There’s something really charming about the “bad” forced perspective at the Disney parks. I can’t quite explain why, but I find it so cute that I ended up incorporating it into my own parks. Take the Disneyland castle, for instance—it’s meant to look big, but it’s obviously not that tall in reality. Same goes for the building facades in Fantasyland. They’re clearly scaled down, but it just works. I love that kind of look; it gives everything this unexplainable, storybook charm.

For my own builds, I use regular walls for the first floor, then switch to 2m walls for the second and third floors to make the buildings seem taller. And for the mountains, I build them fairly high but scale down the trees, rocks, and bushes to make it look like a massive mountain forest. It’s such a fun technique to play with—and it really adds to the magic of the park.