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News Hatbox Ghost coming to Walt Disney World's Haunted Mansion
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That's the fault of the audience for not syncing up their sympathetic vibrations.
some other guy
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Sirwalterraleigh
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Wow…HM got crushed
It was not likely to fair that well…but whole new level of flop here
It was not likely to fair that well…but whole new level of flop here
HouCuseChickie
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Agreed! We just saw it today and absolutely loved it! We did a double feature and saw both Barbie and Haunted Mansion today. I know Barbie is getting much better reviews and crushing box office totals, but we liked HM so much more. Very different movies, of course, but we definitely didn’t think HM deserves all of the negative reviews.
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themarchhare
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WHAT is going on in Imagineering?
Good. It wasn't Eddie Murphy bad, but it was still pretty horrendous.
Tha Realest
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The Eddie Murphy film might have a bigger opening, not even accounting for inflation.
And at 40% this is going to have a terrible word of mouth.
THANK GOODNESS the changes to the attraction appear to be minimal
Sirwalterraleigh
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You are all missing the real problem here. There is only one outlet left in the mansion to plug anything else in, and it's by the hallway. Do you really expect them to run a new outlet in the attic? C'mon!
I mean…your quip is very telling…
Why do I feel like everyone is pretty much of the same opinion on how things are being run these days?
HMF
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Not minimal enough. this will be more damaging than PLQ was to the rides narrative.
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splah
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if they insist on the hallway they need to change the room's lighting as well. the HBG is ethereal blue glow, but the lighting currently is warm chandelier and candleabra. they need to match them. his effect is too high tech for the lo-fi area of the hallway.
if they can't do it near attic, then by the grandfather clock or top of the stairs as the wallpaper transitions or first thing in the library. He needs to be paired with otherworldly things b/c his effect is otherwordly and his animation should be beckoning into the mansion
if they can't do it near attic, then by the grandfather clock or top of the stairs as the wallpaper transitions or first thing in the library. He needs to be paired with otherworldly things b/c his effect is otherwordly and his animation should be beckoning into the mansion
Castle Cake Apologist
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Oh, good. The progressive structure of one of their most brilliantly designed attractions is being significantly altered to fit the logic of a movie with a 40% RT score. Well, now I'm sold!
some other guy
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could be worse
could be doing it for the last time they made a Haunted Mansion movie
yensidtlaw1969
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You jest, but that's actually pretty close to what happened with the DL Bat.You are all missing the real problem here. There is only one outlet left in the mansion to plug anything else in, and it's by the hallway. Do you really expect them to run a new outlet in the attic? C'mon!
But that's a very different story.
MerlinTheGoat
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See, I don't get this. I was under the impression that once you pass the staircase scene (not counting variations in scenery placement), the two versions are (or were) identical in terms of track and room layout/space.
Hattie is on the balcony threshold right as you exit the attic. I was able to find an old night vision video of the DL version prior to his installation that shows this threshold quite clearly, and it used to be identical in space to WDW's. The only difference was that WDW had a more permanent looking metal railing on the edge, but they also added new railing to DL's when they installed Hattie.
It looks like they sliced out a chunk of roof to give Hattie more space. I'm not sure what would prevent them from doing the same thing at WDW. Only reasons I can think of are potential structural supports or some other important mechanical elements housed inside. I dunno if that's the case.
But lets assume there is some actual valid reason they can't possibly use that space. Why not just place him somewhere else in the attic? That room has been substantially altered multiple times over the past 50 years, including changing the bride's placement (Constance's superior predecessor used to be on the opposite side of the track). Disneyland has a variant of the shadowy phantom playing piano in the attic, surely they can make some space for Hattie at WDW in there. Wasn't the original figure briefly located inside the attic alongside the bride prior to his removal?
Disneyland pre 2015-
Two different shots of the WDW space, just to clarify that this threshold and roof occupied the same space-
yensidtlaw1969
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You are right that the physical space at DL and WDW are/were identical. That isn't the issue. I really hate to be vague, but saying more truly might get somebody else in trouble.
He can't go in the Attic without ripping out Constance and her Husband's Portraits. They require too much light to work - enough that the HBG's effect would once again be spoiled, just like in 1969.
To which I would personally say, go for it, get her out of there - but management isn't interested in reevaluating Constance. At least not presently. To my knowledge, WDI has basically never been pleased with her. *Something(s?)* went wrong while she was being developed, though I don't know exactly what.
Tha Realest
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Is there also an issue of scope? I thought the hallway had something a forced perspective effect. If they throw an AA in there, won’t that affect the effect?