Haunted Mansion Changes - Slowly Unveiling!

[€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.