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And don't forget to read my rebuttal, found here. It's a twofer, since I'm also replying to this one, which immediately followed fyn's. I'm mystified that people keep calling my analysis "story" or even "backstory." I keep saying it, and I'll say it again: the only "story" there is you going...

"...a civilization gone with the wind." Anyway, I wasn't thinking about the X or Marc tributes, things any middle-level Mansionite knows. I was referring to the really esoteric stuff... This is a gift presented to an audience very few of which (if any) will accept it with pleasure or...

You vill zee it. You vill like it. Or you vill be chot.

Good points, but even more important is to simply listen to what the critics are complaining about. If this one thinks it's bad because the colors look kind of cheesy, then it makes sense to ask him to reserve judgment until he can see it in person or at least has seen many different photos of...

One thing that shows as clearly as anything that "they just don't get" is the fact that the new queue stuff is laced with (supposedly) obscure tributes and references that only the hardcore fans are expected to pick up. There's the one-eyed black cat over here, some creatures from a Rolly Crump...

They could have simply expanded the existing graveyard with a lot of the nice new anonymous grave markers and cemetery ornaments that are out there on the hill now (and I like the shovels!), added the great new Imagineer tributes in the traditional form of headstones, and then opened it to the...

There is nothing wrong with your approach whatsoever. It is undoubtedly what most people do. I have no problem with it. The thing is, now everyone is forced to go with your approach whether they want to or not. It used to be you could take it as just a funsy thing OR you could look at it...

Okay, I'm sure some of you are dreading this post. Bear in mind that that there are other readers who may be looking forward to it and find the discussion interesting. I'm giving you fair warning, and you can scroll on down, no harm, no foul. Besides, if someone says, "You're 100% wrong" and...

You haven't explained the Caretaker's look of utter astonishment, not just fear. You haven't explained why he would go out there at night to do some task if this happens all the time and it frightens him so much his knees knock. You haven't explained why he's looking all around, lantern aloft...

No one there thought that that very substantive and interesting discussion was "derailment." My take on the Caretaker stands. I cite evidence that is actually there to support it. I haven't seen a shred of evidence cited in support of other views.

One of the most important points about the ghostly manipulations and poltergeist activity inside the HM is that you can't be sure if it's "really there" or a product of your imagination. They're messing with your head. This is explicitly put before you: Is this haunted room actually...

Doesn't hold water. The Caretaker is not simply terrified, he's astonished. Everything about him shouts this at you: Holding up the lantern (a gesture that says, "I need to get a better look at this"), the movement of his head slowly in different directions (he's looking around), and his...

I don't have an issue with the Leota tombstone, so long as it functions as it was designed to function. Everything is supposed to be quiet and ordinary up to that point, an eerie house with an eerie graveyard next to it, but nothing supernatural. Then you catch something out of the corner of...

Thanks for the feedback, guys. When you're steaming mad, it's good to have somewhere to vent. Eddie, you hit on a couple of things that I think are very important. One is this notion that the average Joe doesn't notice this or that. I think (and I think you do too) that the average Joe is...

Well, remember now, you pulled the cork out of this bottle... The criticism of the new queue out there comes in three flavors: aesthetic objections (too cartoony, Toon-Townish, dopey, garish), objections based on show flow (big noisy ghost-fest before you even get in the door of the place...

This thing is a tragedy. A disaster. Worst thing ever to happen to any HM. I won't repost my whole response, posted in another thread, but it can be read HERE if anyone cares to look at it.

Hey there Eddie. You know that people are going to haunt you and haunt you until you return and give your take on the new interactive queue at the HM. I've been posting my views all over that endless MChat thread dedicated to all things HM, as well as at DB.com. I just posted at the main...

Ahem. This is absolutely the worst thing that has ever happened to any of the Mansions since the first one opened in 1969. Bar none. This is a crime. I've been a Mansion fan for years, and I've been convinced for some time that it qualifies as a work of art as well as simply an entertaining...

I've been trying to pin down the year when they put the glacier tube around the skyway path inside the mountain, and I'm starting to think I was mistaken in my earlier post when I said it was during the mid-60's. It may not have been done until the 1978 upgrade with Harold. Sorry about the...

Younger fans may not be aware of it, but just as Space Mountain is the big overall favorite today, so the Matterhorn bobsleds was the undisputed champ from 1959 until it was finally de-throned by Pirates. I clearly remember my dad telling us early in 1967, "They say that Pirate ride is going to...