Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25389622-20141101150445/@comment-24199126-20150118205052

If you want to make the case that the light is shining from the top floor, then how can you possibly attribute the color to Elsa's powers, considering she wasn't even in the room at the time? And there isn't an even distribution, but if we look at the scene where Hans faces Marshmallow, it's incredibly dark at the foyer level. There is a mountain range there, so the sun's rays may only easily reach the top floor. Regarding the intense red, if you look at the setting sun during the "Marshmallow Attack" scene, it's pretty red. Even in the For the First Time in Forever Reprise, we can see the palace beginning to take on a red hue. It's not a stretch to say it was caused by the sun. Also, glacial ice is naturally blue, so I don't see why Elsa's palace being blue necessarily has to be associated with her magic. It's not a stretch to say Elsa can control ice color but that's not the point. The point is, are we certain that she actually can? Even if my reasoning for the shifting palace color make no sense, there's still nothing to prove definitively that Elsa herself caused the palace to change color. Until then, it's best to note the color change, nothing more.

Yeah, we've discussed the film's material taking precedence :). I never doubted Elsa could control the weather/spikes; I was saying if there was a facet to Elsa's power like controlling color, it definitely should have been mentioned as well.

If we look at the scene with Anna in the ice palace, there are cracks on the archways and the pillars and since this is before Elsa's fear took over again, I don't see why the walls can't have cracks either. In fact, if you look at the frames where Olaf bounds in, there are cracks on the wall. As for the frosted floor, it's hard to compare since one shot is in the day and the other is at night. But if we refer to the scene where Anna enters the ice palace and looks up at the top floor, it looks pretty much the same as your shot in the yellow palace.

No, I haven't finished the Arendelle castle page yet. I was just being overly ambitious trying to do edits; a coworker had some issues, so I took up all of his shifts ... can't argue with more money :P

The Twitter thing was Bella.