I am one of the WHAT WAS EISNER THINKING crowd. The color is what made it sooooooooo bad. A blue would have been better. It looked like someone got sick on it after taking pepto.
That was the year that we went to Disneyland Paris instead. I saw the begining and ending of the transformation to/from the pink castle, but thankfully I never saw the completed item.
I can remember being on Mainstreet. You would hear either that is AWFUL or IT LOOKS GREAT!!! It seemed to be half loved it and half hated it. It was not a gender thing either. Half males loved and half hated it and the females too. LOL