Question about Haunted Mansion

[kaylasmom]

I have a strange question about the Haunted Mansion that has been lingering for years. I am a regular to the FL parks, but I don't work there and don't know everything I figured all you "insider" folks would know the answer to it...

My husband swears that the stretch room is actually an elevator that takes riders down one level before they get into the "doom" buggy.

Now I don't know the real answer, but I say no, because if it IS an elevator, it is the quietest and smoothest elevator in the history of man.

Does anybody know whether or not an elevator actually exists in the stretch room? I couldn't find anything in the search area.

Thanks.

 

[Fun2BFree]

In Disneyland, it is an elevator to take you under the park's berm, as the large show-building can't fit in the park. However, in WDW, there was enough space, but since the stretching room was such a memorable scene, it was kept. In the MK's version, the floor stays still and the ceiling rises! :wave:

 

[yensidtlaw1969]

Your husband is likely combining 2 facts into one fiction. At Walt Disney World the ceiling rises because an Elevator is not needed. However, at Disneyland, the stretching room is in fact an elevator. The floor lowers to take the guests to a hall to the load that takes them under the railroad tracks. The building containing most of the ride was built on the other side of the traintracks, and so this is how they are connected.

So, in short, no, it's not an elevator

-Yensidtlaw1969

EDIT: looks like Fun2BFree beat me to the punch!

 

[kaylasmom]

Thanks for the info... I will certainly share it with the hubby!

 

[SirNim]

Now... the former Hydrolators, on the other hand... :lol: :lookaroun

 

[brkgnews]

Now... the former Hydrolators, on the other hand... :lol: :lookaroun

Ah yes. I still remember the time I rode and a woman claimed her ears were popping. :lol:

 

[PintoColvig]

Now that you mention it, I DO remember the Hydrolators stretching. :lookaroun

 

[bgraham34]

I tell you while riding this over the weekend. I was talking to my wife and the room started to stretch and I actually was like are we moving. I was thrown off.

 

[Horizons1]

DLP's is also an elevator.

 

[Since1976]

You guys are all wrong. The haunted room isn't actually stretching up *or* down. It's your imagination.

:drevil:

 

[marni1971]

DLP's is also an elevator.

Indeed it is, and a great example how no cost was spared in DLP - you enter the Manors grounds, walk up the hill as you queue, enter the Manor, then descend back to ground level to enter the show building (all inside the berm) - the Manors forboding position on the hill was the overriding factor, even if it meant 2 elevators to take you back to the level you started at!

BTW; Tokyo is not an elevator, just like WDW.

 

[Astronaut Jones]

Now... the former Hydrolators, on the other hand... :lol: :lookaroun

Yeah... I was always surprised that Disney took the time to build the rest of the attraction like a half-mile underground.:lookaroun

 

[Retrorides]

Yeah... I was always surprised that Disney took the time to build the rest of the attraction like a half-mile underground.:lookaroun

Yeah, and then spent the enormous amount of money it must have taken to move it all up to ground level during that recent renovation! They sure did it fast though.

 

[golden redhead]

I knew about the elevator in DL and the rising ceiling at WDW, but not about the other two parks mentioned.

 

[RiversideBunny]

They have changed it into a Wonk-A-Vator.