Legends of the Haunted Mansion: Halloween Special

Everyone come to this happy place, welcome, it's the spookiest time of the year and this Halloween, what better way to spend it than learning about the history of all the

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s around the world. That's right, ladies and gentlemen, this year for my Halloween

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around the world, we are talking about the haunted mansion at Disneyland, the haunted mansion, Walt Disney World, the haunted mansion in Tokyo, Phantom Manor, what else is Mystic Manor? All of them are included and I will discuss secrets. details history everything behind all these spooky attractions this is going to be long so get ready we will start with the og the original haunted mansion at disneyland california now before disneyland was built walt disney had an idea for something called mickey mouse park and in this Mickey Mouse Park would have a main road leading off this main road, there was a long winding road that led to an old ruined house, this would become the inspiration for the haunted house later known as the Haunted Mansion.

Now the original idea for the mansion in Mickey Mouse Park came from Gothic Imagineer Harbor. Walt Disney himself then assigned Imagineer kin Andersen to build a story around the Harbor Goff haunted house. Andersen then designed plans to build a New Orleans themed land in a small transition area between frontier land and adventure eventually the designs evolved throughout this new area of ​​New Orleans it was designed to have a thieves market a pirate wax museum and then a haunted house tour attraction Ken Anderson designed a dilapidated old southern-style antebellum house to go to this new New Orleans It was around this time that the first Inklings of John Lafayette's combined general history of New Orleans Square were first put into production, as most of us know, although sadly it never came to pass as Walt Disney, however, did not like the idea of ​​a dilapidated old house in his pristine and beautiful Disneyland park.

Walt would later visit the mysterious Winchester Mansion in San Jose and was captivated by the enormous mansion and its stairs to nowhere, doors that opened into walls and holes, and all of its elevators, e

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ly the elevators in the back. In Burbank, Ken Anderson was still coming up with story ideas for the attraction, one of these stories included the original Haunted Mansion story featuring Captain Gore, who was murdered by his meddling girlfriend and then hanged himself, which is certainly quite dark for a Disney. attraction, but that's why we have a sailboat weather vane on top of the Disneyland mansion to this day.

Another idea for the mansion was a spooky, ghostly wedding party with well-known Disney villains like Maleficent and Chernabog, which would certainly be cool, but I mean. What are they doing in New Orleans? It is from this point that Imagineers Rollie Crump, whom I know personally, and Yale Gracie replaced Ken Anderson to write the history of the mansion in 1961, were handing out leaflets announcing the opening of Haunted in 1963. The construction of the mansion It began later that year and the exterior was completed in 1963, but unfortunately Disney was running behind schedule and the interior was not finished. The reason the mansion was not completed was because the 1964 New York World's Fair in 1965 Walt Disney made a big decision.

I participated in the design of pavilions and attractions for the fair and my personal opinion is that if the fair had never existed, Walt Disney would have been able to see the Haunted Mansion and Pirates of the Caribbean in all their splendor by devoting all his time to the fair . They didn't work on pirates or the Haunted Mansion and by the time they were done, Walt Disney was already gone, but there is a silver lining because of the World's Fair, they were able to advance even further in audio-animatronic technology thanks to Mr. Lincoln after the fair, many more Imagineers jumped on the bandwagon to help design the Haunted Mansion, including Mark Davis, nco output, and Claude Coats.

These are all big names if you know Imagineering after the Raleigh show. Walt, all his designs for things like talking chairs, candles, coffins. watches man-eating plants Tiki busts and living gypsy cars Walt let Roly work on a passion project called the Museum of Weird now the Museum of Weird would be more or less the same as the Blue Bayou, a restaurant linked to a certain The attraction where guests could dine and see different parts of the attraction as guests passed through the museum would not be haunted itself, but would have many strange curiosities, although this project eventually shelved some objects that were going to be in the museum.

Museum of the Weird eventually found its way to the haunted mansion, it can still be seen there today like this chair. Marc Davis and Claud Coates disagreed on whether the ride should be scary or fun in classic Disney style, eventually both making their way from the beginning to the middle until the relatively creepy attic scene and the cemetery to the end of the attraction is very fun and the Disney style I personally enjoy the spooky things. They designed many different audio animatronics for the attraction, especially for the cemetery. scene and with the audio animatronics added to the ride and the issues with the capacity and movement of people through the actual attraction, the idea of ​​a tour style haunted house was scrapped and they turned it into an omnivore style attraction, something as well as a journey through space, in fact the aamna move system was even better than the tour, they could face the guests where they wanted them to face and it would feel like you were more alone and isolated inside this haunted house.

I think it was a good idea for the mansion to open to the public on August 12. 1969 and introduced a character in the AG scene called the Hatbox Ghost, who was only there for the first few days of operation, he was mysteriously removed afterwards, no one knows where the original audio-animatronic of the Hatbox Ghost is. . Now there was the attraction. was a huge success and helped draw crowds to Disneyland after Walt Disney's death. The attraction remains there to this day and has the honor of being my official favorite attraction at any Disney park. Congratulations. Haunted Mansion in October 2001.

The Haunted Mansion holiday premiered. a seasonal overlay featuring the Nightmare Before Christmas characters, it still exists to this day and is enjoyed by many fans. I enjoy it, but not as much as the original match and on April 10, 2015 the Haunted Mansion character, the Hatter's Ghost, was officially confirmed. who had been missing since opening week would return to the mansion. He is there today. Sometimes it works. Sometimes it doesn't do enough. With all that history stuff, let's get into the nitty gritty details of the secrets and a virtual tour of the Haunted Mansion. Now you start. in front of the mansion at the gates this is where you can see the corrupt elegance of the mansion while in the queue you pass by a pet cemetery and a human one and then you enter the main hall of the house from the hall you enter the Stretching Room , each depicting a guest of the mansion as they appeared in their corruptible mortal state.

The room begins to stretch with the ghost host narrating the entire time. The paintings grow increasingly McCaw as they are stretched. Suddenly, the lights go out. Lightning you look up. and you see the ghost host hanging from the rafters, something falls and crashes to the floor, the lights come back on and you continue your journey that rhymes a little from there, you pass to a hallway full of beautiful paintings, but every time you lightning flashes outside, they turn into protests, horrible versions of themselves, from there you pass by some very bad critical busts and enter your fatal buggy, finally it's here, you start your tour of the house, you walk through the halls and see doors slamming themselves, endless corridors with floating Andale operas, a door that breathes. a clock only had the number thirteen and a poor corpse that can't escape from his coffin, I mean come on, someone let the poor man out of there, he's been trapped for so long.

It is from here that you enter Mrs. Liotta's room. Madame Leota is a disembodied head inside a crystal ball. However, Madame Leota was not always a disembodied head, as can be seen on her tombstone outside the mansion at Walt Disney World, she was actually once alive and was a gypsy woman and fortune teller in New Orleans around Madame Leota's mansion. Leota, of course, was played by the incomparable Eleanor Audley, who provided the voice of Maleficent and Sleeping Beauty and the evil stepmother in the face of Cinderella Madame Liotta, although it is not that of Eleanor Audley z, but that of a Lyoto tooms , who the character is obviously named after Madame Leota on the chair there was a crow perched now the crow was originally supposed to be the form the ghost host took as he toured you around the mansion.

This idea was later scrapped and now it's just It's a kind of crow, but if you look during the journey you'll see the crow appear in several different places from Madame Leota's room. You travel to the ballroom where the ghosts participate in a nice afterlife party and other ghosts decide to dance on the dance floor while a ghost musician plays the organ that was used in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. If you look very closely at the top right of the ballroom scene, you'll see a spider in the web. Now the spider is made of rubber, but the spider web was actually a crack in the glass used for Pepper's Ghost illusion.

Someone shot at the glass at one point and those shatter marks look like a spider web, so they decided to put a rubber spider in there instead of removing the entire glass panel. The haunted mansion attraction cost them a lot of money, so it was a wise choice. Simply attach a rubber spider. From here you will go to the attic scene where you will see many tributes to Jean Lafitte, it should start with John Lafayette. topic I was talking about before and you will come face to face with the bride with a beating heart. Constance hatches after passing Constance, you passed the ghost of Goodall's hatbox and descend into the graveyard, look for the crow at this point because he is there.

In the cemetery it is even more of a party than what was visible the ghosts are on a swing drinking tea and looking for the jumps behind the tombstones, some of these were made from the same bolt that the original hat box was made from. You pass the singing busts and my favorite character in the cemetery, The Mummy, after this you enter the mausoleum and meet the three hitchhiking ghosts, Phineas Ezra and Gus, who try to travel with you and you complete the attraction by passing by the little Liotta, a little version of the bride tells you to hurry back and you step out into a blinding California sun.

Now, personally, the Disneyland mansion version is my favorite, although I will admit that the cemetery scene looks better in Florida because the audio animatronics are better lit, but I enjoy it. Seeing the Hatter's Ghost and having the classic hitchhiking ghost effect, from this point we crossed the United States to Walt Disney World in Florida to talk about her mansion. Now the mansion in Florida has a surprising difference from the mansion in California. that is, the key in which the fear theme is played. Did you notice that I changed it? Note that it is in a different key.

Creepy, eh, little-known fact. Okay, you got me right. The key isn't the only thing that's different about the ride, I mean, the Haunted Mansion in Florida has two scenes that are absent in the Disneyland version, of course, by this I mean the endless staircase and the library, plus the changing portrait hallway is different in the Walt Disney World version because at Disneyland you are walking down that hallway while at Walt Disney World you are writing your doom buggy down that hallway, the hitchhiking ghost animatronics at the end are different and have effects instead of the animatronics that follow you home in your doom buggy at the end of the ride at the mausoleum, now the Walt Disney World Mansion was there at Magic Kingdom from opening day.

Here's an interesting little fact about the attraction. While they were building the Disneyland version, they were also building doubles of everything to put in the Walt Disney World version of the mansion that way when The Mansion opened, all they would have to do was put everything in place and everything would be ready. to work; scene changes, obviously, they also got Paul to release the ghost host's voice to record additional audio for both the grand staircase and the library because of the ample space at Magic Kingdom they could build the attraction however they wanted without having to worry about the shoulder of the railroad like they did at the Disneyland mansion the story between the two mansions is more or less exactly the same: you go on aghost host led tour around the haunted mansion, although the Walt Disney World version includes an interactive sign that the Disneyland version does not have, you can solve a murder mystery, push some books, play some instruments and there is a little and nice reference to Captain Gore from the original.

The antagonist or main character of the Disneyland mansion also make sure to watch the ground for constant hatchings or the ghost bride's wedding ring. This was originally just a leftover support from a beam, but because guests spread word that it looked like a wedding ring. that became popular and the Imagineers turned it into a real wedding ring. It is now more or less unknown how Constance Hatch ended up in the mansion. We all know the story of Constance beheading her husband, but how she ended up in an antebellum house in the South or in a Gothic house in the northeastern United States is completely unknown.

The idea of ​​the ghost bride, although it came from the original concept of the Haunted Mansion story with Captain Gore and yes, his wife, now it wouldn't be a proper Halloween episode if we didn't have in some spooky urban

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and tales about the mansion, as well which i'm just going to make these stories courtesy of doom buggies dotnet, the one stop shop for every piece of haunted mansion trivia you could ever want, the man with the cane, now this ghost. The story is specific to the mansion in Orlando. Cast members were told that a man with a cane would appear in an empty fatal vehicle in the loading dock late at night, when Wright's operators were alone in the loading position for those of you who weren't they know. the maids and servants who were in charge of making sure the guests boarded their buggies are alone for a small period of time between the stretching rooms opening and closing, the guests come in waves and between those waves the members of the cast are completely alone.

With just your thoughts and the eerie organ music of the mention, it is said that during these times of silence and isolation a man with a cane will appear, an ax buggy circling from the unloading area, the cast member will then call the download operator. Who would deny sending someone to the loading dock? Of course, when the buggy came out to the other side of the attraction, it was completely empty. Needless to say, the cast member was very relieved when the doors to the stretching room opened and more guests came to say hello. them, but the question remains who is this man, what was he doing at the attraction and where did he go.

You decide when the mansion was first being developed. Walt Disney decided that there would be no old trees and that there would be no ruined mansion and that everything would look pristine and new, he did not want any guests to confuse the theme with poor management, he was quoted as saying that we will take care of the exterior and let the ghosts take over the interior now if you look at any of the current mansions. Furthermore, in the Walt Disney World version, you can see that this has been removed, the Walt Disney World Mansion looks older, dirtier and the trees have grown less in Disneyland crooked, but still a little more loved than what was it. opening day now, let me know from you in the comments below which mansion you prefer if you've been to both, the Walt Disney World version of the Haunted Mansion or the Disneyland version of the Haunted Mansion.

I would love to know where. people sit up when it comes to what the upper mansion is, and lastly, we can't walk away from our American mansions without mentioning a very spooky and common ghost story: It's more common than one would think for people to spread the ghosts. ashes of their loved ones at the attraction, unfortunately for these grieving families, although the ashes are vacuumed up at the end of the day like any old dust is sorry, guys, it's just a procedure. Now we go over the Atlantic Ocean to another very popular mansion for those of you who have been to it.

I can agree that the ghost mansion has a darker tone than American mansions. When the Imagineers were planning Euro Disneyland (now Disneyland Paris), they decided that certain basic attractions at both Disney parks in the United States would have to be changed in order to satisfy European audiences. Well, that and I just wanted to change things up a bit. One of the attractions they decided to remake was the Haunted Mansion and this time you can bet they were going to have a coherent story instead of tying it to Liberty Square or New Orleans Square. The mansion would tie into Frontierland and Big Thunder Mountain Railroad, the stories of these attractions would clash with each other and intertwine as they look for influences on history.

The Imagineers turn to a classic French story of Tom de l'opéra poor, the Phantom of the Opera like us Americans. They knew it, they wanted a distraught woman and a ghost to be the two main characters in this new story they were weaving. They also included many different European Gothic

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that were changed a bit to fit the Western look of the house's exterior. It was modeled after the Second Victorian Empire and bears a strong resemblance to The Psycho House, which is not based on Tony Baxter, who was Walt Disney's executive designer. Imagineering wanted to expand on the story of the bride who appears in both American mansions.

Even though this bride would be a different person, the specific building that the ghost mansion was based on was called the neighborhood school in Virginia City, Nevada. When they came up with a name for the mansion, they couldn't use the classic name Haunted Mansion because it doesn't translate very well into French. They needed a title that would translate exactly the same to English as it does to French, and Phantom Manor is what they chose with the title. Haunted Mansion is translated directly into French as a lab manual while it is translated back into English as The Haunted Manor, so those two different titles wouldn't work very well for Imagineering, they needed something that would translate exactly the same phrase in both English. like in french.

The name Phantom Manor did exactly this and also incorporated the new ghost character into the title. that didn't hurt either now, the ride on Big Thunder Mountain Railroad and Phantom Manor at Disneyland Paris were heavily inspired by the Western River Expedition, the proposed replacement for Pirates of the Caribbean at Walt Disney World, the ride is structured almost exactly the same than the American Mansions and I'm going to take the virtual tour right now. Originally, mansions in America were designed to look clean and aesthetically pleasing. Ghost Manor, although it is designed to look clearly chosen ones and is located on the top of a hill overlooking a Great Thunder.

The grounds of the mountain mansions are overgrown with weeds and dead vegetation, the plaque outside Phantom Manor indicates the title of the attraction and the phrase I will not die completely and in Latin and the sign guests will pass by an overlook with a game of tea originally placed with the cups and the tea set would move to emulate the ghosts that move and drink the tea at night, the light and gazebo flicker eerily inside the gazebo there is also a music box that plays a small tune which is also heard during the Haunted Mansion holiday at Disneyland, it is also the tune I am playing in the background right now, guests enter the attraction through the front door, just like at Disneyland, it is from here that guests enter the lobby .

There is a very dusty room with a chandelier and two mirrors and is paneled in dark wood. The Ghost's voice calls from the ceiling around the room politely welcoming the guests and telling them to listen to The Legend of This House inviting them to explore the mansion. Additionally, guests looking in the mirror will notice that the face of Melanie, the bride, appears and disappears during the narration. It is from this area of ​​the lobby that guests enter the stretching room or Portrait Gallery, as it is called in Phantom Manor, the gag and effects in this room are very, if not exactly, similar to stretch rooms in the United States, all four portraits feature Melanie. and as the room appears to stretch, the portraits go from happier versions to much bleaker versions of themselves.

This is where one of the images of the Haunted Mansion occurs. The Ghost will point out that this chamber has no windows or doors, giving you this. A chilling challenge to find a way out, of course, there is always its way. When the lights go down and lightning flashes, the guests look up as they would at the Haunted Mansion and see Melanie's fiancé being hanged by the Ghost, then a secret door opens and reveals a hallway. Filled with changing portraits, the portrait gallery at Phantom Manor is the same as the stretching room at Disneyland, where the floor lowers itself instead of the ceiling rising like at Walt Disney World.

The changing portraits in the hallway after the Portrait Gallery are actually Exactly the same as the portraits in the American versions of the attraction minus one, the only portrait that is unique to Paris is that of a woman reclining on a tiger beast that he turns into some kind of panther man, he turns into a monster which is here that visitors enter the loading area, which features a large staircase leading to an upper floor, they can also see a ghostly and misty landscape outside the window after the guests board their doom buggies, they have traveled into a dark space alongside a young Melanie who bows to the guests while holding a candelabra singing The Phantom.

Mansion theme, so after this we go through some moving armor that's so small you might not see it in low light. On visitors' left side, they will pass a conservatory containing a piano very similar to the Walt Disney World version with a ghostly person playing. the piano from here the buggies traveled to a hallway full of doors as guests pass by each door they hear knocking or shouting behind it and the knockers seem to move on their own as I describe it you can probably find many similarities between this and From here the Haunted Mansion, guests will enter the seance room, which is very similar to those at Disneyland and Walt Disney World, except Madame Liotta's lines this time are a little different.

After the seance room, guests will enter the grand ballroom where a ghostly wedding party is taking place. Melanie is standing on the staircase singing and looking at the ghost who is standing in an open window laughing at her while lightning flashes behind him all kinds of wedding guests appear and disappear from the room at the huge dining room table a cake A musty wedding venue waiting for everyone as you pass through the grand ballroom, passing pairs of ghostly dancers much like those in the haunted mansion, as you leave the ballroom guests enter the bride's dressing room which replaces the attic , seen by the light of a dying fire crackling in the fireplace.

The guests see Melanie now as an old woman who has given up looking for her long-lost boyfriend and sits crying in front of a giant mirror that looks like a skull. The guests then leave the bride's dressing room through a door and slide down the terrace and then into a stormy graveyard, passing by the shovel-wielding ghost whose skeletal face has been revealed to them at last. The doom buggies then travel underground, presumably beneath Big Thunder Mountain, and see a series of coffins opened by their skeletal residents, as well as the skeleton. hands trying to open a coffin from the inside, this is where the graveyard scene in the normal Haunted Manor would take place and it is very obvious, except it is much more disturbing in the Phantom Manor version, you hear grim, smiling ghosts playing and the guests stop by Marvel. busts like in Haunted Mansion's Doom buggies then pass through a horribly demented version of Big Thunder Mountain's Thunder Mesa.

This is where guests must listen because the mayor of Thunder Mesa has a very, very familiar voice, that of Paul Fries narrating the ghost hosts. lines of the original Haunted Mansion, much of this Ghost Canyon scene was derived from a planned scene of a Wild West mining town called Dry Gulch on the Western River Expedition that was later rearranged into its Big Thunder Mountain Railroad version, this time another smiling figure of the Phantom. and a disgusting corpse and rags lead the guests to the exit of the attraction when they see the silhouette of the mansion ahead, they enter a dark passage where Melanie's skeleton floating and radiating a glow points the way out, the guests then They enter a large underground chamber full of mirrors where a ghostly image of the ghost can be seen above the cars along with the reflection of themselves.guests obviously alluding to hitchhiking ghosts.

The Ghost then violently shakes the carriages before dissipating in a flicker of lights, but not before hearing a final laugh. The vehicles then travel through a warehouse where cast members wait to help them disembark from their doom buggies as they walk towards the exit as the guests travel into daylight, a small figure of Melanie stands at the side of the hallway behind bars and tells the guests to hurry back and bring their death certificates, basically, it's taken verbatim from little Liotta at the end of the Haunted Mansion in America, finally the guests come out to Boot Hill, a cemetery filled with humorous headstones as well as walking oriented headstones for Ravens Woods and several others in a very similar manner. to the terrifying adventures of Snow White at Disneyland, if visitors turn and look at the man, they can see the ghost looking at them through a window as they pass by the cemetery, they can hear Melanie's heart still beating inside her grave, which which is a reference to the beating of our bride, better known as Constance, comes out of her shell, better known as the Ghost Bride, at the Haunted Manor and with that, ladies and gentlemen, your tour of Ravenswood Manor is complete.

It just occurred to me that I've been telling you the entire story of the attraction without even telling you the original story first, so let's talk about the story behind Phantom Manor. Our story begins with Henry Ravenswood, a western settler who found gold on Big Thunder Mountain and founded the Thunder Mesa mining company with the founding of the mining company. A small town group called Thunder Mesa Ravenswood became rich and built themselves a huge house on top of Boot Hill overlooking Big Thunder Mountain. Eventually, Henry married and had a daughter, Melanie. Now the natives rumored that Big Thunder Mountain was the home of the mighty Thunderbird. spirit possessing a treasure according to legend his anger could materialize in a terrible earthquake of course Henry was not one of those who believed these stories and continued mining the mountain as time went by the veins of gold they had already been mining began to dry up causing The miners dug deeper and deeper into Big Thunder Mountain towards the soul of the Thunderbirds that would be at the center of the mountain as time passed.

Melanie grew into a beautiful young woman and became engaged to a trained engineer who promised to take her away from her. far from Thunder Mesa, much to his father's dismay, Henry Henry did everything he could to stop the wedding, but his futile attempts were thwarted when a terrible earthquake killed him and his wife Martha. It seemed that at last the Thunderbird had reawakened and never More was learned about the family after several years, the story of what really happened came to light from under the rubble on Melanie's wedding day, a mysterious ghost unknown to everyone appeared in the house while Melanie was preparing in her her boyfriend's master's room to the attic where he hung him by the neck from the rafters which we see in the stretching room in the ballroom the bride sat alone hours passed with no sign of the groom death slowly receded leaving Alone in the house with the staff of maids and butlers, Melanie told herself that one day he would return, and after never taking off her wedding dress or dropping her bouquet of flowers in preparation for her husband's return, loved ones, she wanders the house aimlessly singing melancholic songs of lost love, but the Ghost was still in the house laughing at her human devotion to her future husband, one after one she invited her dead demonic friends from beyond to fill the house in an eternal party, a dark curse fell. about the house and the shape of the house has been slowly transformed by the forces of evil, but that was years ago today, when you passed by the house, you see the front door wide open, you hear music, you see maids and butlers securing to the people who would come into a house party and you decide why not and that's where the story takes place.

Rumors circulate that the ghost is in fact Melanie's dead father, Henry Ravenswood, returning from the grave to stop her wedding once and for all, whether or not there is any truth to this rumor. completely up to you phantom Manor is an attraction that deals with loss and death and unfortunately something happened within its walls in 2016 that deals with exactly this in the early hours of April 2016 a lighting worker was electrocuted backstage at phantom Manor the attraction was temporarily closed while police conducted an investigation and discovered that the death was in fact an accident, this makes Phantom Manor the only haunted mansion in the entire world with a death linked directly to it and it is from here that we leave back to the spirits and we travel. to Hong Kong Disneyland, where a completely different type of mansion awaits us.

Mystic Manor is the mansion that resides in Hong Kong Disneyland for the cultural reason that ancestors and spirits are extremely revered and prayed for, they decided not to go with ghosts in this version of the mansion and instead we have the magical Mystic Manor and although contains references to the Haunted Mansion, it also contains references to other Disney attractions such as the Enchanted Tiki Room, so the very interesting Mystic Manor uses a trackless ride system such as Poos Honey Hunt and Tokyo Ratatouille in Paris and The Future Ratatouille in Epcot Something interesting about Mystic Manor is that it continues the Society of Explorers and Adventurers motif found throughout Tokyo DisneySea and the rest of the Disney parks, sort of an overarching Disney story.

SCA members include Harrison Hightower. the third, the owner of the Hightower Hotel, which is Tokyo Disney, sees a version of the Tower of Terror tea broth Barnabus, who is the owner of the Big Thunder Mountain Railroad in Walt Disney World and bears a striking resemblance to a certain figure close to Dr. Albert Falls, after whom the magical and wonderful Schweitzer Falls are named on the Mary OSHA Jungle Cruise near the main character of the Misadventure Falls water slide at Typhoon Lagoon and of course the main character of the Mystic Manor attraction Henry Mystic, now let's get into it in something. from the backstory of mystic Manor Walt Disney Imagineer Marx Rumor is the executive creative director of mystic Manor along with mystic point, the new land that houses the groundbreaking Hong Kong Disneyland attraction Rumor and his imaginary team put together an elaborate story inspired by some of the most enjoyed Disney attractions of all time, knowing that what they were creating would immediately be compared to the Haunted Mansion.

It is from here that the imaginary emerged, an original Disney attraction that is not based on any previously existing film or property that they based the attraction on. world exploration and it is from here that we transition from the story of the attraction to the backstory of the story mystic Manor is the mansion that Henry Mystic built in an unexplored tropical desert plagued by supernatural events. The mansion was built out of Henry's love of unusual occurrences and officially nicknamed the area Mystic Point where many of his finds, as well as the finds of other members of the Society of Explorers and Adventurers, are more recently displayed.

Henry has brought a new exhibit, a rumored mysterious music box. to bring life to inanimate objects, Henry Mystic has recently decided to open his mansion for tours of his collection and you have been personally invited and it is from here or transitioned to the virtual tour of Mystic Manor while guests wait in line . Notice a portrait of Lord Henry Mystic and Albert Henry's adorable pet monkey posted on the walls. Guests can then proceed to the pre-show and watch a slideshow narrated by Lord Henry Mystic Henry gives a short speech about the showrooms and his latest collections. and highlights an enchanted music box full of rare magic that must be opened with caution from here guests enter the loading area and board their horseless carriages the vehicle that takes visitors on a circular tour of the museum the first room is the acquisitions and cataloging room where Lord Mystics' collections are temporarily stored on hold on shelves.

Henry appears and warns the guests about the box before disappearing into the house, while Albert comes out and, as you can guess, opens the music box, bringing the entire house to life from here the guests enter. the music room where musical instruments come to life and begin to play, the music then follows visitors throughout the rest of the attraction until the end, then from here guests enter the room of Mediterranean antiques, paintings, ceramics and statues audio-animatronics that begin to move under the influence of the magic box magic the carriages first pass by a large painting that represents four people having dinner under the volcano while the magic affects the painting the volcano erupts submerging the people in lava who They then clink their beautiful glasses after passing numerous different exhibits, then the horseless buggies pass a mosaic of a beautiful woman who transforms into a terrifying Medusa.

This, of course, is a reference to the changing portrait in the haunted mansion of the woman who becomes Medusa. The first of many references to different Disney attractions at Mystic Manor, then the carriages move to the Silurian room is another reference to the Haunted Mansion because this room contains a greenhouse. In this room we can see a giant Venus flytrap that has our poor monkey friend Albert in its clutches. Albert escapes the clutches of this evil plant and the room turns pitch black. then enter the Norse Slavic chamber here the painting of a Norse god comes to life and blows an icy wind towards the guest the icy wind leaves the painting and spreads ice throughout the room finally it gathers in a large mirror that shatters the reflection of the guests that I can just take this as a very dark reference to hitchhiking ghosts because you know, the mirrors and the guests in the mirror and then they affect the guests with the mirror, it's just magical Disney people, then they move to the weapons and armor room which is full of weapons and armor.

The first scene to come to life is a set of katana-wielding samurai armor attempting to slash Albert Albert, though fortunately he dodges each slash almost as if he was designed to do so, a cannon then opens fire on the guests, knocking down the carriages. and send it spinning, the carriages pass through a hallway containing three suits of armor, their helmets floating next to their bodies and singing along with the music, another reference to the Haunted Mansion, I mean come on, floating heads singing a song that people of The Haunted Mansion. The horseless buggies then move in front of a large medieval catapult that loads and aims at the guests, knocking them into the next room.

These poor guests are all I can think of. They keep getting shot from one room to the next. The guests enter the Egyptian. Antiques room a sarcophagus glows with an unearthly green glow as swarms of beetles emerge from it, the beetles cover all the lights and the guests are trapped riding in the dark, but that is not the end, the tribal arts room awaits us at the end. ending of Into the Dark, a large Tiki figure dominates the room, spewing lava from its mouth. The room is filled with tribal chants and drums, all in tune with the music.

Three Tiki statues aim arrows and dart guns which reveal Albert turning towards the opposite wall with his ammunition. The room is another reference to a very classic Disney attraction, I mean singing tiki drums that come to life. You can guess which ride, this as a reference to the carriages, then enter the Chinese hall where a giant statue of the Jade Monkey King comes to life and uses his staff to create a tornado that makes the room spin and makes all the paintings in the room spin. living room break while vehicles continually circulate through the room. Albert appears on a wall and the statue tries to hit him with lightning, he only manages to fly away.

A part of the wall crumbles showing the night sky. Albert the monkey almost flies out of the mansion, but manages to grab a large harp when the enchanted music box suddenly appears. Albert jumps on the box as the carriages back towards the first one. hall acquisitions and cataloging the music from the music hall that has been following you, all this attraction reaches its climax when the magic returns to the box. Albert then closes the lid and breathes a sigh of relief when the lights come back on, revealing a perfectly normal gentleman in the room. Henry Mystic then appears behind Albert happy to have finally found him.

He asked Albert if he touched the music box, which Albert immediately denies and wonders if the legends are true or not. Lord Mystic thinks that those invited to tour his house are saying goodbye to them. The vehicles return to the unloading station andmy friends are Mystic Manor. It's very interesting to see an attraction that has nothing to do with the Haunted Mansion but is also closely related to it. It's also a lot of fun to learn about the Society of Explorers and Adventurers, something that unites all the parks around the world. It was originally planned to have real people standing on a green screen representing the characters from the mystical Manor attraction, something of a journey into the imagination at Epcot, fortunately, although the Imagineers decided they wanted to stick to their roots, each character in the trip would be an animatronic or practical effect, which I really appreciate.

One last reference to the Haunted Mansion is in the Mystical Men's Gift Shop or Archive Shop when you enter the gift shop, be sure to look at the walls hmm, now I don't know about you, but that wallpaper looks extremely familiar. Mystic Manor is interesting to me because it's something that stands completely on its own, separate from the other haunted mansions around the world, but also one and the other. Same thing, so if you ever find yourself in Mystic Point, be sure to stop by the Mystic Manor tour. Let me know how it goes. There's one more mansion you might think I've forgotten, but I promise I'm the haunted mansion in Tokyo.

Disneyland is more or less exactly the same as the Orlando mansion and is part of Fantasyland in this park instead of Liberty Square in the plaza of New Orleans, since in the others, the only thing that distinguishes this Orlando mansion is that it does not Receive updates from 2007 that the Florida mansion made. This means that there is no endless grand staircase and that the bride in the mansion is the same one that was there before 2007. You will notice that there was no Constance Hat in this version of the attraction. instead, she was just a silent bride holding a candle with glowing eyes, pretty creepy if you ask me.

Although imagination has different names for these brides, the original bride was known as the Beating Heart Bride, while Constance Hatch's new bride is known as the Black Widow. girlfriend, no, not that black widow, unless they wanted to do a Marvel stop at the haunted mansion. Hmm, the Tokyo mansion also gets the Haunted Mansion holiday overlay that the Disneyland mansion wants every year, so if you want to experience the Haunted Mansion holiday in a slightly different way, just hop on a flight to Tokyo and visit Tokyo Disneyland haunting, macabre and nostalgic, all words I would use to describe the Haunted Mansion from its humble beginnings as a project run by Walt Disney himself, from a walk through the wax museum to a boat ride.

Just like Pirates of the Caribbean, the Haunted Mansion even today continues to grow and evolve with the changing times and at this time of year, what better attraction to talk about than the Haunted Mansion, even after gracing the park for almost 50 years, the Haunted Mansion. It still continues to attract visitors of all ages to take the tour and find a way out and hopefully a movie will be released in the future that will continue to scare and entertain guests for years to come, so with Halloween just around the corner from the corner, I ask. What is your favorite mansion in the whole world and why be sure to leave it in the comments below?

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