THE 1HAPPY HAUNT
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New enhancements coming to WDW's Haunted Mansion for the 50th anniversary?
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Sped2424
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BRING BACK MAN IN THE WEB
Fantasmicguy
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Unpopular opinion. That movie was overhated!
999th Happy Haunt
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Very unpopular
MotherOfBirds
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Makes a fantastic Halloween drinking game, though. I'll pray for your liver.
Sped2424
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I don't think the films problems were Eddie Murphy truly. He actually did a pretty great job for what he had to work with. Haunted Mansion should have never been meant to be a feel good family romp about a suburban dad reconnecting with his kids!
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Janir
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Having just seen the holiday overlay in DLR last year, I agree with the FL guests. The overlay wasn't very fun, felt very slapped on and just didn't fit the themeing of HM. You'd think it would, but it doesn't.
Y'all are killing me with the DL HM and DLP Phantom Manor stuff. Both were closed when I visited those parks! 
Bocabear
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I hope they restore the moving candelabra in the conservatory (outside)...Seems like that does not work anymore ...
And I like that they added the Sinister 11 portraits to the loading hall...Makes it look more like it is in a house rather than an odd dark space.
Did they used to have mist projectors on the far back wall in there? Seems like I remember that but might be confused with the California version... What would be amazing is to add the grand staircase from the DLP version....that is amazing...Of course done to match the architecture, but that set adds so much dimension to the overall loading scene...and also makes it feel more like it is in an actual mansion...as opposed to a show building. The Music room exterior outside the window should likewise get a matching projection cyclorama so that the storm is visible in both the portrait gallery, music room,and ballroom... The DLP Storm sequence in the grand stair hall is amazing in person!
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And I like that they added the Sinister 11 portraits to the loading hall...Makes it look more like it is in a house rather than an odd dark space.
Did they used to have mist projectors on the far back wall in there? Seems like I remember that but might be confused with the California version... What would be amazing is to add the grand staircase from the DLP version....that is amazing...Of course done to match the architecture, but that set adds so much dimension to the overall loading scene...and also makes it feel more like it is in an actual mansion...as opposed to a show building. The Music room exterior outside the window should likewise get a matching projection cyclorama so that the storm is visible in both the portrait gallery, music room,and ballroom... The DLP Storm sequence in the grand stair hall is amazing in person!
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ryan1
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I'd like the exterior trees back partially blocking the view of the building in order to return the feeling you are walking up to a long abandoned mansion that has not been landscaped. It no longer feels eerie. Also, bring back the howling wolf.
I'm ok with most of the "enhancements" from '07 but nothing else original needs to be tinkered with. Just clean it up and make sure everything is working correctly and in sync.
I'm ok with most of the "enhancements" from '07 but nothing else original needs to be tinkered with. Just clean it up and make sure everything is working correctly and in sync.
Magenta Panther
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Another thing TDO needs to do for the Mansion is restore the original Hitchhiking Ghosts effect. The old version was convincing. The new version is a blurry cartoon that you go by so fast you can barely grasp what the ghosts are doing. It's a major fail.
Dragonman
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I’ve heard California originally had a alternate version of the hitchhiking ghost mirror effect that was like wispy wraiths encircling the doom buggy and that it was used in case the main effect failed, although few have seen it from what I’ve heard: https://longforgottenhauntedmansion.blogspot.com/2010/04/hitchhikers-in-mirror.html
It would be cool if they reinstalled this
It would be cool if they reinstalled this
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xdan0920
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tirian
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Same here. I enjoyed the movie before Hot Topic made it popular, but I never liked the overlay. Plus, I absolutely hate how Disney Entertainment tethers most of New Orleans Square to NBC during the holiday season. That’s the only BGM throughout the streets and cafés. It’s nothing like the real Nola during Christmas—just a giant commercial for one movie.
tirian
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True. It was fun when it opened because the animations were simpler, but over the years, WDI has overcomplicated the FX — FX that are frequently broken anyway.
Here’s an idea. Fix the timing so that guests actually hear the Ghost Host when they enter, and so the stretching rooms don’t start before the doors are closed. Those problems are easy to correct.
EricsBiscuit
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Oh yeah, let’s go backwards in technology. Great idea!
Raineman
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I do not have any emotional connection to the pre-2007 refurb HM-I did not ride HM for the first time until 2014. Based on that fact, I love the attraction just the way it is. I would love to see some freshening up, fixing of broken effects, adding Hattie, etc, but no major changes. Besides, any major changes would most likely result in a lengthy refurb (or refurbs) and we don't want HM to turn into Splash Mountain with fairly lengthy refurbs almost every year.
Actually, Florida's pop-up ghosts are also in sync with the music. Tokyo's, on the other hand, are random.
The point is that there are changes that didn't need to happen, changes that are inferior to the original effects. I'd take an animatronic hitchhiking ghost in the mirror over a low-quality CGI ghost anyday. The original effect made me wonder "How do they do that?" unlike the new effect where it's clearly done with computers and doesn't work half the time.