News Haunted Mansion closing for short refurbishment in August 2023

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JustInTime

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imagineer97 said:
Fair enough...I'm not reaching for anything. I'd much rather the movie stays out of the park. I just thought it looked similar, and now thanks to this post, I see what you mean. Though I still believe the timing was likely related to the film.
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I absolutely think the timing is due to the film but the changes aren’t directly inspired by the movie. Remember - the budget was approved for this refurb and it was supposed to be part of the 50th celebration.
 
yensidtlaw1969

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imagineer97 said:
Fair enough...I'm not reaching for anything. I'd much rather the movie stays out of the park. I just thought it looked similar, and now thanks to this post, I see what you mean. Though I still believe the timing was likely related to the film.
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It really wasn't.

The unload belt needed to be replaced, and it needed to be done before the busy Halloween season started. That meant the refurb had to be done before the 11th. The WDW Mansion doesn't get a lot of downtime, so they tried to maximize it by hitting as many bullet points as possible - Park Leadership has a soft spot for the Mansion and wants it to look as well as it can (within the constraint of the necessary downtime) for when The Hatbox Ghost arrives.

The Hatbox Ghost being added to the WDW Mansion is only very loosely tied in to the movie - he will look like Disneyland's figure, not like the version in the movie, and clearly his arrival is not timed with any particularity to the movie's release, given that it's already been out for more than 2 weeks and the HBG's reveal date remains mysterious. But the fact that there was a new movie featuring The Hatbox Ghost made it easier to justify throwing a couple dollars towards that project, for which interest had existed since his successful return at DL.
 
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peter11435

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yensidtlaw1969 said:
It really wasn't.

The load belt needed to be replaced, and it needed to be done before the busy Halloween season started. That meant the refurb had to be done before the 11th. The WDW Mansion doesn't get a lot of downtime, so they tried to maximize it by hitting as many bullet points as possible - Park Leadership has a soft spot for the Mansion and wants it to look as well as it can (within the constraint of the necessary downtime) for when The Hatbox Ghost arrives.

The Hatbox Ghost being added to the WDW Mansion is only very loosely tied in to the movie - he will look like Disneyland's figure, not like the version in the movie, and clearly his arrival is not timed with any particularity to the movie's release, given that it's already been out for more than 2 weeks and the HBG's reveal date remains mysterious. But the fact that there was a new movie featuring The Hatbox Ghost made it easier to justify throwing a couple dollars towards that project, for which interest had existed since his successful return at DL.
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Yep. This.

Except unload belt.
 
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JoeCamel said:
How do you know what development was done before the movie was announced? A year before is plenty of time to gear up China and have it delivered. Look how long the Covid delay took and China was closed at that time. they were wide open in 2017-2018
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I thought China had strict anti-spoopy laws?
 

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