Poll: Best Disney castle

[club33az]

I thought the Paris castle was Belle's castle.

[ismael flores]

So the symbol of the entire Walt Disney Company is not iconic? It just so happens sleeping beauty castle is the icon for the whole movie part of the company. The lack of size is totally made up 10 fold for how it actually looks. The size actually gives it a personal feeling like it was Walt's castle and the others feel like they were commercialized by a billion dollar company. Also the reason for it being smaller then the matterhorn is because in real life a castle would of coarse be dwarfed by a mountain of the matterhorns size. It is actually quite smart to keep the ratios accurate to real sized objects in life. If the castle was the same size as the matterhorn that would never make any sense because when was the last time you saw a castle the same size as the matterhorn in real life? There is a reason why they tried to duplicate it in HKDL. I have personally seen all the castles and there is no comparison. You are right that you cannot get a iconic picture at the entrance of the park but believe me it makes up for it when you take a picture by the partners statue.

Well to be fair the Matterhorn was built way after the castle. So the Castles size was not done in regards to the Matterhorn.
The Matterhorn could have obviously been placed in other parts of the park if the Castle had been done bigger.


I personally like Disneylands Castle but Paris' looks much more majestic and fairytale like. Which works for Paris because Europe has quite a bit of real castles to begin with. So the touch of it being fairytale Castle makes it unique

It is true what someone mentioned earlier that Disneylands Castle is some times hard to see from main street plaza. Many times the Hubs trees completely cover it. If you see it from far the Partners statue even makes it seam smaller than it is.

Anothr thing is that is too close in size to the rest of mainstreets buildings.
Maybe it was done on purpose so that it would not overshadow the feeling of mainstreet but Castles have always been bigger than its surrounding structures. At least in fairytales.


As for MK Cinderella castle, i never liked it. Looks way to tall and narrow. They went a bit too high with this one.

[disneyfreak62]

I thought the Paris castle was Belle's castle.

No, "la Belle au Bois Dormant" is Sleeping Beauty in French.

[club33az]

huh. thanks for the french lesson, disneyfreak.

[club33az]

I do remember reading that SBC was always meant to be the size it is so as not to intimidate the kids. Same thing with Main St. buildings. Forced perspective was used on both these examples, as well as the Matterhorn.
As a matter of fact, Space Mountain was sunk into the ground a bit so as to not over power SBC.
And as far as the pictures of all 3 castles go, I have always found that, for some reason, SBC looks smaller in a picture than it does in person. I have no problem seeing SBC when I'm in Main St. Maybe it's just me. Maybe it's just looks bigger in person because of forced perspective and the camera isn't fooled by it.

[disneyfreak62]

I do remember reading that SBC was always meant to be the size it is so as not to intimidate the kids...

Yes. I read a similar thing, but I read that, the castles in Europe were built large, partly for intimidation, and Walt wanted a smaller-scale, friendlier castle. BUT seems like they got over that in later parks. Also, the size of DL kinda dictates the size of the castle. If you put WDW's Cinderella Castle at DL, it would be GIGinormous!

[Dignan]

I voted for SBC mostly because I've never seen Paris in person and WDW was a very long time ago but I must say in photos CC looks quite impressive. Its quite the weenie.

weenie, HAH! Love learning new words.

Had to go with the one I've laid actual eyes on, though.

[Mortimer]

Viewing all the castles in print, I would have to say Cinderella's castle at WDW looks the best. WDW's castle is more balanced within it's surroundings.

I think Sleeping Beauty Castle in Paris is too noisy, too busy.

DL's and HKDL are nice. DL's in my opinion was not portioned correctly, especially when viewing from Main Street. I still love the look of it however. HKDL's version I think fits it's surroundings better than DL's, it stands out more.

Overall, I voted for DL's version. Just because I'am random.

[MoonRakerSCM]

I always love Themeparkreview.com's jokes at Disneylands castle hehehe...

*smooshes DLs castle with his fingers*

[club33az]

Viewing all the castles in print, I would have to say Cinderella's castle at WDW looks the best. WDW's castle is more balanced within it's surroundings.

I think Sleeping Beauty Castle in Paris is too noisy, too busy.

DL's and HKDL are nice. DL's in my opinion was not portioned correctly, especially when viewing from Main Street. I still love the look of it however. HKDL's version I think fits it's surroundings better than DL's, it stands out more.

Overall, I voted for DL's version. Just because I'am random.

Well, Disneyland is bit more of a mature park than HKDL, in that the trees have grown, but cut down, replaced, cut down, etc. HKDL doesn't have that much in growth so far, does it?