Originally Posted By cinderella143also >>But the projected bust and Leota look real??????? They are ALL projected.<< Yes, but the quality and attention to detail are different. In seeing the bride it is so obvious. Her face is blue and when we were there it wasn't even lined up with the maniquin (spelling??) correctly.....
Originally Posted By FerretAfros The singing busts and Madame Leota do look fake, but in a believeable way. The bride just looks like something that came out of a computer (because she did). For some reason, there is something about computer animation and digital projectors that just makes it look really fake. The safety video in Indy is done with a digital projector, but was actually made with very little (if any) CGI. The bug room, however, uses the same kind of projector, only with completely computer generated images, and it looks really fake. When the ride opened, the bugs were just sillouhettes, but it was a lot more effective. Same goes for the falling rocks in the last lift in Big Thunder. There is something about the coloration from digital projectors that tends to make white look blue-ish, which gives it away. One of the things that I really like about DL at night is the use of lights with yellow tints, as it just makes everything look warmer and more welcoming. They also tend to make things look better and cover flaws. The blue light from digital projectors shows flaws very clearly and also just looks unnatural. I wouldn't even be surprised if they did the same projection with a traditional projector (without worrying about the looping issues), it would look a lot more realistic.
Originally Posted By BrnardM We may get to see some improvement as far as the bride goes... <a href="http://p080.ezboard.com/The-quotnewquot-new-bride/fdisneyshauntedmansionfrm0.showMessage?topicID=6604.topic" target="_blank">http://p080.ezboard.com/The-qu otnewquot-new-bride/fdisneyshauntedmansionfrm0.showMessage?topicID=6604.topic</a>
Originally Posted By wingednike >>We may get to see some improvement as far as the bride goes... <a href="http://p080.ezboard.com/The-qu" target="_blank">http://p080.ezboard.com/The-qu</a> otnewquot-new-bride/fdisneyshauntedmansionfrm0.showMessage?topicID=6604.topic<< Wouldn't it be neat if they put in a (beheaded, maybe) husband figure with a beating heart?
Originally Posted By Kala We saw her last week and loved her! I thought she was a little creepy with the animation. The added pictures were also very cool. Two thumbs up from us.
Originally Posted By Autopia Deb I think the new bride is too obviously creepy. I miss the old bride and her beating heart, it was just so sad it added something to the ride in a subtle way.
Originally Posted By 2501ESC I was wandering,do you think Walt Disney World have plans to add new things to The Magic Kingdom's Haunted Mansion in Liberty Square like:Madame Leota's Seance,with her floating cristal ball,5 floating spirits of the bride's former husbands,and the new bride in the attic, including her wedding vows dialogue,the bouquite turning into an axe,the portraits of the bride and her former husbands,whose heads disappeared in each portrait[just like Disneyland's Haunted Mansion]?
Originally Posted By 2501ESC I was wandering,do you think Walt Disney World have plans to add new things to The Magic Kingdom's Haunted Mansion in Liberty Square like:Madame Leota's Seance,with her floating cristal ball,5 floating spirits of the bride's former husbands,and the new bride in the attic, including her wedding vows dialogue,the bouquet turning into an axe,the portraits of the bride and her former husbands,whose heads disappeared in each portrait[just like Disneyland's Haunted Mansion]?
Originally Posted By The Goddess Mara The old bride was a floating dummy: the new bride is a Madame-Leota style projection and looks AND sounds great--much better, I think, and those portraits with the husbands' heads vanishing still has me stumped.
Originally Posted By labretbear I think the last upgrade to HM in WDW was that nifty Madame Leota tombstone in the outdoor queue. And that was about five years ago.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 Also, the WDW HM is in horrendous disrepair - the last time I went on it, it was embarrassing. I hope they DO get a new bride, or the NBC overlay, or SOMETHING to give them an excuse for some long-overdue maintenance on the attraction in general.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 Nightmare Before Christmas. What they've done to the DL HM for several years now from oct-dec., but not to the MK's.
Originally Posted By FiveBearRugs I've only been to WDW's Mansion once, in 2003... how bad has it gotten?
Originally Posted By DlandDug I was at the WDW mansion last Spring and thought it was pretty terrible. The scenes looked shabby and the sound was so muddy it sounded like it was coming up through a barrel of molasses. I really hope that the MK gets the NBC overlay, and all the upgrades that would accompany it.
