![]() On the rides, you're warned that a ghost will follow you home as you come to the end of the attraction – and that's exactly what happens to the characters in the film. (Image credit: Disney) A ghost will follow you home ![]() When the room is plunged into darkness and lightning flashes, you can spot the Ghost Host through the ceiling in a hidden room – that's the space Ben and Travis escape into. At first, the room appears to be normal, but as the Ghost Host narrates, the ceiling stretches up and up and the portraits elongate with it, revealing those terrifying situations. This is a very faithful recreation of the stretching room that welcomes you inside the Haunted Mansion in California, Florida, and Tokyo (Paris's Phantom Manor has its own stretching room, but the portraits are different). The four portraits show innocuous situations that turn sinister once the room stretches: a woman holding a parasol turns out to be on a tightrope above water with an alligator beneath her an elderly lady sitting with a flower turns out to be perched atop her husband's grave a man standing with his arms folded is actually sitting on the shoulders of another man, part of a human chain slowly sinking into quicksand a man posing proudly is really standing on top of a barrel of TNT with the fuse lit. Luckily, they manage to escape through the ceiling, after some assistance from the paintings themselves. The stretching roomīen and Travis get stuck in a stretching room as they try to escape the mansion – they're in pretty serious peril, considering the TNT, quicksand, and alligators from the portraits lining the walls appear in the real world. The Haunted Mansion attractions all share distinctive music, and you can hear that creepy theme throughout the score of the movie. How sweet! (Don't worry, you get called a foolish mortal later on, instead.) The music When you step into the stretching portrait room (more on that in a moment) your Ghost Host, AKA the narrator, welcomes you with this particularly sinister line of dialogue – though, in Phantom Manor, your narrator is slightly nicer, and welcomes you as "curious friends" instead. The first words in the film are delivered by Jamie Lee Curtis's Madame Leota: "welcome, foolish mortals." If that sounds familiar, it's because it's pretty much the rides' tagline – it's also one of the first things you hear on the attractions. Before we continue, though, we should note that this version of the ride is so different that you can go ahead and assume we're not talking about this one unless we've specifically referenced it. This is by far the most drastically different version of the attraction, but it does have a few things in common with its cousins, too. The manor is filled with fascinating artefacts, and a little bit of magic brings them all to chaotic life. You take a tour of Lord Henry Mystic's fantastical home, accompanied by adorable monkey Albert. Hong Kong Disneyland's Mystic Manor, meanwhile, also has an official premise, but is more magic themed than spooky. While it shares a lot of similarities with its cousins in America and Japan, this is actually a fairly different ride – and we'll get into that as we go on. Her father, Henry Ravenswood, is the titular Phantom, who narrates the ride (and seems to have had something to do with those four deaths, too). ![]() She had four suitors, and they all died tragically under mysterious circumstances, so she wanders her home in her wedding dress forevermore. The ride follows a bereaved bride named Melanie Ravenswood. Unlike the other three haunted houses, this version has its own, focused storyline, too. Their exterior looks very different to California's mansion, though, and while they have a lot in common with Disneyland's version, there are some key differences inside.ĭisneyland Paris's take on the ride is named Phantom Manor, and, thanks to its Wild West theme, its exterior is modelled completely differently to the other versions of the Haunted Mansion. ![]() The Florida and Tokyo versions of the attraction are virtually identical both inside and out (with some minor variations). The Disneyland California version of the ride opened first, while the others followed later. ![]() All the versions of the ride – besides Hong Kong Disney's Mystic Manor – have the same premise: you're a visitor in a very, very haunted house, taken on a tour through the halls and rooms, which are all populated by various eccentric spirits. We'll give you a whistle stop tour of the Haunted Mansion basics here, to make it easier to dig into the Easter eggs that follow. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |