Mystic Manor at HKDL Video

[Bairstow]

The Walt Disney Company: Making dreams come true when governments force us.

 

[GiveMeTheMusic]

The Government of Hong Kong essentially demanded the expansion of Hong Kong Disneyland because they felt ripped off by the initial build out of the park.

The grand project for Disney's California Adventure was announced before Disney wanted in order to convince the City of Anaheim not to rezone portions of the Anaheim Resort District. Since then the Phase II has become largely forgotten.

There has been no grand infusion of cash into Walt Disney Studios Park. The Walt Disney Company purchased Euro Disney SCA's debt, but the debt situation needed massive changes and Disney had poked around other means of not being the ones to pay the cash up front.

I didn't say the motives were pure. It's just happened to work out that way, and right or wrong, they'll get credit for it.

While there's no big infusion for WDS (which it needs), Rat is not cheap. DLRP hasn't had that kind of a build in forever.

And HK was right to be ed - that park sucked the big one and Disney built it cheap on purpose.

 

[DisneyWall-E]

WOW!!! That is amazing. Why cant TDO build something like this?
I think if they tweak the story a bit and play up the artifacts from around the world this would be a ( I dare to use the word, perfect, but somehow I don't even think that word quite denotes what I am trying to say) ride for Animal Kingdom.
sorry if this has already been said.

 

[misterID]

Did anyone else catch this Haunted Mansion cameo?

I noticed the painting and thought it was pretty cool, but never noticed the marble head figures

 

[Mad Stitch]

I watched the video a second time and noticed something new. The Albert animatronic is wearing a fez at the start of the ride, but during the ride it gets blown away. When you return to the room with the Albert animatronic and the music box, the fez is gone. What great attention to detail.

With all of the projections I’m glad they didn’t make them 3D. It seems to be a trend with projection lately and I was getting tired of be handed 3D glasses at every newer attraction, especially at Universal.

 

[Calvin Coolidge]

I watched the video a second time and noticed something new. The Albert animatronic is wearing a fez at the start of the ride, but during the ride it gets blown away. When you return to the room with the Albert animatronic and the music box, the fez is gone. What great attention to detail.

Not to spoil the illusion...but that's not the same room

 

[Mad Stitch]

Not to spoil the illusion...but that's not the same room

Oh wow, that's cool. Since it's a trackless system I thought they were repurposing the same room by alternating the show opening and closing.

 

[wdwmagic]

Anyone know who worked on this?

 

[Bairstow]

Jerry Rees and Danny Elfman, for starters.

 

[WDW97]

I could see a version in DHS, but the story could be about movie props.

 

[Nmoody1]

Imagination is written all over this - and let's face it, in its current form it needs some imagination. A park like Epcot should be embracing new ride technology - lets hope for a trackless high tech imagination some time around 2075 - in time for WDW's centenary,,,

 

[Vader2112]

Ahh if it came to AK the monkey would be in B mode 6 months after it opens and the strobe light budget would be blown.

 

[Vader2112]

That would be so cool if Little Mermaid used LPS, advanced audio-animatronics and groundbreaking special effects like featured on Mystic Manor...

Would be nice if they just hid several of the componets to the showpieces in VOTLM. What a disappointment.

 

[Greenkai3000]

Amazing ride! I wonder what the queue is like? Imagine if the folks at Oriental Land Company duplicate this ride in Tokyo!

 

[Calvin Coolidge]

Anyone know who worked on this?

I've seen some indication that Andy Sinclair-Harris, a Hong Kong-based Imagineer, worked on the concept for it
https://twitter.com/1lowereastside

 

[Jones14]

Not to spoil the illusion...but that's not the same room

Honestly, that just makes it better. The fact that the rooms look exactly the same, especially being so detailed, plus the fact that the monkey's hat is consistent with the story just brings the ride up that much more in my appreciation of it. Is it the most ambitious ride ever built? Heck no. Is it a quality dark ride with innovative use of technology and no easily discernible flaws as far as I can tell? Absolutely. Bravo to everyone involved with this project.

 

[TinkerBelle8878]

Now this is a ride I wouldn't mind seeing cloned at WDW.

 

[TropicalFig8]

I read somewhere that Frank Welker voiced Albert the Monkey. I'm curious about who voiced Henry Mystic.

 

[SpectroMan93]

For some reason, I think this would be a great fit in Adventureland. I've always felt that of the lands, it is the weakest attraction-wise (I think of Liberty Square as a mini-land, so it gets a pass) and Mystic Manor has that mystical, adventurous feel that would allow it to blend in well with the surrounding theme.

 

[FigmentJedi]

I read somewhere that Frank Welker voiced Albert the Monkey. I'm curious about who voiced Henry Mystic.

Stephen Stanton, who is the current voice of the Riverboat Captain at Disneyland's Rivers of America as well as the voice of Tarkin on Star Wars the Clone Wars.