[KentB3]

I now have an idea, more or less, of what I have come up with for the castle in my proposed Magic Kingdom park I was designing, Beauty and the Beast Castle. Basically, this castle will be similar to the Disneyland Paris castle (Sleeping Beauty) in design, but with a few revisions.

http://photoalbums.wdwmagic.com/showphoto.php?photo=168

The above URL is a photo of Sleeping Beauty Castle at Disneyland Paris. Beauty and the Beast Castle in my proposed Magic Kingdom park will have a similar design, but also will a few differences as well. The main color sceme of the castle (pink, with white trim, turquoise-ish blue roofing, and a gray stone-like bottom) will remain the same. However, I may replace some of the white with gold, particularly on the winding staircase on the big right-hand tower and the elaborate curved railing on the big tower's observation deck. I haven't decided for sure on white or gold for the railing and staircase, so try to let me know which would look best!

The tall roofed area of the castle's second story behinf the front entranceway roof will be widened to the width of the front entranceway, and the roof will be raised higher to include a third story to the castle, much like Cinderella's Castle (at WDW) has. The roof, even though widened to the front entranceway's width, will have the same shape and design, otherwise. The second story window pane behind the entranceway roof will remain the same in shape. However, the third story will have a window pane above it similar to the top window pane on both Cinderella's and Sleeping Beauty's Disneyland (Anaheim) Castle-- rectangular, with a triangle top and spires on each side of the triangle. This window pane was in fact copied from Mad Ludwig's Castle in Germany, which Sleeping Beauty Castle at Disneyland Anaheim was directly modeled after.

Here are a couple of weblinks, with photos of Cinderella's Castle at WDW and Sleeping Beauty's Castle at Disneyland (Anaheim), respectively, to help give a comparison:

http://photoalbums.wdwmagic.com/show...php?photo=4232
http://photoalbums.wdwmagic.com/show...php?photo=9040

Last but not least, the two towers on each side of the front entranceway will be moved a bit farther apart-- which look a bit too close together on Disneyland Paris's castle to me, and look better, IMHO, farther apart like Cinderella's and Anaheim's Sleeping Beauty Castle. The hill on the castle's left side will be removed. In its place will be a large domed rotunda, which was the castle's ballroom taken directly from the animated film Beauty and the Beast (1991). It's very likely that the domed ballroom of the left side will house the Beauty and the Beast dark ride, which can only be entered from inside the castle! Since Belle and the Beast/Vincent already have their dark ride, inside the castle no less, the Fantasyland carrousel will be Cinderella's-- since it seems like a bit of overkill for a character or set of characters to have 3 attractions (including the castle), and I really wanted Cidnerella to have one of the rides, especially the carrousel-- which seems fitting, especially with the white horses on the ride, much like the white horses on the coach which took Cinderella to her ball!

These are only the major alterations, there may be a few minor ones as well, although I couldn't list them all as the moment, since this castle hasn't even been designed yet! I may put a clock in place of the round glass structure above the front entranceway roof (on the Disneyland Paris castle), for example, which IMHO, would add a nice touch to Belle and the Beast's/Vincent's castle!

With the presence of Beauty and the Beast Castle in my Magic Kingdom park, which more closely resembles the Post-Transformation castle (after the spell was lifted and the Beast turned into Vincent, Belle's Prince), Vincent will appear in the Magic Kingdom park and The Beast will only appear at my Disney Studios park. This will also help both parks in my proposed Disney theme park resort cross-promote each other by offering different versions of the same character for each park!

If anyone has questions, comments, and.or suggestions, please feel free to post!

[Dana]

I have never seen the caslte in Disneyland Paris! It's beautiful! Your ideas are very good too. Thanks for sharing them.

[tragic312]

your plans for a beauty and the beast castle are wonderful and they sound beautiful. can you draw? if so, could you sketch us a pic of your BATB castle for us to see your vision?