Update from my post: the part arrived, the candelabra has been repaired and is fully functional.
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.
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.
Yes.
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.
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.
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?
Definitely back. I saw it last night.
