avoiding the haunted mansion stretch room

[cottontail]

Do the cm s still let people with claustrophobia avoid the stretching room in the haunted house by allowing them directly on the ride?

Deb.

 

[hiroMYhero]

Moving to the main Theme Parks board for you.

 

[Robo]

Do the cm s still let people with claustrophobia avoid the stretching room in the haunted house by allowing them directly on the ride?

Deb.

Just ask a CM outside the HM.

There is a special entrance (over at the HM exit) that leads to a hallway that bypasses the Stretching Room.

 

[Megan138]

Hi. I asked to do this in April as I had my two year-old and was afraid it would be too overwhelming for him. As soon as I got in the room there were like 4 CMs and I asked if we could skip this part. No problem - they took us out a side door and took us around the corner and told us to stand there and wait for our group. It was great. Definitely ask.

 

[DisneyGirlMI]

Great! I’ll have to let my DH know this.

 

[DisneyStarWisher]

I love the stretching room, but I've never understood why Walt didn't make it into a shrinking room. It would be much scarier to me if the ceiling was inching down! Definitely would be worse for those with claustrophobia!

 

[Robo]

I love the stretching room, but I've never understood why Walt didn't make it into a shrinking room. It would be much scarier to me if the ceiling was inching down! Definitely would be worse for those with claustrophobia!

It was built (originally at Disneyland) as an elevator to LOWER guests to the floor below the entrance level
so that guests could walk UNDER the railroad tracks and "outside" the berm (raised hill area) into the HM show building, which was built "outside" the DL regular area (in part of the DL parking lot.)

When they built the MK version, they duplicated the then famous stretching room for Florida guests. (The MK version does not lower guests at all, it is just an "effect.")

 

[StacyStrong]

I love the stretching room, but I've never understood why Walt didn't make it into a shrinking room. It would be much scarier to me if the ceiling was inching down! Definitely would be worse for those with claustrophobia!

It's an elevator basically. You're actually going down

 

[Robo]

It's an elevator basically. You're actually going down

Not in the MK version of HM.
That is only true of the HM in Disneyland.
(The MK version does not lower guests at all, it is just an "effect.")

 

[StacyStrong]

Not in the MK version of HM.
That is only true of the HM in Disneyland.
(The MK version does not lower guests at all, it is just an "effect.")

True!

 

[BK2014]

(The MK version does not lower guests at all, it is just an "effect.")

Oh, pooh. I have lied to many, many people about this.

 

[DisDreaming4116]

Oh, pooh. I have lied to many, many people about this.

I don't think you're the first person to tell an inaccuracy about something at WDW.

 

[Farro]

It was built (originally at Disneyland) as an elevator to LOWER guests to the floor below the entrance level
so that guests could walk UNDER the railroad tracks and "outside" the berm (raised hill area) into the HM show building, which was built "outside" the DL regular area (in part of the DL parking lot.)

When they built the MK version, they duplicated the then famous stretching room for Florida guests. (The MK version does not lower guests at all, it is just an "effect.")

I never knew that!

 

[Robo]

Disneyland's Haunted Mansion stretching room/elevator, designed to "invisibly" and "spookily" carry guests "down a level," is pure Disney genius!
Disney Legends Rolly Crump and Yale Gracey (among many other Disney Imagineers and artists) are some of the top
creative minds who made Haunted Mansion an enduring guest favorite!

 

[mesaboy2]

Oh, pooh. I have lied to many, many people about this.

Have you considered becoming a Disney bus driver?

 

[3DisneyBuggs]

I bypassed the stretching room in July. Just pay attention to which door the entrance is. DH knocked on the wrong one and disturbed a CM’s break. He was nice and showed us the correct door.

 

[BK2014]

Have you considered becoming a Disney bus driver?

No, but this is probably why they stuck me in the kitchen at Cosmic Ray's, far away from the guests, when I did the College Program.

 

[Robo]

No, but this is probably why they stuck me in the kitchen at Cosmic Ray's, far away from the guests, when I did the College Program.

"College Program" is Florida-speak for "food service."

 

[chartle]

Disneyland's Haunted Mansion stretching room/elevator, designed to "invisibly" and "spookily" carry guests "down a level," is pure Disney genius!
Disney Legends Rolly Crump and Yale Gracey (among many other Disney Imagineers and artists) are some of the top
creative minds who made Haunted Mansion an enduring guest favorite!

I just found out in a youtube video (is youtube sort of like a bus driver ) that while something like 80 can go down only 20 or so can go up because of how the hydraulics work.

 

[sharadoc]

Have you considered becoming a Disney bus driver?

Literally I had the exact thought/joke. I've been on the DISboards too long!