Haunted Mansion Refurb.

SSG

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The Haunted Mansion attraction will undergo a two-month-plus refurbishment in early 2020 after the venerable 50-year-old Disneyland dark ride finishes up its “The Nightmare Before Christmas”-themed seasonal holiday run.

The Haunted Mansion will undergo a scheduled refurbishment beginning Jan. 21 after the attraction’s holiday overlay is removed, Disneyland officials said.

The Haunted Mansion will return in spring after the interiors and exteriors are refreshed and some attraction mechanics are refurbished, Disneyland officials said.

The work will include paint and trim on the interior and exterior of the attraction along with lighting and mechanical work inside the ride building. The renovated ride will look refreshed, but no visual changes are expected to be made to the attraction.


 

George Lucas on a Bench

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It will reopen just in time to get ready to be closed for the Christmas version again.

The Haunted Mansion becomes the third Disneyland attraction to undergo an extended refurbishment in 2020. Snow White’s Scary Adventures will get a $445,000 “happily ever after” makeover

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oo_nrb

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Tokyo doesn't have the same issue every time they take down the Xmas decorations.

A big part of the problem is that the Holiday install team is asked to do the install/removal in increasingly shorter and shorter windows. This year the install was limited to 10 days, if I recall correctly, when in past years they have had 18. When there's a deadline that tight breathing down your neck, chipped paint and damaged ceiling tiles just become collateral damage.
 

Phroobar

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A big part of the problem is that the Holiday install team is asked to do the install/removal in increasingly shorter and shorter windows. This year the install was limited to 10 days, if I recall correctly, when in past years they have had 18. When there's a deadline that tight breathing down your neck, chipped paint and damaged ceiling tiles just become collateral damage.
Leaving the Mansion a mess after the take down isn't new. It's left as a disaster since they started the overlay over fifteen years ago.
 

VJ

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During this refurb, they better re-route the queue so that you enter the Mansion from the FRONT DOOR!!! Entering the Haunted Mansion from the front door is an iconic experience, a rite of passage if you will, and the fact that for 50 years you've never been able to go through the front door... it's preposterous. Eddie Murphy goes through the front door in the iconic piece of film history The Haunted Mansion (2003), so why don't we? Cheapek better fix this or I'm cancelling Disney forever!!!
 

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