Hatbox Ghost is Disney World?

[lazyboy97o]

Snotty attitude aside, if I'm wrong, then I'm wrong. I knew they were designed together but the final results are pretty different between the 2 HM's and I assumed since they found out years before MK's debuted that it wasn't going in that WED moved on from the idea of a HBG in MK pretty quickly.

Where was it going to be?

The figures and scenic elements were built at the same time. The figure would have gone in the same place it was in in 1969.

 

[prfctlyximprct]

Okay so I watched the video of the hatbox ghost and I don't understand what all the fuss is about? Am I missing something?

 

[HMF]

Snotty attitude aside, if I'm wrong, then I'm wrong. I knew they were designed together but the final results are pretty different between the 2 HM's and I assumed since they found out years before MK's debuted that it wasn't going in that WED moved on from the idea of a HBG in MK pretty quickly.

Where was it going to be?

I am 99% certain that had the Hatbox Ghost effect worked in 1969 he would have appeared in the WDW Mansion in 1971.

 

[lazyboy97o]

Okay so I watched the video of the hatbox ghost and I don't understand what all the fuss is about? Am I missing something?

Overhyped Internet lore regarding an effect that didn't work right.

 

[prfctlyximprct]

Overhyped Internet lore regarding an effect that didn't work right.

So it's like the yeti of Disneyland?

 

[HMF]

Okay so I watched the video of the hatbox ghost and I don't understand what all the fuss is about? Am I missing something?

A simple understanding of the history behind the figure is a large part of his appeal.

 

[lazyboy97o]

So it's like the yeti of Disneyland?

Not quite.

 

[mouse_luv]

That is more of a comment on WDW Management who won't ever let rides close long enough to install holiday overlays.

More like there is more of a demand by tourists at WDW MK and many of them only go once, so that is why the mansion does not get the NBC layover.

 

[lazyboy97o]

More like there is more of a demand by tourists at WDW MK and many of them only go once, so that is why the mansion does not get the NBC layover.

There really is not. It's just a lame excuse to not bother.

 

[Andrew C]

That is absolutely ridiculous.

I may have not been on this forum since the beginning of the internet. But I have been around this forum long enough reading everyone's posts to know that it absolutely is NOT ridiculous. Just this thread on its own proves my point.

 

[Californian Elitist]

I may have not been on this forum since the beginning of the internet. But I have been around this forum long enough reading everyone's posts to know that it absolutely is NOT ridiculous. Just this thread on its own proves my point.

The majority of people who praise Disneyland on this site are WDW vets, not DL vets. The number of DL folk on this site, true, legit folk who've grown up with the place and regularly post on the DL forum can be counted on one hand. We keep to ourselves in the DL forum and rarely, if never, bring up WDW. Our conversations are 99% about the Disneyland Resort.

The DL folk on this thread have stated we prefer to keep the parks different and unique, both the DLR ones and the WDW ones. How did you constitute that as us believing Disneyland is superior and wanting to keep it that way?

 

[Andrew C]

The DL folk on this thread have stated we prefer to keep the parks different and unique, both the DLR ones and the WDW ones. How did you constitute that as us believing Disneyland is superior and wanting to keep it that way?

I did not constitute anything with just this one statement you mention. But reading this entire thread and I start to see a trend. And then reading past threads and current ones, I see a very clear picture.

Of course, I would not expect anyone to admit to this.

 

[Californian Elitist]

I did not constitute anything with just this one statement you mention. But reading this entire thread and I start to see a trend. And then reading past threads and current ones, I see a very clear picture.

Of course, I would not expect anyone to admit to this.

Okay.

 

[George Lucas on a Bench]

WDW is lucky to not have that God awful Christmas version for 5 months.

 

[lazyboy97o]

The majority of people who praise Disneyland on this site are WDW vets, not DL vets. The number of DL folk on this site, true, legit folk who've grown up with the place and regularly post on the DL forum can be counted on one hand. We keep to ourselves in the DL forum and rarely, if never, bring up WDW. Our conversations are 99% about the Disneyland Resort.

The DL folk on this thread have stated we prefer to keep the parks different and unique, both the DLR ones and the WDW ones. How did you constitute that as us believing Disneyland is superior and wanting to keep it that way?

Phrases like "true, legit folk" aren't helping your point.

Being disingenuous is a classic stereotype of those feigning superiority. Unfortunately, for whatever reasons, there has been a lot of attachment to an argument that is based on stretching a simple statement of fact to mean something that is not true.

 

[Californian Elitist]

Phrases like "true, legit folk" aren't helping your point.

Being disingenuous is a classic stereotype of those feigning superiority. Unfortunately, for whatever reasons, there has been a lot of attachment to an argument that is based on stretching a simple statement of fact to mean something that is not true.

I was solely referring to the "unique" factor, so in that case, that phrase does help my point.

In regards to the Hatbox subject, just because people are arguing about whether this one animatronic truly belonged in Florida or not, that doesn't automatically mean people believe Disneyland is so superior and want to see WDW inferior. That is one of the most strangest things one could get from that. While I disagree the company had no intentions on putting Hattie in MK, I don't appreciate people taking that argument, twisting it, and saying I and others believe Disneyland is superior and want to keep it that way. It's absurd.

I'm done talking about this, as I never argued about Hattie's place in MK's Mansion anyway.

 

[lazyboy97o]

I was solely referring to the "unique" factor, so in that case, that phrase does help my point.

In regards to the Hatbox subject, just because people are arguing about whether this one animatronic truly belonged in Florida or not, that doesn't automatically mean people believe Disneyland is so superior and want to see WDW inferior. That is one of the most strangest things one could get from that. While I disagree the company had no intentions on putting Hattie in MK, I don't appreciate people taking that argument, twisting it, and saying I and others believe Disneyland is superior and want to keep it that way. It's absurd.

I'm done talking about this, as I never argued about Hattie's place in MK's Mansion anyway.

It's not really a big twist. It is a rather prevalent stereotype that people lie to look superior to others.

 

[HMF]

More like there is more of a demand by tourists at WDW MK and many of them only go once, so that is why the mansion does not get the NBC layover.

That's exactly what Phil Holmes wants you to think.

 

[englanddg]

That's exactly what Phil Holmes wants you to think.

And, I'm happy to keep thinking it.

I hope we never get overlays. The Cake Castle was enough...and that was nearly 20 years ago.

(We'll just pretend Stitch didn't happen)

 

[Magenta Panther]

I think Hatty ought to be exclusive to Disneyland's Mansion. That's where he first appeared (for only a day, it seems). He has historical context there. That's what makes his reappearance so special.