When The Haunted Mansion reopens tomorrow, January 18, following the elimination of the annual Haunted Mansion Vacation overlay, it will likely be the primary time one of the best Disneyland experience, in its traditional type, has been accessible to friends at Disneyland since August of 2023. The prolonged closure, as a result of development of a brand new Haunted Mansion queue exterior the constructing, makes this reopening particularly anticipated, however when the mansion opens, it nonetheless received’t look fairly prefer it used to.
Walt Disney Imagineering has taken the chance to replace one of many Haunted Mansion’s main sequences. Along with enhancing the expertise, the precise story being instructed has been modified. However this might not be the final main change coming to the mansion.
The Haunted Mansion’s Bride Makes use of New Expertise To Inform An Outdated Story
One of the well-known items of the Haunted Mansion is The Bride. Within the Haunted Mansion’s attic, you discover a girl in a marriage costume standing within the nook. Imagineer Kim Irvine (who has a private connection to the Haunted Mansion), tells The Los Angeles Occasions that the brand new mansion will return to an earlier model of the character in comparison with what had been there beforehand. She defined…
While you look again on the unique tales of the attic it was far more about our bride who was sadly standing within the nook of this attic, sort of tossed away with the remainder of the misplaced issues that have been up there…we thought we might sort of transfer again in the direction of that. She nonetheless has all of the husbands that she’s misplaced by way of the years, however they only disappeared and he or she doesn’t know what occurred to them.
The model of the Bride we had instantly earlier was a a lot darker character. As riders approached her we noticed numerous wedding ceremony photographs of the identical girl with totally different husbands. Then their heads would vanish. It was clear that the girl was a Black Widow Bride who had murdered a number of husbands.
The brand new Bride is accompanied by new portraits. In these the husbands will disappear completely, not simply their heads, indicating that the lads vanished, however the reason being left mysterious.
To associate with the previous story is new expertise. The projection results of the Bride have been utterly redone. Now the ghostly Bride is now not standing within the nook, however floating, whereas wanting forlorn at her loss.
Apparently, the candelabra the Bride is holding is similar to the one that’s seen floating by itself earlier within the attraction. The candelabra has apparently additionally been added to the later graveyard sequence, giving the impression the Bride is wandering all the mansion.
The Iconic Hanging Man Could Nonetheless Be Changed Down The Street
One other a part of the Haunted Mansion, the well-known Hitchhiking Ghosts, has additionally apparently seen some form of replace, although precisely how is outwardly being stored underneath wraps till the attraction reopens. Nevertheless, Kim Irvine additionally confirms that one other a part of the Mansion is being thought of for a future change.
The Haunted Mansion has all the time been an odd mix of horror and humor, and arguably the scariest a part of all the attraction comes on the very starting. The disembodied Ghost Host that narrates your expertise reveals that he solely discovered one method to escape the well-known Stretching Room, by hanging himself from the rafters.
It’s been rumored earlier than that the impact may get changed. Kim Irvine confirms to the Occasions that the picture, clearly one in all suicide, is probably triggering within the fashionable age. And so whereas it hasn’t modified but, it’s into consideration. Irvine defined…
We’re nonetheless that. That one is sophisticated, structurally … One factor at a time.
I’m truthfully unsure how I really feel about this. I utterly perceive the sensation that such a picture might not be acceptable at present, although it doesn’t hit me that manner personally. So I can’t adequately gauge it.
And the hanged man, revealed after the friends have been in whole darkness, is the scariest a part of the experience, presumably the scariest factor in any respect of Disneyland. Maybe it could possibly be changed with one thing equally chilling, however it appears extra possible that taking it out would shift the experience’s delicate steadiness. This can be the structural problems that Irvine is referring to. Altering the scene may require altering much more.
What these latest updates, and the attainable future ones clarify, is that the Haunted Mansion, like all Disneyland sights, won’t ever be actually executed.