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In the animated film Beauty and the Beast (1991), there are sixty rooms in the castle altogether. The castle itself, according to Cogsworth, had utilized architecture dating back to the Baroque period. The castle is divided into two wings: the East Wing and the West Wing. At the end of the East Wing is Belle's Room and at the end of the West Wing is Beast's Room. The West Wing contains many broken items, while the East Wing is nicely furnished by comparison. There is also a secret door in the West Wing to the former room of Forte, the large pipe organ who did not want the spell to be broken.  This west wing is meant for the Beast and his eyes alone. The access of all others is forbidden, specifically Belle, of which he gives her a stern warning upon her arrival, presumably to keep her out of trouble. However, Belle's curiosity and obstinacy soon gets the better of her, and she makes her way up an elegant flight of stairs and through a haunting corridor to the West Wing. Belle notices a shredded portrait of a young Prince, and soon sees the warm glow of the Beast's Enchanted Rose. Unfortunately this magical place was permanently closed Dec 10th, 2023.   The only park to have a Beauty and the Beast attraction is at Disney Tokyo.             Every Disney fan knows about the lamp inside Walt's apartment on Main Street. After Walt's passing, the lamp in the window above the fire station remains on, symbolizing that his spirit continues to live at Disneyland. In Hollywoodland at DCA, there's an art deco building representing the home of Walt Disney Studios.    The awnings are similar to those of the animation dept at the actual studios located in Burbank. Legend has it that Walt wanted everyone to have a window in their office in order to let natural light in. At DCA, the corner office of the Walt Disney Studios building, which seems to represent Walt's 3rd floor corner office in Burbank, has a light that never goes out. Another way of paying homage to the artist Walt Disney at his studio office.   According to Biography, in 1966 Disney saw a doctor in the hopes of treating a long-standing neck injury from polo. When the x-rays came back they showed that Disney had a tumorous mass on his left lung.
Almost immediately he began to receive extensive care, and surgery to remove the lung. While the operation was successful, the extreme physical stress of the treatment left Disney incredibly weak, plus there was no guarantee that the cancer had not begun to spread elsewhere. In late November he needed to return to the hospital after briefly leaving to meet with relatives, and he remained there for the little time he had left. Walt Disney died Dec 15, 1966 in Burbank at Saint Joseph Medical Center.  A Magical Book Enter a chamber modeled after the Beast’s secret library from Beauty and the Beast and interact with an enchanted book to discover which Disney character your personality most resembles.    Upon entering the library, it's beautiful and full of life! There are interactive stations to help you learn which storybook character you are. The bookcases are a glow and the fireplace is crackling. Above the mantle is a portrait of young Prince Adam.         Suddenly a flash of light and a roar of the beast! His claws slice through his portrait and the room is darkened, to reflect the moment the curse was cast onto the Castle and all the inhabitants by the enchantress. The petal falls from the enchanted rose encased on the mantle.       Sadly this gorgeous hidden attraction will permanently CLOSE Dec 10, 2023. Disney Imagination Campus will begin operations in the Disney Animation Building on December 15.
WATCH the video inside the Beasts library.  The backdrop that is Disney's California Adventure's Buena Vista Street, which takes place in 1923 when a young Walt Disney made his way out to California, as you come through this Marketplace of shops, stores and restaurants it all looks real. Even though it really is full of merchandise and opportunities for ways to experience the park and spend money, it's fake. They're an assortment of little cutouts in one larger building. We might not be able to use their associated doors and never make it to their second floors, we can cruise through the entire building of real stores. We're exploring the fake buildings of Disney's California Adventure. The fakest land of them all - Hollywoodland - where everything's a lie and disguised to make you think that it's something that it's not.  On the corner of the Hollywood Studios we have our first fake building. The exterior facade is an Art Deco styled Studio building with all of its ornate details but we can never actually go inside this building. The facade looks like a real building covering what actually is the inner courtyard of Award Wieners and Mickey's Philharmagic queue.  Another fake building of Hollywoodland advertises flowers, sweets and even pet supplies but it's a fake building. We never get to go inside.    Next door we have another Art Deco building, a fake department store on the corner. Beautiful marble inlay wraps around the entrance and the brass framed window doors but we can't go inside. On the edge of Hollywoodland we are completely surrounded by fake buildings and Disney puts a lot of love and care into them.   Literally these are the windows that look out onto the street on the other side of the backlot. You can see the steel work, the aluminum sheets of everything on the other side. As we move around DCA it's going to get trickier to figure out what exactly the building's purpose is other than to create perfect backdrops for us to explore and not get distracted by cast members doing their jobs.
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