

The
Haunted Mansion

The
Haunted Mansion, found in Liberty Square, offers the most atmospheric
experience of all the rides in the Magic Kingdom. This creepy
old mansion rises from the wilderness and looks over the water.
It's the perfect place to spend an eternity, as the residentual
999 ghosts will all attest to. Don't worry, there's still room
for one more.
As
you approach this monstrosity of an estate, you can hear far off
noises of hellhounds and other creepies from the distance in the
nearby forest. Tombstones welcome guests. A crazy-eyed butler
greets you and takes your party to the first room of the mansion,
the portrait room.
Once
inside, the doors close, leaving you to come to grips that there's
no way out of the room from where you stand. Suddenly a roaring
voice, your ghost host for the evening, foretells of what is to
come. Then the enclosed room's walls seem to rise upward into
infinity. The hung portraits on all walls stretch, revealing a
more sinister side of things - each person's ultimate demise,
their deaths.
The
next room is where your personal doom buggie, the mansion's main
escort, awaits for you. This new transportation takes riders through
all the rooms of the house, from the library and dining room to
the upstairs attic. During your tour you see plenty of unsual
sights. Dancing ghosts, corpses trying to lift up their coffins,
a spirit organ player, a seance is taking place, and one poor
sap with his dog caught in the middle of it all. And just when
you think things couldn't get any spookier, your host chimes in,
warning about a trio of hitchhiking ghosts. As you look at yourself
in the mansion mirrors going by, unseen spirits reveal themselves...
their mirror reflections showing them riding right beside you.
This
attraction is no doubt one of the Magic Kingdom's best. The mansion's
visual make-up is nothing short of astonishing. My only problem
with the ride is, even with all the weirdness, it has been totally
tuned down from its original design, making it hardly scary at
all. The merry attraction tune adds to lighten up things up as
well, perhaps a bit too much, but "Grin Grinning Ghosts"
is a classic song that you'll come to love for a lifetime.
|
THEME: |
10/10 |
|
THRILLS: |
3/10 |
| FUN: |
10/10 |
| OVERALL: |
9/10 |
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