Sleeping Beauty Castle - 2011 refurbishment

dagobert · February 10, 2011, 08:59:14 AM

It seems the refurbishment hast started:

http://www.dlrptoday.com/2011/02/09/sle ... -on-walls/

The new colours look great.

Martyn · February 10, 2011, 10:29:07 PM

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.

alternativerock123 · February 10, 2011, 11:13:03 PM

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.

Tuvok · February 11, 2011, 12:23:58 AM

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?

dagobert · February 11, 2011, 12:22:21 PM

Good to see the castle under scaffolding! Do you know if it will be covered like Studio 1 during the repainting?

dagobert · February 13, 2011, 11:27:52 AM

Here's a new picture, I found at disneytheque.com:
http://www.disneytheque.com/actualite/0 ... ateau.html

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.

15MagicalYears · February 13, 2011, 12:07:49 PM

Are they planning on covering the scaffolding? It looks so ugly.

Curlywurli · February 14, 2011, 10:36:28 AM

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.

Martyn · February 14, 2011, 09:47:42 PM

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.

Festival Disney · February 15, 2011, 07:13:23 PM

Disney Gazette reports that le Chateau will definately be getting a tarp very soon!
Here's some of their pictures of the scaffold:

Source: Disney Gazette

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?

dagobert · February 16, 2011, 09:18:17 AM

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.

alternativerock123 · February 16, 2011, 04:11:16 PM

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....

Tuvok · February 16, 2011, 04:35:49 PM

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

dagobert · February 16, 2011, 04:39:22 PM

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?

alternativerock123 · February 16, 2011, 04:54:51 PM

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. =]