jt04
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That is amazing.
I armchaired a backstory for a potential restaurant in the Imagineering forum just for fun.
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Haunted Mansion Restaurant
- Thread starter EasyRover
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That is amazing.
I armchaired a backstory for a potential restaurant in the Imagineering forum just for fun.
castlecake2.0
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I get it! The mansion is what lead me to work for Disney in the first place! I was excited for the new queue until I walked through it the first time and realized how, in my eyes, took away from the experience.
clemmo
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I know I'm quite lost as to what will actually get green lit at MK I feel like there's so many proposals and none of them seem super confidant or definitely not happening.
DznyRktekt
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What's not foreboding about it? The manor even has a face.
I just think foreboding is a bit strong of a word to use. Eerie, yes.
HMF
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I am hoping this restaurant will come with a complete re-thinking of the queue and entrance closer to the 71 setup and free up the current PLQ Space for the restaurant and of course getting rid of the Fastpass+ queue which the ride does not need.
Bocabear
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So then by all means, let's mince words... I don't like the word "Eerie" to describe it either...
you get the point I was making whether or not you would have used that particular word...
Oh yes, I do get your point, even if I don't agree with it.
RandySavage
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I got into a long debate with the resident HM experts (you might have been part of it) when the queue first was added about the tone and when the ghosts should be revealed. It was informative, but neither side budged...nothing has changed.
17th & 18th century family oil portraits associated with genre have a particular realism. If the attraction were design to be a more realistic, dreadful, gothic horror experience from the Foyer on, you might see portraits that emulate this style.
Instead, the Haunted Mansion paintings eschew such realism (or maybe mix it in at random, i.e., hanging corpse) and are much more whimsical & toonish in the Marc Davis-style, setting a precedent early in the experience:
BD-Anaheim
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It wouldn't make any sense to take over CHH and re-imagine it as the HM restuarant. The reason for this is pretty simple: how can you dine in the HM ballroom at the CHH location and also ride through it across the street? It ruins the illusion and the mystery. For the same reason why they never have two Mickeys' out and about in the parks, I highly doubt a version of a HM restaurant would even include the same scenes as a ride itself. The restaurant must be an extension of the story rather than an immersive recap of the ride.
BOG restaurant gets away with this because you actually are IN the castle while you are eating.
BOG restaurant gets away with this because you actually are IN the castle while you are eating.
britain
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Fore-what-ing?!
Capsin4
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Never!
tl77
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I think the Haunted Mansion should have more than just a restaurant, it should have equivalent of Caribbean Plaza around it, with a Tortuga Tavern, Stage Show, treasure hunt/ghost hunt, ghost face painting... and there's plenty of room to add these kinds of things to the north of the ride entrance and west of the show building (circled in red)
HMF
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No, That would take away the vibe of a colonial Manor House and expand the painful self-referencing mentality of PLQ and despite my disillusionment with this countries direction I am not willing to throw Liberty Square out and turn the whole area into Mansion-Land. Building the restaurant on the PLQ site and extending back into the vacant land next to the ROA is what they should do.I think the Haunted Mansion should have more than just a restaurant, it should have equivalent of Caribbean Plaza around it, with a Tortuga Tavern, Stage Show, treasure hunt/ghost hunt, ghost face painting... and there's plenty of room to add these kinds of things to the north of the ride entrance and west of the show building (circled in red)
New Restaurant goes in black circle. The queue will obviously have to be re-designed to separate restaurant traffic from Attraction traffic.
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Rich T
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Gut reaction: I love Haunted Mansion, but ghosts, corpses, cobwebs etc. don't make me hungry. Like, ever. The food offerings would have to be super-over-the-top-once-in-a-lifetime themed (an attraction in themselves) to even put this on my radar if I was planning a trip.