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News Walt Disney Imagineering Files New Haunted Mansion Permit for Set Installation
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JustInTime
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Magic Kingdom Begins Haunted Mansion Refurbishment Amid Major Construction Changes
Magic Kingdom Begins Haunted Mansion Refurbishment Amid Major Construction Changes
Magic Kingdom Begins Haunted Mansion Refurbishment Amid Major Construction Changes
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JustInTime
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I believe more scaffolding is on its way. Id love to get a similar paint job to Tokyo and better lighting.Magic Kingdom Begins Haunted Mansion Refurbishment Amid Major Construction Changes
Magic Kingdom Begins Haunted Mansion Refurbishment Amid Major Construction Changes
Magic Kingdom Begins Haunted Mansion Refurbishment Amid Major Construction Changes
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HMF
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The new DL queue may be bland but Florida's interactive queue arguably ruins the attraction.
The Unnecessary Changes To Walt Disney World's Haunted Mansion.
How Imagineers destroyed the unique charm of Walt Disney World's Haunted Mansion.
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networkpro
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The new DL queue may be bland but Florida's interactive queue arguably ruins the attraction.
The Unnecessary Changes To Walt Disney World's Haunted Mansion.
How Imagineers destroyed the unique charm of Walt Disney World's Haunted Mansion.
I'll disagree. The external facades are based from structures in different parts of the country with assumably different settler populations. A neatly trimmed New Orleans Square's Antebellum doesn't equal an overgrown Colonial Brick Mansion. They may have a very similar interior and scenes, but not a 1:1 correspondence.
jmuboy
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I would take DL's queue over WDWs ANY DAY!The new DL queue may be bland but Florida's interactive queue arguably ruins the attraction.
The Unnecessary Changes To Walt Disney World's Haunted Mansion.
How Imagineers destroyed the unique charm of Walt Disney World's Haunted Mansion.
James Alucobond
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Disneyland's queue is fine for Disneyland, but it would not work at all if copied directly. It doesn't match the style of the WDW Mansion at all.
castlecake2.0
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Agreed. WDWs queue ruins any ounce of surprise of what awaits you inside the mansion. WDI was too focused on showing what the could come up with instead of sticking to the storyline.
ETA Disneyland’s queue idea, but made to fit thematically at wdw. I think what most of us are wanting is the removal of the obnoxious interactive pieces.
jmuboy
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Anyway, with all these questionable Piston Peak changes coming to Frontierland and Liberty Square, whether we like it or not, I would love to see:
- Current HM queue in front of the mansion removed.
- A walkway along the front of the mansion where the HM queue used to be. This walkway would run along the remains of the RoA and cut over to the Piston Peak area / Villains Land area just last the HM (as is vaguely show in the concept art released over the last few years). This would also finally our mansion an unobstructed street view like DL's has.
- The HM queue is rebuilt into the the hillside on the left side of the HM with a quiet cemetery with punny tombs and over grown garden as the main thematic scenery (none of the awful cartoony current expansion queue should be kept)
All that said, I am worried by how much they have deforested a dedicated parcel of land that abuts the current HM queue. It shoots off the old RoA land and appears like that swath was being intentionally cleared.
- Current HM queue in front of the mansion removed.
- A walkway along the front of the mansion where the HM queue used to be. This walkway would run along the remains of the RoA and cut over to the Piston Peak area / Villains Land area just last the HM (as is vaguely show in the concept art released over the last few years). This would also finally our mansion an unobstructed street view like DL's has.
- The HM queue is rebuilt into the the hillside on the left side of the HM with a quiet cemetery with punny tombs and over grown garden as the main thematic scenery (none of the awful cartoony current expansion queue should be kept)
All that said, I am worried by how much they have deforested a dedicated parcel of land that abuts the current HM queue. It shoots off the old RoA land and appears like that swath was being intentionally cleared.
aladdin2007
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(shoving) what they could is more like it, with that and the hatbox ghost.
HMF
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No one is asking for a copy of DL's queue. As long as the PLQ is gone I am open to anything assuming it doesn't have the same conceptual flaws as PLQ.
FigmentFan82
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This is certainly a takeThe new DL queue may be bland but Florida's interactive queue arguably ruins the attraction.
The Unnecessary Changes To Walt Disney World's Haunted Mansion.
How Imagineers destroyed the unique charm of Walt Disney World's Haunted Mansion.
James Alucobond
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I don't agree with everything in the article, but the interactive queue is indeed visually unconvincing and stylistically inconsistent with the rest of the Mansion exterior. To top it off, it doesn't even have fun interactions. Despite people being down on interactive queues broadly, I'll personally defend ones that I think are fun distractions, like the one for Peter Pan's Flight.
HMF
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Just out of curiosity which parts did you not agree with? Not that I am overly precious about my opinions, I am actually just curious. There are some things I am less precious about than others. Most of the 07 changes I was mostly fine with and most of the changes made really are nitpicks and not huge deals. PLQ and HBG are the only ones I firmly believe are at an attraction-ruining level
James Alucobond
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HMF
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I actually can respect that. most of the ones at the end are things that only the hyper-obsessives like me would notice and really don't hurt the attraction that much though I still don't think they were necessary and only done for uniformity with Disneyland.