How in the WORLD did I miss this thread... HAHAHA!!

OK, you're ON!

Wait, the cups don't spin? Hmmm.... :(

WTF!!! :mad:

I'm going to City Hall :D

Oh, they'll just give you some line about the teacups always not spinning after a refurb.

Or they'll tell you that the teacups never spun, and it was all just a figment of your nostalgia. Happy Homecoming! :D

The teacups suck AND blow...

The castle should be renamed "Sky Princess Super Fantasy Castle", and every single person who signed off on the decoration should be forced to:

a) jump from the railing (hopefully to a horrible death by vicious swans in the moat)
or
b) impale themselves on the golden spires

ESPECIALLY whoever did the lighting for nighttime - I've seen better lighting design at a backroom strip joint.

That bad, huh? Ugh! :(

:mad:

Ugh. Teacups = blowful.

Night time castle lighting = vomitous.

Now, iSm having pointed out the fact that the new lighting actually succeeds in making the castle look like it did during the opening of Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color, when Tink flies around the screen and touches it with her wand, put a different spin on it. But then again, I never LIKED how they made the caslte look for those shows. Yes, I'm mildly impressed that they succeeded in reproducing it, but what they reproduced was the horribly fake look that the TVified castle always had. As iSm said, if they just used that lighting for a short moment, say during fireworks when Tinkerbell flies thus truly recreating the TV opening, that would be one thing. But all night? It's awful.

Heehee. As opposed to that ultra-realistic castle in the middle of Anaheim look it used to have. :p

Yes, the Castle lighting is sucky. Cadaverous compared it, quite nail-on-the-headly, to candy rave party lighting. They could have reproduced the WWofD opening with much more subtle and nuanced lighting - and, even then, it would be better left to the opening of the fireworks show where such a fake, 2-D, plastic look would be momentarily appropriate.

The teacups, on the other hand, we so improved that I'm almost willing to give Disneyland a pass on that. (Kinda like how I will fawn over the 25-year old Space Mountain reopening like it's a brand new E-Ticket).

The cups spun much easier than they did before this refurb, but not as easy as in days of yore. As the King of Swank pointed out - - they were easy enough to get spinning, but awfully difficult to keep spinning. (That said, hehe, my teacup with Zapppop and Gemini Cricket also at the wheel was said by the "judges" to have beat the King's teacup in spinfastitude!)

There a new ugly degorative railing around the top of the castle. It is (what else) Gold. In the middle is a single cursive "D". After seeing the bright pink castle lighting for the first time, I can only see that "D" as a "B".....for Barbie. I swear I say a Mattel logo floating on one of the spires.