17. The Castle is Made From Steel
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The castle is designed to look like it’s made from pure marble, but like many things at Disneyland and other parks, appearances can be deceiving. The whole structure is actually made from steel and concrete. It might look like it’s constructed from huge bricks, but what you see on the outside is very hard fiber-reinforced gypsum plaster supported by metal studs. The towers weren’t made with the rest of the castle, either. They were constructed separately and then were raised by cranes and bolted into place afterwards.