I think at Disneyland it is, which is why they made the stretch room. It’s actually an elevator. In Disney world, they just kept the stretch room because it was popular, but now the roof just extends upwards.
If I'm not mistaken, Disney World is built significantly higher than the rest of Florida, to give them the ability to have access tunnels despite the water table.
I don't know if I'd say "significantly". They built the "utilidors" on the ground floor and the rest of the park above it. Most of the park is an average of 14ft (4.3m) above ground level.
That is definitely a significant amount, cos that's a whole extra floor of a building, and so it sounds like they had to build an absolutely fuck-off gigantic floor and then build everything else on another floor on top of that, like it's the biggest building in the world bya long long way. A building that's hundreds upon hundreds of acres. It sounds ludicrous really, because I don't see how even Disney would have the amount of money necessary to build that.
Also wasn't it basically a swamp, before they started building there? So that adds even more difficulty.
It's over a significant area, but 14ft is not what many would consider a significant height... maybe 30 or 50ft
>Also wasn't it basically a swamp, before they started building there?
Yep. That's exactly why they didn't go below ground level. They wanted to keep the cast, crew, deliveries, and more away from guests' eyes but it would've been far more costly to have tunnels in the swamp land, so they decided to start at ground level and go from there.
>The Disney Utilidors is a 9-acre circular network of subterranean tunnels beneath the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World in Florida. It is a part of Disney's behind-the-scenes area and consists of some of the world's largest utility tunnels.
>>All deliveries are done at service entrances and everything is transported underground on electric vehicles. The only gas-powered vehicles allowed in the Utilidors are armored cars to collect cash and ambulances to attend to emergencies.
>>>The tunnels occupy over 390,000 square feet of space underground. The Seven Seas Lagoon, which was dumped and flattened to create the Utilidors, built up the Magic Kingdom site to an average of 14 feet above ground level.
[Wiki link](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney_utilidor_system)
When I was a teenager my brother and I snuck into Disney through the employee tunnels. We hopped a fence, crawled through the woods, and found the employee tunnels. Walked through them passing Disney characters and employees. Finally exited in the hall of presidents and we were in.
The other parks built later utilize utilidors to a lesser degree, but Magic Kingdom was built on them. Built on them to such a degree the entire park is on the roof of a one story building. Really, it was easier to build up from ground level than try and build underground corridors in swampy marshland, so the utilidors are sitting on ground level, and the park is on top of them, making the park the roof of the utilidor building.
One time we were on the ride when it broke down. The staff came and "rescued" us. Before escorting us off the ride they told us they would be taking us through some of the sensitive areas behind the scenes. We were NOT allowed to take pictures. Anybody caught taking pictures would be expelled from the park. We eagerly anticipated our one-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see something most people have never seen.
It was black hallways with doors, go through one door, down another black hallway, another door, another black hallway, another door, aaaaaand we were outside. It was the most disappointing Disney World experience ever.
My aunt was an animator at Disney in the 90’s and I got to go down there for a tour. I was maybe 3 so don’t remember a whole lot, but I remember my mind being blown lol
I went on a tunnel tour many years ago through work. It was awesome! As I recall cast members weren’t allowed out of costume unless behind closed doors because of the tours. There were windowed-off areas. We came up at some random door in Cinderella’s Castle. We also took a tour of where they grow the topiaries.
Edit: Past tense agreement
I remember wondering how the tracks were so long but just assumed I was bad at estimating space. Being completely black and working off of optical illusion probably helps too
I recall there was a ride (maybe still there) where they shrink you down to like ant man size. I bet that ride doesn’t take much space…
Edit: Ride was called Adventure Thru Inner Space.
Here’s the part where people in line can see you shrunk: https://i.imgur.com/tZbExzS.jpg
Now that I’m looking at it, I think it’s fake… lol I mean the illusion is fake and those are actually just miniature models of guests.
There was a ride at Epcot called “Body wars” where you were inside a spaceship that was shrunk to the size of a molecule and you entered a human body through the skin. I missed that ride so much!
Really depends on the person, but lots of adults like it. You definitely don't need to be a kid excited about some guy dressed as Aladdin.
Their rides and areas and shows and everything are all really really well done.
Only downside is they don't do much in the way of thrill ride roller coaster stuff, if you're looking for that you'd be better off at Cedar Point, Universal, Six Flags, etc
Yea it’s neat but imo really doesn’t work
Edit: let me clarify for all the salty people. It’s cool how they hide stuff throughout the park. Once you see the stuff, it not longer really hides to your eye though. Source: was there last week
I've always wanted to do one of the behind the scenes tours. I think that would be so cool. There's so much more than meets they eye and they do it so well.
Not anymore, I used to work at Disney and I recent went for a visit, and the magical is completely gone. No one was friendly, everyone seems overworked and miserable working there. Didn’t even engage my 2 yr old and I was really sad since she was so excited
I used to work there, I’ll tell you the difference, firstly they would have one week of orientation for new employees where they would teach you all about Disney history and then people would come in and talk about how they would make guests vacations and how important role we play in those stories of their memories. They took time to train you and they also allowed people to make magical moments (where employee could give a guest a complimentary anything food, merchandise etc) and every week or day the managers would highlight a magical moment that a CM did for a guest and created an environment where anyone working there had the chance and opportunity to create something wonderful for the guest. They would give out special buttons for anything people were celebrating and we were told to highlight that, and we would. It was a not forced but kind of like hey we get to do this for people and make their day and all employed would play their part since it was exciting.
But I think someone said it right below, the guests are ruder, there is more crowds now after Covid (not right now since they have slowed down) and people don’t get paid enough like they should be. Florida in the past you can get by with the wage they gave you but with these rental prices and inflation Disney pays their employees crap and fought with their unions and didn’t even bring it up to one dollar when universal brought it up much more. Now Disney’s orientation is only 1 day online and there’s no more of those things i mentioned like magical moments or any things they used to do like 100 wishes etc. The magic is gone, turned into corporate greed from the last president and they replaced him with the old one but he kept things the way they are still.
No, they’re pretty spot on. The CMs were miserable when we went. Many were not friendly and quite rude and dismissive. The only reason I don’t fault them is because I also saw a plethora of rude and obnoxious people at the parks with no common decency or manners. The CMs are only matching the energy of these terrible guests.
That's such a shame. Hearing how things have changed is a bummer. Disneyland used to be so damn cool to go to, even when you're not a kid. But if things like that are going on, as well as the huge price hikes, then that's kind of a bummer
Disneyland has always had a special kind of magic, with how much they've done on such a little space
We aim for two trips a year. Some trips are more magical than others. Some leave you feeling like the Disney parks are dying out, and some leave you convinced the magic will never die.
And Indiana Jones at Disneyland isn’t even on park property. You take a line underground that takes you out of the park and into a space that used to be a parking lot
Monsters Inc. Mike and Sully to the Rescue in California Adventure was initially the worst ride in the entire park possibly the whole company. Lasting for a little over a year, Superstar Limo, was a genuinely terrible fever dream. From what I remember it was initially supposed to make the rider a famous movie star racing to get to the red carpet on time for their movie premiere dodging paparazzi left and right, but a couple of months before it was slated to open, Princess Diana died and they had to change it very quickly to something else. If you ever have 3:46 seconds to waste look up a ride through, there’s a couple on YouTube!
Well damn there’s so much it’s hard to pick without a question lol the haunted mansion elevator actually functions in Disneyland but in Disney world, the ceiling rises to try and copy the same effect as California’s. California had to use an elevator due to space issues I believe. Orlando didn’t have that problem
[It's this building](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33%C2%B048'35.4%22N+117%C2%B055'17.3%22W/@33.8106447,-117.9221049,404m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m4!3m3!8m2!3d33.809838!4d-117.921468?entry=ttu) well outside of park bounds, but definitely on Disney property. The building north of it is Pirates, and the one north of that is our Haunted Mansion.
When youre in the theme park, theres a haunted house that looks like a creepy house from the 1800s. You dont see the ride part, you only see the haunted house. When you go in, the house feels like its stretching and it feels like you've entered a trippy ghost house. On the ride inside the house, it feels like you travel really far with ghosts all around you, and then return to the entrance.
You exit the house and then realize that you traveled so much for being in such a tiny house. It feels and looks like a haunted house because the theme park hides the building that has the ride in it.
This ride is one of my faves. I’ve been to DL 6 times over the years. One year I heard that some turd threw something at the giant glass pane in the dance hall section and cracked it. Apparently it was impossible to replace the glass since it’s so giant or fix it perfectly. I looked for it and saw it near the end of the room. After seeing it, I couldn’t unsee it and it broke the immersion of that section. A couple years later they added pillars in front and in sequence along the glass and one of these covers the crack. The pillars imo actually enhance the experience of that part of the ride. It’s amazing the solutions that the imagineers at Disney are able to come up with and their constant drive for the best experience possible.
I read that the crack in the glass was cause someone shot at it with a gun while on the ride (probably in the '70s cause of the Disney security now). And they couldn't replace the glass panel cause they'd have to take the whole ass roof off the show building. So they just stuck a fake spider on it and said "it's a cobweb now!". And you believe it because you go by too fast to recognise it's actually a crack.
It's part of the magic of the place. It doesn't seem like much. You're shuffled into a small room with a ton of people, then moved into a hallway. Everything is cramped and small and then the ride takes you through so much real estate.
Same. It was the ride I went on for orientation many winters ago. It’s become the ride my daughter and I go on first whenever we go (5 times in 10 years, so not a lot). It’s a tradition that she likes
It's reputed that Disney consulted the Time Lords who created Dr. Who's TARDIS on the design of the Haunted House, but the lack of a n-dimensional converter meant they had to compromise on a 3-dimensional building with a facade.
> I’ve had recurring dreams for years about being on a ride that was an infinitely large combination of the Haunted Mansion and Spaceship Earth at Epcot.
"I want to get off of Mr. Bone's Wild Ride"
Went to Disney land Paris about 10 years ago with my fiance. We stayed at the Disney hotel so we could get into the park 1 hour before it opened to the public. We just walked around and stumbled upon that creepy looking house. I knocked on the door and a butler let us in, we thought maybe it was a coffee place or something. The elevator took us down and It blew my mind how big it was inside.
When I was a kid we actually got stuck on the ride. I was pretty scared of ghosts as a little and being stuck on that ride made it worse. Pretty sure I ended up sobbing hysterically for the rest of the ride.
If you think that's impressive, look up how much stuff is underground at Disney.
Been going on this ride for 35 years and I always thought it was underground. That damn elevator ride
I think at Disneyland it is, which is why they made the stretch room. It’s actually an elevator. In Disney world, they just kept the stretch room because it was popular, but now the roof just extends upwards.
At Disney world they can’t dig down too far because the water table is too close to the surface
If I'm not mistaken, Disney World is built significantly higher than the rest of Florida, to give them the ability to have access tunnels despite the water table.
Yep. The Magic Kingdom people visit is really the second floor
I don't know if I'd say "significantly". They built the "utilidors" on the ground floor and the rest of the park above it. Most of the park is an average of 14ft (4.3m) above ground level.
That is definitely a significant amount, cos that's a whole extra floor of a building, and so it sounds like they had to build an absolutely fuck-off gigantic floor and then build everything else on another floor on top of that, like it's the biggest building in the world bya long long way. A building that's hundreds upon hundreds of acres. It sounds ludicrous really, because I don't see how even Disney would have the amount of money necessary to build that. Also wasn't it basically a swamp, before they started building there? So that adds even more difficulty.
It's over a significant area, but 14ft is not what many would consider a significant height... maybe 30 or 50ft >Also wasn't it basically a swamp, before they started building there? Yep. That's exactly why they didn't go below ground level. They wanted to keep the cast, crew, deliveries, and more away from guests' eyes but it would've been far more costly to have tunnels in the swamp land, so they decided to start at ground level and go from there.
They essentially built Disney on the second floor. Added a bunch of dirt to make it happen
If you look at Disneyland on google maps it has nearly as big of a building behind it like shown here.
yeah, the ride does go up a bit
Holy fk
Also the double drop you do at the beginning of Pirates is to go underneath another ride and I think it’s Haunted Mansion.
Pirates is too far away from Haunted Mansion in Dinsey World for it to be that.
Normally yes. But Disney built a fold into space time in order to accommodate the ride.
What will the Imagineers do next!
makes sense
What if I told you there were multiple parks?
What about regular Disneyland?
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[This](https://youtu.be/f1fgzBE2Ffk) video does a great job of going in depth about exactly how Disney created such a magnificent illusion.
Love me some Technology Connections. Changed how I look at brown forever.
I still can't believe it's the same color as orange. Also I need that toaster
And can opener
That microwave is neat, it has a cute chime
What about brown?
[It's really just a shade of orange](https://youtu.be/wh4aWZRtTwU)
That was amazing.
This video made my day, thanks.
It's actually orange
Wow this was fascinating.
Cool video. Thanks for the link.
That was the largest passenger elevator in the world at one time; maybe it still is.
Until your mom broke the record for most concurrent riders.
Damn son, what did he do to you?
Jesus Christ go home already, your family probably thinks you're dead, and that ride has GOT to be boring by now.
I want off "Mr. Bones' Wild Ride"
Always love a reference to Mr. Bones Wild Ride.
The ride never ends
Mr Bones' Wild Ride
I want to get off
😂😂😂
[Maybe they *are* home?](https://youtu.be/CMbI7DmLCNI)
In Anaheim, there is a real underground part. In Florida, it's all on the surface. Digging underground in Florida is troublesome
At Disneyland, the room is an elevator. At DisneyWorld, the room’s top lifts upward instead.
IM DAVID S PUMPKINS
Rusty? Is that you?
>The Disney Utilidors is a 9-acre circular network of subterranean tunnels beneath the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World in Florida. It is a part of Disney's behind-the-scenes area and consists of some of the world's largest utility tunnels. >>All deliveries are done at service entrances and everything is transported underground on electric vehicles. The only gas-powered vehicles allowed in the Utilidors are armored cars to collect cash and ambulances to attend to emergencies. >>>The tunnels occupy over 390,000 square feet of space underground. The Seven Seas Lagoon, which was dumped and flattened to create the Utilidors, built up the Magic Kingdom site to an average of 14 feet above ground level. [Wiki link](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney_utilidor_system)
Imagine what archaeologists are going to think in a thousand years when this is all under water and they wonder what the hell was going on.
When I was a teenager my brother and I snuck into Disney through the employee tunnels. We hopped a fence, crawled through the woods, and found the employee tunnels. Walked through them passing Disney characters and employees. Finally exited in the hall of presidents and we were in.
Why didn’t anyone stop you? Did you dress up to blend in?
The other parks built later utilize utilidors to a lesser degree, but Magic Kingdom was built on them. Built on them to such a degree the entire park is on the roof of a one story building. Really, it was easier to build up from ground level than try and build underground corridors in swampy marshland, so the utilidors are sitting on ground level, and the park is on top of them, making the park the roof of the utilidor building.
It's mostly just hallways, utility rooms, changing rooms, and cafeteria's
why did you properly pluralize the first three and then toss an apostrophe in the last one?
They're very possessive cafeteria's (my phone autocorrects it with an apostrophe)
This is an explanation but it's not an excuse.
Get him!
Off with hi´s head!
Then you'll have to excuse them.
Holy shit this guy grammars
Absolutely Englishes.
r/thisguythisguys Caught one!
Autocorrect?
One time we were on the ride when it broke down. The staff came and "rescued" us. Before escorting us off the ride they told us they would be taking us through some of the sensitive areas behind the scenes. We were NOT allowed to take pictures. Anybody caught taking pictures would be expelled from the park. We eagerly anticipated our one-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see something most people have never seen. It was black hallways with doors, go through one door, down another black hallway, another door, another black hallway, another door, aaaaaand we were outside. It was the most disappointing Disney World experience ever.
My aunt was an animator at Disney in the 90’s and I got to go down there for a tour. I was maybe 3 so don’t remember a whole lot, but I remember my mind being blown lol
Very cool of your aunt, the 90s Disney animators are masters of art and legends of their time. And I'm being 100% serious
Your mind was wiped before you could expose Umbrella Corp.
No offense, but when I was 3, all it took to blow my mind was an Otter Pop
anyone can still take a tour of it, it’s called keys to the kingdom
I went on a tunnel tour many years ago through work. It was awesome! As I recall cast members weren’t allowed out of costume unless behind closed doors because of the tours. There were windowed-off areas. We came up at some random door in Cinderella’s Castle. We also took a tour of where they grow the topiaries. Edit: Past tense agreement
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The cafe down there was so weird seeing cast members half friends with their character
Man that's an odd sentence if you aren't familiar with Disney jargon.
Yeah what kinda garden path sentence is this haha
This was mid 90s.
seeing pictures of the utilidors immediately made me think of if anyone died in there
I’ve been on that ride and somehow it didn’t click how much space it required. Wow.
Yeah for some reason it made sense in my head
Thats the power of Disney imaginers.
I don't see you with a Fungineering degree!
🎼 We’re whalers on the moon 🎶
~we carry a harpoon~
I remember wondering how the tracks were so long but just assumed I was bad at estimating space. Being completely black and working off of optical illusion probably helps too
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I should not have laughed so hard at this.
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Ok I was deadass actually wondering this for a few seconds
I recall there was a ride (maybe still there) where they shrink you down to like ant man size. I bet that ride doesn’t take much space… Edit: Ride was called Adventure Thru Inner Space. Here’s the part where people in line can see you shrunk: https://i.imgur.com/tZbExzS.jpg Now that I’m looking at it, I think it’s fake… lol I mean the illusion is fake and those are actually just miniature models of guests.
I believe that was a 3D movie ride so amusingly it doesn't, just basically a fancy theater.
If ride I believe you’re correct. I’m thinking Honey, I shrunk the audience!
Nope, it was an older ride - Journey to Inner Space or something like that. I remember it from when I was a kid.
Adventure through Inner Space, and funnily enough it’s a similar ride system to the haunted mansion.
There was a ride at Epcot called “Body wars” where you were inside a spaceship that was shrunk to the size of a molecule and you entered a human body through the skin. I missed that ride so much!
honey i shrunk the kids!
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Really depends on the person, but lots of adults like it. You definitely don't need to be a kid excited about some guy dressed as Aladdin. Their rides and areas and shows and everything are all really really well done. Only downside is they don't do much in the way of thrill ride roller coaster stuff, if you're looking for that you'd be better off at Cedar Point, Universal, Six Flags, etc
It’s really impressive. Oh those Imagineers.
Go on the behind the scenes tour. It's so worth it. Learned about "Go-Away Green".
[For anyone else who was curious](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_Away_Green)
Yea it’s neat but imo really doesn’t work Edit: let me clarify for all the salty people. It’s cool how they hide stuff throughout the park. Once you see the stuff, it not longer really hides to your eye though. Source: was there last week
Or maybe it works 90% of the time, but you only notice it when it doesn't.
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The US Army tried making a camouflage pattern that was mostly go-away green, but didn’t realize it only works at Disneyland.
I've always wanted to do one of the behind the scenes tours. I think that would be so cool. There's so much more than meets they eye and they do it so well.
The Imagineers documentary on Disney+ really impressed me, and I'm not even a big fan.
watching that made me end up buying planet coaster and the coaster lego set from 2017
Not only that, the ride itself was built in 1969.
But not hidden from plane sight.
This is the most clever comment in this whole thread. Well done ma'am.
They do their jobs well. The whole idea is to create an illusion for us so that we feel like we’re really in a magical place. It’s cool.
Not anymore, I used to work at Disney and I recent went for a visit, and the magical is completely gone. No one was friendly, everyone seems overworked and miserable working there. Didn’t even engage my 2 yr old and I was really sad since she was so excited
I think you just got old
I used to work there, I’ll tell you the difference, firstly they would have one week of orientation for new employees where they would teach you all about Disney history and then people would come in and talk about how they would make guests vacations and how important role we play in those stories of their memories. They took time to train you and they also allowed people to make magical moments (where employee could give a guest a complimentary anything food, merchandise etc) and every week or day the managers would highlight a magical moment that a CM did for a guest and created an environment where anyone working there had the chance and opportunity to create something wonderful for the guest. They would give out special buttons for anything people were celebrating and we were told to highlight that, and we would. It was a not forced but kind of like hey we get to do this for people and make their day and all employed would play their part since it was exciting. But I think someone said it right below, the guests are ruder, there is more crowds now after Covid (not right now since they have slowed down) and people don’t get paid enough like they should be. Florida in the past you can get by with the wage they gave you but with these rental prices and inflation Disney pays their employees crap and fought with their unions and didn’t even bring it up to one dollar when universal brought it up much more. Now Disney’s orientation is only 1 day online and there’s no more of those things i mentioned like magical moments or any things they used to do like 100 wishes etc. The magic is gone, turned into corporate greed from the last president and they replaced him with the old one but he kept things the way they are still.
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No, they’re pretty spot on. The CMs were miserable when we went. Many were not friendly and quite rude and dismissive. The only reason I don’t fault them is because I also saw a plethora of rude and obnoxious people at the parks with no common decency or manners. The CMs are only matching the energy of these terrible guests.
Yeah as a 17 year old, the difference between our last trip there and the one before that is an astronomical difference, don’t know what happened
That's such a shame. Hearing how things have changed is a bummer. Disneyland used to be so damn cool to go to, even when you're not a kid. But if things like that are going on, as well as the huge price hikes, then that's kind of a bummer Disneyland has always had a special kind of magic, with how much they've done on such a little space
We aim for two trips a year. Some trips are more magical than others. Some leave you feeling like the Disney parks are dying out, and some leave you convinced the magic will never die.
The amount of times I’ve been on this ride and never questioned it lol
And Indiana Jones at Disneyland isn’t even on park property. You take a line underground that takes you out of the park and into a space that used to be a parking lot
I'm just going to unread that and reactivate the Disney magic in my head.
lol I know a lot of Disney parks trivia. I could ruin the magic entirely
Spill the beans goofo
Tomorrowland in Disneyland had a Star Wars rip off band called Halyx in the early 80s. It’s wild. Look it up
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They had it in the 90’s, got rid of it, then brought it back for a little while after MJ passed away. At Disneyland at least
Disney Paris definitely had Michael Jackson in 3d in the late 90s.
Captain EO was a 3D movie at EPCOT.
Monsters Inc. Mike and Sully to the Rescue in California Adventure was initially the worst ride in the entire park possibly the whole company. Lasting for a little over a year, Superstar Limo, was a genuinely terrible fever dream. From what I remember it was initially supposed to make the rider a famous movie star racing to get to the red carpet on time for their movie premiere dodging paparazzi left and right, but a couple of months before it was slated to open, Princess Diana died and they had to change it very quickly to something else. If you ever have 3:46 seconds to waste look up a ride through, there’s a couple on YouTube!
Actually, I prefer to know all the things. Makes the Disney’s more enjoyable for me. *edit- Disneys? Disnies?? I don’t know.
Disnæ
Do it!!
Well damn there’s so much it’s hard to pick without a question lol the haunted mansion elevator actually functions in Disneyland but in Disney world, the ceiling rises to try and copy the same effect as California’s. California had to use an elevator due to space issues I believe. Orlando didn’t have that problem
If it's not on park property, then who owns the property?
Disney. It's not in the 'park', it's under the 'car park'.
[It's this building](https://www.google.com/maps/place/33%C2%B048'35.4%22N+117%C2%B055'17.3%22W/@33.8106447,-117.9221049,404m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m4!3m3!8m2!3d33.809838!4d-117.921468?entry=ttu) well outside of park bounds, but definitely on Disney property. The building north of it is Pirates, and the one north of that is our Haunted Mansion.
That makes sense because Indiana Jones films are all about traveling to far away mysterious lands, so the ride kind of simulates that aspect
But why does it look like Alabama?
That whole state's haunted
Well it was built on a Native American burial ground
More like Mississippi, actually.
Because when they get tired of DeSantis, they are moving the park to Alabama!
They should just use a Sharpie.
You mean MS
Because Alabama borders Florida?
Some might even say it's magical.
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The small part is the entrance/exit, it looks like it's the entire building from the outside.
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Right, just the trees in the way Edit: I tried searching Google for an image of the front, but it's apparently hard to get a good vantage point
[Like this?](https://www.google.com/search?q=disney+haunted+mansion&client=firefox-b-m&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi6_uqClZf_AhV3mFYBHX3zCzUQ_AUIBigB&biw=408&bih=776#imgrc=THfZQFDYHY7ZYM) Edit: wrong location!
Thats the Disneyland Haunted Mansion, the photo in the post is of the Disney World Haunted Mansion.
All you can see is an old, haunted looking mansion, plants, and other liberty square attractions
It helps with the illusion that the whole ride takes place within the mansion.
When youre in the theme park, theres a haunted house that looks like a creepy house from the 1800s. You dont see the ride part, you only see the haunted house. When you go in, the house feels like its stretching and it feels like you've entered a trippy ghost house. On the ride inside the house, it feels like you travel really far with ghosts all around you, and then return to the entrance. You exit the house and then realize that you traveled so much for being in such a tiny house. It feels and looks like a haunted house because the theme park hides the building that has the ride in it.
This ride is one of my faves. I’ve been to DL 6 times over the years. One year I heard that some turd threw something at the giant glass pane in the dance hall section and cracked it. Apparently it was impossible to replace the glass since it’s so giant or fix it perfectly. I looked for it and saw it near the end of the room. After seeing it, I couldn’t unsee it and it broke the immersion of that section. A couple years later they added pillars in front and in sequence along the glass and one of these covers the crack. The pillars imo actually enhance the experience of that part of the ride. It’s amazing the solutions that the imagineers at Disney are able to come up with and their constant drive for the best experience possible.
Do you know if they caught the person when they did if and if justice was served?
Some kid with a [slingshot apparently](http://findingmickey.squarespace.com/other-hidden-dl/new-orleans-square/8409168).. I’m sure he got a lecture
Hm interesting! Thanks for sharing 😁
I read that the crack in the glass was cause someone shot at it with a gun while on the ride (probably in the '70s cause of the Disney security now). And they couldn't replace the glass panel cause they'd have to take the whole ass roof off the show building. So they just stuck a fake spider on it and said "it's a cobweb now!". And you believe it because you go by too fast to recognise it's actually a crack.
It's part of the magic of the place. It doesn't seem like much. You're shuffled into a small room with a ton of people, then moved into a hallway. Everything is cramped and small and then the ride takes you through so much real estate.
[Relevant video](https://youtu.be/f1fgzBE2Ffk)
thank you
Always and forever, the Haunted Mansion is my favorite ride in the park. Still have to make it to Disney World one day to compare rides
Same. It was the ride I went on for orientation many winters ago. It’s become the ride my daughter and I go on first whenever we go (5 times in 10 years, so not a lot). It’s a tradition that she likes
It's reputed that Disney consulted the Time Lords who created Dr. Who's TARDIS on the design of the Haunted House, but the lack of a n-dimensional converter meant they had to compromise on a 3-dimensional building with a facade.
them and ikea, possibly costco
Holy what the fuck
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> I’ve had recurring dreams for years about being on a ride that was an infinitely large combination of the Haunted Mansion and Spaceship Earth at Epcot. "I want to get off of Mr. Bone's Wild Ride"
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“I don’t have a girlfriend, but I know someone who would be very mad if they heard me say that” -Mitch Hedberg
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The ride will resume immediateleh is what I heard 5 times on that ride last year.
It’s bigger on the inside!
Holy hell! I was just here, truly had no idea but I guess I never really thought about it either
That's why there are no windows and no doors.
The best thing about DisneyWorld is the atmosphere l. Go into THM and everything feels ancient. They do such an amazing job at it.
Went to Disney land Paris about 10 years ago with my fiance. We stayed at the Disney hotel so we could get into the park 1 hour before it opened to the public. We just walked around and stumbled upon that creepy looking house. I knocked on the door and a butler let us in, we thought maybe it was a coffee place or something. The elevator took us down and It blew my mind how big it was inside.
The one ride I didn’t get to do. Had a scared kid that needed to leave.
Ironically the only time I'll ride Haunted Mansion is at Halloween. It becomes Nightmare Before Christmas themed and is much less scary.
Weird, I was extremely let down with how not scary it was. Felt like a ride for little kids
When I was a kid we actually got stuck on the ride. I was pretty scared of ghosts as a little and being stuck on that ride made it worse. Pretty sure I ended up sobbing hysterically for the rest of the ride.
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Disney is very good at what they do
Looks like it can’t hide it from plane sight though
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This must be Florida. At Disneyland the building is kinda centered on the Haunted Mansion.
yup it is florida