Constructed from basalt stone from Rocky Butte, the house featured characteristics of a castle such as a moat, drawbridge and a copper-topped turret.
The Be Our Guest restaurant will be part of Fantasyland Forest, which features a castle like the one seen in "Beauty and the Beast".
The restoration involved constructing outworks to prevent further sea erosion, replacing damage to the ashlar stone features of the castle and protecting the tops of the stone walls.
The key features of the castle include the original 13th-century gates and several pieces of art, including a Tudor copy of Hans Eworth's famous allegorical portrait of Sir John Luttrell, and a sequence of leather tapestries showing scenes from the story of Antony and Cleopatra.
Traditional explanations for its unusual plan argued that the castle was a transitional military design, combining both the circular features of later castles with the square angled buttresses of earlier Norman fortifications.
Investigations after the 1992 fire have shown though that many Rococo features of the modern castle, originally thought to have been 18th-century fittings transferred from Carlton House or France, are in fact 19th-century imitations in plasterwork and wood, designed to blend with original elements.
The private houses of aristocrats adopted some of these features and incorporated features of Medieval castles and tower houses into plans based on the French Château to produce the Scots Baronial style.
A vigorous academic discussion over the history and meanings behind Bodiam Castle began a debate, which concluded that many features of castles previously seen as primarily military in nature were in fact constructed for reasons of status and political power.
Not all the features of the Crusader castles from the 13th century were emulated in Europe.
The show, for ages 3 and older, also features a vanishing castle and, of course, a magic carpet.
The other key feature of the castle's domestic side, was the Great Hall.
