The Castle

Zazu · Post by **Zazu** » Mon Aug 16, 2004 4:26 pm

flippin_mermaid wrote:I loved when people would ask, "Where's the castle??" and I'd be like, "It's right there! Right in front of you..." and they'd be like, "Where??" and look around for it or they'd go, "No, I mean the big castle..."...... :roll:

That would be Cinderella Castle at the Magic Kingdom in Florida. All 197 feet of it!

Now when I visit Disneyland, it feels like "Honey I Shrunk the Castle."

flippin_mermaid · Post by **flippin_mermaid** » Mon Aug 16, 2004 4:31 pm

Zazu wrote:That would be Cinderella Castle at the Magic Kingdom in Florida. All 197 feet of it!

Now when I visit Disneyland, it feels like "Honey I Shrunk the Castle."

Yeah, I know which castle they mean. But I can't believe that people would travel to visit a place that they know nothing about. It's like most of the guests just wake up one day and go, "Let's go to Disney____!" and they fill in the blank with either Land or World and they just assume it's all the same and they fly there and then expect both parks to be exactly equal.

PrncssCinderAlly · Post by **PrncssCinderAlly** » Sat Aug 21, 2004 12:19 pm

yeah people make no sense... The Castle in Fl is awesome cuz its really pretty and its my house...

BUT id say disneylands is better cuz its the original one.
I was doing guest control on the parade route once and during the second cross over in the parade, this lady walks across the street with her hubby completely unaware that her two kids aged 12 and 17 are stopping to watch the parade. So, the cross ends and i see her start yelling at my castodial castmember responsable for the gate at hub west. HEr kids didnt make it across of course and shes doing her darndest to get across the street thru the parade. The other castmember struggled to stand her ground so i figure, walk over and help her. BIG MISTAKE I walk up there and tell her for her saftey she cannot cross and that the parade will be over momentarily and her kids will be able to cross then. She goes on to tell me that i am resposable, that i am taking and attitude with her, that her kids are minors and cant be left alone (at age 12 and 17 mind you) and that i am a racist. (she was hispanic...i am white) Either way, she then proceedes to pull my hair out of the way in order to get my name and then tells me shes going to write me up. I ask my lead to come over and she says that its all ok. That the lady insisted going to city hall wasnt enough so she was going to write a letter to the company. LOL!!!!!!!!!!

DLSweeper · Post by **DLSweeper** » Wed Aug 25, 2004 1:18 am

PrncssCinderAlly wrote:I was doing guest control on the parade route once and during the second cross over in the parade, this lady walks across the street with her hubby completely unaware that her two kids aged 12 and 17 are stopping to watch the parade. So, the cross ends and i see her start yelling at my castodial castmember responsable for the gate at hub west. HEr kids didnt make it across of course and shes doing her darndest to get across the street thru the parade. The other castmember struggled to stand her ground so i figure, walk over and help her. BIG MISTAKE I walk up there and tell her for her saftey she cannot cross and that the parade will be over momentarily and her kids will be able to cross then. She goes on to tell me that i am resposable, that i am taking and attitude with her, that her kids are minors and cant be left alone (at age 12 and 17 mind you) and that i am a racist. (she was hispanic ... i am white) Either way, she then proceedes to pull my hair out of the way in order to get my name and then tells me shes going to write me up. I ask my lead to come over and she says that its all ok. That the lady insisted going to city hall wasnt enough so she was going to write a letter to the company. LOL!!!!!!!!!!

So, she pulls your hair, eh? That's assult. Heehee, pull that one on her!

TheManator · Post by **TheManator** » Wed Aug 25, 2004 7:44 pm

I wonder when the castle rehab is said and done, if my dad is going to think it shrunk somemore. Back in 95, we went to DL the first time in 5 years, and my dad SWEARS the castle was reducded in height...and he claims this about after our 2nd visit to WDW.

aliceindisguse · Post by **aliceindisguse** » Fri Oct 15, 2004 2:46 am

If anyone noticed the top scafolding on the castle has been removed and you can see the new paint job. I was just wondering what people thought of it. I like the blue shingles but I'm not to keen on the gold it's almost like it's too yellow, it makes it look to fake. but I dunno that might just be me.

Main Streeter · Post by **Main Streeter** » Fri Oct 15, 2004 3:55 am

DLSweeper wrote:That'd be nice. R/R pay wihtout having to clean them. When can I do that?

Only in your dreams

Main Streeter · Post by **Main Streeter** » Fri Oct 15, 2004 4:27 am

Zazu wrote:That would be Cinderella Castle at the Magic Kingdom in Florida. All 197 feet of it!
Now when I visit Disneyland, it feels like "Honey I Shrunk the Castle."

ZAZU!!just cuz DL doesn't have the tall, elegantly beautiful castle WDW has, don't equate ours to a HISTC attraction

Had to get you back on this one Zazu

Stduck · Post by **Stduck** » Fri Oct 15, 2004 11:40 am

aliceindisguse wrote:If anyone noticed the top scafolding on the castle has been removed and you can see the new paint job. I was just wondering what people thought of it. I like the blue shingles but I'm not to keen on the gold it's almost like it's too yellow, it makes it look to fake. but I dunno that might just be me.

It looked like something out of a fairy tale....
Oh wait Disneyland is supposed to be like one. I thought it was pretty, I almost ran into a few guests as I was walking toward Pooh cause I was distracted by the castle.

Zazu · Post by **Zazu** » Fri Oct 15, 2004 11:54 am

Main Streeter wrote:
Zazu wrote:That would be Cinderella Castle at the Magic Kingdom in Florida. All 197 feet of it!
Now when I visit Disneyland, it feels like "Honey I Shrunk the Castle."
ZAZU!!just cuz DL doesn't have the tall, elegantly beautiful castle WDW has, don't equate ours to a HISTC attraction Had to get you back on this one Zazu

Sorry, no offense intended. I grew up with Sleeping Beauty Castle, visiting it first in 1958. It's just that I've been east so long that going west now has a sort of "Twilight Zone" parallel universe sort of thing going on. I look up Disneyland's Main Street from Town Square ... and nothing's there!

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