Cinderella Castle has night lights

daveypoo

From the Orlando Sentinel

Christopher Boyd | Scott Powers and Jason Garcia, Sentinel Staff Writers
November 12, 2007

Walt Disney World is giving its Cinderella Castle a new nighttime, ice-palace look for the holiday season, starting tonight.

Disney has created the new look for the Magic Kingdom's centerpiece structure by attaching 200,000 LED lights to 32,000 square feet of fish net, then draping it over the castle.

The ice-palace look will be the big special effect of a new evening show running through the holiday season, featuring the characters of Cinderella, including her fairy godmother. Similar effects were employed at the castle in Disneyland Paris in 2005, and have been added to Disney castles in California, Hong Kong and Toyko.
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ltldeb · Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2007 1:07 pm Post subject:

I'd love to see that!!
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GrumpyDaddy · Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2007 1:08 pm Post subject:

I would like to see that but i don't think it will be up still when I get there in January.

collsoccer · Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2007 1:50 pm Post subject:

I noticed those lights on the castle when I was there in October, but I thought they were part of a show or something. I bet the castle would look wicked cool lit up like that.
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daveypoo · Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2007 5:10 pm Post subject:

If you go to the link at the beginning of the article, you can see a picture with the lights on. It does look pretty cool.
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scfireman · Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 2:03 pm Post subject:

onecutemoose · Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 5:10 pm Post subject:

That is beautiful...the article mentions it happening around the globe, wonder if they'll unveil it at DL next weekend???

btw, tks for the link to the show--I was still a little surprised to see their mouths moving Smile

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http://www.distantcreations.com/blog/2007/11/12/cinderella-castle-lighting-video/

There's one over at Our Buddy Ricky's who does insidethemagic
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WDWFan · Pilot Joined: Mar 01, 2006 Posts: 10863

The pictures just do not do it justice. It truly is incredible. I saw it the last night we spent in the MK, and it totally took us all by surprise. It looks like some thing that is truly out of a magical dream.

CTKnight3 · Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2007 4:23 pm Post subject:

WDWFan is right. The castle is incredible with this lightup.

allisonwonderland · Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 11:18 am Post subject:

i just want to go to Florida to see that... its aboutsolutely breathtaking... i wish i lived closer... and had more vacation time. Our castle looks pretty tho... just not covered in lights like that... Rafiki

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ksdisneyfan · Airline Food and Beverage Joined: Nov 09, 2005 Posts: 330

I would love to see this. It looks breathtaking! Hopefully it will become an annual thing and we'll get down there in December again Smile

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GrumpyDaddy · Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2007 5:19 am Post subject:

daguru · Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2007 5:31 am Post subject:

The castle is awesome and beautiful in person... the photos and video don't do it justice...

We were out there this past weekend and got like 4 or 5 photo pass pictures with the castle.... it's just incredible...

Haven't had a chance to see what my photos look like yet, might try that tonight... If I can, I will post some of our photos tonight...

But trust me, this is a GREAT addition! It is not the Cake Castle, incase you are wondering about that... I know some people might complain about the lights during the day, but you can hardly see them during the day... The only times they become obvious is at the end of the day (sunset) when they cast a few shadows, but that only lasts like 30 mins.... The other time is if you are trying to get really up close photos...

But you know what, I think the trade offs are worth it.... I hope this is something that they do for a long time during Christmas!
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eatmon74 · Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2007 6:36 am Post subject:

Is it lighted every night or just party nights?
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