One Lil Spark
EPCOT Center Defender
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joel_maxwell
Permanent Resident of EPCOT
*smacks forehead*(Psst: Read my signature!)
AWESOME. Congrats. We are working towards that 40" right now.
EPCOT Explorer
New Member
I would mind Tokyo...:shrug::lol:
RSoxNo1
Well-Known Member
Big Thunder Mountain isn't available, and they don't have other artwork in the parks. The best example I could think of was the Toy Story Midway Mania posters over at DCA aren't available at their art of Disney. I would think that anything that can be replicated in poster form (posters from Muppetvision, PhilHarmagic, and it's tough to be a bug queue's) should be available for print on demand, as well as signs like Kilimanjaro Safaris and others.
Congrats! :wave:(Psst: Read my signature!)
Jasonflz
Well-Known Member
:lol: Don't worry. A nice martini will help ease it all.:lookaroun:lol:
Main Street USA
Well-Known Member
Still the same ride? Really?
They changed or fixed something in virtually every scene, and added tons of stuff.
- the audio in the stretching room is amazing now. they successfully made the ghost host fly around the room with audio.
- the new hallway immediately after boarding has upgrades - the paintings, windows, lightning that changes the paintings....
- the staircase scene is 100% upgrade over the spiders...
- the new frames, pictures using old conceptual artwork in the hallway just after the coffin
- the wallpaper with living eyes
- leota effect is completely new
- the attic scene was entirely replaced
- MAJOR cleanup in the graveyard
- not to mention the audio in the cars....
I'm sure there are more that I'm missing here...just ran through the attraction quickly in my mind. Calling it "still the same ride" is way, WAY off.
Vernonpush
Well-Known Member
Suit of armor next to the "endless hallway" moving again.
Audio in sync from "zone to zone" again.
WDITrent
Active Member
^Full projection singing busts, increasing the effect greatly.
Brighter, clearer, newer technology MG portrait.
Loading area flute replaces organ in Corridor of Doors and singing in unload area.
Improved lighting.
Re-painted facade.
New, permanent queue switchback covering.
New instruments in music room.
Brighter, clearer, newer technology MG portrait.
Loading area flute replaces organ in Corridor of Doors and singing in unload area.
Improved lighting.
Re-painted facade.
New, permanent queue switchback covering.
New instruments in music room.
RSoxNo1
Well-Known Member
Haunted Mansion at WDW is the best dark ride on property now. The refurb was fantastic, the improved audio throughout the ride really enhanced it - as did the changes. One of my favorite changes probably took up the smallest portion of the $20 mil, the blinking eyes in the wallpaper.
you said it tasted like coffee!:lol:
Captain Chaos
Well-Known Member
Can I agree with you 150 percent??? I was looking forward to Pirates, but, to me, PoTC with Jack Sparrow, Barbossa and Davey Jones image didn't make the ride better...
EPCOT Explorer
New Member
^^^
I have GOT to see HM this summer...:lol:
I have GOT to see HM this summer...
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beyondyou
Member
and to have actually seen what they are, they probably costed no where near even a few thousand to do. Imagineering at its finest!
DisneyDellsDude
New Member
The best attraction refurbishment to date at the Magic Kingdom.
joel_maxwell
Permanent Resident of EPCOT
I got to see the new stairs room... AWESOME.
One Lil Spark
EPCOT Center Defender
HM was the biggest surprise of my trip in March. Amazing work! Listening to the gargoyles in the stretching room whisper to you really creeped me out.
EPCOT Explorer
New Member
HM was the biggest surprise of my trip in March. Amazing work! Listening to the gargoyles in the stretching room whisper to you really creeped me out.
Where can you hear that, BTW? By the walls? Or all over?
RSoxNo1
Well-Known Member
I don't know where I read/heard this but with regards to the blinking eye wallpaper, I heard that Imagineers basically came across a roll of the old wallpaper and thought "what can we do with this", and they came up with the blinking eyes. Not sure if anyone can confirm this.
As for the additional stretching room effects, what kept them from "returning the pictures to their original state" after the darkness? I think that would have been a cool change.
For what it's worth, WDW's Haunted Mansion is substantially better than Disneyland's version right now. Starting with the stretching room, the audio doesn't bounce around the room in Disneyland, and the photos don't creek. The in ride audio sounds the same, but Leota doesn't float around anymore in Disneyland. Again, if I'm not mistaken I think they use a different system for Leota in Disneyland that they do in WDW. I believe in Disneyland they when Leota was moving, they had a projector that was also moving, projecting her face in the crystal ball, whereas I'm under the impression that WDW's version had all of the components within the ball itself. Can someone confirm this?