Cinderella Castle… Did you know that Cinderella castle at Walt Disney World is the most photography structure in the world! Being the Center Piece and Icon of the Magic Kingdom, the Castle certainly conjures up and is filled with Disney Magic. First off… Cinderella Castle looking down Main Street appears to be very tall, it’s really only 189 ft tall, but appears to be over 300 ft tall. A method called forced perspective was used to create the tall effect. As the castle gets taller, its proportions get smaller. So the very top "piece" of the castle is close to 1/2 the size it "appears". This technique is used all over in the parks. If you look down Main Street from the Railroad Station to the Castle… Main street appears to be very long and the Castle very tall. 
Next time you are there take a good look and thing about it… then when you get to the Castle, look back down Main Street towards the Railroad Station… the whole perspective is different… doesn’t look so long anymore… but then again… most of the time you only see this view when you are leaving at the end of the day… and walking Main Street back to the front of the park… when you are tired and worn out… and the walk seems long form a physical standpoint, rather then a visual one. Main Street Buildings are designed the same way… each floor and detail is smaller as you go higher… so the building always appear to be higher then they are. An apartment suite for Walt Disney and his family was to be built in the castle. Unfortunately, Walt died before its completion. And the space was used for storage and offices. In recent years, the space was renovated to become the Castle Suite, a fantastic prize given away to unsuspecting guests during the Year of a Million Dreams promotion. Inside the castle's archway, a series of five mosaic murals tells the story of Cinderella The murals contain just over 300,000 pieces of Italian in more than 500 colors. Would you like to take a guess how many stones there are in Cinderella Castle. How long it took to put all those stones together. 
Again… it’s all Disney Magic… total stone count… zero… it’s all fabricated surface… and from start to finish it took 18 months to complete the castle. Some of the Real Disney Magic is how many “looks” the castle can have… especially at night time. Endless combinations of colored lights projected onto the walls, images projected, and twinkling lights… endless variations to delight the visual senses and music designed to match the changing Castle colors perfectly set the mood. The most special time is the Christmas Holidays… the Castle is decorated with over two hundred thousand “led” lights that twinkle, sparkle, fade, glow, and dance to the holiday music while the projected colors and images combine with the music… and are all in sync with the spectacular fireworks that take everything over the top to sensory overload. Here’s some photos of the endless faces of the Castle… there’s not end to Imagination and Disney magic!
Imagination and Magic!
