Yaldabaoth A fortress of such magnitude was needed to defend against the most dangerous(bit not the most cunning) of foes: Michael Bay

Dragons? WHAT ABOUT DRAGONS!?

Probably the Horned King and his undead army. Can zombies swim?

coyoteseattle And the Warner Sister, Dot!

People angered by them, they have plenty of them, for examply Last Jedi is their creation

You had us in the first half lmao

That pretty much sums up everything about Disney :p

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@@LieutenantSilver hello

Yes

Would this be in regards to the one in Florida? Being mostly swamp and all.

Monty Python reference. That gets a like from me.

Eh, close enough! Good reference 😉

Great reference. Ironically the land Disney World is built on WAS all swamp before Disney got there.

Didn't the fourth one disappear mysteriously on the day of its comissioning and it's the 5th one that survived to serve its purpose? .... no, wait. That was Babylon 5

Me too, I was like DAMN

Same. I was like, "Holy crud, that castle is HUGE!"

And whether there is a defense installed there against the stupid and childish Disney princesses?

There is another fantasy castle/fortress (they call it fortress, even if its the home and centre of the antagonist and ruler of this game world), which might be unraidable by common armies: Ishar (if you go by its game origins), or if you have read some fantasy books, then you may know it as Anderras Darion (Chronicles of Hawklan). I prefer Ishar, and you may take a look at this fortress :) www.mobygames.com/game/ishar-legend-of-the-fortress/cover-art/gameCoverId,1262/ Painted by Mark Harrison. Ishar 3 also have an intresting castle as cover.

So.... it turns out that best friends are stupidity and gimmicky...

He should examine the castle of Canterlot, the Equestrian capital.

Rohan Zener Isnt it built into a cliff? With a huge drop off? Also considering most castles in the equestrian territories dont seem to have the best defences besides the castle of twin sisters which is connected to land by a bringe over a huge drop off i dont want to know how canterlot would rate. Especially since it and the castle of two sisters was made with the knowledge that multiple flying races with armies exist i mean sure they had one of them but that doesnt discount that there is some bad design there

Disney probably wired those extra buildings with explosive charges so they could be leveled in case the courtyard is ever breached.

If I may expand on this..... Period one: Inner wall (open topped) only on an island protecting a moderate central building; founding of the kingdom. Period two: Addition of the outer wall (still open topped) to create the approach by boat only design; growth in power. Period three: Addition of roofs to the defensive walls and a tall watchtower (perhaps the highest tower still existing) overlooking the surrounding area; increased conflict Period four: Building up of the central keep's taller buildings; borders stabilize and potential attackers rarely manage to attack the growing tall structures. Period five: Building of courtyard buildings; peace reigns, but bandit raids common encouraging living within the walls.

I thought the same thing. Then I thought, maybe the internal structures were built on top of previous smaller structures that served as elevated platforms for trebuchets so they could outrange anything brought against them.

Regallag: An interesting thought.

I really should check the comments before posting the same thing someone already posted, lol. Yeah, same thought here. Great idea on them making a series of films with a story centered around it, though! That's awesome!

𝔐𝔠𝔉𝔯𝔶𝔢 AND, the design of the buildings in the outer bailey suggests that it will be defended by a mix of ceremonial halberdiers/swordsmen in breast plates as well as breech loading, rifled black powder cannons and needle or percussion cap rifles.

I also get the feeling that if it was a real historical castle it was one that had all the outer walls form when it was built and the later eras would build the sevants quarters and the huge castle towers in the middle when the primary purpose was no longer defensive.

And what you said is kind of adept for the Disney company itself, when you look at it it is much more impressive than your first impressions.

Expectation: family friendly fun stuff Reality: Terrifying. Disney in a nutshell

I'm no longer looking at it the same way, that's for sure! Those double battlements / walls, damn! But as Nicholas said, it is a perfect metaphor for Disney. In almost every way.

which one? every single game had a different castle.

Haha i came on to ask the same thing

Nintendo would demonotize it lol.

@@voxelgon3391 What do you mean, didn't he write which game the castle is from? Or does the actual castle change every playthrough perhaps?

@@voxelgon3391 I love the Hyrule Castles in Skyward Sword and Majora's Mask

If this is just a merchant watchpoint, what are the REAL castles like???

@@KeepCalmContemplateYourChoices Massive, concentric fortresses with walls as thick as those on the Great Wall of China

antontornqvist Haha, yeah, I was waiting for the headphone-user warning and was pleasantly surprised

If only he quit mispronouncing it as "machiculations." His battle cry is inspiring, but also kind of irks me for that reason. Always love Shad's castle analyses though.

Esteja preparado

I am not sure about if you've included what we have in the UK namely the fully functioning Buckingham Palace but really the best way of seeing that's like an Office of State really since our Monarch is our Head of State. The reality is no Monarch (certainly not from now on) is allowed to change the Palace without approval, their own apartments within it yes they can do whatever they want to theirs, of which two children of the Monarchs live there (are their fully registered addresses as such) those being Princess Anne (The Princess Royal, since she's the only daughter of the Monarch) and Prince Andrew (the Duke of York), their official apartment residences are actually at the front of the Palace whereas the Monarchs is actually when looking at it from the front is around the back to the right. Though of course it's Windsor that's the oldest of them all in this country, is used more for Celebrations really Buckingham's not used for much other than the HQ of Monarchy wasn't meant for celebrations as it's not really got any rooms for that kind of thing.

I do really enjoy by concept the same thing even really still a fully functioning one though even real Monarchies to say fictional ones, it's absolutely fascinating like I mean Victoria in the 1800's being the first Monarch to marry since she genuinely did love Prince Albert, before her was all about maybe the consolidation of power, wasn't ever much marrying for love, actually a lot of what we have (certainly the front of Buckingham Palace that's for certain and even some parts of the interior come from Victoria's son's reign, like the State Ballrooms never changed much since his reign if at all) comes from Victoria herself certainly recently anyway.

@Siegfried but being built around 1860, Neuschwanstein is irrelevant to discussion of its historicity; it is simply another fantasy castle drawing on historical inspiration.

Here! Here!

@@michaelsimkins7078 Could you at least consider English not being his/her first language. Just think about that before you correct someone's grammar.

@@michaelsimkins7078 And who said you were a Nazi?

while I'm not sure of the the engineering side, the stratigic benifits would be great; easy resupply from friendly ships straight off the sea, even under siege, a good escape rout, control of the river, constant water, an easy moat, wetland caused by the stone foundations displacing water during high tides (making siege engines get bogged down) and maybe even flooding out attackers on high tide, putting attackers on a time limit.

Direct access to a river using bridge building techniques such as the original London bridge is a river baron's dream.

I have been finding this comment because i wondered this long time and had me thinking when i first saw the castle: is it even inspired by the château de chenonceau? Well i think because it even towers the river too en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Château_de_Chenonceau

Ermenher more like a few centuries, considering a cathedral of the same height can take a more than a hundred years to make

Well, that's definitely a good take on it.

Repurpose castle concept is not bad. At first it's made there because it's location. Then after decades of peace and time. Moat filled with sediment. Renovation happens. It's loss some of it function for design. And because of location courtyard turn in to buildings.

A nice metaphor for Disney itself, maybe?

Considering we can see a steam train in the background, I'd assume the pictures this analysis bases on are from not earlier than late 19th century, at which point the castle had long been out-dated for military purposes.

First Last yeah, those "Lawyers" of defence don't earn their keep otherwise ;)

I thought Disney kept it's lawyers in the basements of its buildings.

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rqhzi6aovJvUgqs.html Real footage of a Disney executive sending out the lawyers from the tower

+like

Haha -- scarier than Vikings!

www.deviantart.com/saberrex/art/Doube-barreled-Fire-Quencher-Ballista-425430415 Modern fortifications include surface to air missiles, cannons, and machine gun turrets. To me, dragons are the fantasy equivalent to war planes and space ships.

me too.. hahahaha

Even after I read your comment, I still braced myself as it was coming up.

darkblood626 I AM YOUR EVIL OVERLORD HuhHa!

Why wuldn't he? He has a castle to keep all the kidnapped princesses, and they can't possibly be rescued.

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/j6tog7d-uKyxhZs.html XD

man I could actually hear him playing an organ and see a shadow of a pop collar cloak with ears

Gay Mickey by Filthy Frank

to back up this Headcanon: The battles were mostly fought against the forces of the House of Pixar, led by their lord Stephen Jobs, but then they came to a truce, and the Disney Castle no longer needed to be kept fornicated. Although they bicker, and have issues of Copyright Claims to another peasant village, the DreamWorks Provinces, who are kingless and try to rule themselves with a federal martial law; They seem to be pretty overpowered and otherwise are just a glorified Hotel, now.

Somebody tried once, though. Got smashed by a giant Key-Sword wielded by loyalists.

It won't happen again, and the King Mouse shall fall with his kingdom. Allahu Akbar!

The king of a grand fantasy world!

Is it possible to learn this power?

this is actually a good idea for an april fools video

Love this video, Shad!!! But you know _Disney_ is gonna give you biggest copyright strike *_ever,_* don't you?

Killiter 1, not from an art historian.

This is beautiful.

Actually, to assault it would be suicide, but to siege it would be easy enough. It is clearly in a marsh, with a river running through it. That means your seigeworks need only cover the four points of access - the two bridges, upstream, and downstream. The downside is that while locking the castle in is easy, your forces will be quartered and at some great distance from each other over difficult land to traverse. The bridges likely have gatehouses or other fortifications where they meet land that would have to be taken, but once taken, defending the bridge from sally from the castle would be easy. Likewise, you could roll up your bombardment, fire a few volleys, and then withdraw at will with relative impunity. The river fortifications would be more to prevent resupply (by boat or barge). This could be augmented by "locking down" the portcullis for the river passage. Floating logs to get jammed in and through the portcullis would make the upstream side exceptionally difficult to raise. Because of this, I assume that those multiple buildings are primarily warehouses for storing and managing stores - since this is a castle that locks you as well as keeping the other guy out.

Assault: No outer gatehouse, locking the portculis (misplacing a sturdy walking stick in the rails) is probably enough to storm the castle. Siege: The towers don't protrude enough leaving the base of the walls unprotected for mining. A slant roof giving enough protection from any machicolation nastiness.

Or... Just navally blockade the city. If they can't fly, they'll surrender eventually. If they don't, pull an Alexander and drain the moat by blocking the river upstream.

Tarnfalk And if you could effectively block off sections and prevent people from entering the buildings you could leave arrowmen in each buildings or at least men with rocks or anything hard and damaging and chuck down while the enemy force attacked the spear men. And if you could move to the other buildings and leave behind a burning blaze of buildings before a ultimate retreat deeper into the castle you will have a bunch of useless buildings to the enemy that could cause damage by falling down on the enemy and blocking parts of the keep. But again the downside is you could not counter siege equipment with your own. Though it'd be interesting if they could have enough servants that they would be able to quickly demolish those buildings to reuse to increase the defenses of the castle quicker without the need of having to always keep supplies that are never used except for that one use. So hard to say either way.

Something else, the buildings could be built so that they have blocking walls in the middle of them. Would severally break up units stationed inside and help to prevent flanking through buildings.

I actually wonder if the buildings are actually on higher elevation. I was designing a castle like that with a river the flowed through it, and with the size of the main gate, I would put a port inside the outer wall with the buildings raised up.

You mean the arched bridges give cover or can be used to bring in a stormram. But that's cheap and immoral

That might have been it with some little bit long walls because it towers over the river

Evil Paradigm lol, this made my day 😂

So wait, it faked its registration paperwork? I mean that's disappointing but does that really influence how much defense it provides? Maybe not as much legal defense I guess...

Gambeson.

I mean, I bet most of the Disney writers like Medieval stuff. Otherwise there wouldn't be so many stories set there. Shame the Black Cauldron didn't succeed. It was the most Medieval of all the things there.

President Togekiss It's not so much that Disney writers really like Medieval stuff as most of those classic early Disney movies were based on classic fairy tales that were first written and set in sometime during the Medieval period.

true

Probably because t's literally based on an actual, real world castle.

I mean, there are six Disney parks around the world with a castle as their centerpiece, so they're gonna pick up a few things along the way

Sadly, the MACHICOLATIONS were boarded up during some restoration work in the 1930s.

@@andyjwagner You can't have tourists falling into the alligator-infested moat.

Or those buildings were later additions, made after castles became obsolete.

The inner buildings are in Mansart style, 17th. As a 17th century fortress it sucks big time.

probably supervillains, antiheroes, evil monsters, sorcerers and wicked men?

ryttyr Nah,they will never do that as they will surely want to see more of their evil kins' bad Disney movies (too many to mention).

Not to mention *shudders* Jar-Jar Binks.

And Jedi.

kirby march Barcena Thanos?

I was expecting one Shad, and I got four? I'm impressed _and_ pleasantly surprised.

It's a cleverly disguised metaphor representing their legal team.

I tend to watch these on 1.25 or 1.5 (in this case) x's speed, when the set-up came for it I braced myself for a quick loud ausult on my ears, what I got sounded like a march of chipmunks on crack! XD

Zarvain oh my gosh that's amazing!

AlucardNoir , actually that may make sense, the smaller buildings inside the wall may be added later in peaceful era.

This makes sense, another situation where I could see such making more sense is if in later years you had less issues with people wanting to take and occupy your land so you don't really need to worry about sieges anymore but still need to deter raiding parties looking to steal goods and/or people. I could see such being useful in such as the 16th and 17th century if you happen to be near the coast and don't particularly want your people to be kidnapped by Barbary slavers for example. I suspect a fortress like this would likely just send raiders of that nature sailing to a softer target further up the coast.

Maybe not a Versailles type palace, but something akin to Neuschwanstein.

Put the wizard from Fantasia on the tallest tower, and man the inner town with the furniture from the Beast’s castle in case the besiegers make it through

that is AWESOME!

Also, Hiro flying on Baymax and using microbots and rocket fists against the attackers. The problem is that all those "defenders" are from different periods of time joined together, so we can't tell on what technological level the regular soldiers of the attacking army would be(because along with Disney villains, there should be a big army, as it's necessary to vastly outnumber the defenders to be able to take the castle) If it is a medieval army, then they would have a reeeealy hard time conquering it. But considering that we see a steam powered train in the background, that sets a possible time period from mid 19th century all the way to mid 20th century. If it's a 19th century army: The castle would fall, maybe not that quickly, but it would. 19th century artillery already had high explosive rounds, it would destroy the walls quickly and soldiers armed with rifles have advantages over swords and even magic users inside, as its quicker to pull the trigger than cast a spell. There would still be quite a few casualties on the attacking side. If it is a 20th century army, especially from WW2 era, the castle would fall within one hour. There is nothing even magic users could do against hundreads of bombers which would obliterate the castle. Black Pearl would be sunk by one bomb from a Stuka or Destroyer and Gargoyles would be shot down by P-51 Mustangs. Magic users could kill soldiers, but their magic lacks range and precision compared to rifles and their magic attacks wouln't be able to penetrate tank armor. Hercules may be strong, but he's not bulletproof, Triton couldn't survive the depth charges or Kraken(who would be on the attacking side) and archers would be dead pretty quickly. If there is the sea the Black Pearl could defend, that means the attackers could bring battleships and aircraft carriers(clearly an overkill by this point). Sure, Elsa could freeze the sea, but battleships can fire beyond horizon, so she couldn't see them coming before they get in range. So, all in all, the only army that the castle could defend from is anything before gunpowder era ancient and medieval army- easy gunpowder era army- hard, even with magic 19th century army- very hard post WW1 army- impossible

@@sean668 The Wousky Wabbit-I mean New Line Cinema, or Peter Jackson, gave a visualization of how wizard's towers work. Saruman casts a spell on top of Orthanc that intensifies the storm in Caradhras Pass where the Fellowship happened to be at the time.

imagining the castle full of lawyers now.

Now I want to see such a thing. Army attacking the Disney Castle, all Disney, Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars, comes out to defend it. In fact, go ahead and reply how you think it would go down. Who'd do what. And we could have 2 versions, one where it's just all the heroes, and one with all the Disney villains too. And yes, I do agree with the idea it's built on wetlands, possibly inspired by Florida itself. In fact, you could even make a guess that that's where it is. So any attackers would have troubles getting there due to an extremely high water table. But at the same time, construction would also be a problem.

SheosMan117 Not to mention hordes of Gators, monitors, and Burmese pythons all out in the wild. 😉😉😉

nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

Though building it would be a nightmare and you'd have to deal with tides and floods.

Huntracony “they told me I was DAFT to build a castle in the swamp but I did it all the same, just to show them! It sank into the swamp, SO! I built a second one. That sank into the swamp so I built a THIRD one. That burned down, fell over, and sank into the swamp, but the FOURTH one stayed up!”

there is actually cities built on swamps, and they almost did the same thing you described

陳榮宗, I know, I live in one. Amsterdam. It makes construction very noisy due to piling. It also makes tunneling very hard, so no extensive underground metro networks. We get canals though, so I guess that's cool.

陳榮宗 there's one place in russia which city is build in swamp. When stalin wanted to build airbase there. the engineer told it was a bad idea and cancel his plans. I don't think anyone told much much later same thing to putin. When he planned sotsi's olympic area though...

Controlling access to the river may be thy primary purpose of the castle. If it is the castle may not have a moat to prevent circumventing the gates. The ground around the river also looks marshy, so it may not need a moat.

it could be the primary purpose. though that seems a little overkill to me. But there might be a vast network of rivers used for trading behind and infront of it that makes it worth it.

Don't forget that bigger sailships back then had stepped masts. Meaning that if the masts were too big they could just take the top parts down. So even for the bigger sailships you would never need a gate as large as you mention. 10 meters should be plenty for anything small enough to sail on that river. But yeah good point as to why that gate is so big.

Also, i just measured it, cause i was curious, and its just around 15 meters. So that would not be big enough to fit large ships. So i doubt it would be very good for controlling the river. People would need special boats just to pass through there. But at least it would allow smaller sail boats to pass. maybe fishing ships and stuff.

jortz93z for reference 15 m might just about be enough to get the Bounty through. So as a gate to a river that should be big enough.

If they add more pink, it would be even more lethal.

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Same

Sailing around the moat would take time. Plenty of time for the castle to 'deal' with you via thrown rocks ect... Although some wooden spikes, or a few rocks/stone towers just below water level would make it fully impassable to boats.

A large boat, yes, but a small rowboat or canoe, or even someone swimming? You could slip past easily in bad weather.

Getting a small boat through would depend on the spacing of the posts. 2 or 3 rows of staggered posts would be impassable to everything except swimmers. And if people are willing to swim the moat, more power to them. Personally I'd just walk/wade/swim around the castle at a safer distance. In all honestly, if one wants to move illicit goods/people- pose as a legitimate trader and modify you vessel with some secret cargo holds for the good stuff. We can't cut out smuggling entirely; just make it as inconvenient and nonprofitable as possible.

The use of irrigation, or simple massed labor, would have made something like that possible in the classical period. But I don't know if anyone in the Medieval period could gather enough massed peasant labor to do so. But I do know that draining entire flood plains is quite possible. IIRC, the Chinese did, the Japanese used something similar when preparing their terraced farms, and I think a few ultra rural nations still do it today.

I was always obsessed with castles ever since i played age of empires 2 as a kid.

Magic makes anything possible!

Jesse Holt that's an interesting question... I will mention first off that I know very little about medieval construction. That said, trebuchets are heavy. Their ammo stockpile is heavy. They have a lot of forward and backward pressure when firing that would either need bracing or casters to allow it to rock (I don't actually know if real ones used those, seems unlikely, but I've seen that modern recreations can fire further if allowed to roll back and forth during firing). The point of all that... Could a medieval building support a trebuchet? It sounds like a fantastic idea, and I mean that in both meanings of the word. Are there historical examples of roof mounted trebuchets? It just seems like something that would potentially bring the building down from under it.

Ryan Gunn a vaulted ceiling can take those forces and then some, especially if supported by external regular or flying buttresses. Also, I would have kept the cone roofs of the turrets but made them collapsible to protect the engines from the elements.

It'll need to be a fairly substantial tower to take the load of a trebuchet. Such towers would be very expensive to build. Luckily you already have perfectly suited towers built into the outer wall. (added bonus of being even higher- giving an even greater range over the enemy's machines)

Phoe Phoe then again, considdering the design of the free standing courtyard buildings, I bet those towers are packing 2-4lb breech loaded casemate guns.

"you sir are a king in my book" I agree. King Shad of house brooks, with the words "But what about DRAGONSS!!!" and the symbol of red sword and a battlement shield. Allies with the skallagrim clans and the old metatron empirem:)

Elsa Frost I trust your understanding of authentic Disney because of your Nick. :D

Zebedee Summers indeed 😉😁

I can't believe that the price of a castle has gone up so much since 1365

That's not saying much.

Though, most of those castles are really mansions. That said, there's pretty awesome deals to be had, a habitable chateau can be bought for as little as $600,000!

The castle in those eras was often turned into a palace or mansion. Sometimes when the original use of a building becomes obsolete, the building gets remodelled and converted to other uses.

Against Universal and Dreamworks. They "allied" with Pixar and have a trade deal with the Galactic Republic led by Dark Lord George Lucas.