The castle as a cake??

[phyllis1966]

Well, that was my first trip to WDW (I was 30!) and I certainly didn't know anything about planning a WDW vacation back then. Our friends, who we thought were "experts" came with us and basically planned (or didn't, actually, because there was a lot of aimless wandering during that trip) everything. We payed rack rate at the YC (ouch, even back then) and the castle I had waited so long to see was a giant pink cake...I was pretty disappointed in that, but I fell in love with WDW during that first trip.

 

[Sehsun]

This is pretty much exactly what my tour director for KTTW said.

He said that they had a TON of pissed off people that had booked their fairytale weddings and then got there and... uh, yea. The castle was a giant pink cake. Several of the people demanded refunds or to let them get married somewhere else. I can't imagine what a nightmare that was.. or how upset I'd of been after looking forward to getting married/getting my picture taken in front of the castle!

According to The Walt Disney World Trivia Book: Secrets, History & Fun Facts Behind the Magic (Louis A. Mongello), "there were reportedly more than 200 weddings cancelled" because of the giant castle cake.

I didn't visit MK during that time period, so I didn't get to see it for myself, but I don't think I would have hated it.

 

[funhouse8]

It was strange. Don't know who came up with that idea. It looked like a giant castle bonce to me. See my little ones in my siggie with the cake.

 

[ZephyrHawk]

The year I saw the cake castle it had been about 7 years since my last Disney trip. I was excited to see the castle again, and dumbfounded when I got there to find the pink monstrosity at the end of Main Street. I felt particularly bad for some of my friends (for whom this was their first Disney trip) not getting to see the 'real' castle.

 

[Donold_Fan]

Right across from where you come out of Crystal Palace on that little side road. I was just thinking last night that I'm going to try to find a few of my pics from that trip 10 years ago and try to get pics in the same place on this trip - a kind of before and after! Didn't think about things like the trees being bigger, but it should be fun to see!

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Here's a pic from late 2005 in the same spot (as far as I can tell, although the castle looks bigger in my photo) and the trees are not a problem. I have a similar one from late 2006 and still no tree issues, you should be good.