Designed To Look Bigger

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When you make your way into Disney World, there’s no doubt that Cinderella’s castle is the first thing you see. After all, it’s pretty huge, right? Well, it seems as though that isn’t as true as you probably believed it to be.

While it’s fair to say that this building is bigger than your average house, Walt Disney made sure that the castle was built using forced perspective. This means that the building isn’t as big as it seems, but is instead designed to look bigger than it is.

Different sized bricks were used, such as large bricks at the bottom of the building and much smaller bricks towards the top, to create this optical illusion, and it’s pretty clever. They say that size doesn’t matter, but in the case of this castle, it really does.