Tha Realest
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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.
It looks like the candelabra has returned.
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)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...
Agreed that the dark and mysterious Bride was best. Part of the genius of rides like Mansion and Pirates is that there's so much space for your imagination to mingle - the actions of the characters are well defined but their identities and motivations are often ambiguous enough for your mind to fill in the blanks as it sees fit.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?
Most likely, No.Constance has got to go someday, right?
The timing is independent of the doombuggies. They just switch back and forth between the two with equal amount of time. It's just coincidence and timing of your riding.Slightly off topic, but am I the only person who seeing the headless portraits in reverse? By that I mean, EVERY one of them I see the man headless first and then he “regains” his head as I continue to view it. Surely it’s meant to be seen the other way right? So that we know they all lost their heads? My fixation on that each time I ride takes me out of the malevolence of the attic each time.
The effect is positional. If you stayed still, there would be no transformations.The timing is independent of the doombuggies. They just switch back and forth between the two with equal amount of time. It's just coincidence and timing of your riding.
The portraits aren't lenticular - if your Doombuggy gets stopped in the Attic the portraits will still continue changing.The effect is positional. If you stayed still, there would be no transformations.
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It's actually a two layer scrim with lighting in front and behind.The effect is positional. If you stayed still, there would be no transformations.
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Is this a Liberace joke?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.
Maybe it's the pearls....In each of the photos with the husband, she gains a pearl to her necklace, as his head disappears.
I'll leave those to the Country Bears.Is this a Liberace joke?
It's actually a two layer scrim with lighting in front and behind.
At 8:35 you can see the doom buggy stopped and the transformations continue looping. While Disney loves their lenticulars for promos and merchandise, they're even on the construction walls for the mansion at Disneyland, I don't think they've ever been used inside any mansion.
I very much assumed this was how the heads work. Now I’m wondering why the effect isn’t more timed with the positioning of the doom buggies.The only lenticular I can think of that featured inside one of the Mansions was this one from the wall that hid Disneyland's Hatbox Ghost install. Bats like the ones from the stanchions appeared to fly around inside the window as you rode by. Never quite understood what they were going for there, but it was a lenticular:
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Do you want to know how it works? Because I’ve seen it not work properly at DLI very much assumed this was how the heads work. Now I’m wondering why the effect isn’t more timed with the positioning of the doom buggies.
The different practical effects of the mansion are fascinating!
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