Elsa's Totally Normal Castle!

 One of the complaints I got when I first built the funicular is that once you ride it to the top, there's nothing up there. This was one of my motivations for building a very tall Hogwarts next door:

Now I've increased the number of buildings you can reach from up there by building a tall castle for Elsa right next door to Hogwarts...

... complete with an extendable-retractable footbridge so that Elsa's castle can be accessed by crossing through the divination balcony of Hogwarts.

 

The objective of this build was to make it look like the castle is built right into the rock of the mountain. So I followed a similar design to the mountain castle tower that I had made for an earlier incarnation of Totally Normal Town, complete with a waterfall!

 

I'm pretty pleased with this build because I think I "made it look easy" -- as if I had just snapped together some pieces that were designed and intended for a Frozen castle:

This is not at all the case. Yes, the pieces with the sparkly stickers on them (in particular the balcony pieces) were from an Elsa's castle set. However, the set I have is a very simple children's play set (as you can see from when we rebuilt it for our Christmas village) -- so I had to start from scratch with a completely different design, piecing together whatever crazy/random pieces I could find in my bins with the right color scheme.

 

I added some interior details for Ana and the snow creatures, and left the back open since this build is essentially always up against the back wall.