 Disneyland’s Haunted Mansion has a unique way of transporting guests from the entrance to the haunts the live inside. The Stretching Room not only creates anticipation for what’s to come, it hides a separate function… the room acts as an elevator, lowering the guests to a level below ground. There are actually two elevators with one to the left when you enter the mansion and one directly ahead as you enter. The hall of portraits that you walk through after exiting the elevator takes you under the berm and railroad tracks. The Doom Buggies take you back up into the show building outside of the park’s defined space. You can see the tunnels as construction was underway. It was a clever piece of Imagineering that is unique to Disneyland’s version. In Florida, the ceiling actually raises and guests enter and exit the room on the same floor.      The Haunted Mansion in Disneyland has been providing creepy entertainment since 1969. The ballroom scene brings many ghosts together to dual, sit down for a meal and dance to music. There is another, special item in the ballroom scene, providing the music for the dancing ghosts… the organ. The organ has its own history. It is the same one used in the 1954 feature film, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. A display of the film, including the organ, was setup in Disneyland in 1955 and remanded until 1966 when it was taken down and the organ was set aside for the Haunted Mansion. Some things were changed, like a new set of pipes and the removal of the mirror, but the rest for the most part is the same organ Captain Nemo played in the film. The organs in other Disney parks are just replicas, Disneyland has the only original.     Newly leaked construction photos show the Haunted Mansion grounds expansion. Within the grounds, both tarp and makeshift construction walls prevent guests from seeing any work that has begun.  You can see the BEFORE PHOTOS  This photo is quite disturbing! From what I've discovered, the red spray paint is to prevent anyone from selling the mausoleum and headstones.  See the BEFORE PHOTOS
  The Haunted Mansion is set to close January 22nd and as of right now we have no idea when it reopens. The Mansion always goes down for its transformation from The Nightmare Before Christmas holiday overlay into the traditional version but this year there's two construction projects flanking both the entrance and the exit.   These projects will make it entirely complicated for people to get inside and outside of the attraction and creates a huge question mark on how long will the Mansion be down for 2024.   Here is here the new exit for the attraction will be. This will spill into the new Madame Leota gift shop.  And it's still unclear about Magnolia Park and how much of it will remain once the new queue line is installed.   |
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