Haunted Mansion

[Walt Jr.]

So far a book written by an imagineer points towards the voodoo theme for the Haunted Mansion. Is there a plan for this? Better yet, it there a plan at all??

[Malin]

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What book is this?

[Scorchio]

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Well? what book? it sounds cool.

[lazyboy97O]

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My guess is that the book is The Haunted Mansion: From the Magic Kingdom to the Movie by Jason Surrell.

Asking whether or not there are plans is kind of hard to answer. Rumor has mentioned the voodoo theme, to keep the Haunted Mansion from reappearing in the same land. Imagineering is constantly at work and only a small portion of their ideas ever get built.

[Scorchio]

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Nah, can't be, I've got that book and there is no Voodoo mansion reference.

[Walt Jr.]

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My guess is that the book is The Haunted Mansion: From the Magic Kingdom to the Movie by Jason Surrell.

Asking whether or not there are plans is kind of hard to answer. Rumor has mentioned the voodoo theme, to keep the Haunted Mansion from reappearing in the same land. Imagineering is constantly at work and only a small portion of their ideas ever get built.

Correct!

[MasterGracey]

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Correct!

Where at in the The Haunted Mansion: From the Magic Kingdom to the Movies does it note a voodoo theme for Hong Kong's Mansion? I've never noticed it in the book, but I'm interested to find out where this info is located.

[yoyoflamingo]

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I also am curious to see where it is in the book, since I do not remember it either.

[WDW1974]

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It isn't in the book. But it is a concept that is being considered and will likely, at least partially, be adopted for a HK Mansion.

But don't get excited as it is likely five years away ... at the absolute earliest.

[yoyoflamingo]

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It isn't in the book. But it is a concept that is being considered and will likely, at least partially, be adopted for a HK Mansion.

But don't get excited as it is likely five years away ... at the absolute earliest.

I knew it was being bandied around, jsut didn't remember reading it in the book. I think it's a good idea, but five years isn't that long, especially if you have no plans to travel to HK in the forseeable future.

[tcsnwhite]

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It isn't in the book. But it is a concept that is being considered and will likely, at least partially, be adopted for a HK Mansion.

But don't get excited as it is likely five years away ... at the absolute earliest.

I thought they were getting a Pirates attraction before a HM attraction?

[yoyoflamingo]

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I'm pretty sure both are on the drawing board, at least in the planning stages. Whether one comes before the other, that we'll have to see when they announce it.

[Ghostbuster626]

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The story goes that Haunted Mansion is located in a different land in every magic kingdom. For Hong Kong, they want to put Haunted Mansion into Adventureland and it will look like a rickety caribbean house with a vodoo theme. Probably drawing influences from Wes Craven's "The Serpent and the Rainbow" and the swamp scenes of "pirates of the Caribean: Dead Man's Chest".

[Loomis]

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The story goes that Haunted Mansion is located in a different land in every magic kingdom. For Hong Kong, they want to put Haunted Mansion into Adventureland and it will look like a rickety caribbean house with a vodoo theme. Probably drawing influences from Wes Craven's "The Serpent and the Rainbow" and the swamp scenes of "pirates of the Caribean: Dead Man's Chest".

I really like this conceptually, as it is the type of Imagineering I really appreciate: taking an idea that exists, and tweaking it to fit different lands. I think the newer parks have been far too indebted to the distinct lands, and mixing them up a bit is always fun (as with the Rivers of Adventure in HKDL).

A Caribbean/Voodoo thing would be brilliant for the HKDL theme as well, simply because the original objection that I heard to the attraction was based around Chinese customs regarding the dead. If they could keep it sppoky through suggestive scares, rather than deadly ones, you've dodged two bullets and made something unique.