unkadug
Follower of "Saget"The Cult
I just re-read it and I still do not see what exaggerated mess you are talking about.
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Sped2424
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I'm really gonna have to list everything wrong in the article? Ok then.
There was never ever not once a seen shot in Walt Disney World's haunted mansion for the terrible 2003 film with eddie murphy if you don't believe me check it out here. (x)
Tim burtons people never took a tour and just left things scattered around the mansion, the hidden jack skellintons were intential and were done by imagineering because we didn't get the overlay.
Do you think tim burton left the jack skellinton on his forehead too :0?
The spiders that used to be abundant in the scene were not relocated to the jungle cruise as many have stated that those spiders were there before the 2007 refurb got rid of them.
The maintenance story of a man who tap danced was so ridiculous and far fetched. Not to mention not a single other claim about that "story" is found anywhere.
As for the name of the raven I don't know if cast members gave him a name but it seems like they took the story of george the ghost from pirates and slapped it onto the raven. Also I doubt cast members are allowed to pet him every day before opening.
There was never an incident of a guest who tried to get leota's ball and fell and broke his leg, but people didn't hear him cause they thought his screaming was part of the ride.
The dresses the ballroom ghosts wear are not patterned off the princesses of snow white, cinderella, or sleeping beauty.
This is all just from a little research I'm sure if I was really acclimated with the mansion I could find a lot more wrong with the article. Some of the things they mentioned are true, but the rest remains an exaggerated mess.
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unkadug
Follower of "Saget"The Cult
Thank you. That makes for a much more valid point than to summarily dismiss the whole article.I'm really gonna have to list everything wrong in the article? Ok then.
There was never ever not once a seen shot in Walt Disney World's haunted mansion for the terrible 2003 film with eddie murphy if you don't believe me check it out here. (x)
Tim burtons people never took a tour and just left things scattered around the mansion, the hidden jack skellintons were intential and were done by imagineering because we didn't get the overlay.
Do you think tim burton left the jack skellinton on his forehead too :0?
The spiders that used to be abundant in the scene were not relocated to the jungle cruise as many have stated that those spiders were there before the 2007 refurb got rid of them.
The maintenance story of a man who tap danced was so ridiculous and far fetched. Not to mention not a single other claim about that "story" is found anywhere.
As for the name of the raven I don't know if cast members gave him a name but it seems like they took the story of george the ghost from pirates and slapped it onto the raven. Also I doubt cast members are allowed to pet him every day before opening.
There was never an incident of a guest who tried to get leota's ball and fell and broke his leg, but people didn't hear him cause they thought his screaming was part of the ride.
The dresses the ballroom ghosts wear are not patterned off the princesses of snow white, cinderella, or sleeping beauty.
This is all just from a little research I'm sure if I was really acclimated with the mansion I could find a lot more wrong with the article. Some of the things they mentioned are true, but the rest remains an exaggerated mess.
Sped2424
Well-Known Member
Not to sound rude but I dismissed in the first place because I figured most of those "facts" were so obviously overblown that people would understand that it was bogus.
MOXOMUMD
Well-Known Member
Obviously not I guess.
Just like that auto insurance commercial and believing everything they put on the internet.
ExtinctJenn
Well-Known Member
Here comes my date, I met him on the Internet, he's a French model!Obviously not I guess.
Figments Friend
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graphite1326
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I know this is an old post but I went on a tour of the HM. I was there as part of a group that was taking the business skills talks they give. We were under the track and in the ball room. I know how it works and I am not telling.
raven
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How what works?
graphite1326
Well-Known Member
I guess I should have said, how the ball room illusion is done. Seeing the ghost appear and disappear. Being able to see through them, etc....
raven
Well-Known Member
It's called the Pepper's Ghost effect (reflection off a sheet a glass) and the effect has been around for a few hundred years.
graphite1326
Well-Known Member
I know that along with everyone else here. It's been posted many times. I was being facetious.
Though, not intentional.
graphite1326
Well-Known Member
actually I think it is intentional
It was based off the original blueprint design for the museum of weird as a "talking chair" concept that was later scraped. The image while still reminiscent to a face; was never meant to look like Donald. Disneyland's version looks nothing like Donald! WDW's chair does have "duck-like" lines, but only because the face motif was painted more simplistic and less angular than the original.
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Nick Wilde
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How can you possibly deny the resemblance?
The resemblance is uncanny! Those two "broken image" graphics look exactly the same.
But to answer your question...We see what we want to see plain and simple.
But to answer your question...We see what we want to see plain and simple.
Djali999
Active Member
Just leaving this here for future generations:
The CM HM walking "tour" is run by trainers at the Mansion, not by Imagineering. WDI also does HM tours from time to time, usually for behind the scenes business units or managers. Regular CMs get the trainers.
The veracity of the information in these tours varies wildly depending on who does the tour. A great deal of the information in the post which started this thread is patently false. While I worked at Mansion, I often helped out several of the trainers get their information straight, but even then we had things like the guy who insisted on telling everyone that the show building for Pirates was originally built to house Western River Expedition and other similar nonsense. There's really no oversight on what is said on these things, so you can imagine that a lot of speculation and myth gets repeated. A lot of the WDW tours are that way, actually. WDI took over Keys to the Kingdom a few years ago trying to tamp down on the inaccurate info being repeated.
It is a tradition to pet the raven, however. That one was started by Ginger. At the start of the day two CMs walk the ride path, one on the left of the buggies, another on the right, so make sure that the ride is ready to open. The CM on the left pets the Conservatory raven, the one on the right pets the Graveyard Hill raven. There's nothing supernatural about it, just an old tradition. The ride starts up fine if nobody pets the raven.
The CM HM walking "tour" is run by trainers at the Mansion, not by Imagineering. WDI also does HM tours from time to time, usually for behind the scenes business units or managers. Regular CMs get the trainers.
The veracity of the information in these tours varies wildly depending on who does the tour. A great deal of the information in the post which started this thread is patently false. While I worked at Mansion, I often helped out several of the trainers get their information straight, but even then we had things like the guy who insisted on telling everyone that the show building for Pirates was originally built to house Western River Expedition and other similar nonsense. There's really no oversight on what is said on these things, so you can imagine that a lot of speculation and myth gets repeated. A lot of the WDW tours are that way, actually. WDI took over Keys to the Kingdom a few years ago trying to tamp down on the inaccurate info being repeated.
It is a tradition to pet the raven, however. That one was started by Ginger. At the start of the day two CMs walk the ride path, one on the left of the buggies, another on the right, so make sure that the ride is ready to open. The CM on the left pets the Conservatory raven, the one on the right pets the Graveyard Hill raven. There's nothing supernatural about it, just an old tradition. The ride starts up fine if nobody pets the raven.
The Hatbox Ghost
Active Member
A couple years ago I did the all-day Backstage Magic tour of all four parks and it was great. But had I known we could see behind the scenes of the HM on the Keys to the Kingdom tour I'd have done that one. Twice! The Keys to the Kingdom tour is 5 hours for $79 while the Backstage Magic was 8 hours for $255.