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[Big C 73]

Here recently there was a thread with a video about the silhouette in one of the windows of Tower of Terror. I was looking around on YouTube and found a video of the moving silhouettes in the Haunted Mansion. The thing that interested me about this is that I thought these were no longer functional. Has Disney recently fixed these?

-I don't know how to post YouTube videos on here, but go to PopSong1's channel on YouTube and it is the newest video.

 

[King Mickey]

Occasionally some of the front windows will work, usually the one left of the door. Most of them like the conservatory and stuff haven't worked in ages.

 

[Magenta Panther]

Well, here's the video the OP was talking about:

But what are the silhouettes supposed to be? They just look like big black prickly things...

 

[Magenta Panther]

And HERE'S a video showing a silhouette in one of the windows in the Tower of Terror:



One of the posters at Youtube claims that the silhouette is a standup cardboard cutout of Rod Serling and that the whole thing is a gag set up by CMs, not management. I'm not buying that story, myself.

Another poster said that originally the Tower was going to include a real working hotel. Any truth to that statement? Anyone? Bueller?

 

[Sandurz]

Well, here's the video the OP was talking about:

But what are the silhouettes supposed to be? They just look like big black prickly things...

I remember reading about the light that is moving from window to window...so you're not really looking at the silhouettes, but just the light.

 

[tare]

I think it's just the lights moving but it is cool.

 

[AndyS2992]

One of the posters at Youtube claims that the silhouette is a standup cardboard cutout of Rod Serling and that the whole thing is a gag set up by CMs, not management. I'm not buying that story, myself.

Another poster said that originally the Tower was going to include a real working hotel. Any truth to that statement? Anyone? Bueller?

Nah that YouTube comment is an obvious lie lol and no it was never supposed to be a real hotel, all the mechanisms take up too much room and the noise of the ride and screaming would be too loud and, why would they put a hotel inside the park?

Well, here's the video the OP was talking about:

But what are the silhouettes supposed to be? They just look like big black prickly things...

To me it looks like the bride running around with a candle with her veil trailing behind her but I believe it is supposed to be just a creepy traveling ball of light.

 

[Panda_]

thanks for sharing this neat to see.

 

[MouseketeerEmily]

0:33 =

 

[JiminyandTink]

No no, it's just Kevin from Home Alone fooling the Sticky Bandits!

 

[Lee]

Another poster said that originally the Tower was going to include a real working hotel. Any truth to that statement? Anyone? Bueller?

There was never a plan to put a real hotel into the version of Tower that they ended up building.

However (if I recall correctly), very early in the process, while they were still coming up with ideas, there was one concept that would have housed a real "haunted hotel" along with a ride element.