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Haunted Mansion Restaurant
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HMF
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I say remove some crypts, fix others and move the rest by the exit. The Tangle Tower is an unfortunate sight-line issue. Is there no way to hide it with a massive berm?
peter11435
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Obviously management tells departments what to do. I fully understand how WDI operates. But I can assure you that those working on the project were very passionate about what they were working on and happy with its outcome. I agree that the Mansion was better off without it, but it's not true to make a blanket statement that WDI didn't want it.
peter11435
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drwadadli
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They should be able to hide it.
Agreed. Shame they haven't.
What if they repainted the tower on the side facing Liberty Square so that it looks like a church steeple then build up an old church facade around it. And further "hide" it from ground level view by using a newly built covered bridge walkway (taking design inspirations from The Legend of Sleepy Hollow).
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HMF
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Each of the crypts has logical inconsistencies. As explained here.
https://longforgottenhauntedmansion.blogspot.com/2011/05/decadence.html
HMF
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The entrance will be moved as well. I am aiming to decrease the Mansions overall footprint on Liberty Square. and make the house look more imposing. See photos from 1971 for what I am talking about and the two trees on the lawn will be gone.
HMF
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How can they fix them?
HMF
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I wouldn't mind re-theming the area to serve as a thematic bridge between Liberty Square and Fantasyland.
peter11435
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Redesign the family murder mystery busts so that they are less toony. Make crypts look more like weathered stone vs plastic. Re-purpose the "organist crypt" and place where captain cullpepper currently resides. Make it a parked gypsy caravan. Remove the hat, feet, and hands from the Captain Cullpepper crypt and place where leota headstone is now or nearest in direction to PotC, anchor the scene with a few tombstone cannons guests can "fire" in that general direction. Add an AA raven somewhere. Put Leota, Xavier and Marc's headstones in a place where guests must walk around them, a redesigned space with what should be adequate burial plot footage. Add a large weeping willow somewhere. A small pond with callback to mr. toad. All other interactive crypts should be placed at exit of ride.
Both queues should consist of non-interactive and interactive elements (indistinguishable) and should include some type of thematic landscaping and dare I say maybe even a well kept garden or a decaying one.
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Bocabear
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Using the Mike Fink Keelboats building, you could enter the Restaurant check in spot there, and create an additional walkway that would skirt the water, though elevated to walkway level, running alongside the queue, then swing in behind the PLQ to the actual restaurant entrance...
HMF
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Disney rarely (if ever) publicly admits mistakes. Just read the press briefings about DCA 2.0. If MM+ was the amazing success Rasulo and Staggs thought it would be. Why aren't they still with the company?