Originally Posted By CaptainMichael <<Do you think the Imagineers perhaps wanted to make the humor of the attraction apparent from the start to minimize the fear factor for young children? Many of my visits to the HM have been spoiled by a child shrieking that they don't want to go while a parent drags them into the stretch room. If the new queue can help prevent that scenario I'm all for it!>> It'll be a stark contrast now. Even more opportunity to have screaming kids. The beginning is not kid friendly. The queue will only make it worse, it sends the wrong message.
Originally Posted By EPCOT Explorer >>>Hmmm... I don't know. I get what you're saying, but the humorous epitaphs on the tombstones never seemed moody or speculative to me. I agree that this new interactive queue is over the top, but I don't think it's necessarily out of character with what was there before.<<< See, I DO think it's out of character... That was subtle, dark humor. It's there for you to read into and for you to mke sense of. The new queue? Exactly the opposite. It's too loud and noisy to be dark humor.
Originally Posted By EPCOT Explorer >>>Do you think the Imagineers perhaps wanted to make the humor of the attraction apparent from the start to minimize the fear factor for young children? Many of my visits to the HM have been spoiled by a child shrieking that they don't want to go while a parent drags them into the stretch room. If the new queue can help prevent that scenario I'm all for it!<<< I guess... But now, with all the kids amped up from running around, I'm guessing the Stretching Rooms will be even louder.
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan >>Many of my visits to the HM have been spoiled by a child shrieking that they don't want to go while a parent drags them into the stretch room.<< I really don't think the new stuff will minimize that. That involves a parent knowing what their kids are truly ready for, and a lot of little ones are not ready to go into a dark ride the level of Haunted Mansion. Just the dark alone is scary. Add to it people who scream at the top of their lungs when the lights go out in the Stretching Room only freaks a little tot out even more. But some parents, focused on their own enjoyment, drag kids into attractions they want no part of.
Originally Posted By tashajilek ">>Many of my visits to the HM have been spoiled by a child shrieking that they don't want to go while a parent drags them into the stretch room.<< If this was such a huge problem then why didnt they do this decades ago over at DL?
Originally Posted By leobloom I'd seen the pictures and finally watched the video, and boy is this complaining much ado about nothing. To the people who are complaining that this will disturb their approach to the HM, maybe you forgot about the huge line of people you're following slowly to the front doors. If you're upset by the noisy kids (who have been in the queue before now) and the new stuff's gimmicks, you can pretend none of it is there, just like you can apparently pretend that this is a real haunted mansion and not an attraction in a theme park.
Originally Posted By EPCOT Explorer >>>Who/what is Chatty Connie?<<< The bride that doesn't shut up in the attic. The story is VERY heavy handed there.
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA <you can pretend none of it is there, just like you can apparently pretend that this is a real haunted mansion and not an attraction in a theme park.> Can you add Hitler to the above somewhere?
Originally Posted By HokieSkipper Sorry, leo, but I don't agree. It doesn't fit with the flow of the attraction. It makes the experience disjointed.
Originally Posted By leobloom ^^Maybe it does, but I'm skeptical. I'd have to be there in person to see how it functions to know conclusively if it's bad design work. But I also know that I don't approach the HM with the mentality of getting myself into the spirit of the attraction, as apparently some people do. I typically am chatting with people in my group, so if the queue is disruptive thematically, it probably wouldn't bother me as much as it would bother some other visitors.
Originally Posted By fastpasswontlast It's really hard to come up with a way to approach improving the queue at the Haunted Mansion. For one I would entirely agree that the way we perceive the attraction is entirely different from the average park attendee. In my 19 years on living I have rode Haunted Mansion more than 50 times, so I definitely know what to expect from the ride when I am waiting in line. On the other hand, the average park attendee has not once rode Haunted Mansion if not very few times, so the premise of the ride is entirely new to throngs of people. Now, how would someone who has never gone on Haunted Mansion perceive the storyline? This is sort of a poll-type question for the board, I want to know how you would feel as a first-time rider who came upon the interactive queue?
Originally Posted By Socrates Perhaps they weren't thinking of us -- the hard-core Disney fans -- when they designed this? (This is just a theory, mind you.) Socrates "The unexamined life is not worth living."
Originally Posted By RoadTrip <<It's really hard to come up with a way to approach improving the queue at the Haunted Mansion. For one I would entirely agree that the way we perceive the attraction is entirely different from the average park attendee. In my 19 years on living I have rode Haunted Mansion more than 50 times, so I definitely know what to expect from the ride when I am waiting in line.>> I've not been through HM over 50 times, but I've been through it at least 30. I enjoy Disney's detailed theming, attention to detail and storytelling. But at the end of the day it is just a themepark attraction. They could tear it down tomorrow and it would not really impact my life one way or the other.
Originally Posted By tashajilek "This is sort of a poll-type question for the board, I want to know how you would feel as a first-time rider who came upon the interactive queue?" Im sure a first timer wouldnt care. It's not a big deal that it changed but it looks tacky.
Originally Posted By JerrodDRagon <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hDhmvhLKFM" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...hmvhLKFM</a> My Friends Opinion of the New Q...lol
Originally Posted By TP2000 I think I'm now totally okay with WDW taking all the time it wants to fiddle with their big "NextGen" queue program. They can try all the ankle-breaking bouncy pads and spitting sea captains and slappy interactive props that they want. Take your time with it guys, shove as much of this stuff into random queues as you can, don't worry too much about the show on the inside of the attraction. Work out all the kinks and problems and inconsistencies. And in a couple years Disneyland can install improved and refined versions of this stuff, to plus up the queues while plussing up the shows in the attractions beyond them, thus plussing the entire Disneyland experience. I'm suddenly very happy to have Disneyland take a pass on this NextGen concept for another year or two while WDW blunders through the first few attempts at this stuff. I'm now quite happy to wait....
