ToTBellHop
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Pretty sure they stop all audio...I seem to remember remarking that it was weird in the graveyard to see all of the "spooks" still moving and singing with no sound coming out...
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Walls in HM Queue
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imagineer boy
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The audio basically turns off while the "playful spooks" spiel is going. But it comes back on in between times when the spiel is announced.
I'd rather they had the audio dim rather than going away completely during the spiels because it does take away from the attraction.
Rob562
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This discussion of the wheelchair/handicap access just brought to the front of my mind one of the patents that Disney filed for over the summer, and got me thinking that this queue reconfiguration might be the precursor to implementing it....
A few months ago, Disney filed a patent for a system to allow for "off-line" loading of Omnimover vehicles (similar to how the special vehicle on Midway Mania pulls off to the side for handicap loading). It would allow the ride mechanism to remove a special car from the chain of vehicles (leaving a "carrier" of some sort as part of the chain) while the ride was still moving (or possibly put in "creep" mode during the transfer)
This car would then park to the side, where a handicap Guest could take as long as they needed to load into the car. It would then be added back into the chain of vehicles at the appropriate time. All of this with little-to-no impact in the experience of the other Guests.
In discussion here on the forums about the patent, it was presumed that this transfer system would be integrated into the stretch of ride track in between Unload and Load.
If this new queue setup allows wheelchairs to get all the way through the queue and through the preshow rooms, they could then go off to the bypass corridor just before Load and get to this new transfer point. And because this stretch of track isn't seen by 99% of the Guests, they could do a large chunk of the construction 3rd shift, possibly only closing the Mansion for a short time for final installation of the vehicles.
-Rob
A few months ago, Disney filed a patent for a system to allow for "off-line" loading of Omnimover vehicles (similar to how the special vehicle on Midway Mania pulls off to the side for handicap loading). It would allow the ride mechanism to remove a special car from the chain of vehicles (leaving a "carrier" of some sort as part of the chain) while the ride was still moving (or possibly put in "creep" mode during the transfer)
This car would then park to the side, where a handicap Guest could take as long as they needed to load into the car. It would then be added back into the chain of vehicles at the appropriate time. All of this with little-to-no impact in the experience of the other Guests.
In discussion here on the forums about the patent, it was presumed that this transfer system would be integrated into the stretch of ride track in between Unload and Load.
If this new queue setup allows wheelchairs to get all the way through the queue and through the preshow rooms, they could then go off to the bypass corridor just before Load and get to this new transfer point. And because this stretch of track isn't seen by 99% of the Guests, they could do a large chunk of the construction 3rd shift, possibly only closing the Mansion for a short time for final installation of the vehicles.
-Rob
startraveler
Active Member
Interesting.
Tom
Beta Return
Wow. Very cool.
I imagine implementing this in a 40-year-old omnimover might be a challenge - but if they gradually lay the groundwork without disrupting service, more power to them.
DocMcHulk
Well-Known Member
That's a really cool idea! Thanks for the info.
BrerFrog
Active Member
That is what I was thinking. Doing that in an omnimover ride will certainly bring lots of complications to the surface.
RunnerEd
Well-Known Member
We usually get stopped in the graveyard but once we stopped in the seance room....very cool!!!!
CumulusIsobar
Member
I thought it was X. Atencio...
hpyhnt 1000
Well-Known Member
I've been stopped where the music keeps playing and I've also had stops where the music doesn't stop completely, but it gets quieter. Never had it where it goes off completely though.
And if the playful spooks spiel isn't Paul Frees, its someone who sounds a lot like him because I can't tell a difference. :shrug:
Tom
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X wrote the script. Paul voiced it.
Animaniac93-98
Well-Known Member
For the most part, yes, but I'm not sure if that safety spiel is. It's been awhile since I've heard it on the attraction, but more than one Haunted Mansion CD release contains a track with that spiel spoken by X himself. Maybe that's where the confusion comes from?
Tom
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Interesting. I just read the big article about X in the D23 magazine and I think I remember him saying that he did get to voice something...but I was thinking it was in the graveyard, perhaps. Maybe he did the safety spiel too, since it was probably an after thought and they didn't want to pay Paul again.
RAXIP
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X provides the voice at the Disneyland Haunted Mansion (but not WDW) you can hear his voice in this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwCVNYikHwY
The WDW voice can be heard here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gr9x0MdE1V4
His voice can also be heard emanating from the coffin in the Haunted Mansion's conservatory ("Hey! Let me out of here!")
imagineer boy
Well-Known Member
Facinating! I hope it works.
Tom
Beta Return
Excellent. Thanks!
gerryu21220
Member
Yes. No logical reason why. X is still heard in the coffin, so he's not gone completely from WDW.
gerryu21220
Member
Well whoever he is, he sounds exactly like Corey Burton...