Holiday Haunted Mansion..

[TeresaB511]

How did they do Nightmare overlay with the new attic sequence? The previous boxes/presents with ghosts popping up would be cheesy. Do they take Constance out?

 

[Twinprincesses]

I did not think I would like it but honestly I love it!!

 

[Michelle2]

I was not sure what I would think of it either, but I LOVE it. (I have never watched the movie either, just bits and pieces of it from the kids watching it.)

I have found from friends' experiences that for some of the kids--- that get scared from the original HM--- they don't have as much of a problem with the holiday version. It makes it a little more "cute" and not as scary/dreary.

There is no way our 4 year old would go on the original HM right now, but I think he would actually be ok with the Holiday version.

 

[bouncy54]

Honestly I cant stand the Nightmare before Xmas movie! I found it so boring and way too weird for my liking, but thats just me. Maybe im just weird, but as for the ride itself I found it fun. I havent seen the ride in its natural (off holiday) state, so I have nothing to compare it to. The holiday ride itself was a blast.

The outside of the house has pumpkins and spider webs all over it and makes it look really halloweenish, and has a pumpkin skeleton on a pole and such, but its so toonish that you have to love it.

Other things are when you are getting onto the doom buggies there is a whole display of presents and such in the fashion of the movie with weird creatures from the movie poking out of them, but they are still toonish that you dont mind it. The same goes for the attic scene with the presents with weird creatures.

As you go into the graveyard, you will find a big anamatronic of Jack the Skeleton in a santa suit, and as you leave the graveyard you find the big blobby green dude from the movie.

Really I didnt mind the ride even though it took on a Tim Burton theme. I still went onto the ride a million times because, some how I didnt feel it was as close to the movie as it could have been. I think its cause they also wanna keep it similar to the real haunted house.

The only thing that I didnt care for too much was the fact that they mixed ghosts from the haunted house with creatures from the Tim Burton movie. You go from the ball room filled with human ghosts into a world of Tim Burton.

This is what my daughter wanted to know. Did they take all of the original ghosts out of the ride and replace them with Nightmare ghosts? She loves the ballroom scene and was really not looking forward to going on this version if everything from the original was removed.

Can you tell me what else is still there from the original? How about the ghosts in the graveyard? And the tiny lady at the end of the ride when you're going up the people-mover thing?

 

[bumbershoot]

I don't like it, but then, I didn't actually go ON the ride, just got right up to it before my son convinced me that he really really REALLY needed to leave at that moment (he kept calming down then getting worried again, then calming, etc).

So we left through the scary back way.

But what I saw I didn't like, and I'd really like the opportunity to see the normal HM again. But since our trips have been late Sept (closed), early Oct (holiday version), and this year we're back to late Sept again...I'm not thinking I'll see the normal version anytime soon.


Further question. When does that version END? Is it an "all through the holidays" thing, so when we re-visit in early Dec it will still be there, or is the "holiday" referenced simply Halloween? (doubting but hoping that it's the latter)

Thanks!

 

[iceskatejen]

The NBC overlay lasts at least through the first weekend of January. The ballroom ghosts are all still there during it, btw. They just add some Nightmare stuff in with it.