EdmondD
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Hearing him in some old Christmas specials got me thinking...
The two domestic Haunted Mansions have been open roughly a combined 94 years. That's roughly 34,300 days. Let's assume a seven percent total down time. (I was going to say five, but bumping up to seven takes into account somewhat that DL was closed on Monday and Tuesdays in the offseason up until the 80s [hard to fathom these days]).
So now we're at 31,900 days. Each ride has a through-put of about 40,000 people a day. That means, very roughly, the Mansion has been ridden 1.276 billion times in the US. That's 1.276 billion times of listening to Paul Frees' voice for roughly six to seven minutes. That's a lot of exposure.
Now, let's count all the times he's heard on POTC ("Dead men tale no tales..."; the auctioneer, etc) with a similar number of years opened and a similar daily ride capacity. AND consider that he was in pretty much every Christmas special the Baby Boomers grew up with...
So, just wondering.
Of course, I just saw there's a Spanish pop song called Despacito with 4.4 billion views on Youtube, so maybe that kind of stuff blows my theory out of the water (thought I was able to thoroughly enjoy that video without the sound).
The two domestic Haunted Mansions have been open roughly a combined 94 years. That's roughly 34,300 days. Let's assume a seven percent total down time. (I was going to say five, but bumping up to seven takes into account somewhat that DL was closed on Monday and Tuesdays in the offseason up until the 80s [hard to fathom these days]).
So now we're at 31,900 days. Each ride has a through-put of about 40,000 people a day. That means, very roughly, the Mansion has been ridden 1.276 billion times in the US. That's 1.276 billion times of listening to Paul Frees' voice for roughly six to seven minutes. That's a lot of exposure.
Now, let's count all the times he's heard on POTC ("Dead men tale no tales..."; the auctioneer, etc) with a similar number of years opened and a similar daily ride capacity. AND consider that he was in pretty much every Christmas special the Baby Boomers grew up with...
So, just wondering.
Of course, I just saw there's a Spanish pop song called Despacito with 4.4 billion views on Youtube, so maybe that kind of stuff blows my theory out of the water (thought I was able to thoroughly enjoy that video without the sound).
