News Hatbox Ghost coming to Walt Disney World's Haunted Mansion

[Disgruntled Walt]

Update from my post: the part arrived, the candelabra has been repaired and is fully functional.

Also - it’s as good a place as any to mention there are no plans at this time to revamp the attic scene with the new high tech floating Constance and window effect that Disneyland is getting.

I remain hopeful we will get the new DL Hitchhiking Ghost finale tech down the road, though.

What is the new DL Hitchhiking Ghost finale tech?

 

[JustInTime]

What is the new DL Hitchhiking Ghost finale tech?

I have mostly contacts within WDW so it’s harder for me to get specifics but it’s basically 3.0 of the version WDW currently has. A big improvement.

 

[larryz]

What is the new DL Hitchhiking Ghost finale tech?

 

[JustInTime]

No, Disneyland is getting a new effect when the ghosts appear in your buggy. Similar to WDW.

 

[castlecake2.0]

I have mostly contacts within WDW so it’s harder for me to get specifics but it’s basically 3.0 of the version WDW currently has. A big improvement.

Hopefully it looks more « real », the old effect was more eerie, the current digital effect doesnt have the same aura around it, looks cheap and lazy.

 

[MisterPenguin]

Hopefully it looks more « real », the old effect was more eerie, the current digital effect doesnt have the same aura around it, looks cheap and lazy.

I agree that the digital 'upgrade' was for the worse. Hazy, and hard to see. And how does a digital gag go so often out of sync with the buggies? MK's HM needs hitchhiking ghosts 3.0.

 

[pigglewiggle]

Update from my post: the part arrived, the candelabra has been repaired and is fully functional.

Also - it’s as good a place as any to mention there are no plans at this time to revamp the attic scene with the new high tech floating Constance and window effect that Disneyland is getting.

I remain hopeful we will get the new DL Hitchhiking Ghost finale tech down the road, though.

I'm a bit lost, sorry. Does this mean the candelabra is back at the MK Haunted Mansion?

 

[MisterPenguin]

I'm a bit lost, sorry. Does this mean the candelabra is back at the MK Haunted Mansion?

Yes.

 

[pigglewiggle]

Yes.

Thank you!

 

[ToTBellHop]

I agree that the digital 'upgrade' was for the worse. Hazy, and hard to see. And how does a digital gag go so often out of sync with the buggies? MK's HM needs hitchhiking ghosts 3.0.

I’d honestly prefer they return to the old version in the meantime. It’s a case where I think the simpler effect was fine, even if you could easily see how it worked behind the scenes.

 

[trainplane3]

I’d honestly prefer they return to the old version in the meantime. It’s a case where I think the simpler effect was fine, even if you could easily see how it worked behind the scenes.

Hard agree. The simple effect worked and fit it to the rest of the mansion. The current WDW version was fun the first time around but got old on my second ride once I realized we were going to be stuck with bad CGI ghosts.

 

[splah]

Update from my post: the part arrived, the candelabra has been repaired and is fully functional.

Also - it’s as good a place as any to mention there are no plans at this time to revamp the attic scene with the new high tech floating Constance and window effect that Disneyland is getting.

I remain hopeful we will get the new DL Hitchhiking Ghost finale tech down the road, though.

I can imagine what a floating constance is, but what is the window effect?

 

[JustInTime]

I can imagine what a floating constance is, but what is the window effect?

The plans call for a window behind her with a projection effect. Unfortunately it doesn’t get more specific. I think it’ll be a nice upgrade.

 

[Bocabear]

A floating constance sounds very interesting... I suppose she will be doing the same spiel.... the window though..... hmmmm

 

[Bocabear]

I love the idea of a spiel-less Constance....or at least doing something different....and the window sounds great...Hopefully it will be a better tonal match to the attic than Constance was when she arrived....

 

[Miss Jennifer]

I love the idea of a spiel-less Constance....or at least doing something different....and the window sounds great...Hopefully it will be a better tonal match to the attic than Constance was when she arrived....

I kind of miss the days when the bride was often interpreted as a tragic character. (The backstory the cast members created for the old bride--which ended up in the Ghost Gallery book/webpage that is now part of the Haunted Mansion wiki) was inspired by an old legend of a bride playing hide-and-seek on her wedding day and suffocating in a trunk that got locked. It was the basis of a poem called "Ginevra" by Samuel Rogers and a ballad called "The Mistletoe Bough" by Thomas Haynes Bayly.) So I'd like to see them go back to that idea. Maybe, as a connection to one of Marc Davis' unused changing portrait concepts, the bride could age and decay into a skeleton as the doombuggies passed?

 

[Bocabear]

I love the bride as more of a tragic figure than a predatory evil bride...My first trip to Disneyland Paris back in the 90s cemented that... I love the sad romantic heroine that in the end rescues the riders from the ghost realm.
There was also a lot of fan fiction about the bride over the years, one was the bride locking her suitors in trunks in the attic...hence the pop-up ghosts like at Disneyland that used to say "I do" when hey popped up....
The Constance storyline to me is too literal... She is bad, the entire attic tells only her story...that she was a predatory murderous woman that killed her husbands after marrying them...And aside from the Stretching portraits and the hanging Host, there isn't really any other mention of physical violent death in the attraction...I prefer vague suggestions...Spooky not violent...

 

[Nunu]

I'm a bit lost, sorry. Does this mean the candelabra is back at the MK Haunted Mansion?

Definitely back. I saw it last night.

 

[Tha Realest]

It looks like the candelabra has returned.

Kind of odd that with all that’s been going on in Florida we got to spend the last few months in the Magic Kingdom seeing what happens behind the candelabra.

 

[ᗩLᘿᑕ ֊ᗩζᗩᗰ]

I love the bride as more of a tragic figure than a predatory evil bride...My first trip to Disneyland Paris back in the 90s cemented that... I love the sad romantic heroine that in the end rescues the riders from the ghost realm.
There was also a lot of fan fiction about the bride over the years, one was the bride locking her suitors in trunks in the attic...hence the pop-up ghosts like at Disneyland that used to say "I do" when hey popped up....
The Constance storyline to me is too literal... She is bad, the entire attic tells only her story...that she was a predatory murderous woman that killed her husbands after marrying them...And aside from the Stretching portraits and the hanging Host, there isn't really any other mention of physical violent death in the attraction...I prefer vague suggestions...Spooky not violent...

This is the way. Fandom and later Imagineers ran with the character and made up a narrative using the entire mansion to support it. I much prefer the interpretation of the character as another one-off standalone entity. An emaciated morose spirit seemingly died from a broken heart. I feel like a compromise could be had with current Imagineers if they just scaled it back. Making her spiel-less would be a massive improvement. She doesn't have to be a black widow bride or vengeful. Or, if they have to go for a narrative, flip the script so she's wielding an hatchet not for murder but to cut down her beloved to be reunited with him in the afterlife. Tokyo got it mostly right with the presentation of their bride and the Attic scene in general. (until they retconned her as Constance)