News New Haunted Mansion Grounds Expansion, Retail Shop Coming to Disneyland Resort in 2024

[Disney Analyst]

 

[mickEblu]

Oh cool! Universal lent them one of the Desperate Housewives houses?

 

[J4546]

looks good imo, saw it in person monday!

 

[Myerffej]

It's an enormous, awkward building that's totally out of style and scale. It completely blocks the views of splash/Tiana's walking inward and the view of the mansion going outward. Creative needs to do their homework. What happened to weenies?

 

[CaptinEO]

AMAZING! STUNNING! PHENOMENAL! WOW!

 

[lazyboy97o]

This is incredibly nitpicky, but the window in the gable has such delicate gothic revival/folk Victorian details it makes me wish the building didn’t have those thick, vaguely Craftsmen eaves and braces. There isn’t really any historical precedent for it, while the mansion itself is a close approximation of a genuine historical building. I think some gothic tracery in the gable would be more fitting (and also quite spooky). There are plenty of extant country carriage houses with it across the United States. It would also help ground the setting as 19th century Louisiana.

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Suburban design. Bits and bobs from here and there with no consistency.

 

[mickEblu]

Who’s excited for DL Forward? They’re going to kill it! Just like this HM store and TBA!

 

[chadwpalm]

Looks like the concept art got lost in the mail on the way to the contractor's trailer.

 

[chadwpalm]

 

[Disney Irish]

looks good imo, saw it in person monday!

I think it looks good too.

 

[Disney Irish]

Who’s excited for DL Forward?

I still am despite others opinions on this or any other project. I think it’s easier to do something creative on a blank canvas.

 

[Disney Analyst]

I think it looks good too.

I also think it looks nice. Comparing it to a prefab shed seems a bit disingenuous and hyperbolic.

I feel assured that once final thematic touches are added, and doors are opened with guests flowing in and out, it will look even more complete and fitting for the area.

 

[mickEblu]

I also think it looks nice. Comparing it to a prefab shed seems a bit disingenuous and hyperbolic.

I feel assured that once final thematic touches are added, and doors are opened with guests flowing in and out, it will look even more complete and fitting for the area.

I’m getting heavy suburbia vibes which is why I looked up Desperate housewives and found a house with very similar features. Even found one with nearly the exact color combo! The modern suburban vibes alone make it feel out place but then it’s location and how it’s just standing there alone don’t help either.

 

[mickEblu]

I still am despite others opinions on this or any other project. I think it’s easier to do something creative on a blank canvas.

Every new botched project that’s unveiled I grow more pessimistic. From what I can they see all that institutional knowledge is apparent and has proven to be a huge loss.

 

[Disney Irish]

I’m getting heavy suburbia vibes which is why I looked up Desperate housewives and found a house with very similar features. Even found one with nearly the exact color combo! The modern suburban vibes alone make it feel out place but then it’s location and how it’s just standing there alone don’t help either.

Well it would be on-brand then as Desperate Housewives was a Disney production even though the exteriors were filmed on the Uni lot.

Every new botched project that’s unveiled I grow more pessimistic. From what I can they see all that institutional knowledge is apparent and has proven to be a huge loss.

I understand your point-of-view, I just don't share in your pessimism.

 

[DavidDL]

Not sure what happened but it definitely doesn't look as nice as the concept art. Part of me hopes the outside simply isn't finished yet but the realist in me says this is probably it.

Major bummer. I was excited for this one, too.

 

[Phroobar]

What happened to weenies?

They still all work there.

 

[Castle Cake Apologist]

...what exactly happened here? Quite literally every detail was changed.

 

[Disney Irish]

...what exactly happened here? Quite literally every detail was changed.

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Obviously artist depictions don't always equate to how it'll look in real life. But I suspect its not done yet with more to come when it officially opens.

 

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...what exactly happened here? Quite literally every detail was changed.

It's like a Wish/Temu knockoff!