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Tale
of Two Castles: Snow blankets Disneyland,
Ice drapes Walt Disney World as new Holiday
Magic transforms both Theme Park icons into
Wintery Palaces
LAKE BUENA
VISTA, Fla., Nov. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Guests
to Disney Parks in both coasts are in for
some eye-popping spectacle this holiday
season.
Thanks to new lighting and special effects
packages, glistening snow blankets Sleeping
Beauty Castle at Disneyland while Cinderella
Castle at Walt Disney World Resort is bathed
in shimmering cascades of ice.
At Disneyland
New enchantment arrived in
Disneyland Nov. 16. The holiday season finds
Sleeping Beauty's Winter Castle covered in
freshly fallen snow.
With its exciting new
look, the castle will serve as a shimmering
centerpiece for a daytime holiday
celebration, and as a snow-capped stage for
the new music, lighting and special effects
that will precede the legendary "Believe
...in Holiday Magic" nighttime fireworks
spectacular.
The castle will create a
magical sense of wintertime enchantment
throughout the holidays at Disneyland,
adding to the many delights that
traditionally welcome guests when Disneyland
and Disney's California Adventure parks are
transformed into dazzling holiday
wonderlands.
As evening arrives, the
castle undergoes a transformation as special
lighting effects and a new musical score
take guests on a journey that dramatizes a
young child's dream for snow.
This magical spell will
build to the highlight of the evening: the
fireworks spectacular,
"Believe ... in Holiday Magic," which will
take guests on a journey of sights and
sounds of the season and will end with one
of Disneyland's most beloved holiday
traditions: a climactic snowfall that swirls
down on Main Street, U.S.A. To top it all
off, the beautiful blanket of snow on the
castle will begin to shimmer like never
before.
At Walt Disney World Resort
A dazzling new lighting
spectacle is transforming the iconic
Cinderella Castle at Walt Disney World
Resort into a glimmering, shimmering ice
palace at holiday time.
Bathed in more than
200,000 tiny white lights, the castle glows
and glistens as "Cinderella's Holiday Wish"
delights Magic Kingdom guests. The nightly
(5:45 p.m.) illumination follows live
onstage appearances by Mickey, Minnie and
the gang, Fairy Godmother, Cinderella and
her Prince Charming.
Park guests are treated to
an icy wonderland seeming to fill up half
the sky.
As if suddenly dusted in a
million ice crystals, Cinderella Castle
shines like the galaxies,
adding to the wintertime wonderment of the
holidays at Florida's Vacation Kingdom.
To transform Cinderella's
fairytale castle into a magical ice palace
it took ...
* Five weeks and 65
elves
* Two cranes
* 15 miles of cables,
cut and dyed castle colors, supporting ...
* 32,000 square feet
of fishing nets, supporting ...
* 200,000
energy-efficient LEDs, interspersed with ...
* 500 strobes
* One Fairy Godmother
working some very special magic ...
With the wave of her wand
and the help of park guests, Fairy Godmother
grants Cinderella's wish that her castle
should shimmer like her famous glass
slippers. In a dazzling instant, the castle
suddenly shines like a glistening blanket of
ice.
Cinderella Castle aglow
will also play a supporting role in other
Magic Kingdom entertainment such as live
stage shows, the nighttime fireworks
extravaganza "Holiday Wishes," and the
after-hours Mickey's Very Merry Christmas
Party, a specially-ticketed event.
Disney's U.S. castles will
be joined by those at Disneyland Paris and
Hong Kong Disneyland in lighting spectacles
for the holidays. Disney's newly expanded
global celebration was inspired by
Disneyland Paris which began the lighting
tradition in 2005.
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