Originally Posted By dennis-in-ct <<Sorry, make that "please don't call me bob" please.>> Surely, you must be joking? "I am not joking. And don't call me Shirley."
Originally Posted By gaston lives sorry bobbelleeeeeeeina... Yeah, batty is now rough and well defined as of my Jan.1-8 trip of 2007. It was like that on our earlier trip in the year, too. No biggie. Everytime I go past it, I make sure I rub it a lot so I can get it smoothed out quicker than normal. Bwhahahahahaha!
Originally Posted By bobbelee9 My son can't get over how many of his friends don't know the Shirley thing. I always have to touch the bat at the turn, in a possessive way. Glad I'm not alone.
Originally Posted By gaston lives We're more alike than either of us expected! What a dismaying observation!
Originally Posted By bobbelee9 and you have Belle in common with my son. We were at Storytime with Belle, my daughter hoping her daughter would get picked to play one of the characters, and Belle picked my then 20 year old son to be the Beast.
Originally Posted By pitapan16 The last time I was at WDW last winter, every time I went on the Mansion(about 4) the audio kept cutting out. How poor is that? It was just like at Six Flags. Does'nt make any sense to me. You go to the trouble of building a top-quality popular attraction, you've got it in a park that is has a castle, space port, Thunder Mine railroad, and pirates, and yet you decide because you want to try and cheap out that it's best to let it decay into Six Flags show quality? Stupidity. The attendance at WDW currently appears as if it does not reflect such dramatic quality decline.
Originally Posted By SuperDry <<< Does'nt make any sense to me. You go to the trouble of building a top-quality popular attraction ... and yet you decide because you want to try and cheap out that it's best to let it decay into Six Flags show quality? Stupidity. The attendance at WDW currently appears as if it does not reflect such dramatic quality decline. >>> It's far from stupid. The answer to your question is found in your last sentence quoted above.
Originally Posted By disneyfreak4ever this is the first time my family will have gone in 3 years!!! HM is my sisters' and my favorite ride!!! we're devastated!!! why wouldn't they do this in the winter? Summer is the busiest season!!
Originally Posted By disneyfreak4ever don't get me wrong, i'm glad they are refurbing, last time i went the ride stopped about every 2 feet, but y in the summer?
Originally Posted By vbdad55 I keep hoping because they would re open with the NBC overlay for Halloween this year -- but that darn pixie dust must be in my eyes again
Originally Posted By SuperDry I just went on HM a couple of hours ago, after having been away from WDW for about 5 years. I went in thinking that there was a lot of exaggeration going on in this thread. Yea, I saw the peeling wallpaper, and the less-than-perfect condition of the stretching room. The first half of the ride seemed fine, but when it came to the graveyard scene, it was just horrendous. There essentially was no music - all you heard was the other tracks. It totally changed the mood of the ride and made it a lot less entertaining. I find it hard to believe that they'd let it get this bad. I realize that a lot of the little things will take time to fix, but how difficult could it be to get the main tracks of the sound working? It's disgraceful.
Originally Posted By gaston lives It's about time they're doing something about it, but I guess it's hard for a mulit-national to hedge their time/funds for the refurb. I mean, they could have pushed the paint job on Splash Mountain back to the summer and started the refurb of the Manse in early January... Oh well. Nothing any of us can do about it, huh?
Originally Posted By Dlmusic <<last time i went the ride stopped about every 2 feet>> That has nothing to do with maintenance. Haunted Mansion is an Omnimover type attraction which means that if somebody is in a wheelchair and they have to transfer the whole ride must stop. The Haunted Mansion in Florida stops more often than the one in California in my opinion, mostly due to more guests not understanding how to load onto an Omnimover vehicle and tripping on the belt, getting lost, etc. etc.
Originally Posted By SuperDry ^^^ Also, does WDW's HM have "creep mode," whereby the vehicles and load/unload platforms run at half speed? This was added at DL a few years ago, and eliminated many instances of the ride having to be stopped completely.
Originally Posted By brotherdave >>I keep hoping because they would re open with the NBC overlay for Halloween this year -- but that darn pixie dust must be in my eyes again<< It would be nice to see this happen, but, personally, I would love to see a PERMANANT Nighmare Before Christmas ride added to Disney/MGM Studios as has been rumored off and on for the last few years. Ouch!!!---Now I have that darn pixie dust in my eyes again!!! Thanks vbdad, I think you sneezed it my way!!!
Originally Posted By TDLFAN >>But that just gives the place a lived-in look . That's different than being run down.<< I am sorry, but you are becoming an apologist SuperDry. "Run down" can be very ugly, while make believe "lived in look" can be artful. The mansion is not looking all that artful lately. major distinction.
Originally Posted By TDLFAN Oooops, sorry I did not read you "after-ride" experience. I take what I said about you being an apologist back.
Originally Posted By TDLFAN >>Haunted Mansion is an Omnimover type attraction which means that if somebody is in a wheelchair and they have to transfer the whole ride must stop.<< Funny... that didn't used to happen as often (if at all) in the days when people were healthy and in shape.
Originally Posted By Brian55nh Superdry, WDW's HM does have "creep mode" as well - at least as long ago as 1999 if I recall correctly.
Originally Posted By SuperDry <<< Oooops, sorry I did not read you "after-ride" experience. I take what I said about you being an apologist back. >>> Why thank you. I did not tell just how disappointed I was. I was hosting a co-worker who had never been to ANY Disney park before. We went to Epcot for 3 hours until it closed, then went to the MK. The first ride I took him on was HM, and the graveyard scene had a totally different mood because of the sound problems. Of course, he didn't notice the difference, because he didn't know what it was supposed to be like, so he didn't know that anything was missing. Compared to anything at Six Flags, I think he got the idea that Disney attractions are of a different breed, but it was so disappointing to me to see the Mansion in such a bad state of repair. I really do think it changed the entire nature of the ride - it's not just like an effect here or there was missing. Another thing I noticed was that the candelabra in the infinite hallway was barely visible. I could barely see it, and I knew what to look for. I'm sure that my co-worker had no clue. It's also interesting that I noticed the things that were different between HM at WDW and TDL the most: I've been on the DL version 100+ times and know it very well. Since WDW and TDL are to me the "other" version, and since this was the first time I've been on WDW's in 5 years despite having been to TDR 7 times during that same period, I guess I have TDR's version burned into my head as the alternate version. In the library scene, I thought "Hey, where's the walking book and book on the table that turns its own pages?" Also, where is the "Dead End" sign just before the unload platform?
