HM unused elevators?

[JohnD]

Hey y’all, I just saw a tiktok that piqued my curiosity but, being a tiktok, I want to fact check it. This user claimed that WDW’s Haunted Mansion originally had plans for the Stretching rooms to be actual elevators similarly to DL’s but this was changed when it was discovered that DL was having water leakage issues. The user then went on to say that the two Otis elevators had already been ordered and produced and were reused as lifts in two other locations at the MK- the now-demolished Fantasy Faire stage, and Sonny Eclipse at Cosmic Ray’s. This is the first I’ve ever heard of this and would love some more insight!

The practical reason for an elevator at DL is that guests needed to get below the train tracks as the show building was on the other side of the tracks. The stretching room there is an actual elevator. When built at WDW, demand for the stretching room was high, so it's just a show element and the ceiling stretches upward while the guests don't move at all.

 

[Br0ckford]

The practical reason for an elevator at DL is that guests needed to get below the train tracks as the show building was on the other side of the tracks. The stretching room there is an actual elevator. When built at WDW, demand for the stretching room was high, so it's just a show element and the ceiling stretches upward while the guests don't move at all.

Is it actually stretching, or is it your imagination?

 

[lazyboy97o]

The practical reason for an elevator at DL is that guests needed to get below the train tracks as the show building was on the other side of the tracks. The stretching room there is an actual elevator. When built at WDW, demand for the stretching room was high, so it's just a show element and the ceiling stretches upward while the guests don't move at all.

Magic Kingdom was going to have the elevators as well. It was a rather late decision to change how the Stretching Rooms functioned.