Haunted Mansion Restaurant

[Rich T]

Im sorry but for me, there was nothing about that movie i liked. Just my opinion, so it really doesnt matter LOL

I liked the singing busts, and the idea that they're cursed to only speak in barbershop harmony. They also got the only real laugh in the movie: "Dad! There it is!"

 

[Bocabear]

There were so many things wrong with the movie, Academy Award Winning Production Designer John Myhre was not one of them...He also was production designer for Pirates of the Caribbean On Stranger Tides, and the upcoming Mary Poppins Returns..

 

[DznyRktekt]

Hard to believe how different Eddie Murphy movies have become since the days of Beverly Hills Cop I, II, Trading Places, and Coming To America.

 

[Prince Thomas]

Hard to believe how different Eddie Murphy movies have become since the days of Beverly Hills Cop I, II, Trading Places, and Coming To America.

Coming To America is one of my faves!

 

[Bocabear]

Coming To America is one of my faves!

Me too! I loved that movie! I think his best...Arsenio's too!

 

[jt04]

Part of the reason The Haunted Mansion ride works is the isolation you, as a rider, have from the other guests, despite hundreds of tourists sharing the same conveyer belt system. It allows you to focus on the atmosphere of the various sets and helps to keep noise to a minimum, plus it just feels creepier to be "alone" while travelling through a haunted house.

The best way to duplicate that in a restaurant setting would be to have a layout similar to Walt's at DLP. A series of smaller parlours with interconnecting hallways to give you the sense of an actual, (once) functional house. Have a music room, a library and conservatory, a "balcony" overlooking the grounds/graveyard etc.

The WORST thing they could do, is something like BOG. Big, open, convention-hall like spaces that look absurd in scale and allow the noise of children running around to constantly echo, ruining any sense of atmosphere.

I agree in principle but due to overwhelming crowds at the MK creating such intimate settings would make it exclusive and very expensive I think. Great idea for Disney Springs though.

 

[Launchpad McQuack]

As much as the PLQ itself needs to go, the acronym "PLQ" needs to go.

Whenever I read "PLQ" in a post, it just makes me think of when she kept trying to make "fetch" happen in Mean Girls.

 

[Bocabear]

Fetch is never going to happen!

 

[WDW1974]

As of now possibly 3 and bit years away?

Yup. I am thinking like end of FY'20. Something else they can market for the 50th!

 

[WDW1974]

Thank god. If you can answer Spirit will my "Beloved" Interactive Queue survive this plan?

I can't.

But I can say that despite what was spent on it, it could easily be sacrificed for almost anything now. The whole interactive queue deal is so 2010 at this point!

 

[WDW1974]

I understand the sentiment but judging by the fact that neither of us will likely be setting foot in the other major attraction in Liberty Square until 2020 at the earliest and the god-awful queue has done significant damage to the Ride. If this can undo that damage I am all for it.

I'm actually going to set foot in it because with the current Civil War II mentality, I fully expect there to be full blown fist fights on a weekly (if not daily basis). No, I'm not kidding.

 

[solidyne]

Acronyms.

Initialisms.

 

[prfctlyximprct]

But can I eat with the hatbox ghost?

 

[HMF]

I'm actually going to set foot in it because with the current Civil War II mentality, I fully expect there to be full blown fist fights on a weekly (if not daily basis). No, I'm not kidding.

I know you are not kidding but I don't see how your presence there will change that.

 

[Coaster Lover]

So, assuming this restaurant gets greenlit (if it hasn't already) do we also see significant changes/enhancements to the mansion interior to accompany the additional attention the attraction would see? Hatbox ghost? Other smaller additions? Possibly some major changes?

 

[Bocabear]

I think the enhancement will be to pump in the French Fry smell into the graveyard setting....

 

[HMF]

So, assuming this restaurant gets greenlit (if it hasn't already) do we also see significant changes/enhancements to the mansion interior to accompany the additional attention the attraction would see? Hatbox ghost? Other smaller additions? Possibly some major changes?

I wouldn't expect that until closer to the 50th.
My personal wishlist for Mansion
*Restore Red Globes to chandeliers in Corridor of Doors
*Hands go back on final door.
*A more-realistic looking Bride (preferably an animatronic.) (Keeping the portraits and Black-Widow Bride concept though.)
*Hatbox Ghost
*Restore original HHG effect and remove pointless props from HHG tableau.

 

[Haymarket2008]

I wouldn't expect that until closer to the 50th.
My personal wishlist for Mansion
*Restore Red Globes to chandeliers in Corridor of Doors
*Hands go back on final door.
*A more-realistic looking Bride (preferably an animatronic.)
*Hatbox Ghost
*Restore original HHG effect and remove pointless props from HHG tableau.

All of those are a MUST. My absolute favorite.

 

[Bairstow]

You know what I want?
I want a second "haunted" attraction at one of the other three parks so that all those Imagineers who have an itch to install some stupid new projection-based (or whatever) effect can stick it someplace useful without further adulterating a 45-year-old pop art masterpiece.

http://www./wp-content/uploads/2011/04/animated-hitchhiking-ghosts-haunted-mansion.jpg

 

[Bocabear]

It's called The Tower Of Terror... I think the original concepts had it more of a complex of buildings based on horror Genre..