Haunted Mansion Changes - Slowly Unveiling!

[Gemini Cricket]

So there is still the sound effects of her heart and no visual beating heart on the AA? That's bad.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by Gemini Cricket

So there is still the sound effects of her heart and no visual beating heart on the AA? That's bad.

Are there? I didn't even notice.

[Gemini Cricket]

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

Are there? I didn't even notice.

I believe the link to the MC post with video that I posted above has the sound. But I can't verfiy that because I can't play it now at work. (Blocked. Bleh.)

[Not Afraid]

I just watched the video since I can't seem to get to the park. There are heart beat sounds as part of the soundtrack.

I can't see a hat box ghost reference. Is the bride on the left now? So, I guess the story is completely changed and she is a crazy murderer. Whatever. I hate the fact that there's no mystery left.

[Kevy Baby]

Damn - I'll miss the bride's flashing boobs. I have been trying to talk GusGus into getting something like that.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by Not Afraid

I can't see a hat box ghost reference.

I haven't watched the video, so I don't know if it's visible, but there's a nifty effect on the portraits.

Is the bride on the left now?

Yes.

So, I guess the story is completely changed and she is a crazy murderer. Whatever. I hate the fact that there's no mystery left.

Yeah, that's what really bugs me. I felt like I was being beaten over the head with this story. It's like they figured that a woman in a wedding dress holding a bouquet wasn't quite getting the message across that she's a bride.

[Ponine]

Originally Posted by Gemini Cricket

I believe the link to the MC post with video that I posted above has the sound. But I can't verfiy that because I can't play it now at work. (Blocked. Bleh.)

It has sound, I'll verify that.

[innerSpaceman]

Everything iconic that made The Bride as popular a character as to inspire making her the breakout Star of the New Haunted Mansion has been eliminated in translating her character from bit player. This is absurd.

No beating heart? WTF? Worst of all, no menace, no dignity, no eerieness, no spookiness. Gah. She's a goofball with an ax. The transformation of attic from a scary scene to a comedy scene is now compete.

Visually, the new Bride is a travesty. In an attraction replete with projected images, what were they thinking in projecting, not just a head, but an entire figure ... and onto a flat surface?!?!??! It looks horrible. She's a freaking screen!!!!!! Um, could they have bothered to look around the premises at how the effects of Madam Leota, little Leota, and the Singing Busts were successfully achieved? Gaghkk!!! What blithering idiots designed this?

I suppose the decision to video-project her body as well as her face was because of the morphing ax. Feh, the ax might look more convincing if it was a dimensional ax and not a flat video image. What the frell ever happened to audio animatronics? This is an intrusion of Star Tours cheapout story technology onto Pirates of the Caribbean waltdimensional storytelling style.


Further, New Bride's performance is atrocious. She's a ditz! The part of her loop where she speaks her "vows" cross-eyed is painful to watch. This is NOT Captain Gracey's mysterious Bride. Since New Bride is on the other side of the attic, I'm going to assume she killed the Original Bride with her video ax and hid her body under the floor boards.



Lest anyone say I'm a stubborn purist .... I find the new attic portait effects preceding New Bride's appearance to be delightful and creepy and a stunning tribute to the Hatbox Ghost. I think Leota's floating crystal ball is about the best improvement ever made to a Disneyland attraction. Purist my eye! The New Bride simply sucks!!!


Not since TIXE has something so dire invaded the Haunted Mansion. Oh, and she's the thousandth ghost, by the way. The Mansion's done.

[AllyOops!]

Whoa, whoa, whoa nelly!!

She's a projected image?? I thought she was an actual figure, like the old bride, but with a Leota-like imaged face!!

And CROSS-EYED whilst reciting her vows?!?! Nothing against the cross-eyed population, God Bless them, but..why???

I bet when I finally get married one day, I'll be cross-eyed, too, but for different reasons. Not because I'm an axe wielding maniac, but because in order to traipse down that aisle, I'll be crunked on cosmopolitans, at Whiskey Pete's no less.

I have a feeling that's not the hidden back story for Haunted Mansion. Gun-shy bride tanked on the sauce.

I'm actually sitting here laughing over this! Also somewhat sad, because..sometimes change scares me. Okay, almost always.

Maybe I'll keep the tradition of keeping my eyes closed.

However, the statement "she's a goofball with an axe" made my morning, iSm! Hahaha!

[Gemini Cricket]

One thing I just thought of was I was never happy with the Bride that was blue and moved. (I think she was the one before the current projection one.) Her movements were too jerky. The best part about the Bride I remember as a kid was that her face was shadowy and mysterious and her eyes glowed.

See the bride pics here. The top one is great, the bottom one not so much...

The whole cross-eyed thing bugs. It's someone putting up a neon sign saying, 'This is supposed to be funny!' That's not how comedy works.

Here are my fixes for it:

1. A projection on a 3D moving animatronic.
2. The bride whispers her lines, almost to the point that you can barely hear it.
3. One hand should carry a real bouquet, the other should be behind her back. As you pass, you see her gripping the axe behind her. If you see it, great. If not, great.
4. We should see a beating heart.
5. Her face should be shadowy and dark. No crisp image, no crossed eyes. In fact, her eyes should be looking downwards. As you pass, she could give a DoomBuggy or two a wide-eyed look. That would be creepy.