HM doom buggy question

[mitchjs]

I just got back from WDW, and felt i was rushed though the Haunted Mansion...

barely got to look at the attraction

i rode it twice in a row (at midnight) and felt the doom buggies are going faster then i remember

anyone know if they can change the rate at which they move
(to process more people)

and it was extra magic hours, and 0 wait time, and it booked through

mitch

 

[brertigger]

I don't think they change the speed, except when they put it on creep mode (which slows everything down, for a slow loading guest). They use it, so hopefully they won't have to stop the ride for the guest.

Sometimes it might seem that they are loading quicker, but that is usually when you walk down the belt more, so they can load more buggys at once (they do do this sometimes). The only problem with this is that sometimes you can have very little time to get in. Recently a few friends and I were riding and they were doing this. Well, we were trying to decide how to divide up our group of 4 as we went down the belt. We barely were able to load before the lapbar closes (they were having everyone walk almost 1/2 way down the belt at the time).

 

[Rockin Roller]

Since the Haunted Mansion doesnt have a fastpass anymore if the wait becomes pretty long they may speed up the ride by a tiny bit.This rarely ever happens. And I have a question to, whenever you ride the haunted mansion does it always seem to break down for about 2 minutes?

 

[DisneySam]

When the ride seems to "break down" its actually just stopping for some special assistance guests to board the ride.

At peak times it does seem to go faster just because there is a higher guest volume. Usually I ride 2x first thing and then again after dark. The first ride goes alot more slowly as you would expect because there arent a million people in queue.

Well anyway hope that helps. I <3 the HM!

 

[bayoutinkbelle]

Since the Haunted Mansion doesnt have a fastpass anymore if the wait becomes pretty long they may speed up the ride by a tiny bit.This rarely ever happens. And I have a question to, whenever you ride the haunted mansion does it always seem to break down for about 2 minutes?

I rode twice on my trip two weeks ago and, both times, the ride stopped for maybe a minute or so. I'd always assumed this happened to accommodate guests in wheelchairs and such. It was a first for me, though (well, at least the first time).

I've never noticed a difference in the speed of the cars. Sorry you didn't get to enjoy the ride, mitch.

 

[Simba1]

I worked at the Haunted Mansion for four months during my College Program. I can tell you that it never sped up or slowed down aside from the assistance of guests with disabilities. A few years ago, the load belt was slowed down to make it easier for guests to board, but the unload belt moves at the same speed as the buggies. To my knowledge, the doom buggies move at 3.5 miles per hour. Hope that helps!

 

[mitchjs]

well then, I WANT IT SLOWED DOWN!!!!!

i would like to enjoy more leota spiel, and get closer looks at the fine details the imagineers put into it...

know what would be cool, to increase the size of the show building, and add to the ride, its too damm short at 3.5mph!


i have listened to the audio tracks hundereds of times, still inperson it really is cool, and it is so dated and remains cool

i love when u get in the "stretch rooms" with a bunch of other HM nuts and we all recite "the Ghost Host" lines!

even my 14yr old joined in!! (i guess since others were doing it, daddy isnt that wierd)

mitch

 

[WDWSwashbuckler]

I too worked on HM during my CP. The ride never speeds up and the slow down time is so slow you would not like to ride the entire way through on the speed setting. It's really quite slow indeed.

 

[kcnole]

i love when u get in the "stretch rooms" with a bunch of other HM nuts and we all recite "the Ghost Host" lines!

I personally hate this. I didn't come to ride this attraction to hear a bunch of people recite all the lines to show off how smart they are. I know the lines too, but I don't want to hear Bill from Texas telling them to me.

 

[CommandoDisney]

i like the speed it goes at. yeah, im not gonna get to see everything on one ride but thats what makes it so great. everytime i go on, i see something new (or at least forgot about) so its not the same boring ride everytime. the HM has very good repeatability!

 

[BG Rugger]

I think the more you like a ride tha faster it seems to go. Space Mountain and The Great Movie Ride always seems to go too fast for me. Einstein's theory of relativity and all that I guess...

 

[BG Rugger]

i like the speed it goes at. yeah, im not gonna get to see everything on one ride but thats what makes it so great. everytime i go on, i see something new (or at least forgot about) so its not the same boring ride everytime. the HM has very good repeatability!

Exellent point!

 

[nelsonj3]

I agree with the above comments. I think it has a lot to do with perception. There are times I've rode rides and felt like they were moving at exactly the right speed, and I got to enjoy all of the details, and there have also been times when I rode rides that I felt like I was being rushed through to ride. When I feel like I'm being rushed, I just ride it a couple more times. (except for Soarin' which is next to impossible to ride twice in a row without waiting an hour in between).

Somebody once told me... Perception is greater than reality! (Whoa... that was deep! :lol: )

 

[mitchjs]

but id like to spend more time in the grave yard, there is so much detail there!

the ride never "stops" for me there

last time it stopped for me was at the spiders's webs (not much to see there)
they need to change em to AA spiders!

mitch

 

[DisneySam]

Last time I got stopped where the doors are knocking and "some are dying to get out" my least favorite part. I wish it had been duing Leota's seance!

 

[blackerbys17]

A liitle off topic but when I rode the HM this past Friday I noticed we lost audio in our doom buggy shortly after the "ghost waltz" scene and didn't get it back until right before the hitchhiking ghosts. That happen to anybody else?

 

[brertigger]

I think the more you like a ride tha faster it seems to go. Space Mountain and The Great Movie Ride always seems to go too fast for me....

Very true. I love Space Mountain too (along with EE, Splash, and Big Thunder). It also seems that the rides seem to go faster the more you go on them. Like, one evening I went on Big Thunder Mountain over 8 times in a row. It seemed quicker near the end, probably because I was expecting all the turns, plus did not want to leave the park for the night!

 

[Mansionfan]

Actually, there *are* no further Ghost Host comments in your doombuggy from the Grand Hall until you enter that crypt at the end of the graveyard. As he says just before our viewing the party going on down below: "The happy haunts have received your sympathetic vibrations and are beginning to materialize. They're assembling for a *swinging* wake, and will be expecting ME. I'll see you all a little later..."

 

[blackerbys17]

Hmmm, well, actually I never heard that part of "receiving vibrations" after the grand hall. As a matter of fact, I kept hearing a weird humming coming from the speakers but no audio. Oh well, I'll have to pay attention when I go again this weekend.

 

[ToTBellHop]

I worked at the Haunted Mansion for four months during my College Program. I can tell you that it never sped up or slowed down aside from the assistance of guests with disabilities. A few years ago, the load belt was slowed down to make it easier for guests to board, but the unload belt moves at the same speed as the buggies. To my knowledge, the doom buggies move at 3.5 miles per hour. Hope that helps!

3.5 mph? That can't be. If you walk at 3.5 mph, that's a relatively brisk pace--and the CMs there are certainly not walking at that speed. I think it's more like 1 mph. I would feel very sorry for the CMs if they were being forced to walk 28 miles in an 8-hour work day...