Haunted Mansion Opens Again

September 14th, 2007 by Mr. Mai Tai

The Haunted Mansion at WDW has opened again with some all new features.  Theme Park Rangers has a detailed list of the renovations and upgrades.

* A new room that is a collection of upside-down staircases with ghostly footprints. It’s a fascinating, distinctive look, the kind of presentation that puts you on the edge of your doom buggy to get a better view.

* New images in the hallway of portraits. (The originals are now in the loading area).

* Floating Leota is definitely more spooky — and more colorful. The woman’s head in the crystal ball is no longer fixed; it floats and circles above the table.

* The attic has added detail the story of Constance the black widow bride. The devil is in the details, according to Imagineer Kathy Rogers, who took a spin with me Wednesday. You glide through her belongings and wedding presents, you can see how she married up as the years went by. The bride’s “physical” location has moved from the right side to the left side, and a weapon has been added to her arsenal. (One detail to look for is the bride’s pearl necklaces — one for each husband, each strand getting bigger.)

* The wallpaper with a spooky eye motif is more dominant than before, and some of those eyes glow/blink.

* The sound of the mansion is improved, from the near-echo-chamber effect of our ghost host to the “little Leota” at the end.

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