The Unofficial Guide to Walt Disney World 2003
(UK customers)

Cinderella Castle is 189 feet tall & is made out of fibreglass.

Construction of the castle began in late 1969.

Herbert Ryman began with a charcoal sketch, which he developed into a painting. He used several French castles for his inspiration, among them Chambord, Usse, and Chenonceau. Inspiration also came from the classic Walt Disney animated feature Cinderella.

It took 18 months to build the castle.

Six hundred tons of steel were used in the framework.

Imagineers sculpted exterior and interior walls to resemble solid granite.

There are 10 towering spires on the castle.

Contrary to myth, the castle cannot be, nor has it ever been, dismantled in the event of a hurricane.

Inside Cinderella Castle, space for an apartment for the Disney family was designed & built inside the castle's upper floors, but it has never been completed or used.

Finishing touches to the castle included Cinderella's mice friends carved into decorative columns and the Disney family crest in stone above the breezeways.

What's inside the castle? A shop selling glass & crystal ornaments, & a restaurant Cinderella's Royal Table (formerly King Stefan's Banquet Hall).

A series of mosaic tile murals adorn the walls in the entry corridor. The murals, designed by imagineer Dorothea Redmond and executed by mosaicist Hanns-Joachim Scharff, tell the story of Cinderella in five 15-by-10-foot panels.

"The bricks [not real] in cinderella castle get smaller at the top section to make the castle look bigger" Joel

"Walt said there is nothing to be taller then the castle that is why he put a flag on the very top of it." Randy G

 

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