mitchk said:
Good Lord I hope not..........what a way to ruin a perfectly good attraction by dressing it up with a horrid movie theme....
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Haunted Mansion Holiday at Orlando
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Good Lord I hope not..........what a way to ruin a perfectly good attraction by dressing it up with a horrid movie theme....
I’ll be there for MNSSHP regardless so if it is up that will just be a little bit of gravy.KevinPage said:Tokyo had it last year, it was supposed to go to WDW in 2004, but they decided to allot the extra $$$ for SGE (wonder what happened to the $$$?) :lol:
No one has any info if it's coming this year or not, which ISN'T a good sign normally
psuchad said:
I agree. We were in Disney Anaheim ( :lookaroun ) last year and they had it closed for the application of the theme. Another thing I was shocked at was the gift shop that was almost totally a Nightmare Before Christmas shop. I mean, it was an ok animated movie, but they have done nothing with it since. No sequal, no tv animated series.....its just there to capture a nich Disney didnt have....the gothic crowd.....give me a break.
jmuboy
Well-Known Member
PSUCHAD - The installation and removal of HMH does not take 4 months every year. It is true that in the first year of the HMH the rehabs before and after do take a long time. Thuis is partly due to WDW's neglected maintenance of this ride and partly due to the techical requirements of the HMH overlay.
After the first year, the HMH overlay only takes one month to install and one month to remove. This is also the time the annual rehabs of the ride are done. So basically, you have the real HM for 7 months, the HMH for 3 months and a rehab for 2 months every year. It's not bad and helps keep things fresh.
After the first year, the HMH overlay only takes one month to install and one month to remove. This is also the time the annual rehabs of the ride are done. So basically, you have the real HM for 7 months, the HMH for 3 months and a rehab for 2 months every year. It's not bad and helps keep things fresh.
jmuboy said:
They dont rehab major attractions for two months every year. Thats absurd.
parker kim
New Member
I really hope they do this and keep it up year after year. We won't be there until oct. 06. My son who will be almost 15 then and he loves NBC. This would be a geart suprise for his.
parker kim said:
ImagineAtl23
Active Member
Really ?
That would be cool but i havent heard anything about it, sorry
That would be cool but i havent heard anything about it, sorry
KumbaRider
Member
Right now everything is either speculation or a rumor.
Chux
Member
hakunamatata said:
You have no soul, at all. It was just like I was telling my girlfriend while we were walking in the MK last week, for every 1 person who doesn't fear a small change there are at least 10 on the internet who moan about the smallest things. It'll be up for 2 months or so, then back, you'll live.
While I wish we got it, we won't get it for quite some time. My sources say.... The Haunted Mansion is too big of a draw to close it for 2 months for a makeover rehab that will have limited appear for 2 out of the 3 months of its duration.
But then again, that's the reason they gave me for SWH, and I can't see it for that.
Maybe he's just full of it.
But then again, that's the reason they gave me for SWH, and I can't see it for that.
Maybe he's just full of it.
KaliSplash
Well-Known Member
hakunamatata said:
Amen! Amen! Amen!
TP2000
Well-Known Member
Chux said:
Very true.
Funny thing is, in the summer of 2001 when the word had gotten out that they were going to do a NBC overlay to the Haunted Mansion at Disneyland, the Disneyland fans on the Internet were in an UPROAR. Many of the comments in this thread were repeated almost verbatim by the Disneyland fans back in '01. The vast majority of the Disneyland fans were convinced that this would be a disaster, that the ride would be populated with cardboard cutouts of Jack Skellington and lots of Christmas tinsel in a shameless attempt to sell t-shirts. Even some of the die-hard NBC fans were upset about it because they felt it would somehow denigrate their favorite movie. The buzz about Haunted Mansion Holiday in the months leading up to it's 2001 debut was definitely not positive, and many people expected the worst and were ready to crucify Disney management when the ride opened on October 1st.
And then the ride opened and everyone went on it. And within days the word spread that not only was this seasonal overlay to a popular E Ticket good, but it was simply amazing. Even the harshest critics changed their tune, and stood in the long lines for Haunted Mansion Holiday like everyone else. And what lines! The Haunted Mansion hadn't seen lines that long since Richard Nixon was in office, and year after year the long lines return for Haunted Mansion Holiday. It's only eclipsed in popularity by Small World Holiday, which has a more universal appeal to the Christmastime crowds.
I'm more of a Pirates and Indy fan myself, but I do go on Haunted Mansion occasionally. I've never actually watched NBC in it's entirety, but I NEVER miss Haunted Mansion Holiday. The complete changeout of the music & dialogue, the sight gags, the animatronics, the exterior of the house and queue, and the fact that not a single corner of the attraction is left untouched by the Holiday decorators really sends the whole thing over the top. (And for what it's worth, Disneyland takes four weeks in September and three weeks in January to install and remove the Holiday version & simultaneously do general rehab stuff. It's 7 weeks of the year that is wisely invested in the maintenance of this amazing 36 year old ride.)
Last time I rode Haunted Mansion at WDW I was dumbstruck by how neglected and poorly maintained it seemed. Half the effects didn't work, the CM's didn't even bother doing the spiel in the expanding room and just left both sets of doors open to wander right into the loading area, and the sound kept cutting in and out on my buggy. Maybe I caught it on a bad day, but it was pathetic.
I would bet two churros that if WDW spent two months installing their first version of HMH, using some of that time to spruce up the ride system and animatronics overall, that the East Coasters would be just as amazed and thrilled at the end result as the West Coasters were four years ago. Tokyo has since borrowed both Small World Holiday and Haunted Mansion Holiday, and reports are that both seasonal rides are just as overwhelmingly popular there too.
WDW's Magic Kingdom Park needs some TLC and a genuine hit, and Haunted Mansion Holiday seems just the ticket.
MiRi
Member
TP2000: Very very good post! I agree with you 100%. The WDW HM needs some major upgrades. Even if I wasn't an NMBC fan, I'd still go for HMH just because the HM needs the upgrades. I really wish that some people would realize what good this would do to our HM if it gets the HMH overlay before bashing it.
