Originally Posted By wonderingalice Excellent post, SafariRob... I'm looking forward to your observations, too. Totally agree on the carpet thing, too... Our home is all ceramic tile now except for the bedrooms. Just FEELS clean and fresh. Oh... And me, I'm right a lot of the time, but definitely not always! *L* ;-)
Originally Posted By Nobody SafariRob, If you're up for an experiment, try to visit the attraction twice. On the first walk-through, go in like an average visitor (listening to the audio, watching the flickering lights, and anticipating the rest of the attraction. On your second shot, feel free to lag behind and fully inspect the floor to critique it's design and material choices. I went last Thursday. I was probably somewhere in the middle of my group and looked at the floor because I knew about it. Because of the amount of people, it was hard for me (and I imagine anybody behind me) to discern that there was an actual web pattern. The floor is quickly obscured by folks, and just becomes more-so as the remaining people compress into the room. I probably would have chosen two darker shades of wood (to make the pattern less "contrasty") but I think it will be a non-issue to a very high percentage of guests.
Originally Posted By Goofyernmost I never knew what was there before someone said it had been changed. Silly me, I must be paying attention to the wrong things on these attractions. From now on it is LOOK DOWN for me.
Originally Posted By SubSonix99aol Ok last 2 times I was there, august and jan. There was a spot in the floor there that gave away. Like a hole. I'm kinda glad they seem to being doing something to replace it.
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA Saw the wood floor in question yesterday. Truly no big deal at all, in my opinion. It's fine.
Originally Posted By melekalikimaka It's pretty dark in the foyer. You *can* see the floor but it isn't that big of a deal.
Originally Posted By BrnardM My oppinion of course, but I think many people are taking this change the wrong way. If I may kindly direct your attention to the window above the Mansion's entry you will also notice a spiderweb pattern. It is subtle enough to be artistic and I'm sure it has been used elsewhere without goulish intent. We know that the mansion is haunted, so we pick out the floor pattern immediately as a spiderweb. One man's spderweb is another man's octagonal design and I feel that it works in the realm of foreshadowing. It's no more blatent than the seriously creepy gargoyles in the next room!
Originally Posted By avromark If it is laminate it doesn't take drops to well (say an old VHS camcorder) as the "wood" portion is only 6-12mm thick (fingernail depth) and the rest is usually something like a fibreboard that doesn't have the "grain" or moving furniture without pads (not a problem in this installation though). This has happened to the laminate floors by my desks, it leaves an unsightly mark.It would stand up to foot traffic well though. A laminate floor is a "floating" floor (not nailed down to the subfloor like hardwood would be) therefore a laminate floor would be easier to replace, but a laminate floor does not age as well as hardwood. For example you cannot sand down laminate and refinish it. Some of the better quality laminates have bevelled edges, sometimes you can tell if its laminate or hardwood by the edges of the "pieces" of wood. If it's vinyl it will be slightly more spongy and usually glossier. The walls don't appear to have an Oak grain but that could be the lighting, more of an Ash or Cypress? They could have used a "stain" that is more in the brown instead of red-brown tones but perhaps they want to draw attention to the floor? Does the new floor look like an Oak Grain in a "Cherry" style stain to you? If they did "age" it (a museum I went to once aged a floor by driving a "sky lift" over it many times) it would give a less slippery surface when wet.
Originally Posted By SafariRob I rode HM on Saturday with my family and (wouldn't you know it?) we rode the carpeted elevator! I was looking forward to seeing the new floor. I would have had us ride it again but my 4 year old son was scared and I didn't really want to ride it alone just to see the floor. I guess I will have to wait until the next trip. Hopefully it will be in January.
Originally Posted By Nobody I think SafariRob just just proved to us that the new foyer floor has minimal negative impact to (at least some of)the guests.
Originally Posted By wonderingalice *LMAO* (Sorry, the last three posts just made me choke on my soda... ;-)
Originally Posted By SafariRob OH MAN! I must have misread the posts. I could have swore that someone wrote that one of the elevators had carpet and the other had hard wood. Wow, do I feel silly! Now I can see that all that fuss was pretty much about nothing. How long are guests in the foyer? 2-3 seconds? You walk through the foyer and straight into the elevator. I wasn't even paying attention to the foyer. The floor could have been purple and I probably wouldn't have noticed.
Originally Posted By wonderingalice Thanks, Nobody! Hee hee hee hee, SafariRob! The time spent in the foyer does vary, though... There are times we've walked right into the stretching room/elevator and other times we've waited three or four minutes. I guess it depends on the crowd and whether they're running just one elevator.
Originally Posted By jaycub Personally, I like the new floor. I think that thet spider web design is kinda cool.
