Disney Maddux
Well-Known Member
This looks good, but I prefer the old look. It added to it being a creepy, abandoned, haunted manor.
No, they are just difficult to see in that photo. LMAONew trees besides the ones that were already in your original photo?
You go ahead without me. By then I will have joined the 999 happy haunts.Well, then, we'll be having this discussion again in 30 years or so...
Walt's approach to... well, everything, was all about good show and design. And so it goes for the Imagineers who sometimes follow this (Pandora) and sometimes don't (Toy Story Land). Obviously, a board of Disney nerds is going to talk about a major change to one of the most famous attractions in the WORLD. So, pppfft! Not SMH.
only on this site would a subject like this get 41 replies (42 counting mine). smh.
who gives a poop!
I remember when the front of the mansion had formal French Parterre gardens on the front lawn... with less overgrowth the house itserlf looked larger and more ominous... Over the years the natural growth has filled in which was good, and the trees were added to the front lawn I think in the 90s...so they were far from the original intent...
With the front canopy now being so huge, you can't even see the house except for across the water and certain areas outdide of the gates...
I like the iodea of opening up the lawn a bit...
Then don't comment on it
Cause god knows that discussion boards are not the place to express your opinions. (unless, of course, they agree with their own opinions)Then don't comment on it
I'm not sure I'm reading your post correctly. That walkway is what is now covered. The same one. Even with the canopy the front of the Mansion was always visible. Except for the canopy and the trees that have grown over the past 47 years, those have changed, but, nothing else has. If that is not what you are talking about, I apologize. I read it a multiple number of times and really wasn't sure what you are referring too.It never crossed my mind that the walkway extended around the river with an unobstructed view of the mansion and the round area with the carriage was actually a courtyard... Wow...
Not caring about a topic is the opposite of an opinion on said topic.Cause god knows that discussion boards are not the place to express your opinions. (unless, of course, they agree with their own opinions)
I'm not sure I'm reading your post correctly. That walkway is what is now covered. The same one. Even with the canopy the front of the Mansion was always visible. Except for the canopy and the trees that have grown over the past 47 years, those have changed, but, nothing else has. If that is not what you are talking about, I apologize. I read it a multiple number of times and really wasn't sure what you are referring too.
Yea, I know.... then why am I commenting on it? Because I can.
The graveyard does have its caretaker. It just took him 47 years to get to the trees.As a haunted mansion, shouldn't the trees out front be dead? Maybe the could have just killed the trees instead of removing them?
Ahhhhh show building visible....immersion ruined! I demand free tickets for life!I remember when the front of the mansion had formal French Parterre gardens on the front lawn... with less overgrowth the house itserlf looked larger and more ominous... Over the years the natural growth has filled in which was good, and the trees were added to the front lawn I think in the 90s...so they were far from the original intent...
With the front canopy now being so huge, you can't even see the house except for across the water and certain areas outdide of the gates...
I like the iodea of opening up the lawn a bit...
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If we are on the same page... it is the same entrance now as it always has been (with the recent addition toward the end of the queue of the interactive stuff. It just had no cover at the time and it just appears to me that the picture was just taken on a slow day. They used to have those back then. But they might have eliminated the gardens etc. I really don't remember but, the view or the mansion was the same. To me nothing has moved as far as the queue line is concerned. More often then not, you could almost always walk quickly practically up to the doors, but, I always used to go there in February and, like I said, they used to have off seasons back then.From the looks of that picture, the HM line doesn't actually start until the far left. You need to walk past the exposed mansion facade to get to the ride entrance, without actually being in line for the ride at that point.
You can see the line stretching past the official entrance, like it does currently for the Mine Train, but there are also people loitering in the area that would now be the canopy covered queue.
Am I seeing it wrong?
He was looking for a ladder...The graveyard does have it's caretaker. It just took him 47 years to get to the trees.
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