WDW Haunted Mansion: Nightmare Before Xmas redo?

[Erica]

Hello all!

I have seen a few posts on newsgroups (alt.disney.disneyworld) referring to the Haunted Mansion being measured for a Nightmare Before Christmas redo. I am imagining this would be for the holiday’s a'la Disneyland?

I am sorry if this is old news and I just missed it, however I am a HUGE Dark Disney/ Villain fan. If this rumor is true this will MORE then make up for the lacking of the Osborne Lights!

Thanks again in advance!

-Erica

PS: I cross posted this on the wdwmagic.com boards as well:
http://forums.wdwmagic.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=24491

PPS: I ALSO posted it here:
http://pub115.ezboard.com/fdisneyshauntedmansionfrm0.showMessage?topicID=4718.topic
If those Doombuggies cats don't know, I don't know who will

 

[daber]

The rumor I heard was that DL has a lock on the Haunted Mansion Holiday for the first 5 years. So I'm not expecting it to hit FL for a while. Also, they wouldn't have the 999 Haunts Ball in October, which they are already selling tickets for, ---- they'd be doing something like they do in DL when they open HMH.

 

[JamesD]

I agree about the Happy Haunts Ball which takes place on Oct. 27-29, 2003. But, the tickets don't go on sale until 1 pm on June 16th. you can find out more here: http://psc.disney.go.com/eventservices/event_wdw268.html

 

[All Aboard]

Hasn't Nightmare lost virtually all relevance? Would a WDW redo even capture the interest of 10% of the parkgoers? The DVD sells for $12.95 in most places. Seems forgotten at this point.

 

[lrodk]

Tickets to Disneylands Haunted Ball are already on sale(I think that's what daba was referring to). WDW's begin on 6/16.

 

[Erica]

Yes, it may be after its prime. However I know that Nightmare before Christmas still has a strong cult following that goes beyond Disney. Good point though.

Thanks all for your input!

-Erica

 

[dan and scott]

OK guys,

Having been through the mansion during the first year it was open at Disneyland, let me just say how great it is. I have never seen the movie but the overlay was done quite well. I would love to see this at WDW.

Dan

 

[AdventurerKat]

We saw the overlay at DL last Xmas and loved it. It was so fun. Would love to see it at WDW.

 

[Another Voice]

Disneyland and WDW have vastly different markets.

The Holiday Haunted Mansion is part of an effort at Disneyland to "own" the holiday season. With this, the 'Small World' make-over, the over all themeing and other events they have done a very good at making a family trip to the park an annual event. With 60%+ of Disneyland's guests coming from the local area, you need to give people a reason to visit (hey, it's hard to get in the "holiday mood" when it's eighty degrees outside).

WDW, however, doesn't really need to convince all those frozen easterners to jet down to sunny Florida for a week. The holiday season has consistently been a big season for the resort. And there's also the matter of how effective it would be. A remade 'Haunted Mansion' seems to be able to convince people to drop fifty bucks and spend a Saturday at Disneyland, but convincing people to drop a couple grand and spend a week in Florida will probably take a little more than "Sandy Claws".

There's also the rumor going around that in a couple years Disneyland with "holiday" another attraction and give the Mansion a rest (figuring that the same thing year after year after year will loose some appeal). When that happens all the decorations will be shipped from Anaheim to Orlando.

 

[d-r]

Originally posted by gcurling
Hasn't Nightmare lost virtually all relevance? Would a WDW redo even capture the interest of 10% of the parkgoers? The DVD sells for $12.95 in most places. Seems forgotten at this point.

The disneyland haunted mansion with nightmare before Christmas ROCKS!! You can't have seen it if you think it would capture the interest of only 10% of the parkgoers! When we go to disneyland it is one of the biggest lines! Everybody goes there for it! It is just a layover, and you can tell it, but it is wonderful at the same time.

We were there for halloween a couple of years ago and had a great time!

Disneyland is great during the winter holidays. They also have a make over of small world that is fun and cute. They have "snow" on main street after the fireworks. The delight of that is lost on us, coming from Michigan, but the so. california people seem to eat it up. Of course there are decorations everywhere - every day it seemed like there was something more. Frozen easterns, at least from Michigan, can fly to Southern California for about the same amount of time, and sometimes for even less money, than they can fly to Florida.

We are planning to go to disneyland again this year over thanksgiving, and we have the plane tickets and hotel reservations, but now we are weighing going to Florida instead, because Melissa's mom is there, and it would be nice to visit her over the holiday and just go to disneyworld. Plus gives us a couple more days to put on the passes. But, everything being equal, Disneyland, to me, is a much better visit during the holidays!! The holidays are THE time to go to disneyland, and the haunted mansion is one of the reasons why. A long trip is better for Florida, but the only reason we would change that Thanksgiving trip and go to Florida is to visit family.

I figure that AV is right and that they will change these things up between the coasts. Maybe they will get something like the osbourne lights at disneyland. Who knows. They will try to vary it though I'm sure, like the parades.
DR

 

[Hadjii]

Although I am a long time fan of the Haunted Mansion and love the ride the way it is, I would definitely like to see it in the NB4C theme. I am admittedly a huge fan of Nightmare but even if I wasn't, I'd think that the two ideas would mesh pretty well. And who's a cuter ghost than Zero? : ) - Nancy

 

[*Robin*]

I'm really hoping the naysayers are wrong in this case. I would book a trip specifically to see a NBC Mansion. I'm doing my best just to get down there for Halloween this year, but if it were a NBC redo, I'd make it work.

 

[d-r]

Then why don't you go to California??

 

[*Robin*]

I lived there for 13 years and have family there, had annual passes the whole time, did grad night there, the whole deal...I don't go now in the fall unfortunately, mostly because family vacations don't work out that way. Florida is a comparitively quick trip in the scheme of things.

I wish I could just jet out there anytime.

Hmmmmm retirement is only, ohhhh, 30 or so years away...

 

[OnWithTheShow]

They also have snow on New York Street at the Studios during the Osbourne Lights.

 

[TiggerFreak]

Also snow on Main Street at WDW during MVMCP

 

[doombuggy]

It is my understanding that the WDW HM was measured for NBC several months ago. I heard this on another board from a CM that works at the HM. TPTB are probably considering it for the future.

 

[PatriciaH]

Originally posted by Hadjii
Although I am a long time fan of the Haunted Mansion and love the ride the way it is, I would definitely like to see it in the NB4C theme. I am admittedly a huge fan of Nightmare but even if I wasn't, I'd think that the two ideas would mesh pretty well. And who's a cuter ghost than Zero? : ) - Nancy

Gotta love that Zero! I would really like to see HM Holiday at WDW. Nightmare Before Christmas is an awsome movie.

 

[goofy370]

My family loves NBC. My town has a halloween hayride. My dad talked them into doing a NBC hayride. He had costumes made and it was really great. We went to WDW in 2001 for MNSSHP and my dad wore his Jack costume and I wore the Sally costume. Strangers were coming up to us for pictures and to sign autograph books. It was awesome!!! My kids were like no thats not Sally, it's my mom!! I would love to see the HM as NBC.

 

[d-r]

I don't disbelieve that they were in there looking at it, thinking about a nbc overlay, but it seems kind of weird that they would hve to measure the place - they know every square inch of the place, it is all diagrammed, down to the placement of the plates on the table in the ballroom scene - then again, I could see that they might be checking distances as to how they match to disneyland, like in the attic where the snake and presents go, stuff like that -

DR