Geeky Question

[I Heart Disneyland!]

- The bird show

- Jumbo

- Snow White's castle

- The cars

- Haunted House

Could go on and on...

UPROARIOUS LAUGHTER!!!! :D

[Disneyfreak]

I hate it when people call Haunted Mansion Haunted House. Another I dont like is when they say Snow White Castle.

[tod]

The sad thing is that if this guy started referring to the Jungle Cruise and Tarzan's Treehouse his friends wouldn't know what he is talking about.

I'm not the Disneyland Nomenclature Police. If somebody askes me where something is and I know what he's talking about, I'll tell him and sneak in the right name if I can. "The pirate ride? Go over there where it says 'Frontierland,' when you get to the river turn left, keep the river on your right and look for a sign that says 'Pirates of the Caribbean.'"

Disneyland is a place to have fun, it isn't a test. Share the fun.

--t

[mystycalchyk]

4. We're cool, and therefore exempt.


I hereby nominate this as an addition to your sig FAQs :D

[Crazy4DL]

The sad thing is that if this guy started referring to the Jungle Cruise and Tarzan's Treehouse his friends wouldn't know what he is talking about.

I'm not the Disneyland Nomenclature Police. If somebody askes me where something is and I know what he's talking about, I'll tell him and sneak in the right name if I can. "The pirate ride? Go over there where it says 'Frontierland,' when you get to the river turn left, keep the river on your right and look for a sign that says 'Pirates of the Caribbean.'"

Disneyland is a place to have fun, it isn't a test. Share the fun.

--t

Excellent post!!

[Earkid]

Disneyland is a place to have fun, it isn't a test. Share the fun. Except if it's Mouse Adventure Day!!

[kristen]

actually, it doesn't bug me, cause other people don't go as often, so i'm sure i sound like an idiot to them if i went to where they live and call stuff "that building off of the lake area..." or whatever, but yeah, i've heard some funny ones...normal, but funny, and i've said my fair share im sure while i was learning my way around...however, someone said that they heard someone call the castle "Snow White's Castle" and they said it was wrong...but actually, the castle was originally Snow White's...look at the well, the statues of Snow White and the Dwarves and compare the castle to the movie...but people actually mistook it for Aurora's cause the movie had just come out i think when the park came out, so they changed it...that's why if you go to Paris Disneyland Sleeping Beauty's Castle has the square trees and matches the one from the movie...it was MEANT to look like Aurora's Castle! Isn't that funny, so you can call it Snow White's and not really be incorrect! :D

[John]

Overhearing others using a nickname, or an occasional malapropism, only enhances my day. After all, if I wasn’t there enjoying The Park I wouldn’t have the occasion to listen to others enjoying their day!

[Opus1guy]

Good Grief HorizonsA, get the name correct will ya!! It's Walt Disney's Enchanted Tiki Room sponsored by Dole!!

Had to chuckle when I read this. I attended a special dinner event at Club 33 on one of Disneyland's anniversaries, and they had a Disneyland trivia contest which I won because I was the only person who answered the question with the correct name of the Submarine attraction: "Submarine Voyage - Adventure Thru Liquid Space."

The geeks ruled that night!

:)

[Disney_Nut]

Bad grammar bugs me just a little bit more. Maybe I'm too sensitive about mispronounciations.

:) Sorry, I couldn't help it. If you're too sensitive about 'mispronunciations', you should probably spell it correctly. :)

[SCUBAbe]

"Snow White's Castle" and they said it was wrong...but actually, the castle was originally Snow White's...look at the well, the statues of Snow White and the Dwarves and compare the castle to the movie...but people actually mistook it for Aurora's cause the movie had just come out i think when the park came out, so they changed it...that's why if you go to Paris Disneyland Sleeping Beauty's Castle has the square trees and matches the one from the movie...it was MEANT to look like Aurora's Castle! Isn't that funny, so you can call it Snow White's and not really be incorrect! :D

yeah, and why would the evil queen from snow white be looking out of sleeping beauty's castle..?? (I can see where the confusion comes into play...)

[sediment]

:) Sorry, I couldn't help it. If you're too sensitive about 'mispronunciations', you should probably spell it correctly. :)
Burned by my own matchstick. That should teach me (but it probably won't).

[Hakuna Makarla]

Burned by my own matchstick. That should teach me (but it probably won't).

oh thats to funny, yep you got burned ha ha ha

[DefyingGravity]

but actually, the castle was originally Snow White's...look at the well, the statues of Snow White and the Dwarves and compare the castle to the movie...but people actually mistook it for Aurora's cause the movie had just come out i think when the park came out, so they changed it...

I definitely could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure the castle was never meant to be Snow White's. Sleeping Beauty came out AFTER 1955 ( in 1959 I think) and Walt named the castle Sleeping Beauty Castle as a way of promoting his upcoming film. Also, the statues of Snow White and the Dwarfs were not part of any plan for the castle, they were a gift to Walt. A funny little piece of trivia is that Snow White is actually the same size as the dwarfs, so some tricky perspective work had to be done to make it look right.

Can anybody confirm or deny this?

[sediment]

DG is right: Sleeping Beauty Castle is so named as a promotion for the upcoming movie (three years later!).

[bradk]

as a sidebar, i don't believe the castle was modeled after any particular animation. it was a hodge podge of various real life castles around the world, basically a mutt. in fact, if i'm not mistaken, the whole top portion of the castle is backwards from the way it was originally designed - the designer didn't like the way the castle looked, so he flipped it literally right before walt saw and approved the design, or so it goes.

[nsyncitnd1787]

Can anybody confirm or deny this?

i heard that too. but didn't Walt call the castle Snow White's castle on opening day?

[I Heart Disneyland!]

Burned by my own matchstick. That should teach me (but it probably won't).

TOO FUNNY! I saw that too, but, being afraid of getting in another fight with you, I held back! haha! ;)

[Opus1guy]

Because the design of the castle in the animated film of Sleeping Beauty had not yet been decided upon by the time Disneyland started the design and construction process, Imagineer Herb Ryman based his concept of Disneyland's Sleeping Beauty's Castle on Mad King Ludwig's Neuschwanstein Castle (http://www.cs.brown.edu/people/koa/pics/castle.jpg).

After Disneyland's castle design was literally set in stone, Walt decided upon the highly stylized designs of Eyvind Earle (http://www.gallery21.com/) for the film, and that's the Castle you have in the film.

Decades later when Imagineers were trying to come up with the final design for Sleeping Beauty's Castle at Disneyland Paris, a remarkably beautiful painting by Disney background artist Frank Armitage based on the Eyvind Earle style that was used in the film complete with the famous square trees, was selected as the model for what would be built in Paris. And that's pretty much how they did build it and color schemed it.


in fact, if i'm not mistaken, the whole top portion of the castle is backwards from the way it was originally designed - the designer didn't like the way the castle looked, so he flipped it literally right before walt saw and approved the design, or so it goes.

The story as Herbie told it was that after he did the initial drawings and after Fred Joeger had done the Castle model, Herbie decided that the center gable should be reversed. He was told by Disneyland executives that it was too late to change it. Then just before Walt walked into a room where the model was located, Herbie reached over, ripped off the gable, spun it around and set it back down. Walt noticed the change and said, "You know, Herbie...I kind of like it better this way." So of course, that's the way it got built.

[sediment]

TOO FUNNY! I saw that too, but, being afraid of getting in another fight with you, I held back! haha! ;)
We've fought before? I must have amnesia. Blacked out from a knockout punch, perhaps.