A Few Haunted Mansion Pics
 

The Haunted Mansion reopened this weekend.





Outside, the mansion is still under refurbishment




I noticed the the wreath is absent.




Inside, everything looks good










This one's for you Steve:





The one notable change is the new pattern on the moving walkways.









Next time you ride, check out Leota's new candles in the seance room.

More pics from DL to follow.

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Waiting patiently..........

Oh how I hate, HATE HATE!! the Bride. She looks like her neck's broken. That looks horrible. :(

I went on the Mansion yesterday and it looked TERRIBLE.

As usual.

I know I complain about this every year, and I should have gone to City Hall yesterday but I didn't have the time.

EVERY FREAKING YEAR, when the Mansion comes back from HMH, they mess up the lighting in there. It's too damn bright, and it always takes them until about March/April to actually fix it. (hey, four months out of twelve for a properly presented Mansion isn't bad right? Pfft.) This was the worst I'd ever seen it.

It is so bright in there that you can clearly see:

1) Roof tiles, light projectors, holes in the black walls, drill marks, eyehooks (for HMH that they just leave in), the walls up the banister, etc. in the first omnimover room.

2) Rough holes in the walls above where the wallpaper stops in the door room (perhaps from HMH, I don't know)

3) And this is the worst -- Madam Leota's string. You can see the mechanism and the wires clear as day. The light is so bright in there that the wires are actually reflecting/shining light. You can also see clear as day all the mechanisms/wires holding the musical instruments if you look up.

4) Bride room. It's so bright that the lighting "switch" for the pictures (with the former husband's heads going off and on) looks exactly like it is -- they're projecting a picture on top of the other picture. It used to be seamless -- because the lighting matched. Now it switches between dim and BRIGHT, as the heads go off and on. Also the Bride herself looked funky, like she wasn't being projected onto the correct part of the doll.

The graveyard was lit up like nobody's business too. Why bother with stage lighting at all? Why not just turn the work lights on and send people through the ride?

Really, all that stuff is bad bad show. And it is usually all masked when lit correctly, but Disney doesn't seem to be able to get it right after all these years of the HMH.

But other than that, how was the show?

I think they must have read your post, because it was pretty dark in there today. I couldn't see the strings. I actually thought it was darker than usual.

I'll be back in another week or two and see -- maybe they actually DID go "oh crap this is bad bad show" this year already (or maybe other people complained immediately).

I was seriously like What..the..F***... yesterday when I rode.

Maybe your eyes were dilated.


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HahahahahahHAHAHA, thanks, Isaac. Or, well, not. hahahahahahaha. i love you.


The "carpet pattern" in the moving walkway is ultra cool. I hope the lighting is right by the time i get to ride, next weekend maybe. If not, City Hall, here i come.

nice... i wonder how long that belt will keep its design...

Looks not bad.. (I still am getting used to WDWs upgrades)

is the ghost host moving seamlessly between speakers rather than jumping from wall to wall in the stretching room? or is that still WDW only?

When I visit (3 weeks to go), Tokyo's Mansion will have just com eback up from HMH. I'll be curious to see if they've received any of the enhancements that we've got Stateside. (I'd actually be thrilled if they still had the classic bride.) Also, I'm hoping their POTC will be Depp-Free. (Anyone know?)

Is that the same as Depp-rived?? :p

As far as I know they got johnny as well.

That is something that has annoyed the bejeebus out of me for years. To fix that (from jumping to seamless) would be SO easy.

And what's bugged me for years in the room is the addition of the "hmmmm" from the WDW version (albeit, yes, in the original Frees recordings). But it's not original to original Haunted Mansion, and the addition drives me crazy.


(Those of you who have Disneyland 50 or Happy Holidays CD sets will note the recreated absence of the hmmmm, and restoration to original stretch room spiel.)

Ok someone 'splain, cuz I'm curious about this (from a conversation on another board). How do they do the pictures in the attic, with the husband's heads popping on and off? And did the lighting always change from bright to dim each time on the pictures when it did that, cuz I don't remember that at all either.

I can explain. The attic is haunted. Just like the rest of the mansion. Booooo... haunted oil painting.... booooo!

HAHAH thanks GC. That's what I thought. Damn that ghostly illumination.

Actually someone explained it elsewhere -- it's the scrim effect basically, where there are two pictures sandwiched close to each other. The top picture has the heads, and the bottom picture does not. So there are LED lights embedded in each portrait (to illuminate the back portrait). As the LEDs get brighter, the spotlight shining on the portrait grows equally dimmer, giving the illusion that the head disappears.

However, if the lighting isn't correct, it does what it's doing now, which is to say, each time the picture changes it goes from DIM (when the LEDs are on) to BRIGHT (when the spotlight is illuminating the front picture).

So like when one takes a picture with flash, the head will always be there since the front part of the picture is being illuminated.

Pretty cool. But they still need to fix the lighting.

It's a wonderful effect. It's my favorite addition to the Mansion. (But I hate it when the portraits are covered in spitballs... gross.)

Frankly I think we notice things others don't because we are trying to see them-

Thanks for the pictures Zapp! That bride is so creepy.

I suppose it would also be considered bad show if we went in with sligshots and broke out a few bulbs that are over-lighting the place, huh? :evil: