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[mickEblu]

The face just needs to be widened.

Yeah it’s hard for me to believe this was the design intent. Something isn’t being executed quite like they hoped.

 

[Consumer]

The bride just looks too much like a video game character and too detached from reality. It needs to be a physical figure or else it doesn’t feel present.

 

[mickEblu]

The bride just looks too much like a video game character and too detached from reality. It needs to be a physical figure or else it doesn’t feel present.

Not sure why they didn’t just revert to a modernized version of the 70s to 95 figure? Instead we got a beating heart mute Constance.

 

[Consumer]

Not sure why they didn’t just revert to a modernized version of the 70s to 95 figure? Instead we got a beating heart mute Constance.

Exactly. It would have been easier and cheaper, but I guess then WDI’s ego wouldn’t have been satisfied if they didn’t do something unique.

 

[mickEblu]

Exactly. It would have been easier and cheaper, but I guess then WDI’s ego wouldn’t have been satisfied if they didn’t do something unique.

Exactly it. Great point. Same reason they didn’t include Facilier (or a replacement) in TBA.

 

[HMF]

My article on the history of the attic with my thoughts on the new bride.

The History of the "Heart" of Disney's Haunted Mansion

The Haunted Mansion's Attic Scene's evolution through the years.

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[splah]

the doombuggies stop right at the bride for an extended period in this video


I want to like it, but i think there's just too much going on. continues the lesson someone needs to desperately teach WDI. Less is more.

 

[SuddenStorm]

This is also just a grim reminder that no one in WDI has the talent to design figures that fit alongside Marc Davis's designs- pirates and Mansion both suffer heavily from this now since they keep insisting on messing with these.

 

[mickEblu]

Just a reminder, they created the below effect in the 60’s. Compare her to the new bride we just got. WDI- ambition is great but sometimes you have to scale it back if you can’t do it right.

 

[Magenta Panther]

I understand some of the naysaying about the new bride...but I still think she's a vast improvement over Constance. I like her design, which probably looks better in person, and getting rid of the axe-murderer aspect was probably a good idea. My one caveat is that I wish she'd do something besides float...maybe have tears streaming down her face. I presume she's a ghost in mourning, since she lost so many husbands (whose deaths were apparently not her doing). She could be called the Weeping Widow ghost, or something. Anyway, I like this change. Kudos to Imagineering. Doesn't make up for the desecration of Splash Mountain, but at least it's not a disaster.

 

[mickEblu]

Notice how the viewing angle for the bride is actually very narrow? Right across in front of her is a 45 degree panel of glass across the the diagonal beams:
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They did well masking most things from the mirror. But check out this stack of boxes and dishes here:
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You can see it pretty clearly in the top left of the mirror floating by:
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Best seen in action at 8:40

Is this why her face is so narrow? Also, can we talk about how ghost Constance looks nothing like the Constance in the portraits now?

 

[MisterPenguin]

She's just a little light headed.

 

[Vclguy90]

She looks like the ghost of Christmas past.

 

[Professortango1]

She needs to be more like this guy.

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Yes, he has Klippel-Feil syndrome. Are we mocking people for Health Conditions they were born unto?

 

[Phroobar]

Ram Man is that you?

 

[MerlinTheGoat]

To the comments about the bride's face and neck having "unnaturally" long and thin proportions. This is the intended design, she is no longer a replication of a true to life human anymore. Constance was already one of the very small handful of characters that used a video recording of a real live actor's face, same as Leota and the singing busts. However, the remainder and vast majority of the characters in the ride were designed by Marc Davis and had his traditionally stylized and hyper exaggerated facial features that were not supposed to look like real people.

This new bride is definitely no longer trying to look "real", it has very similar features to many of Marc Davis' female characters. I can think of several of his designs off the top of my head that have similarly thin lanky features to this bride in fact. In particular, a bit of Anita from 101 Dalmations and even Maleficent's extremely thin face and neck and her high cheek bones.

If you're not into this style, that's fine. But I do get the sense that some of you outright just didn't even catch the fact that the bride was deliberately redesigned not to look like a real human anymore. I don't usually call people out like this. But I do think some of yall are getting a bit ridiculous with at least some of your criticisms (not all of course as it isn't my personal favorite bride either). And i'm sorry but you may actually be a bit crazy if you think this looks better by comparison, because woof-