Disney Analyst
Well-Known Member
This lights on video shows me that there is clearly a similar amount of room here as Disneyland… so why could he not go there?
-
The new WDWMAGIC iOS app is here!
Stay up to date with the latest Disney news, photos, and discussions right from your iPhone. The app is free to download and gives you quick access to news articles, forums, photo galleries, park hours, weather and Lightning Lane pricing. Learn More -
Welcome to the WDWMAGIC.COM Forums!
Please take a look around, and feel free to sign up and join the community.
News Hatbox Ghost coming to Walt Disney World's Haunted Mansion
- Thread starter wdwmagic
- Start date
peter11435
Well-Known Member
Space was never the issue
LittleBuford
Well-Known Member
I wish they’d left him out of the WDW version entirely. I’ve never understood the appeal, and the controversy that’s been generated by his placement just isn’t worth it.
MerlinTheGoat
Well-Known Member
Prior to his installation, the physical areas were identical at both DL and WDW. They had to expand the balcony to make the space larger at DL. This expansion I think included them doing work on the "roof" behind the balcony. I don't know what supposedly prevented them from doing this at WDW since again these spaces appeared to be the same before his installation. No one who claims to know what prevented this has ever elaborated. Perhaps the space inside of where this roof was located contains something that caused issues, something that wasn't a problem at DL.
If there was an actual issue with putting him in that location (and for the record i'm not sure I trust this to be the case regardless but maybe we'll learn specifics someday), then they really should have just put him in the attic proper. It would require a bit of rearrangement/removal of some of the props, which I think has been done in the past before anyway (they used to have mechanical pop-up ghosts instead of the portraits scattered around and the bride herself has also moved). That's where they had him originally anyway.
Last edited:
TrainsOfDisney
Well-Known Member
I would prefer him inside the actual attic. I don’t really love the placement at Disneyland much.
At least they're aware of the controversy. The hope now is that with enough complaints and the prospects of a new bride for Orlando all is not lost for their Attic reunion. Unlikely, but it's not zero.
Disney Analyst
Well-Known Member
The attic is too intimate and busy already imo. I like that he’s a moment just outside the attic.
Busy with "litter theming" that only serves to spoon-feed backstory so Constance Hathaway works. Strip that all back to its more eerie original version and Hatbox would have a proper place again.
HMF
Well-Known Member
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
HMF
Well-Known Member
I will take the new bride if it means moving HBG into a better place but I am not really a fan of the new DL Attic and it's story (or lack thereof.)
UNCgolf
Well-Known Member
I think the way he currently exists in the WDW version detracts from the ride rather than enhancing it.
FigmentFan82
Well-Known Member
I’m personally not bothered at all by the WDW placement. You see him, he does his thing, and you move on.
ToTBellHop
Well-Known Member
Same. He’s pretty cool. Inasmuch as he’s distracting, your glance is drawn away from a floating candelabra. That gag is already featured at the start of the ride.
UNCgolf
Well-Known Member
It's the endless hallway as a whole, though, not just a floating candelabra. It would have made more sense to replace the hallway entirely with him than have them right next to each other, although that would have been a huge mistake to me.
I think that area of the ride was better without his presence.
To be fair, I'm also not the biggest fan of the figure overall. It's way too bright and doesn't fit well with the rest of the attraction.
Last edited:
LittleBuford
Well-Known Member
I find him too cartoony and modern. I know he’s based on original designs, but he just doesn’t harmonise with the other figures.
Marc Davis Fan
Well-Known Member
I find the HBG to clash aesthetically and emotionally with that part of the ride. As has been discussed previously, there was a carefully-crafted emotional buildup, without the ghosts fully visible until after Leota, which coincides with the tone becoming lighter (comedy being more heavily sprinkled in). And then the ghosts become even more visible - and the tone even lighter - in the graveyard.
At Disneyland, HBG is a transition to the graveyard. Its placement by the Endless Hallway at WDW breaks (for me and many others) the emotional journey of the Haunted Mansion experience.
A key point of Disney design philosophy is that seemingly small things can matter a lot. This idea should be particularly attended to when it comes to WDW's Haunted Mansion - one of Imagineering's crown jewels and often considered the definitive version of that attraction.
At Disneyland, HBG is a transition to the graveyard. Its placement by the Endless Hallway at WDW breaks (for me and many others) the emotional journey of the Haunted Mansion experience.
A key point of Disney design philosophy is that seemingly small things can matter a lot. This idea should be particularly attended to when it comes to WDW's Haunted Mansion - one of Imagineering's crown jewels and often considered the definitive version of that attraction.