Originally Posted By YourPalEd Here come the hatchets!!! "Please, it's just me, Your Pal, Ed." Yeah? That's what they all say! Men are all alike! They leave you with a $6,000 cattering fee and no official ceremony to taunt my friends with!
Originally Posted By trekkeruss How can you be such a hypocrite, Ed? How are these changes to HM any different than what is being done to PoTC?
Originally Posted By danyoung >First they want to practically dismantle the POTC so we won't recognize it and next they want to change The Haunted Mansion into a bloody Halloween ride< Hyperbole, anyone?
Originally Posted By DyGDisney When was the "I do" added? I asked this last time I came back from DL (last April), and everyone acted like it had always been there. I was always most freaked out by the bride in the attic because the heartbeat sound is really freaky to me. When I ride with one of my kids, I cover their eyes and ears (as best I can). They don't really care for the original anyway, they like the Haunted Mansion Holiday, much less creepy. But, alas, my husband can not take off time in October, Nov or Dec anymore, so no holiday trip for us. If these changes really happen, my kids may be skipping HM this trip. Too bad Pirates will be down
Originally Posted By Elderp Obviously YouPalEd doesn't care about HM as much as he cares about POTC. It is just an opinion anyhow. Actually, I have seen real axe killings at murder scenes and they are really messy and rarely does the suspect ever suceeed in chopping off the person's head but then again I doubt Disney is aiming for reality.
Originally Posted By lesmisfan i have always loved the HM, and this changes seem very exciting, even the bride holding the axe part. I can't wait to see all these new specail effects as they are turned on, that is, of course, if Al's correct.
Originally Posted By mickey4239 When I was little, the attic was the part that would scare me. The rest of the ride was just creepy, but not scary. With kids nowadays (wow, I sound old !) it takes much more to scare them. They are constantly exposed to blood and gore via the media in ways that I wasn't as a child. It takes a lot to scare them just a little, so the changes mentioned would not be too gory. Maybe even not scary enough, but then again, we are talking about DL.
Originally Posted By DismayingObservation I was eight years old in 1969 and went on HM that same year. I remember it vividly. I wasn't scared so much as startled by the screaming heads in the attic. Loved it. Mind you, I hated horror flicks and my grandmother loved them. "Dark Shadows," which she watched every day, gave me nightmares whenever Barnabas Collins turned into a vampire. HM was entirely different. If I could overlay my eight-year-old psyche over my gut reaction to the proposed changes, I think I would have loved them. I'd sure be talking it up at school, that's for sure!
Originally Posted By mickey4239 Those are my sentiments exactly. I am one who is normally hesitant about making changes to my beloved DL attractions, esp. HM and Pirates, but this one sounds good to me. I am interested to know though if and how it will affect HMH.
Originally Posted By WyckidStepmonster Hi All, I don't know if anyone's interested, but I found a recording of the Story of the Haunted Mansion at 1313SouthHarborBlvd.com...Here's the link..I downloaded it, but haven't listened to it yet. <a href="http://www.1313southharborblvd.com/Grinning" target="_blank">http://www.1313southharborblvd .com/Grinning</a>%20Ghost/Haunted%20Mansion%20Vinyl.htm If you've never been to this website, they have lots of free downloads and such. Enjoy!! Wyckid
Originally Posted By doombuggy "Originally (way back in the day), she represented the jilted Bride who was left at the altar. After that traumatic event (so the story goes), she locked herself away in the Mansion and died there. So-- she would have been a sympathetic character." The real story Disney was going to use was a bride marries a sea captain but finds out he's a pirate. When he finds out she knows, he kills her. But after Walt died they dropped the story line. All this master Gracy foolishness was made up by fans with way to much time on their hands. To get the history on HM go to doombuggies.com For those who say murder should not be the base for a story line you need to ride Phantom manor. The whole thing is based on the murder of the groom which we get to see.
Originally Posted By LindsayC Phantom Manor is the Disneyland Paris version of the Haunted Mansion, situated in Frontierland.
Originally Posted By gurgitoy2 I don't know what it is, but I just love the name "Phantom Manor", and am glad that it was chosen for Disneyland Paris.
Originally Posted By gurgitoy2 It's possible that they added them around the time Disneyland Paris opened, much like they did with It's a Small world's facade and soundtrack.
