Changes to The Haunted Mansion part 4

The Graveyard

While guest descend into the graveyard, the sky adorned with Christmas lights, that will make them look like stars, rolling clouds and a full moon. The flying spirits will be redesigned to look like skeletons in shrouds. The tree trunks will be given light with eyes and Spanish Mosses on the branches.

The tune of Grim Grinning Ghosts will sound like a jazzy. All of the animatronics have been gutted and rebuilt with new, much more advanced features. This will not only make them have more advanced movements, but it will make them look like actual ghosts. Every ghost now glows a dark shade of grey and blue.

The minstrels will be redesigned to look like a Ragtime or Jazz Age band.  

A group of reanimated corpses and skeletons will dance to the music. While a young ghostly will we seen swing and sining to the tune.

The skeletal dog will be given flesh and fur that will suggest guest it will look like a werewolf. 

The ghosts and bicycles will be redesigned in a turn of the century style. 

The tea party ghosts will be given an Edwardian era attire.

The Crypt 

Ghost Host: Ah, there you, and you've just found a way. But their just one friendly word of warning. Beware of hitchhiking ghosts.

The hitchhiking ghosts have been replaced by up to date animatronics, meaning they are much more advanced than the ones we have now.

 Each ghost appears green in the mirror and moves a lot more than they did before. Also each ghost does something different than their previous self. Ezra will tip his hat, along with his head, Phineas puts his arms around guests' shoulders, and Gus will be seen peeking through the safety bars. 

Ghost Host: They have selected you guide you back to the World of the Living, and they'll haunt when you return home. 

A pile of bones will rest on the right corner of the crypt with some humorous epitaphs engraved on each of the vaults.  

 Little Leota will now projected from the inside through high definitin. While her hair and shroud can be seen blowing in the wind. 

As guests exit out of the mansion and into the world of the living, they can hear Vincent Price's laugh just like the one after Thriller.

Changes to The Haunted Mansion part 3

Seance Circle 

The entire seance circle will be expanded in size to make way for a new scene. A bizarre octagon-shaped room will be the new seance circle. Tapestries hang from the sides of the archways lined with griffin statues holding up.

Leota's ball will start from the table, then levitates while she is reciting her spell and returns to her table after she is done.  

All of the floating musical instruments and furniture in the seance have been repainted, replaced, or simply refurbished to glow in the new and eerie black lights of the room. Along with a voodoo doll and a deck of tarot cards. As Leota speaks her spells and incantations, a cold blast of wind or new audio will be added to the Doombuggies. A crack gag displays a spirit materializing.

Ghost Host: The spirits have received sympathetic vibrations. And their gather for a party to die for. I'll see you all a little later. 

Grand Hall

All of the ghosts will be given new costumes and wigs to make them more historical accurate. The rocking chair that the Grandmother will be siting in her rocking chair back and forth while knitting. Party hats will dorn the Birthday Ghostess, as two invisible spirits toast with two wine glasses. The ghost of Mark Anthony and Cleopatra will be replaced and redesigned as two 1920's era bootleggers. The dancers will float from five feet from the floor. 

         Attic 

As the sounds of the ghostly party slowly fade into the distance, the Doom Buggies carry guests into the heart of any good haunted house: the Attic - a musty, dusty realm filled to overflowing with hundreds of family heirlooms, knickknacks, and wedding giffts. An eerie heartbeat fills the attic, along with a demented harpischord version of the "Wedding March" getting louder and louder as we proceed through the rotting rafters of the attic.

   

Slowly moving into the attic we stare at a collection of junk surrounding a wedding portrait between a young man and woman. Lit by an eerie purple light several pieces of junk obviously belonging to the couple surround the portrait supposably telling the young couple's story. Furnishings and household items will suggest that the man came from either he came from the southern or midwestern states. Some of them include a stack of books, a hatbox, and a hatchet. Suddenly one can hear the nearby slice of a hatchet. The groom's head disappears from the portrait before reappearing again.

Another wedding portrait appears up ahead between a different man and that same woman as before. Among the furnitures and china table sets, cracked with age, an old fashioned dollhouse, and an antique piggy bank can be seen tucked away in a corner. The slice of the hatchet can be heard once again, making the groom's head disappear before reappearing again.

  Asian themed artifacts are scattered around the area, along with a blood stinted sword that belonged to a forgein diplomat Marquis Enma, and some roman cnadels. It seems that Constance has found other ways of disposing her husbands. 

Nearby yet another wedding portrait appears, this time between the same girl as before and a much fatter man. Several artifacts from Mr Caine's travles lie about the place, including masks from Africa, a modle globe, a miniture ship in a bottle, and an egytian sarcophagus. The chair the man sits upon in the portrait is also located here. A bottle of poison sits near a diner set of crystal gobletts and silverwere. Again the man's head disappears and reappears.

Near by stands a dilapidated harpsichord beeing playing by itself. The candle light exposes the invisbile spector's shadow, slanted on the wall. 

Near the exit is the ghost of Mrs Constance and her portrait of her finale husband George. As usual the groom's head disappears and reapares again. Artifacts are scatred around the area, relating to a grand wedding between him and his bride. Which include a portrait of a young woman in a pink dress. Hanging in the raffters is a bat resting upside down in it's cage. The ghostly bride  sits towards the exit of the attic, her ghostly dress billowing in the wind. With each time she raises her hands, a hachet appears out of nowhere and vanishes.

Across the way on the other side of the attic is the ghost of George. A skeletal figure wearing an immense cape, a fancy top hat, and clutching a wooden cane in one hand with a large hatbox in the other.The ghost's cane shakes wildly as his ghastly, skeletal grin vanishes with the slice of the hatchet. As a matter of fact his entire head disappears, leaving his top hat suspended in the air. Suddenly his head reappears within the hatbox he holds, soon after reappearing back on his shoulders."

  

Across the way on the other side of the attic is a bloodstained wedding dress, with a glowing betting heart. Next to a hat rack that belonged to her husbands  and a noose hanging from the rafters. 

Second Version

Here is my version of what if the orignal bride with the beating heart was'nt replaced by Costance. The entire room will be filled with artifacts and obejects from diffrent parts of the globe. Look carefuly, and you may find many intresting itmes scattered around the area. Such as an old sea chest, a coffin shaped clock, a model ship in a bottle, a hand of glory candle, a sofa with face on it, an fish bowl with skeltal fish swiming in it, a hatbox, and a box taged with "Don't open until Christmas." The ghouls will pop up and say "I do" in various sports, where they are dressed as bridesmaids and groomsmen. 

The bride will remain in her usual spot near the open window. She will float in mid air, while her face is completely covered in her veil. Whit everytime her heart beats, it will light up to expose her ribcage and reveal a learing skull hiden beneath her veiled face. 

Changes to The Haunted Mansion part 2

The Loading Area 

1st version

The load area is now a half-house half-outdoors room, a sort of border between our world and the Other Side. The ceiling and walls become transparent and wirey before fading into the crisp night sky. The carpet beneath morphs into a cobblestone path.

The right side of the wall will be furnished with fading wallpaper, with exposed wooden beams and sconces that look similar to the ones in the exit crypt, only they move when guests pass them by.   

A small graveyard appears alongside the trail, done in a german expressionist style film, and across the doombuggy track to a lesser extent. One can vaguely see ghostly figures trying to materialize, bats fly in the night sky, as a wolf howls at the moon. 

2nd Version

The empty void will be decorated into a grand two story library. Books fly from shelf to shelf, a couple of invisible spirits will wright down on feathered quill or turing the pages of a book. 

Once guests board their doom buggies, they will notice a shadow following them upstairs. 

The Endless Hallway 

The Hallway will have a new effect, that will project a fast moving image of a spirit jumping from door to door. The Knight's armored head will turn, as if he is keeping an eye on guests. While Ghost Host's line about hot and cold running chills you would feel a really hot wind followed by a really cold wind right afterwards.

The Conservatory  

The Conservatory will be added some new flowers, some fresh and some decaying.  The windows will host a rain effect, adorned with black curtains and a view of the cemetery. 

Corridor of Doors

Two new effects will display a spirit bulging through the door knocker, similar to A Christmas Carol, and a hand trying to reach the door handle. Along with new auto effects of moans and screams.

Guests will pass through a series of vintage family photographs that appear normal at first, but will morph into corpses and ghouls right before their eyes. Among the photos is the portrait of the middle aged September. 

While guests pass by the grandfather clock, the eyes of the wallpaper light up an eerie green in color and blink, just like they do at Phantom Manor.

  

Changes to The Disneyland Haunted Mansion Part 1

Here are some of my ideas I would do to make The Haunted Mansion better. 

The Queue 

The exterior queue would receive minor changes. Foreboding bayou cypress trees drooping with Spanish moss would be added. The queue would wind it's way through the family plot reminiscing of the haunting and foreboding graveyards of the old south. An enormous tree would serve as The Family Tree, the graves would be entangled in it's roots each baring the names of Gracey, Blueblood and Darkmoor. A series of graves show the seven wives of Bluebeard 

At the courtyard, a cast member will be dressed up a statue and interact with the guests. If anyone is lucky, one might spot the wedding ring that belonged to Constance and how she met her demise.   

An invisible ghost will now sit on the second story porch at night in a rocking chair. At night the windows will illuminate, casting ghostly silhouettes. 

The maids and butlers outfits will be redesigned in historical accurate attires between the 1890's to the Edwardian Era.   

The Foyer

1st Version

Once guest enter the foyer, the entire room is dark. Until the lights on the chandelier and scones will spark to life and start to flicker once The Ghost Host begins his monlouge. His voice can heard around the chamber, as if he talking behind you're shoulder. One can see a ghostly image appearing in both mirrors, like in Phantom Manor.

2nd Version 

The Foyer will have a marble bust with an animatronic raven perched on top. The bust is posed by The Ghost Host himself, which is either a face projection or an animatronic. 

The Portrait Chamber

The Ghost Host's narration will be altered.

"Welcome, foolish mortals. To The Haunted Mansion. I am you're host, you're Ghost Host. Please do come in, theres no turning back now. Our tour begins here in this gallery. Where you will see painting of our occupants as they once were among the living."

   

After guests step into the Portrait Chamber, a cast member would ask if any of them have second thoughts,especially the little ones, they will escort them to a short hallway and back to the world of the living. The sound of creaks and moans would suggest the idea that this room is actually stretching. 

"In this chamber, you can not help but sensing an omanis feeling of dread. Do you believe this room is actually stretching, or is it just a hallucination. But examine everything around you. This chamber has no windows and doors. Which offers you this chilling challenge, to find a way out." 

          

After The Ghost Host finishes his laugh, just before he suggests his way. The lights will all be extinguished.    

New lighting effects will be aded, as the noose that is hanging The Ghost Host's corpse will turn around and then break, causing it to plummeted down at the guests. 

The Gallery

Ghost Host: Oh, I'm sorry to frighten you prematurely. The real chill will come latter. Now look alive and let's all stay together. Here in this gallery, we have number of famous or infamous ghosts from all over who have decided to take up residents in the mansion. 

      

The portraits will have a new effect on them, some will follow guest with their eyes, while the painting of the ship will seem to come to life. The windows across from the portraits have been replaced by new window panes and now overlook a much more sinister environment than before; a very ominous swamp-like atmosphere similar to the blue bayou. Every now and then in a flash of lightning you can see the shadow of an entity out in the bayou, its even larger shadow briefly project onto the adjacent wall. The windows now harbor a rain-like effect as well.  

The portrait of the cat lady and Medusa will be much similar to it's original concept.

As guests pass the moving busts, their the eyes will glow and you can hear them whispering to you.

"We're watching you."