Recent content by Phineas85

Thanks Buddy - hope you can continue to enjoy the parks and these discussions without too many blots on the landscape. A shame it's come to be expected by many of you....

Thanks... Expect it? That's too bad when even a place like this can go down that route. I genuinely thought this change was something new and interesting to see, but I've learnt something myself today - it seems you have to take caution with the most well-intended things these days for fear of...

Why? Because I'm a Disney World and Haunted Mansion fan who is unable to go in person anymore, I also haven't been on these threads for some time so was curious about it and when it was introduced. Every little bit of trivia is news to me. I was more interested in showing it as a cool change to...

Haunted Mansion's main issue comes from the two stretch room sequences only being apart for the length of time you are in the stretch room (literally as one opens to let you out, the other is opening to let the next group in). This causes the exiting group to catch up with the previous before...

A really good CM too - I am always happy with the ones that can get the doors open well before the portrait changes!

Is this a fairly new thing? I've never seen it before, but on a recent YouTube video the Haunted Mansion doors were opened by a young lady who was wearing the Butler costume not the Maid... I don't have an issue with this by the way, I was just surprised to see it! Here's the video:

As a UK visitor this colour scheme is not magical at all, as our Motorway signs are those very colours. It now just looks like a UK road.

Check out this video (go to 21:20) - it seems someone has FINALLY had the good sense to make him age AFTER the spiel has started rather than before (I'd say even a little later than he did before the amendment: So he's kind of back the way he was pre-2009 if you like. It may be at risk of...

I know what you mean about having exclusive things between parks. I was a bit disappointed in the 2007 refurb that some of the takes of the lines on the ride unique to WDW were replaced with the DL versions, and putting Master Gracey in DL took away his exclusiveness to WDW also (especially as...

Was probably done in the last 20 years when they started adding 'feet and legs' to all the spiels, that happened about 2002-ish. A voice actor called Joe Leahy re-recorded a lot of them including the Haunted Mansion (where he attempts to sound like Paul Frees as best he can), but not sure if...

The stretch room is well timed to be honest, after it opens there's a good 30 seconds until the Ghost Host speaks, so adding 30 seconds of foyer before that happens also, it's over a minute from the time your group is let in. I think only once I have ever gone in after that scene has begun.

C Cast Members do not push a button - it's a continuous loop. As soon as the stretch room closes the foyer resets and then begins again after 30 seconds, it would do this even if the Cast Member stood there and did nothing, and explains why at times the door is opened as it begins. The Cast...

If you linger by the tombstone and let everyone pass you, you'll be amongst the first in. No guarantee for the reasons I have mentioned, but it pretty much was when the portrait changed as the spiel began.

As a UK visitor and Haunted mansion fan I really do find the Foyer pre-show badly presented, inconsistent and unreliable presentation wise. Firstly I'll say it's something of a myth that some years back they used to have it hold for much longer before starting. As far back as the 80s I can only...

Corey Burton as Paul Frees.