Haunted Mansion Changes - Slowly Unveiling!

[Gemini Cricket]

After years of things like:

The Pooh ride
Safety tape around the Sleeping Beauty statue
The 'New' Tomorrowland (Crap-o-ventions, HISTA, Rocket Rods)
Rededicating the Partners Statue on Walt's 100th birthday
Non-spinny teacups
The Snow White stage show
The abandoned Chip-n-Dale treehouse
Tarzan's Treehouse with Disney Store figurines
The dumbed down Tom Sawyer Island w/ closed fort
DCA

I'm thinking that the addition to the HM attic is a welcomed show of creativity. I think with this, the Sub Lagoon and the promising sounding POTC refurb, Disneyland's heading in the right direction.

And I'm sure Isaac would agree with me, him liking it or not isn't necessarily the deal breaker of whether something is good for the park or not. I say this and I love Isaac to death.

[Mary Blairiffic]

Originally Posted by Gemini Cricket

After years of things like:

The Pooh ride
Safety tape around the Sleeping Beauty statue
The 'New' Tomorrowland (Crap-o-ventions, HISTA, Rocket Rods)
Rededicating the Partners Statue on Walt's 100th birthday
Non-spinny teacups
The Snow White stage show
The abandoned Chip-n-Dale treehouse
Tarzan's Treehouse with Disney Store figurines
The dumbed down Tom Sawyer Island w/ closed fort
DCA

I'm thinking that the addition to the HM attic is a welcomed show of creativity. I think with this, the Sub Lagoon and the promising sounding POTC refurb, Disneyland's heading in the right direction.

And I'm sure Isaac would agree with me, him liking it or not isn't necessarily the deal breaker of whether something is good for the park or not. I say this and I love Isaac to death.

I agree! And for the same reasons!! Eisener's out and it looks like the new powers that be are remembering the imagination that went into Disneyland in the first place, and how Walt sid that, basically, it will never be completed as long as there are fresh new ideas. And I'm sure he also meant QUALITY ideas.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by Mary Blairiffic

I agree! And for the same reasons!! Eisener's out and it looks like the new powers that be are remembering the imagination that went into Disneyland in the first place, and how Walt sid that, basically, it will never be completed as long as there are fresh new ideas. And I'm sure he also meant QUALITY ideas.

Yes, but Walt also fairly emphatically worked to cut out any semblance of a literal story line in the Mansion during its development. That's one of the reasons it took so long to finalize. After Walt's death, there was a drawn out battle between imagineers who wanted to create a storyline and those that wanted to leave it open-ended as Walt envisioned it. While I'm not opposed to change, I agree with Walt (and iSm and Flippyshark) on this one that the Mansion is better served as a spooky house of mystery than as a storybook.

[€uroMeinke]

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

Yes, but Walt also fairly emphatically worked to cut out any semblance of a literal story line in the Mansion during its development. That's one of the reasons it took so long to finalize. After Walt's death, there was a drawn out battle between imagineers who wanted to create a storyline and those that wanted to leave it open-ended as Walt envisioned it. While I'm not opposed to change, I agree with Walt (and iSm and Flippyshark) on this one that the Mansion is better served as a spooky house of mystery than as a storybook.

Hmm this seems a bit revisionist to me - I think the main conflict was between scary versus goofy /Claude Coates atmospherics that make up the mansion's begiinings versus the Frank Davis charicatures that make up the second half...

On another note - I love Phantom Mannor, and presume it to be repetable even if I can't repeat it.

[Gemini Cricket]

Originally Posted by €uroMeinke

On another note - I love Phantom Mannor, and presume it to be repetable even if I can't repeat it.

I see iSm's point on this one, though. I liked PM and rode it twice. But I don't know if I love it enough to ride it over and over (you know, if I had an AP and lived an hour away from DLP). The ghost town confuses me.