[Chernabog]

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.