Sunday, September 16, 2007
New Haunted Mansion in Disney World - Video with binaural sound!
Boing Boing: "The Haunted Mansion ride at Walt Disney World has just undergone a major rehab that builds on the superb work done on Disneyland's Mansion last year."
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Solid, but no where near as exciting as the real thing. The rehab of the bride is good but the original was much more scary. The problem with this in part is the fact that all the sudden they are going back and trying to hash the story out better. The story behind the bride at Phantom Manor is trying to be somewhat crammed down our throats. The attic soundtrack has always been the only part that has not had the thread of 10 Grim Grinning Ghosts layered into the soundtrack but it feels like they may have taken it too far. Speaking from the video and seeing the Disneyland version, not so much. However, props on the rest of the manor. Especially those singing busts Chris Gabriel.
This could be good or bad. Technology has come so far since this ride first opened and now Disney has tools that can really blow their audiences out of their seats. (Not like they never did before). Let me put it this way: It's like watching you favorite movie from twenty years ago, only they've digitally remastered it. However, I say it could be bad because they could loose the originally aestetics in their remodeling and thus losing all those childhood Disney memories we hold dear with that ride. (Kinda like what people said when Coca-Cola changed their recipe). Let's just hope the designers are delicate with this make-over because they have great potential here
Rehabs make me sad sometimes. I really like the Escher stairs, but why the new bride? She looks terrible. I would have waited a few years until the technology was perfected. And when are they going to add the other effects for Madame Leota? The Disneyland version flies all over the place. It is a nice improvement, though.
As a side note, why did they replace the Sinister 11 with changing portraits? That was one of the neat little differences between DL and WDW.
Imagineering is in such a horrendously awkward state right now. Disney himself said that Disneyland wasn't meant to be a museum, but after his death, to change the original rides seems to be a disgrace to the great Uncle Walt. Imagineering is a fierce beast, and quite an interesting study on management with creative enterprises. For the past twenty or so years, Imagineering has been dominated by managers that have hindered the creative resources of the artists and technicians.
How do you manage an organization that doesn't exactly fit into an excel spreadsheet?
Anyway, at least things were cleaned up. Everyone was sick of seeing that ripped scrim, and I never liked the spiders in the first place.
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