martyn"Can I just ask, what is Pixie Hollow?
It is a fairy meet and greet area where you can meet Tinker Bell and her Neverland fairy Friends (can't remember their names, but one of every ethnicity with responsibility for water, flowers, animals, etc.)It is ok, and there is a cool light show in the Disneyland Version (whereas the WDW is a rubbish indoor version, though more appropriate for DLP). But I don't see this coming. My gut feel is we will just have a big pavement, or maybe some more plantings. I am really sad the benches are going. And what is the betting more people eat their pick nick lunches in the restaurants now.
Is ther anychance of the Central Plaza stage coming down at all? Or is a pretty pernament structure?
Quote from: "Columbiad"Is ther anychance of the Central Plaza stage coming down at all? Or is a pretty pernament structure?
I would love for it to be gone. I used to love being able to sit on the benches in the middle of central plaza, surrounded by really nice flowerbeds, taking in the atmosphere. The stage is so ugly and cumbersome.
I'm realistic though, and i don't think they will get rid it of it, instead they'll make a new "show" for every themed year from now until the end of time...
I think that the Central Plaza stage is good for the fireworks show (because the other stage wouldn't be suitable for it), but I agree that it is otherwise a bad place for a show.
Progress! :D :thumbs:
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this is brilliant.
Thanks for the picture. To be honest I like the grey colour better than the white, because it looks more like a stone. Unfortunately it seems that Disney will stick to the pink colour than to the original salmon like colour.
Quote from: "dagobert"Unfortunately it seems that Disney will stick to the pink colour than to the original salmon like colour.
What makes you say that? They could be painting the grey parts first before they go onto that. :)
(By the way, shouldn't this thread's title be changed to "Feb-June 2011")
A view from around the back of the patchings-up
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I'm assuming those grey splodges are from the Tinkerbell decoration (and not mould :P )? :)
Some of those spackled bits indeed appear to be due to the 15th Anniversary decorations, but others are unmistakably former sites of twinkle lights. You know, the ones that make the castle "sparkle" during fireworks shows. I wonder if they'll return?
Quote from: "Festival Disney"Progress! :D :thumbs:
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You know that little glass window/facias thing, what is up with it? How come the bottom has been 'cut off'. We noticed this in Jan when it was lit up, the bottom third of it stayed dark, and you clearly see it in this pic.
It looks as though a black fabric is covering it. Maybe it had cracked?
Maybe tink gave it a whack with her wand on the way down :P
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ah such a shame about all the scaffolding we are going on the 28th! oh well it sure does need the refurb and we will still have a fab time! :D/
It's a shame that they've added the referb wall at the wishing well bridge. It was a useful shortcut. Still, it's good to see that they've started doing the sides now. It was a good idea to get the front over with first.
However, it looks like there isn't going to be a picture on the cover.
Excited to see the castle after its all be done.
I'm pretty suprised there isn't a picture tarp covering the scaffolding yet.
Does anyone think they will even put a picture tarp up anytime soon? I really thought they would've done this by now, especially seeing as they have advertised St Patrick's Day fireworks - and these over a scaffolded-castle aren't going to look all that impressive?
They have now painted the top bars in pink... Hope that doesn't mean they are not putting the picture of the castle in front of the scaffold. They really need to cover all the castle. It looks like its under fire at war lol
The picture tarp should go up this week, according to sources. It was originaly planned last monday, but obviously that didn't happen.
Tarf from Disney Central Plaza has posted new pictures from this morning:
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Did Disney already paint the top, because I can't see the grey spots anymore?
Is it me or (if they have painted the top over the grey spots) or does it look... pearl? Like a soft pink pearl? I hope they keep it like that, its nice, if it goes pinker then it will ruin it.
Quote from: "alternativerock123"Is it me or (if they have painted the top over the grey spots) or does it look... pearl? Like a soft pink pearl? I hope they keep it like that, its nice, if it goes pinker then it will ruin it.
I thought the same. Maybe it is due to the sun, but it looks like a brighter pink. And I think they have already painted the top, otherwise you would see the grey spots from fixing the holes.
Hopefully they use a brighter pink, I think that will look better.
Quote from: "Tuvok"The picture tarp should go up this week, according to sources. It was originaly planned last monday, but obviously that didn't happen.
Oh as long as they are still planning on putting a picture tarp up that's the main thing! It would be such a shame to leave it looking like a construction site!
Quote from: "alternativerock123"Is it me or (if they have painted the top over the grey spots) or does it look... pearl? Like a soft pink pearl? I hope they keep it like that, its nice, if it goes pinker then it will ruin it.
I think so too. I don't know if they've yet to age it (darken the edges etc.), but it does look lighter and softer. I like it! I hope they continue that shade.
The current/old pink looks okay on a sunny day, but quite awful on a rainy, cloudy day. It's far too intense. A softer shade would be a lot more elegant.
Quote from: "pussinboots"Quote from: "alternativerock123"Is it me or (if they have painted the top over the grey spots) or does it look... pearl? Like a soft pink pearl? I hope they keep it like that, its nice, if it goes pinker then it will ruin it.
I think so too. I don't know if they've yet to age it (darken the edges etc.), but it does look lighter and softer. I like it! I hope they continue that shade.
The current/old pink looks okay on a sunny day, but quite awful on a rainy, cloudy day. It's far too intense. A softer shade would be a lot more elegant.
So true, with a cloudy sky behind it, the castle's colour is far too saturated :sick:
According to some members of Disney Central Plaza, the printed tarp has been installed, BUT my French is not the best anymore, so there is a big chance that I misread it. :D
Tadaa!
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Okay, I don't know what to say and I don't know if I like that. It looks like candy. It seems the tarp is painted instead of a printed photo of the castle. I think that's not the same way like Disney did it with the Main street USA buildings in recent years.
I actually think its pretty good - although I'm perhaps going to be alone in thinking that.
Quote from: "loladelorean"I actually think its pretty good - although I'm perhaps going to be alone in thinking that.
It's not quite what I was expecting, but I MUCH prefer this than just a blank canvas!
Lola, I must admit - I quite like it too!!!
Quote from: "rottie155"It's not quite what I was expecting, but I MUCH prefer this than just a blank canvas!
Indeed, definately better than the white canvas!
Excellent! The Magic is preserved! Indeed, sources are indicating that the scarfolding will come done just before the summer season begins (9th July) in order to show the fireworks. Can't wait to see our 'beauty' once again shine like never before!
Tarf from Disney Central Plaza has posted more pictures:
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Quote from: "dagobert"Okay, I don't know what to say and I don't know if I like that. It looks like candy. It seems the tarp is painted instead of a printed photo of the castle. I think that's not the same way like Disney did it with the Main street USA buildings in recent years.
Painted is good. Painted is great. I'm ecstatic to think that someone at Disney still knows how to man a paint brush. (Or even a digital one in Photoshop.)
I think it looks fantastic. A gold star for Euro Disneyland Imagineering from me.
I really like the style, yeah a photo realistic one would provide more 'accurate' photo ops, but this is painted in the style of the movie that the Castle is based upon! Good Fairies and all! It's a very nice step for me!
I like the stylized image of the castle, far more "Disney" than just a photo. Good job, I love it!
It's all right I guess, personally it's better than bright white tarps. The addition of the fairies is cute. =]
Can't wait for the final results of the entire castle. :thumbs:
It seems that the top as already been repainted:
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The details of DLP's castle are just amazing. Take a look at the snails. These times when WDI invested so much effort in details are long gone. If DLP would get built now, I'm sure we would get a copy of one of the US castles.
I think it looks horrible personally, at least when it was just the scaffolding it looked almost invisible from a distance and having not been for 8 years it's going to be a real shame to see that there when we go :( Hopefully it will be done by May 1st (though not keeping my hopes up), how lost can it take to paint anyway? :roll: :mrgreen:
The top hasn't been painted yet, only a small patch has. You can see it on Dagoberts last pic, on the right of the main tower.
It´s great to see some progress, hope this time they will use the right product to paint the castle.
as you seen on older pics, the castle was dirty and had some algas. there is a special paint product that can help
not to get that back, its called STO-Lotusan G its a paint against algas and who can clean itself when the water runs down the
facade. At my company we only use this product for years now. I also have it on my own house since 2005 and it still looks like fresh painted. Also if i know the square meters of the castle i could tell you how much it would take, but i would say if they have good workers not more than a 6 weeks, but we know disney, they take they´re time. just my 2 cents on it..
An eagle eyed fan on DCP has noticed a cool feature on the tarp! One of the windows is supposed to be the back of one of the windows in Le Gallerie!
Check it out:
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Disney imagineering at it's very best!!
I think that's fantastic! Thanks for sharing that!!!!!!
I really like it and my kids will love the fairies!
Now the back of the castle gets also some attention.
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See what I mean about that shade of pink? It becomes odd-looking in overcast conditions. Almost fluorescent.
Quote from: "pussinboots"See what I mean about that shade of pink? It becomes odd-looking in overcast conditions. Almost fluorescent.
I see what you mean, but I think that Disney will use the same color again. Hopefully the other buildings at the castle court will also get some attention, otherwise it will look strange with a refurbished castle, while all other buildings look old.
Puss that´s exactly what I was thinking. The newer pink color scheme looks really odd against darker sky. And that effect is getting even harder from year to year cause a dirty pink doesn´t look like a expensive high class castle...
I only can hope that they use the lighter color shade that we were believing to see at the top of the castle a week ago. Just believe. Dreams come true. We could live the magic. (And other disney marketing sentences)...
Went there with a school party over the weekend and was surprised at how unintrusive the tarp seemed tbh.
Also, the gate to the dragon was locked up but you could still see and hear it. Don't think it was moving but the soundtrack was still on.
Hi Claire, I was there at the weekend and le Taniere de Dragon was closed on Saturday and Sunday, but was open again on Monday morning. Maybe Disney decided that they needed to make some more passages available for people trying to transit through to Fantasyland, I found the bottleneck through the castle intolerable with someone always in your way! Many times the whole place came to a standstill! Maybe Disney should introduce a one way system!!
A tweet from
DLRPToday, 4 hours ago, possibly from the webmasters meeting at DLP today:
QuoteSleeping Beauty Castle's new colours will 'fade up into the sky', roofs will be bluer and the golden turret with return! Like 1992 again!
More information will possibly follow from Anthony or Kristof soon.
I suspected that about the colors fading upwards. *Gets gold star* The pink on the main spiral is very light indeed.
Excellent news about the golden turret. I just hope the saturation of the blues and pinks will be somewhat modest.
This is great news! I'm really looking forward to seeing this completed, now! :D
are there pictures of the golden turret?
Quote from: "pussinboots"I suspected that about the colors fading upwards. *Gets gold star* The pink on the main spiral is very light indeed.
Excellent news about the golden turret. I just hope the saturation of the blues and pinks will be somewhat modest.
One of my first thoughts when we walked in and saw the plans set up on boards was "pussinboots is going to love this!" It's really going to be exactly what we've all been talking about. Even the roof above the main window, which currently has that yellow gradient, will be returned to full blue. The pink will be different, lighter and less sombre (more pearly rose, you can see it already), but in terms of where the colours
are with the golds and blues, it's going mostly back to 1992.
I was surprised in the park how good the castle looks just after a few weeks. You notice straight away how stunning the main tower looks already. I wasn't sure it'd be so striking.
We got plenty of photos of the castle in it's current refurbishment condition last week.
Will post a few later tonight.
Look forward to seeing your photos! Im glad its all going to be ready by Oct when I go! :thumbs:
Quote from: "Anthony"One of my first thoughts when we walked in and saw the plans set up on boards was "pussinboots is going to love this!" It's really going to be exactly what we've all been talking about. Even the roof above the main window, which currently has that yellow gradient, will be returned to full blue. The pink will be different, lighter and less sombre (more pearly rose, you can see it already), but in terms of where the colours are with the golds and blues, it's going mostly back to 1992.
I was surprised in the park how good the castle looks just after a few weeks. You notice straight away how stunning the main tower looks already. I wasn't sure it'd be so striking.
Well that makes me even happier. Not only is the castle going to look even better than I'd hoped it would, but my relentless whining has been engraved into your brains!
There's also the little copper tower in the back, which was also given a gradient finish in 1998, while the much larger copper tower with the bell tower on top kept its copper finish. I suppose that's going back to copper then?
The back of the castle isn't something a lot of people really examine carefully, by the way, nor does it get a lot of attention even from us. But it is quite well designed. I wonder if they can sound that little bell?
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Just to update this topic with what we learnt last week... Kristof posted (//http://www.photosmagiques.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=10822):
QuoteLe Château de la Belle au Bois Dormant
We all know the Château is being refurbished, but what we didn't know was the decision to go back to the original colours of the Castle.
- Nearly all the rooftops will be painted blue, instead of green/blue and will loose their golden gradient.
- The two roofs with the snails on will be painted once again entirely in gold.
- There will be different shades of pink, darker on the bottom part of the Castle, lighter on the upper part.
- Katie Olsen from WDI Glendale used the original Château scale model to test out the new colours.
- Thomas explained there will be lots of painting during the day, because they need sunlight to check of the gradients and layers of paint are done right. The refurb is scheduled to end late August.
- No work will be done on the interior.
And now I've expanded a little more on this part of the presentation with 38 pictures of current progress: Refurb Roundup Day: Sleeping Beauty Castle's new colours revealed, big photo update (//http://www.dlrptoday.com/2011/04/02/refurb-roundup-day-sleeping-beauty-castles-new-colours-revealed-big-photo-update/)
I liked this way of describing the five shades:
QuoteAccording to Peggie, the Castle will look as if it is "soaring into the clouds" with the new pink tones.
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Quote from: "pussinboots"There's also the little copper tower in the back, which was also given a gradient finish in 1998, while the much larger copper tower with the bell tower on top kept its copper finish. I suppose that's going back to copper then?
Unfortunately we didn't get to see the castle from behind, and I don't remember how that roof looked. We only saw a concept art showing before/after the colours at the front, and then a photograph of the 1992 model in Glendale which has been repainted in the new shades of pink.
Anthony, did they say whether or not they were going to enforce a ban on any future seasonal decorations after this presumabley very expensive refurb?
Here's a picture of the extended tarp:
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What is up with that 'window'? When its let up, that bottom part is blacked out?
Quote from: "Festival Disney"Anthony, did they say whether or not they were going to enforce a ban on any future seasonal decorations after this presumabley very expensive refurb?
No, but that's a good point isn't it. I can't see any major castle decorations for the 20th happening. Apparently Entertainment aren't allowed to touch the castle without going through WDI now anyway, so presumably she's safe from any 2009-style incidents.
Personally what I'd love to see are seasonal banners on the lamps around the castle, like they have in California. Dressing the castle up for an occasion, and respecting that it is a fairytale medieval castle.
I'm also hoping they might add some more of the square trees to the hill on the left of the Caste. Did the others die or something, because I'm sure there were alot more than there are currently!
Quote from: "Anthony"I can't see any major castle decorations for the 20th happening. Apparently Entertainment aren't allowed to touch the castle without going through WDI now anyway, so presumably she's safe from any 2009-style incidents.
Oh thank God. I'm curious as to how you or whoever posed that question framed it, haha.
New color of the castle looks so...weird. It is like the water leak from the ground to the walls. Maybe in real not so weird... :shock: :?
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But other things like Molly Brown or Main Street looks very nice! :thumbs:
Here's some stills from the video:
I do hope that the water returns to a blue watery colour, not green! And it would be nice to see that many trees return [-o<
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Wow, that looks amazing. :thumbs:
I would like to see the trees too, when viewing older videos, the trees add something to the landscape.
However, the blue for the castle tops looks a little too blue, it contrasts too much with the pink. Although, I bet it looks beautiful IRL.
I can't wait to see. I hope it's done before July. :D
Blue color is fine, but different color up and down on facade looks like very old color faded with of the sun :(
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But other things like Molly Brown or Main Street looks very nice! :thumbs:
am i right in thinking all of the red dots on the park map are the new photolocations and also some rehabs. because there is one at orbitron and the pirate ship, places where there are no photolocations. also, why is big thunder and the theatre at the back of fantasyland red? any help?
All the red bits are areas that are getting rehab'd. Big Thunder is getting repainted, Orbitron is getting fixed so it spins properly again, they're replacing the floor outside the Fantasy festival stage, Colonel Haithi's is getting a face lift and the facade rehabs on Main Street etc.
thanks. that is a lot of work. are they repainting all of big thunder? surely that would take at least a month.
I love the new pinks, I really do, but that blue takes some getting used to. That's some bright turquoise on those two biggest towers. But even on a scale model it's already better than those gradients.
As for the color of the water or the amount of trees, please realize that this is a 20-year old model, folks.
Also, what are those retro posters three minutes into the video? Intriguing.
Quote from: "pussinboots"As for the color of the water or the amount of trees, please realize that this is a 20-year old model, folks.
Funny, that's exactly what Peggie Fariss said when someone at the meeting questioned whether the railings would be removed or something... "All we did was paint it, it's just to show the paint colours".
The blues do look strange there. I'm sure they didn't stand out that much on the flat artwork.
Quote from: "pussinboots"Also, what are those retro posters three minutes into the video? Intriguing.
Sadly not that exciting. They've been created for the new Storybook Circus in Florida's Fantasyland but are now also going to be featured on the ends of display units in the revamped Disney & Co. shop in Paris (while of course our centrepiece organ gets taken over to Florida to feature somewhere in that area).
i know it says late august but do you reckon in july much of it will still be covered :(
The coverings are meant to come down in June and the rest will be done via an elevating work platform, IIRC. :)
Picture from yesterday. The two roofs either side of the snaily one have recieved the new blue :D
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Quote from: "Festival Disney"Picture from yesterday. The two roofs either side of the snaily one have recieved the new blue :D
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I wasn't too sure about the blue on the model, but in real life it is stunning. :D/
it adds depth, i like it!
The dark blue works way better than the light blue/green. They have seen it with the other disney castles like the Magic Kingdom castle when they repainted in 2006. The towers became way darker then previously and it worked quite well. Same thing here I think :D
I think I actually prefer the two-toned blue and green. I know it's far from finished but instead of adding depth, I think the colours make it seem flatter.
I do however think it's sensible to get the castle into a state of repair where it can simply continue to function as the main focal point of the park the without drawing attention to itself during the day. It seems that they have thought its future through thoroughly also. Any fixtures/installations should be done now to avoid any disruption as those tarps really are ugly. Non-Disney fans are even coming back commenting on them, but I know the future will be worth it.
To keep away from any visible 20th anniversary overlays certainly is the way to go. There's more ways to celebrate
Yesterday one of the towers disappeared to recieve its new paint job, as seem here in a photo tweeted by @DLParis:
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The other soon to be Gold tower has also dissapeared, too. Hope they return soon... looks a tad odd :lol:
Oh my god that looks so strange! Bring them back quick, although I have to say I'm really excited about the gold roofs! I always thought they looked amazing in pictures!
I didn't know the roofs could come off
Is la taniere du dragon still open?
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On this image, the front roof with the big stained glass window looks brighter than the other roofs. Is it going to be painted like that, or is it just the camera making it look brighter?
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Looking good so far. :thumbs: :D
Thanks for the pictures!The castle looks already great.
When the refurbishment is complete, the castle deserves the title of being the most beautiful Disney castle again.
Wow, it looks great. Can't wait to see it in July :D
Very nice! Looks like sweet cake with whipped cream :) will not dirty quickly?
It looked really nice this weekend. The new blue rooftops stand out beautifully and really finish the castle of well. I think it was a very good decision to change the colour scheme back to the original.
Adrenaline from DCP posted this image today of the castle without the tarps and with the white-primer base on the highest turret. :thumbs:
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Looks like the castle walls have been finished and hopefully the scaffolding will be down soon. Seems like they are ahead of schedules (even though they are still painting in the day)
i wonder what the finished castle will look like, it sounds good, but without any knowledge of how it has looked under the scaffolding, we'll have to see
They're either finished painting the walls or they needed to remove the tarp because they need daylight so that they can see if there are any finishing touches to be done.
BTW, there was also a picture on @InsideDLParis that gives you a better view. :) http://twitpic.com/4qhb03 (http://twitpic.com/4qhb03%22%20onclick=%22window.open(this.href);return%20false;) If you look at the full-sized version of the pic, the bricks look smashing!
A new picture by @InsideDLParis appeared on Twitter today!
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We are visiting DLRP for the first time on the 9th June for 5 nights. Does anyone know if the scaffolding will be down by then?
Is the scaffolding up the whole way round the castle, e.g. have they left any angle open for a photo?
It's possible that the scaffolding will be down when you visit, but the work won't be complete. However, it does seem as though they're about to remove the scaffolding from the front, because they removed the tarp recently. :)
Et Voila, Nearly all the scaffolding gone,
Doesn't it look amazing!?
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Fantastic! =D Looks beautiful! :D Lovely photo.
Thanks for the picture! The castle looks amazing!
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I can't even think of an adjective to sum it up. The bricks are perfect, and just seeing it all together like this is amazing.
On to the towers, now!
It really is beautiful.
Oh wow!
That blue sure is striking. The two biggest turrets used to be the demurest shade of blue, practically grey:
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Wow. Very nice. I take it they've applied some sort of "ageing" to the paintwork? It doesn't look as striking as when they first painted the tower.
Just thought I'd offer an altered version of the picture of the model - I've stretched it into its proper shape. It might give a better impression of the final result.
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There is something truly magical about the castle!
A magnificent sight and a magical refurbishment so far... It looks absolutely stunning - a sight almost worth my trip in July alone.
wow...wow...i mean...wow :)
OMG it looks beauitful!
It looks like the stained glass window in the top tower has finally been fixed.
Quote from: "MrsPirate"It looks like the stained glass window in the top tower has finally been fixed.
Nope. If you look closer, it's still there.
Dlp.info has posted a new picture:
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I wonder if the back roof will be keeping its copper brown colour.
I hope it does, it's a nice variation of the turrets!
The Castle looks brilliant again, the faded paintwork really works! I can't wait to see it with fireworks later in the season!
Quote from: "Scissorsboi"I hope it does, it's a nice variation of the turrets!
The Castle looks brilliant again, the faded paintwork really works! I can't wait to see it with fireworks later in the season!
I can't believe I will miss the summer fireworks by arriving one day too late! :cry: :cry:
Does anyone know the dates for the fireworks this summer?
Quote from: "stevenlatham01"Does anyone know the dates for the fireworks this summer?
9th July to 4th September! http://www.dlrpmagic.com/calendar/season-dates/ (http://www.dlrpmagic.com/calendar/season-dates/%22%20onclick=%22window.open(this.href);return%20false;)
2 months of Fireworks? Isn't that a much longer range of dates than usual?
Quote from: "Anthony"Quote from: "stevenlatham01"Does anyone know the dates for the fireworks this summer?
9th July to 4th September! http://www.dlrpmagic.com/calendar/season-dates/ (http://www.dlrpmagic.com/calendar/season-dates/%22%20onclick=%22window.open(this.href);return%20false;)
Thanks, we will be a month too early the fireworks then.
Does anyone have a photo of the castle from today? Is the scaffolding mostly down now?
Quote from: "stevenlatham01"Does anyone have a photo of the castle from today? Is the scaffolding mostly down now?
Here's a picture from Sunday:
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The castel looks already wonderful.
Quote from: "dagobert"Quote from: "stevenlatham01"Does anyone have a photo of the castle from today? Is the scaffolding mostly down now?
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The castel looks already wonderful.
WOW :shock: It looks better and better :thumbs:
Who knew watching paint dry could be so fun. :P
You can even see the difference made by the freshly painted bricks from a distance! :D
Here's the old castle to compare:
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It looks really brilliant. The darker blue also seems to make the grass look greener, with the old scheme looking dry and faded in comparison.
What's left now? The roof with the oval window, the golden snail turrets, the previosuly stripy turret still with its primer on - anything else? Its coming on excellantly.
Maybe the front will be done by the end of this month. It's seeming more likely that the rest of the months are going into the back.
Found this photo on the site below. Think it was taken yesterday. Really is looking good now without the scaffolding :)
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looks good! :thumbs:
also I´m a bit sad that they used this fast aging white again instead of the more natural look of the 1992 castle.
Quote from: "Riebi"looks good! :thumbs:
also I´m a bit sad that they used this fast aging white again instead of the more natural look of the 1992 castle.
If they, for once, keep maintaining the looks of the castle every year (and don't wait for it to look realy bad), it's not a problem. Unfortunately the refurb cicle in DLP is one where they wait till everything falls apart, almost litteraly. Hopefully they got a wake up call. Looks already stunning!
looks lovely!! cant wait to book and go to see it in person!!
Just come back of hol and most of the scafolding is now down!
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They had also painted some of the inside, on one side but not the other, I have no photo of this, but I wish I did becuase it looked rather funny!
Looking gorgeous!
Looks even more magical :)
Is the central roof above the lower rose window not still to get painted blue? I hope so.
It looks even more gorgeous. :) They just need to paint one of the lower roofs and then it will be perfect
Yep! That and the two golden roofs. :D Brilliant!
Wow. trying to find an something origianl to say, but I'm goona lump with and old - but very fiting cliche - Magical ! =D>
I'm just itching to say this, and I feel bad about it, haha.
I like it much better than the 1998 version, but it's still a sugar cake. The 1992 version looked realistic in a fantastical sort of way, like the materials were truly copper and stone. This looks like Wilton-brand cake icing. By no stretch of the imagination would a medieval anything be this blue, not even in an Eyvind Earle painting.
But compared to the most recent incarnation, it's a huge improvement.
I totally agree Pussinboots.
I'd really like to see 2 pics, one of the old, and one of the new, because whilst it looks fresh, its kind of hard to tell the difference really.
The castle is looking very beautiful, it certainly looks magical like a fairy tale castle should. I assume the gold gradation on the front turret is still going. I know it's not finished yet.
Quote from: "pussinboots"I'm just itching to say this, and I feel bad about it, haha.
I like it much better than the 1998 version, but it's still a sugar cake. The 1992 version looked realistic in a fantastical sort of way, like the materials were truly copper and stone. This looks like Wilton-brand cake icing. By no stretch of the imagination would a medieval anything be this blue, not even in an Eyvind Earle painting.
But compared to the most recent incarnation, it's a huge improvement.
Exactly. That´s what I meant with their choose of the proper shiny white instead of a more natural/sandy stone look.
It´s a lot better than 1998 but it´s not the 1992 "real fantasy castle" version. You clearly see it as a dream castle but not as the castle where sleeping beauty really lives.
But great to see the castle shine again.
Do we know whether they'll be aging the paintwork at some point (darkening the edges, etc.)? Or does it no longer need to look old and venerable as part of a new concept?
I am so happy its nearly finished!!
When I heard that they were refurbishing it I panicked a bit because wasn't sure if it was going to be done by August! By the looks of it, it is tho!
Was just worried because I'm going in August with a few people who have never been before and wanted it to be amazing for their first time there!
What is the other side looking like now? Have they put the missing turrets back on now?
[strike:7lx44wfg]One of the golden turrets is back in, but it's not... well... gold. As for the other one, it's still disappeared.
Speaking of which, has anyone noticed that the snails on them have disappeared?[/strike:7lx44wfg]
EDIT: Sorry, I got mixed up. All this time, I thought that the white turret was one of the golden ones. XD No, both of the turrets are still gone.
Just wondered if any one knows how the back of the castle is doing? does it still have scaffoldin up?
Quote from: "julieann"Just wondered if any one knows how the back of the castle is doing? does it still have scaffoldin up?
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Here you will find more pictures and infos about the current refurbs of the parks:
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We've just had a bulk shipment of photos sent in from InsideDLParis. Here they are:
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I didn't think they'd get the sides done so quickly. I'm not entirely sure why they're saying that it'll be done by August, because from the looks of it, all of it will be done by mid-June!
Wow, even the sides look amazing. :thumbs: Can't wait to see it in all its wonderful clean glory. :D
Castle looks very nice in different sky colors!
I have little questions, please:
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Just to be clear: the refurb is not yet done. The scarfolding may be gone on the front side, but they are going to continue the refurb on every side. They are using a crane after opening hours to refurb the rest of the castle. They need to repaint at least 3 roofs (which you pointed out), and two small towers (of which one is complete gone for a refurb in gold) on the front side. The back and side of the castle remains behind scarfolding.
Quote from: "Tuvok"Just to be clear: the refurb is not yet done. The scarfolding may be gone on the front side, but they are going to continue the refurb on every side. They are using a crane after opening hours to refurb the rest of the castle. They need to repaint at least 3 roofs (which you pointed out), and two small towers (of which one is complete gone for a refurb in gold) on the front side. The back and side of the castle remains behind scarfolding.
Thank you for answer! :thumbs:
All of the scaffolding is gone, now! :D
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This has really got me thinking, now. If it's almost done, then what will they use the extra few months for?
Thanks for the picture. The castle looks brand new. Can you believe in what a bad state the castle was three months ago.
Was it really just three months ago since this started!? :o It seemed a lot longer than that.
Yep, I noticed how bad things were getting during the 10th anniversary. By the 15th, aweful. Thankfully she is starting to look great again.
so is that image the back and side of the castle? so has ALL the scaffolding gone from the front and back? we are visiting begining of june and my daughter cant wait to see the castle and it would be great if it has no scaffolding at all :0)
Scarfolding is down, yes, but the work isn't finished. If you enlarge all the pictures taken bij InsideDLParis, you'll see that there is lots of work to be done, even on the spots that were previously behind the tarps. Not all of it is refurbished, but now they don't need the scarfolding blocking the view for the guests. Work will continue till september on all sides. They are even repainting the Royal Castle Stage!
Quote from: "julieann"so is that image the back and side of the castle? so has ALL the scaffolding gone from the front and back? we are visiting begining of june and my daughter cant wait to see the castle and it would be great if it has no scaffolding at all :0)
That picture shows the front side of the castle. I thing the back of the castle is still under scaffolding.
The waterfall is back on!
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yay! :) thats good to know
Here are some new photos by mickey3101 from DCP:
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Looks great. It's almost worth booking a holiday just to be able to take photos of Sleeping Beauty Castle looking immaculate. When was the last time it looked this clean?
It does look rather amazing already, I really love the blue roofs now, they are just a lot nicer and bolder than their old colour. Not 100% sure about some of the pink, but sure it looks better in person :) .
I think they've cheated with those photos, because they look like they've been touched up. :P But still, it's really beautiful! :D
By the way, I recently made a web app for comparing photos. I'll post it here if anyone wants to use it to use compare the old colour scheme to the new one.
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Quote from: "Patrick"It does look rather amazing already, I really love the blue roofs now, they are just a lot nicer and bolder than their old colour. Not 100% sure about some of the pink, but sure it looks better in person :) .
The blue does look amazing. I warned my wife that newly painted castle + my new camera = 2 hours of photos from every angle at different zoom levels :thumbs:
ooooo I'm excited!! :D
It simply looks stunning!! The new blue and the pink colors are working together to perfection.
I cannot wait for my end of july trip now - my camera will be soo tired! :D
Quote from: "Meph"I think they've cheated with those photos, because they look like they've been touched up. :P But still, it's really beautiful! :D
I agree - it looks like especially the blue colors have been given an extra kick in saturation, but what the **** it just helps showing how beautiful it has become :)
Hooray, more scaffolding!
http://twitpic.com/536pre (http://twitpic.com/536pre%22%20onclick=%22window.open(this.href);return%20false;) - from InsideDLParis
This time, the rocks around the moat are getting some attention. If you look at the full-sized version of that photo, you can see a great close-up of the newly painted brickwork.
Joy, at least it is away from the main castle though. :thumbs:
Also, I was looking through the new brochure and I noticed this:
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The scan is crap, but I laughed when I noticed this... I've had this for months now and I never realised its the new (well technically old) rehab colours. =P
Yeah, it's random I know, but it still made me laugh.
The back of the castle is still under scaffolding:
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and the gold spire is still missing. I wonder when that is due back?
Wow! You can really see how bright the pink is in that photo.
Anyway, it looks like it's the La Gallery's turn to have the refurb.
Quote from: "davewasbaloo"and the gold spire is still missing. I wonder when that is due back?
I think it will take longer to put all the gold on the spire than just painting it blue.
Quote from: "dagobert"Quote from: "davewasbaloo"and the gold spire is still missing. I wonder when that is due back?
I think it will take longer to put all the gold on the spire than just painting it blue.
Maybe they haven´t enough money for the spires and has to ask the banks :lol: :P
It really must take quite a bit of gold leaf for all that surface area. Makes me wonder if Cinderella Castle's top spire is gold leaf as well, or simply gold paint.
Can you still go inside up the top where you can see the story of Sleeping Beauty?
Quote from: "HayHay"Can you still go inside up the top where you can see the story of Sleeping Beauty?
From what I know, Yes, the inside hasn't been affected by the rehab.
On other notes, there has been a HUGE discussion about a new crane that has been parked next to the castle for the re-painting of the towers.
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Some people say that this crane will stay throughout the summer until the end of August/September time.
I'm kinda upset because I thought it was over... but no. I think the colouring is fine. But oh well... Nothing can be done.
Has anyone got a better picture of this? Is this the view from main street?
I don't think it will be that obnoxious for people that go. It's better than having the entire castle covered by tarp. ;)
EDIT: Wait.... Why is that crane on the east side of the castle? The roofs on that side are done, except for the golden turret. Are they still painting the walls?
Someone on Micechat mentioned that the castle will not be finished until the end of August. It has always been communicated that way by Disney. The Micechat member says that they need the sunlight to do the final colouring. That's why they need the crane.
A really excellant photo of the castle. The plaza looks especially lush in this picture.
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That's my favourite photo so far! :D
Have all of the pink walls been painted yet (at the front), or are there still a few towers left?
Here's a picture of the crane behind the walls. If I'm not mistaken at WDW there was also a crane behind walls to put the decorations down. I think the crane is the best solution to paint the castle when sunlight is needed.
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Photo by InsideDLParis
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Quote from: "dagobert"Here's a picture of the crane behind the walls. If I'm not mistaken at WDW there was also a crane behind walls to put the decorations down. I think the crane is the best solution to paint the castle when sunlight is needed.
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Photo by InsideDLParis
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that first photo you posted doesnt work for me :(
same
Quote from: "peter"same
Quote from: "HayHay"that first photo you posted doesnt work for me :(
I have only posted the one picture with the crane behind the wall. The link redirects you to the twitpic site. I'm sorry that you can't see the photo. I don't know why it doesn't work.
Here's a picture of the crane in action. It was shot on Monday by Belle03 from DCP.
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I really hope they use it to take that black thing from the top window of the castle
Quote from: "dagobert"Quote from: "peter"same
Quote from: "HayHay"that first photo you posted doesnt work for me :(
I have only posted the one picture with the crane behind the wall. The link redirects you to the twitpic site. I'm sorry that you can't see the photo. I don't know why it doesn't work.
I think its something to do with Twitpic in general. And what on earth is that black thing, I can only assume the window broke.
I bet they must feel really shy on that crane! XD
But it seems strange to me that they would be all the way up there. I thought the top was done. Have they missed a spot?
that must be terrifying!!
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It's funny, I totally expected the forced perspective of the castle to be ruined when they were up there, but it doesnt! That rose window is huge!
It looks like there's still many finishing touches to be made.
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If you look at the back of that photo, they're painting the arches at the back.
Does anyone have any new photos of the castle? Does the bottom right side sill have the scaffolding it had last week?
Also does the crane they are using to paint the towers stay up all the time or does it only operate between certain hours?
Quote from: "stevenlatham01"Does anyone have any new photos of the castle? Does the bottom right side sill have the scaffolding it had last week?
Also does the crane they are using to paint the towers stay up all the time or does it only operate between certain hours?
Here's a picture how it looked three days ago:
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Photo by InsideDLParis
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Here's another picture of the castle and French Open Winner Rafael Nadal from the weekend. The golden spire is still missing:
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Photo taken from DisneylandParis from Micechat.com
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I'm not sure about the crane, but I think it will still be there and used throughout the day. Since the refurbishment lasts officially until August, I can imagine there is still a lot to do. DisneylandParis from Micechat.com claims that there is still a lot to do.
Quote from: "dagobert"Here's another picture of the castle and French Open Winner Rafael Nadal from the weekend. The golden spire is still missing:
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Photo taken from DisneylandParis from Micechat.com
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I'm not sure about the crane, but I think it will still be there and used throughout the day. Since the refurbishment lasts officially until August, I can imagine there is still a lot to do. DisneylandParis from Micechat.com claims that there is still a lot to do.
He must like Disney, he was there last year too, we saw him on IASW!!
looks great, looks very fresh :D
Does anyone know if the walkthrough will be accessible during july?
Do you mean the inside of the castle, or do you mean the dragon? :) The castle will definitely be open, and I think the dragon will be, too.
Quote from: "Meph"Do you mean the inside of the castle, or do you mean the dragon? :) The castle will definitely be open, and I think the dragon will be, too.
I meant both ;) that's some great news! I love these walkthroughs!
DisneylandParis from Micechat.com has posted a new picture:
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In my opinion it looks fantastic, although two spires are still missing. I think it will take some time to put all the gold on it.
There's no noticeable changes since the last photo we've had, but that one really shows off the colour! :)
New pictures:
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I've never actually ever seen that bottom bit open to guests. It's always locked when I go IIRC.
Forgive me if I'm being a complete dunce but what is the dragon part? Is the dragon still under the castle?
I went in 1992 and can vividly remember seeing the dragon with the smoke coming out of it's nose, on my return in 2009 I was sad to see it had gone. But is it actually still there :shock: ? Oooh....
It is still there, it has never gone away (although it is sometimes closed for refurb).
Just back from DLP, and the front of the castle is looking spectacular. Still work going on at the back, and this week unable to go upstairs, but dragon, shops and walkthrough still open. I will post photos once I have sorted through them. Very encouraging level of refurb activity going on all over the park!
Yes, I think they were still refurbing the upstairs part. I think you were a couple of days early, because the scaffolding at the back is starting to come down. :)
Here's some new pics from InsideDLParis:
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Woh! The scaffolding has just come down from the back of the castle! Take a look!
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yay! :D :D excited!
This has cheered up my day. 1 week to go before our trip and there still seems to be a lot of refurb going on (how annoying is it that they only list the refurbs going on with the rides?... not why I go to Disneyland...). At least the castle is free, if still missing a few bits.
is the upstairs bit open inside now?
It should be, but I'll need someone to confirm that to be doubly sure. :)
Photos from yesterday
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Work has ended on the rocks around the castle
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And on the back of the castle stage too.
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I saw on insideDLParis that the train show thing is going to the castle stage. People will get such a great view of the castle
Is it snowing in hell!? The weird black sheet that covered the bottom part of the window is gone! :D
Yeah it has been gone for a week I think. But still a little remains but only if you look carefully. Still a mistery what that was
It is looking good, though the back roof is disappointing, it no longer looks metallic (unless that is the lighting). also, I wonder when the gold spire will be back? Are the indoor waterfall and the water fountains in the back restored?
They were still working inside the castle so I think its not ready yet. I'm going back for the 14 July. I don't know but maybe if we are lucky the golden spires are back. If not I think they will be back only at the end of the rehab in September
Quote from: "davewasbaloo"though the back roof is disappointing, it no longer looks metallic (unless that is the lighting).
Yes, it's just the lighting. ;) There was a clearer photo on InsideDLParis. :)
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After viewing many different photos of the castle in the refurbishment i do think the castle looks brilliant :thumbs:
Just got back. I have some really nice photos of the castle all lit up Sunday night, with the windows un-obstructed, which i will post up later along with my trip report.
I can say though that the gallery is not open yet, but you can get to the dragon. Depending on the day (kept changing), either access to the snow white store or the three fairies sweet shop is shut off as they move the crane about, but it is still best to avoid walking through the castle as much as possible thanks to the rediculous funnel of people.
It does look really impressive and sooo shiny- can see it from all the way over the other side of the park shining it's way through, especially with the summer weather.
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First golden tower is back :D
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Yep! It's a massive improvement. :D I'm betting that we'll see the other one return in the next couple of days.
@Teacup
Great pictures! :D You can really see how great the new shades are. :)
Second Tower back also.
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Oh, I was right! ^_^
Now all that's left is some of the roofs at the front.
Teacup, those photos are so pretty! =]
Here are some pics from 14, 15 and 16 of July. You can see how the castle looks with different weather conditions and lights.
Daytime with sun
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Don't ask me what the whirpool was because I don't know, but doesnt look very pretty.
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Night
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With rain
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The galery was open also.
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These pictures are fantastic. The castle looks amazing. I am really impressed with the colours. Cant wait to see it for myself
Perfect! :D They were great pictures!
So since all of the scaffolding and cranes are gone, does this mean that they're done? I thought they'd have painted the front roof as well. Wasn't that on the plan?
QuoteDon't ask me what the whirpool was because I don't know, but doesnt look very pretty.
It'll be the new fountain that they've installed (for the 20th anniversary?).
Quote from: "Meph"QuoteDon't ask me what the whirpool was because I don't know, but doesnt look very pretty.
It'll be the new fountain that they've installed (for the 20th anniversary?).
They've been there for a while, you can see them in Discoveryland aswell in front of Space Mountain. I don't know their purpose though.
Quote from: "Meph"Perfect! :D They were great pictures!
So since all of the scaffolding and cranes are gone, does this mean that they're done? I thought they'd have painted the front roof as well. Wasn't that on the plan?
It'll be the new fountain that they've installed (for the 20th anniversary?).
No, they are not done. The refurb continues during the night all the way through september. They still need to repaint several roofs.
Quote from: "mehdi5"Quote from: "Meph"QuoteDon't ask me what the whirpool was because I don't know, but doesnt look very pretty.
It'll be the new fountain that they've installed (for the 20th anniversary?).
They've been there for a while, you can see them in Discoveryland aswell in front of Space Mountain. I don't know their purpose though.
I'd guess that's where the water gets filtered and pumped back into the waterfall...
Maybe they are having a break with the crane during the busy summer season before returning in september. Theu still have to paint 4 roofs and finish the 5th.
Quote from: "DGRavenswood"I'd guess that's where the water gets filtered and pumped back into the waterfall...
That would make more sense. XD
Quote from: "coruscantpt"Maybe they are having a break with the crane during the busy summer season before returning in september. Theu still have to paint 4 roofs and finish the 5th.
They seem to paint the roofs quite quickly, so it would make sense if they did that. It doesn't appear that there's anything left to paint, bar that. It's just that I was a bit confused, because I thought that it would have made more sense for them to paint the front roof when they had all the scaffolding up at the front, last spring.
Quote from: "Meph"Quote from: "DGRavenswood"I'd guess that's where the water gets filtered and pumped back into the waterfall...
I found these whirlpools in Discoveryland a year or two ago too. Curiosity got the better of me and so I decided to ask a Cast Member what they were all about.
Apparently it was a genius idea of one of the imagineers that seeing the behaviour of certain visitors in the other parks chucking their coke bottles and other rubbish into the water areas of the parks, installing these whirlpools would slowly draw in the rubbish and a grate is put quite far down into each whirlpool.
The rubbish is stopped by the grate and the water passes through to be pumped straight back into the water area.
Every evening after closing they can take the rubbish away thats still stuck against the grate and dispose of it.
It means a clean water feature for all to enjoy, about a year later in visiting I saw a teenager do exactly that, throw his water bottle into the discoveryland entrance, and it was sucked into a whirlpool in a minute (I must of looked silly running up to the railing to watch it! :D )
I could still kind of see the bottle stuck against the grate however the whirlpool splashing around did enough for a passer by never to notice it! Rather ingenious no?
it looked amazing the other day when i was there, so bright!
A few fantastic pictures from last weekend via Kristof/Photos Magiques:
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Quote from: "Anthony"A few fantastic pictures from last weekend via Kristof/Photos Magiques:
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This is my favorite picture, i love being in the park at this time. The castle looks beautiful !
I just hope that after the wonderful job they've done at sprucing up the castle, that they dont ruin it next year by - once again - covering it with garbage
Apparently, they have to ask Imagineering to do that, now.
Quote from: "Meph"Apparently, they have to ask Imagineering to do that, now.
Well thank god for that, hopefully they'll be super strict on what's allowed and what's not.
Quote from: "Meph"Apparently, they have to ask Imagineering to do that, now.
Hopefully the man from Imagineering, he say 'Non!!!'
I heard about that. Is it true that imagineering gt fed up of all the castles being dressed badly, so if a park wants to change the decor of ANY building then they need permission?
Yes!!! :D
InsideDLParis just posted with the news that the castle refurb is almost done. The roof at the centre has finally been painted, and it looks brilliant! :D
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I just saw it and I am soooooooooooooo happy it has been done ready for my trip. =P :D :thumbs:
However the sides of the roof are still white currently. =]
Quote from: "Meph"Yes!!! :D
InsideDLParis just posted with the news that the castle refurb is almost done. The roof at the centre has finally been painted, and it looks brilliant! :D
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Wow, even with the overcast weather conditions, the golden rooftop looks
really shiny 8)
I'm sure if I looked hard enough there's a post of mine from over a year ago where I commented about the lack of paintbrushes around the park compared to the well kept shrubbery and bushes.
Wow, that central turret really does make a difference. They've won back a lot of believability by removing those odd gradients, although I do hope more aging and weathering is on the way. The newly blue rooftops look too bright and plasticky as it is.
Wow it's nice to see the castle like this - when we went in March 2011 the WHOLE bottom half of the castle was covered with scaffolding boxed in and painted to look a bit like the real castle if you squinted :roll: I'm glad to see the work was worthwhile doing - can't believe it's been on the card since 2008?! Looks like they did a great job.
Was difficult to explain to our kids that in a park that's open 365 days a year, stuff has to be constantly fixed and improved - was particularly noticeable when we were there as Pirates of the Carribean, Alice's curious Labyrinth, and what looked like a large portion of Discoveryland was being worked on. We still had a great time though, and curious Labyrinth opened on our last full day :)
I just got back a couple of days ago. I couldn't stop looking at the castle, seeing it mostly done. XD
I couldn't find a dedicated topic to the Castle, so I though I'd post here.
After thinking about the identity of the dragon over on the Dragon Refurb thread, I began thinking about the identify of the castle itself, and the identify of the castle in each of the parks.
Are any of the castles in the parks indented to the be actual Castle from the story? If so why is it Sleeping Beauty Castle/Cinderella Castle as opposed to Sleeping Beauty's Castle/Cinderella's Castle? And what was the thinking behind this? I'm sure I remembered reading something about this subject somewhere before, but can't remember where.
The lack of 's is common to most early attractions in Disneyland... In 1955 it was Dumbo Flying Elephants, Peter Pan Flight, King Arthur Carrousel, Mike Fink Keel Boats.... So that could simply be a matter of "style." Maybe someone else could shed some more light on this.
As for being "the" castle, well.... none was really based visually on the films' castles, although our Chateau de la Belle Dormant used the same design influences. What's more, reportedly Disneyland's castle was originally going to be Snow White's (soon changed to raise awareness of Sleeping Beauty which was in production at the time).
I think the Imagineers simply didn't want to limit themselves with the films' designs which were never intended to be built in three dimensions and had a number of inconsistencies.
Just a quick one, the pole from which Tinkerbell once attached to has now gone for good!
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Can't wait for Kristof's next batch of pictures, minus the pole :lol: