Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan >>I was just trying to figure out why my wife would have found DL's Haunted Mansion so scary that she won't even try the one at WDW with me. I guess different stuff scares different people.<< Each fall, I work on a local haunted house for charity. We do our best but it's no Disneyland of course. I think of our haunt as a haunted house with training wheels: We are more for families than the extreme mega-haunts that people sometimes graduate to. But what isn't scary to one person is terrifying to another. We offer "good fairy" tours. This not only allows little kids a chance to go through without the live ghouls jumping out of the shadows, it also allows adults who don't like getting scared a way to see it, too. In fact, I'd say probably at least 60% of the overall visitors opt for the good fairy tour vs. the ones wanting more scares. It's also fascinating to see how the loudest and bravest in line will put someone else in their party ahead of them for protection.
Originally Posted By trekkeruss "WDW's ToT is the absolute finest single attraction in the Disney Universe!!" I've always felt a bit of "that's it?" I'm a HUGE Cars fan, so I LOVE RSR. I just wish the race portion was a bit longer. DLP's Phantom Manor, PotC, and BTMRR are all brilliant, better than the other park's versions. Soarin' is not only fun, it still makes me feel tingly ... the music is perfection. Horizons is still my all-time favorite.
Originally Posted By RoadTrip With TOT, what makes it for me is the entire experience. Walking up the hill through the neglected hotel grounds, the exquisitely detailed lobby, the show in the library (I was a huge Twilight Zone fan), and then the walk through the rather spooky basement to the service elevator. To me boilers are ALWAYS spooky, even if they are fake. Then you are loaded into your elevator by CM who are more incredibly into their role than any others I've seen. You stop and go through the 5th Dimension room, kind of wondering what the heck is going on. Then everything goes dark and a bright white line appears and separates indicating you have gone through a door into another dimension. Sure, then you feel the elevator lock into the drop shaft... never seemed a distraction to me. Then you have the drop sequence. As you say, not really that big a deal. A drop ride is a drop ride. It is everything leading up to it that makes it perfection for me.
Originally Posted By CuriousConstance "Someone who's seen the movie can't "unsee" it and put himself in that ignorant space.... but FWIW, when I rode it with someone who hadn't seen Monsters Inc., her reaction was "Um.... okay... I didn't really get it... I guess I should have seen the movie."" I agree that it would make almost no sense whatsoever without seeing the movie, but I think the bigger question here is what kind of a person are you cohorting with that hasn't seen Monster's Inc?!
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt "Each fall, I work on a local haunted house for charity. We do our best but it's no Disneyland of course." There's also Ellen's always willing staff who she sends to test the local haunted house each Halloween. <a target="blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXZ6K21wvZM">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...6K21wvZM</a> I never get tired of looking at this.
Originally Posted By hbquikcomjamesl "WDW's ToT is the absolute finest single attraction in the Disney Universe!!" Hmm. To me, it's not even the "finest single attraction" in WDW. Personally, I'd put GMR, M:S, American Adventure, Ellen, and CoP all ahead of it. And from among the "fallen flags" now consigned to "Yesterland," I'd add Timekeeper, Body Wars, and Adventurer's Club to my list of attractions I like better than even the WDW ToT (which is, however, far better than the DCA ToT).
Originally Posted By hbquikcomjamesl > Soarin' is not only fun, it still makes me feel tingly ... the music is perfection. Same here. Whaddya expect from a Jerry Goldsmith score? He was second only to John Williams.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros >>but FWIW, when I rode it with someone who hadn't seen Monsters Inc., her reaction was "Um.... okay... I didn't really get it... I guess I should have seen the movie."<< I had the same experience with my dad, who hadn't seen the movie. I had no problem figuring out what was going on because I generally remembered the movie setup, but I think it's completely lost on people who haven't seen it or don't remember it >>There's also Ellen's always willing staff who she sends to test the local haunted house each Halloween.<< That video is hysterical! I don't particularly enjoy getting startled by things jumping out at me, so I totally sympathize with the guy yelling at the zombies to stop it. I went to the Halloween event at Knott's once, and after figuring out that it's just a bunch of people jumping out at you I decided that I don't really feel the need to ever do it again. It's not especially scary, it's just really annoying
Originally Posted By CuriousConstance " There's also Ellen's always willing staff who she sends to test the local haunted house each Halloween. <a target="blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...6K21wvZM">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...6K21wvZM</a> I never get tired of looking at this." HAHAHA! Oh my god, I love Andy now.
