Saturday, May 12, 2012

The Sleeping Beauty Castle


It’s intriguing how architect could help transform imaginations into reality. The creations of an architect takes form as a solid structural forms that can actually be seen, photographed, touched, even wandered around in it. Talking famous fairy tale adaption that captivated the heart of millions of people around the world, no one can do it better than Walt Disney. Disneyland became a place that never gets old, people from any range of age can go there and still find ways and places that would captivate them still.



Daily parade on Disneyland
Disneyland is no ordinary theme parks. Each of its rides and buildings are well themed architecture designed with world-renowned architects, making a visit to Disneyland feels like a true visit to a true fantasy world. From the roller coaster, the hotels, even trains that will take you in and out of the resort, everything is beautifully designed to make sure every experience the customer had is an unforgettable one.

The iconic structure that towers and marks Disneyland, also used as a logo for Disney Company is the Sleeping Beauty Castle. The adaptation from the cartoon animation The Sleeping Beauty really matches the aura and image that was portrayed from both the cartoon and the fairy tale. Each Disneyland have different characteristics of Sleeping Beauty Castle, matching the themes that each Disneyland applied.



Sleeping Beauty Castle in Disneyland Park, California
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The Disneyland that located in the United States is the house of the oldest Sleeping Beauty Castle. Even though it’s only 77feet tall, it looked much taller than the real height because of forced perspective (lower elements are larger than the top elements f the structure). This castle is the first one to provide the walk-through entertainment previewing the story of Sleeping Beauty, which later adapted in every Sleeping Beauty Castle around the world. US’s version of Sleeping Beauty Castle uses more gold color and light blue shade on the top turrets making the turrets really shiny and causing it to really look like a fairy tale castle during the day.



Sleeping Beauty Castle in Hong Kong Disneyland
The castle in Hong Kong Disneyland is a carbon copy of the castle in the US, even though there are some adjustments that are made. The Sleeping Beauty castle in Hong Kong uses darker shade of blue on the turrets and apply more pink color to the body of the castle, while the accents and decorations also uses white and pink color while the US version uses golden accents.




Fireworks at Hong Kong Disneyland
Every night, there is a fireworks show on the Sleeping Beauty Castle. In Hong Kong, fewer trees to provide wider view to the fireworks show, because the viewers may sit and watch the show from in front of the castle until the plaza in the back.




Sleeping Beauty Castle in Disneyland Park, California
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Sleeping Beauty Castle during night in Disneyland Park, California
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The castles are decorated for its anniversary. The US Sleeping Beauty Castle celebrated its 50th year anniversary recently, and some décor of the castle is renewed. The castle is repainted with a bit brighter colors, making it more shiny, and five turrets on top of the castle are painted with stylized crown, with each crown representing a decade. The fireworks show throughout that year is represented by the story of Tinker Bell.




Sleeping Beauty Castle during night in Hong Kong Disneyland
Similar experienced will be have in Hong Kong Sleeping Beauty Castle, where the castle is re-decorated to be Tinker Bell’s pixie dusted castle. The caste is covered with golden pixie dust lights, which will sparkles in the sun and illuminates in the night.

With attractions that will make everyone cheer as they’re little kids, Disneyland sure to live up to its reputation as the happiest place on earth.




Anindita Indriyanto-1106023505

All pictures used belongs to the author, unless credited differently

Resources:

http://www.yelp.com/biz/sleeping-beauty-castle-walkthrough-anaheim

http://architecture.about.com/cs/greatarchitects/a/disney.htm

http://www.hiddenmickeys.org/disneyland/secrets/fantasy/castle.html


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3 comments:

  1. ArchiesMay 13, 2012 at 6:48 PM

    I wanna ask about the parade. Does the Disney Land in those different countries have different parades? Or maybe is there a special parade for certain country? For example like; maybe Winnie the Pooh only available for the one in Hong Kong?

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  2. Denisa Dea DenandaMay 15, 2012 at 12:29 AM

    Hey ditaaa, just wanna ask, why do you think Walt Disney prefer this huge sleeping beauty castle as the iconic building of disneyland instead of mickey mouse's house or cinderella's castle perhaps? :)

    By the way i really love this post with the photos!

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  3. ArchiesMay 29, 2012 at 4:44 PM

    You know that the Disneyland Paris castle is also called Sleeping Beauty castle (in French, Le Chateau de la Belle Au Bois Dormant). The castle is different from the Hong Kong version, in which has a more European-styled castle like the ones in storybooks and even from the film itself. Why do you think that the castle in Hong Kong couldn't surpass the one in Paris?

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