In the last "history of & changes" to video I made, we discussed Disneyland's
Haunted Mansion. We talked about its conceptual evolution from a walkthrough
haunted house into an omnimover dark ride as well as its growing popularity,
that eventually made it into one of the most popular dark rides in the world. But,
one thing we neglected talking about altogether was its near-identical
Florida counterpart, that opened up two years after the original at the Magic
Kingdom. Since both versions of the mansion opened up so close to one
another their histories are essentially intertwined so, this video's gonna be
focusing a lot less on the history of the Florida version, and moreso the
differences between it and the original. But before we get started, let's get a
little bit of backstory on the Florida mansion.
Interestingly enough, the story actually begins at Epcot...
Eh, no. Not that Epcot. Yeah, that Epcot, or better known as
"The Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow which, if you don't know was an
idea of Walt Disney's from the early 60s to essentially build his own city where
new and experimental technologies could be tested. Now, a big part of this project
was going to be a new version of Disneyland next to the city. The new park
would not only attract visitors and tourists from elsewhere in the country,
giving the city the money it needs to survive, but it would also be a place for
its residents to enjoy. So plans for the "new Disneyland" or Magic
Kingdom were already set in motion by the mid-60s, with some slight park
redesigns in place and clones of some of the most popular Disneyland attractions
set to open there. Even ones that weren't officially opened yet in Disneyland, like
the Haunted Mansion, for example. However, plans for the Florida project were
suddenly changed in 1966, when Walt Disney died. With him, the original EPCOT
plan sort of died out as well, just leaving the park.
Not too long after Walt's death, the Imagineers behind the original Haunted
Mansion picked the project back up, and eventually finished it in 1968. While
they were still making the first mansion, they already knew about the plans to
open a second one only a few years later. So, they made duplicates of all the
original props the attraction and stored them for later on. Around that same time
they also decided that the new version of the ride would be longer, and include a few
additional scenes that there wasn't enough space to include in the original.
The Magic Kingdom's Haunted Mansion officially began construction sometime
in 1970 and wrapped up lesson year later in early 1971. Over the next six to seven
months, the Imagineers finished up the attraction by putting in
all the pre-made set pieces. But after they were finished with that, the
attraction was opened alongside the rest of the park on October 1st of that same
year. When the new Haunted Mansion first opened it received much praise from
guests, mainly for a lot of the same reasons the original did. With its use of
innovative effects, original theming and creative storytelling, the ride was
almost instantly a hit. Even parkgoers who had also been on the California
version, were still impressed with exclusive scenes that weren't in the
original. So with that being said, let's get to talking about what all was
different between the two. The biggest change between both mansions has to be
the difference in their facades. If you remember from the first video, Disneyland's
Haunted Mansion was largely designed in its final plantation style so it could
fit in with the rest of its surrounding area; The New Orleans Square. But since
the Magic Kingdom didn't get its own version of that same land, and instead
got the Liberty Square. The new mansion had the blend in with that. Since
the architecture for the Liberty Square was mostly based off colonial times
the mansion took on a new look. However the Imagineers and artists
eventually decided to give it more of a gothic style to better match the
attractions theme. For maybe around 10 years after it was first opened the
mansion kept the same tradition of the original, looking very well kept and
maintained but over the past couple of decades Disney's sort of allowed it to
look more overgrown and unkempt to make it feel more abandoned, which does help
with the overall "Haunted" theming. The queues for both of the attractions were
also similar enough as well, in both California and Florida you basically
walk around the front of the mansion and eventually get led inside. The only
difference there being that in California, you end up going in through
the front of the mansion and in Florida you go in through the back, or what they
call the servants entrance. That was until 2011
when Disney extended the original queue and added some new interactive elements
to it. Most of which were new tombs or tombstones that reference characters
from the mansion. As for the actual interior of the mansion, the foyers or,
rooms you go into before the stretching, or pre-show room, are somewhat different.
As the Florida version is much darker than the original and features an
additional changing portrait that isn't present in the California version.
However both of the mansion's stretching rooms are designed to look the same and
each ride as two of them to help with capacity. The only real difference is
that in California the stretching room also acts as an elevator, taking guests
down to the parks basement level. If you don't know the reason it does that is so
that way you can walk under the train tracks for the railroad, which happened to
pass in between the mansion's facade and it's show building. Over in
Florida, the Haunted Mansion isn't anywhere near the railroad but, they kept
the same effect by instead of raising the pre-show room ceiling, as opposed to
lowering its floor. After that, the Disneyland version dumps you into a
hallway that passes underneath the tracks, and eventually leads you into the
loading area. While at the Magic Kingdom, the stretching room just dumps you
directly into the loading area. Both loading areas look and act pretty much
the same, except for the fact that the Disneyland version tilts and travels
upwards after you get on while the Magic Kingdom one stays level with the ground.
This is because the ride's show building, unlike its loading area and hallway are
on the same level as its facade, not below it. Alright, now that the ride has
officially begun we get to finally see some of the bigger changes. The first
thing you come across is a set of paintings that quickly change when
lightning strikes outside the room. While these aren't in the actual ride portion
of the Disneyland attraction, the same portraits and effect can be found in the
hallway that leads into the loading area. Likewise, the following library scene
that showcases the "follow-you busts" isn't present in California either but the
moving bust effect can be found at the end of that same hallway. The next scene
after that shows you a piano being played by a ghost, who's only noticeable
from the shadow he casts. While this scene used to be completely exclusive in the
Florida mansion, a similar scene was later added to the California version in
the 90s, when they introduced their own ghostly piano player to that rides attic
scene. The last completely new addition to the Florida mansion was the grand
staircase, which features multiple sets of stairs that run in all directions,
some seemingly impossible. Surprisingly enough, the grand staircase scene wasn't
a part of the ride until 2007. Up until that point the space was just a darkened
room with some spiderwebs and large spiders on the walls. Aside from that,
there really aren't any huge differences between both mansions. Both have the
endless hallway, the Conservatorium, corridor of doors,
seance room, ballroom, attic and graveyard. However they both do have
their own distinct feel for each of these scenes, but that's moreso because
of lighting tweaks and differences in room size, as the Magic Kingdom version
is a bit bigger than the original. Not unlike the original mansion, the Attic in
the Florida version has seen the most changes in the ride. While it never got
the additional piano-playing ghost or hatbox ghost animatronic like the
Disneyland version. It did see a few different incarnations of the bride
character. Originally appearing more corpse-like at the beginning, it was
later redesigned in the early 80s to look creepier, after that it
was redesigned again in the mid 90s to look a little bit less ghostly and
eventually got replaced altogether with the new Constance character in 2007.
Lastly, the Florida mansion also introduced new animated hitchhiking
ghosts of the Haunted Mansion in 2011. Before the hitchhiking ghosts were
actual animatronics hidden on the opposite side of the mirror, making them
appear transparent when you saw them in your ride vehicle. Now they're just
projected onto the mirrors which, to me at least, seems a little bit less
impressive. But who even cares what I think?
Like the Disneyland version of the ride, the Magic Kingdom attraction has also
managed to standout is one of Disney World's better dark rides.
Since Florida's mansion isn't at Disneyland and isn't as sacred as the
original, since Walt didn't directly of a hand in his creation, it's been able to
get toyed around with a lot more than the California version, with all the
updates, new scenes and various additions. Which I do overall think is a good thing
As it allows today's Imagineers to be able to give their own spin to a classic
attraction without ruining the original. Because despite my seemingly negative
attitude about these things, not every new additional update to a classic ride
is a bad thing, and the Florida mansion is a perfect example of that.
While the mansion's storyline and general layout wasn't as different
between the two domestic versions as it is between those and the two foreign
versions. Which, don't worry are getting their own separate videos later. There
were still plenty of big differences between both of the attractions.
Hopefully if the Haunted Mansion sees any more updates or large-scale changes
in the future, they're put into effect at the Magic Kingdom where they'll
definitely be more appreciated than they would be if they replaced something in
the original. Which like I said, should try and stay as close to its opening day version as possible
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