The reclusive “Fairy Tale King” who inspired Disneyland’s castle escaped the responsibilities of royalty and reality in a fantasy world mountaintop palace where he led a “Once Upon a Time ...

The decorative scrim on the front of the castle will replicate a 1954 concept illustration of the castle created by Disney artist Herbert Ryman, said Disneyland art director Kim Irvine.

The massive Maleficent illustration will be based on an animation still from the 1959 “Sleeping Beauty” film, said Irvine, the art director for Walt Disney Imagineering’s Disneyland office.

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There would be a train station and an old-fashioned Main Street square. The park would have a princess castle and a pirate ship, maybe even a rocket.