Walt Disney World’s Magic Kingdom - Fantasyland Expansion
This week, Walt Disney Imagineering released a brand new video showing the installation of the centrepiece of Belle’s Village in the new Fantasyland Expansion at MK - an elaborate bonze statue of Gaston and his sidekick, Lefou.
As Imagineers Ted Robledo and Chris Kelly explain in the video above, the statue’s design of Gaston and Lefou juggling leaky barrels and mugs was inspired by both Gaston’s boisterous temperament and the fountain Belle visits early in the film as she is reading. Ted and Chris also walk us through the detailed process it takes to create such an elaborate bronze statue – from building a clay maquette to choosing specific shades of bronze for the piece.
