Rapunzel's Tower

Rapunzel's Tower is a central location in Disney's 2010 animated feature film Tangled. It is a secluded tower hidden deep within the woods outside of the kingdom of Corona. Shortly after her birth, Princess Rapunzel was kidnapped by a woman named Mother Gothel, and locked away in the tower as an unknowing prisoner for eighteen years.
==Background==
===Layout===
Rapunzel's Tower is hidden in a large rock pit by a cave. The cave leads out into the forest with its opening hidden by a curtain of plants. At the base of the tower is an alternate entrance Mother Gothel used to go in and out of the tower before she took Rapunzel and in the years that she was too young to pull her up, with a hidden trapdoor leading up into the main rooms of the Tower.
Over the years, Rapunzel has painted a series of murals in the tower. The tower has several rooms including bedrooms for both Rapunzel and Mother Gothel, a central room which would be the primary location of Rapunzel's gallery, and a staircase leading to an upstairs room.
==Appearances==
===Tangled===
After meeting the handsome rogue, Flynn Rider, Rapunzel escaped her tower and battled against Gothel for her freedom. Rapunzel would prevail in the end, leaving the tower and vacating it.
===Tangled: The Series===
In Tangled: The Series, picking up half a year after Gothel's death, the tower remains abandoned and dormant, still retaining the mess from when Eugene was stabbed. In "Pascal's Story", Rapunzel reluctantly returns to her old tower in search of a runaway Pascal, and saves him from a venomous snake.
Later on, when the black rocks begin to storm Corona, the tower is consumed within them. When Rapunzel activates their power with her long hair, the rocks rage and they destroy the tower, much to Rapunzel's horror.
3 years later, in Cassandra's Revenge, when a vindictive Cassandra returns to Corona to exact her revenge, she uses the Moonstone Opal's power to build a stronghold amongst the wreckage of her mother's old home.
==Video games==
===Disney Infinity===
In the Disney Infinity series, the tower appears as a building that can be placed in the Toy Box.
===Kingdom Hearts III===
The tower appears during Sora's adventures in Kingdom of Corona. The tower's interior cannot be explored and is only shown during cutscenes. However, Sora can wall climb the tower.
===Disney Princess: My Fairytale Adventure===
==Disney Parks==
===Disneyland===
The tower was part of Fantasyland as a meet and greet area in the formerly Geppetto's Holiday Workshop, as well as in conjunction with the release of the film. Later, it appears as the centerpiece of Fantasy Faire, which opened in 2013.
===Walt Disney World===
The tower once appeared at Epcot, as part of "The Flower & Garden Festival" in 2011. It is currently prominently featured in Magic Kingdom, first appearing in 2013 as part of the Fantasyland expansion.
===Disneyland Paris===
The tower is part of their Storybook Land Canal Boats attraction, originally a generic non-Disney Rapunzel until the Disney version was released in 2010.
===Hong Kong Disneyland===
The tower is one of the miniatures as part of its 10th anniversary's walk through attraction Fairy Tale Forest.
===Shanghai Disneyland===
The tower is located next to Tangled Tree Tavern, a restaurant in Fantasyland. It also appears in the Tangled-themed mosaic in Enchanted Storybook Castle.
==Gallery==
===Concept Art===
Tangled concept 4.jpg|Rapunzel's tower concept by Lisa Keene
Mickey-power-of-illusion-art 1.jpg|Concept art of the tower in Epic Mickey: Power of Illusion
Pascal's Story concept 2.png|Concept art of the tower in Tangled: The Series
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Pascal's Story concept 3.jpg|Back hidden door
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===Screenshots===
Torre de Rapunzel.png|Rapunzel's tower from a far view
Tower.Entrance.PNG|The tower's closed window
Tower.Entrance2.PNG|Rapunzel singing from the window of the tower
Tower.Bottom.PNG|The view from the window to the ground
Tower.Top.PNG|The view from the ground to the top of the tower
Tower.Gothel.PNG|Mother Gothel climbs out of the tower
Rapunzel's hair.jpg|Rapunzel lets her hair down from the tower
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rapunzel's tower cameo.jpg|The tower made a cameo in Tangled Ever After
tangled-before-ever-after-disneyscreencaps com-18.jpg|The tower in the prologue of Tangled: Before Ever After
Pascal's Story 23.jpg|The tower in Tangled: The Series
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rapunzel tower collpase.jpg|The tower is collapsing
Rapunzel's Tower Destroyed.jpg|Rapunzel's Tower destroyed by the Black Rocks
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Once Upon a Time - 7x07 - Eloise Gardener - Tower.jpg|The tower in Once Upon a Time
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===Disney Parks===
Fairy Tale Forest 06.jpg|Rapunzel's Tower in "Fairy Tale Forest" at Hong Kong Disneyland
===Video Games===
Disney Infinity Rapunzel Tower.png|Rapunzel's Tower in Disney Infinity
Ba-rapunzels tower.png|Rapunzel's Tower in Disney Magic Kingdoms
KH3 Tangled trailer 15.jpg|Rapunzel's tower in Kingdom Hearts III
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KHIII - Tangled Keyblade.png|The Tangled Keyblade of the tower in Kingdom Hearts III
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Station Kingdom of Corona KHIII.png|The tower in the Station of Tangled from Kingdom Hearts III
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===Miscellaneous===
Disney Animator's Collection Little Rapunzel Micro playset.jpg
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DisneyPrincessCastlePins23.png|Disney Princess castle pins
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Rapunzel's Tower - Secluded Prison lorcana.jpg
==Trivia==
*Like in older incarnations of the story, the tower is hidden.
*The tower makes a cameo appearance in Tangled Ever After as a porcelain model.
*There are several astronomical based paintings inside Rapunzel's chamber, including an accurate star map and a diagram of the Solar System, with one of Corona's sun emblems representing the Sun (although incorrectly depicted with eight planets (Mercury to Neptune) and five dwarf planets (Ceres, Pluto, Haumea, Makemake, and Eris), which is the current lineup, instead of stopping at Uranus, the outermost planet at the time of the film's events). This was most likely intentional since Rapunzel likely tracked the position of the stars and planets in the sky to determine the next lantern lighting festival.
*Unlike the original fairy tale, where the tower had only one room with no stairs, the Tower in the film has three separate rooms (Rapunzel's room, Mother Gothel's room, and the Living room) along with stairs.
*Originally, the Tower was supposed to be in the center of a ruined kingdom destroyed by a catastrophic landslide, but the animators decided to scrap the idea. However, this concept was eventually used in Into the Woods, where Rapunzel's Tower is among unspecified ruins.
*Considering the fact that Rapunzel's hair is 70 feet (21 meters) long, that means when Rapunzel is seen throwing her hair down to leave the tower, and she safely manages to reach the end of her hair without running out of hair, it means that her tower is at least 35-40 feet (10-12 meters) tall (the average height of towers).
*When Rapunzel was first introduced, the inside of the tower is bright and full of color. After she returns from seeing the lanterns, the tower is dull and darkly colored, which symbolizes she no longer sees it as "amazing".
*The video A Tangled World: Creating the Look on the Walt Disney Animation Studios YouTube channel explains that Rapunzel's tower was designed to look like the "most charming B and B in the south of France" (Time: 1:10)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awlBswjJC-g.
==References==
es:La Torre de Rapunzel
pl:Wieża Roszpunki
pt-br:Torre de Rapunzel
ru:Башня Рапунцель
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