We're going Friday anyway so there :p

I want to geek out before I play tour guide next week.

And Kevy, I renewed my AP :p

Someone break it to me gently if Eleanor Audley has been evicted from her crystal ball.

I'm waiting for the Wally Shawn animatronic

i like the new embalming scene the best.

I think the Eddie Murphy animatrons are going to look awesome! :)

Jennifer Tilly is a fine addition to DL's Mansion.







:D

Well, it would be a sad thing if our escape from Jennifer Tilly turned out only to be a case of out of the frying pan, into the fire..


The tale they are telling is targeted to be told in the revamped seance room. If they need dialogue to do it, then Eleanor's famous incantations are out. And since all the musical instruments have floated away for good, the spells and chants of dear sweet Eleanor no longer make much sense. I fear they will be gone. And so would my wretched heart.


I happen to think it was a stroke of Walt genius to make the Haunted Mansion simply experiential. You are wandering through a haunted house ... it is happening to YOU.

Despite that the same things keep happening to you each time you visit, I think it's the lack of specifics that has kept the attraction remarkably repeatable for 35 amazing years.

If you're now being told a specific tale, the same story over and over again ... the ride becomes observational, and I think repeatability takes a hit.


I'll wait and see, and frankly only time will really tell. But if they've gone and gotten rid of an important member of the Haunted Mansion cast (as they've drastically and dastardly done over at Pirates), then the 50th year will turn out to have been a truly sad turning point in the story of the Magic Kingdom.




(My only ray of hope is that there's no Madame Leota quoted in the fireworks show ... and they seem to be getting rid of only the remaining classics they've saluted in Remember.)

How about a Wally George one?

Here's what's different: