~The History of The Haunted Mansion-Differences Between Haunted Mansion Attractions~
Today, well actually for the next few weeks (there's so much info to post that it would be too long and too overwhelming to read in one day!) I will be posting the various differences of Disney's The Haunted Mansion stateside and worldwide!
Today - we will be 'travelling' to the Octagonal Room!
The following are elements that are unique to each particular attraction.
Entrance
Guests enter from New Orleans Square.
Years ago, the cemetery paid tribute to the Imagineers, much like the one at Florida and Tokyo, but was changed when the queue was expanded some time after the mid-80s, to make room for the handicapped entrance.
When plans were being made for a Young Indiana Jones Stunt Spectacular, Disney bought a hearse for the show. When plans for the show were scrapped, the hearse was given an invisible phantom horse and placed outside the Disneyland mansion.
Walt Disney World:
Guests enter from Liberty Square.
An invisible phantom horse and hearse, this one black, also waits here.
One feature unique to the Florida mansion is a tombstone for Madame Leota. On it is a bronze casting of her face that, by way of animatronics, occasionally opens its eyes and looks around. In March 2011 an interactive queue was added, featuring such elements as a murder mystery, a sea captain's grave that spits water, a musical crypt, a pipe organ, a library with moving books, and a book that writes itself. Many of the original graves were moved.
In the back of the pet cemetery, there is a headstone of Mr. Toad in tribute to Mr. Toad's Wild Ride, which closed in 1998.
Tokyo Disneyland:
Guests enter from Fantasyland.
In comparison to the other mansions, the Tokyo mansion is more ramshackled and overgrown. A window hangs on its hinges, two ominous griffin statues rest at the entryway, and the gardens are overgrown and messy. Several crypts and fountains appear to be broken, the crypts emptied.
Disneyland Paris
Guests enter through Frontierland.
Hong Kong Disneyland
Guests enter through Mystic Point.
Foyer
Walt Disney World and Tokyo Disneyland:
A portrait of the master of the house rests above the fireplace and slowly transforms into a portrait of a rotting corpse. In the entranceway there are also cobweb-covered chandeliers.
Disneyland:
Guests enter a small rectangular room containing a dusty chandelier and a wooden floor (in the design of a spider's web).
Disneyland Paris
A portrait of Melanie Ravenswood fades in and out through a mirror.
Octagonal Room
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