I got some good news

[stitch101]

Screamscape.com says that Hong Kong Disneyland COULD have phase two so this mabye means that Haunted Mansion, It's A Small World, and Pirates Of Carribean could be coming into the picture.

[Witches of Morva]

ORDDU: This IS good news, stitch101 duckling. Actually, though, we had heard of this a while back. There was even talk about how the proposed Haunted Mansion would be placed inside Adventureland with a voo-doo type theme.

ORWEN: And Pirates of the Caribbean would be a combination of the original ride with Splash Mountain-type ride systems.

ORGOCH: Looks like they's got plenty a room in Fantasmagorical Land, already, fer their own version a "It's a Doll World After All"...

[Speedway]

An Adventureland Haunted Mansion really does excite me actually. And the Space Mountain/PotC hybrid.

[stitch101]

ORDDU: This IS good news, stitch101 duckling. Actually, though, we had heard of this a while back. There was even talk about how the proposed Haunted Mansion would be placed inside Adventureland with a voo-doo type theme.

ORWEN: And Pirates of the Caribbean would be a combination of the original ride with Splash Mountain-type ride systems.

ORGOCH: Looks like they's got plenty a room in Fantasmagorical Land, already, fer their own version a "It's a Doll World After All"...

No Haunted Mansion could be apart of Frontierland well if Frontierland gets built TDR has The Haunted Mansion In Fantasyland so i don't understand why they just put it there and why are you calling It's A Small World It's A Doll World. HOLD THE PHONE!!! Pirates Of The Carribean drop would be like splash mountain's COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLLLLLLL!

[TDLFAN]

TDL's Haunted Mansion being at Fantasyland is one of the biggest Disney mysteries that there are. Not even Leotta knows why!!

[Jspider]

yeah I think I'd perfer the Mansion in fantasyland myself o_o

only because I just don't buy the voodoo theme (sounds dumb)

I'm also not neccisarily a fan for Pirates being added with Splash because that means they won't be building a Splash Mountain either

[Adventurer]

TDL's Haunted Mansion being at Fantasyland is one of the biggest Disney mysteries that there are. Not even Leotta knows why!!

Well why were the 20K Nemo Subs in Fantasyland in the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World?

[Adventurer]

yeah I think I'd perfer the Mansion in fantasyland myself o_o

only because I just don't buy the voodoo theme (sounds dumb)

I'm also not neccisarily a fan for Pirates being added with Splash because that means they won't be building a Splash Mountain either

You know what I think? The Haunted Mansion should be built on Main Street, at the end of one side of Center Street. A turn of the century Victorian, dark, at the end of the street, unlived in for years in this small American town...awaits you..do you dare enter?

[Witches of Morva]

ORDDU: My sisters and I like the way you think, Adventurer, duckling. We had been thinking the very same thing--that a turn of the century Haunted Mansion at the end of Main Street U.S.A. would work just fine.

ORWEN: Oh--and since you asked, stitch101, duckling--our sister, Orgoch, often mis-names everything in sight. For instance, she's always calling me fat--when I'm merely pleasingly plump. Just ignore the old biddy. I know I always do.

[Klejtoni]

No Haunted Mansion

Actually, there is very little chance that we will ever see a Haunted Mansion at HKDL. Simply for cultural reasons.

I lived in Hong Kong for a summer and the Chinese are extremely superstitious about the dead, spirits and ghosts. It is extremely taboo to talk about them or to have images that represent them.

So for Disney to build a Haunted Mansion would be a huge waste of money - no one would ride it, and a huge slap in the face to the Chinese culture.

[BigPigletFan]

Screamscape.com says that Hong Kong Disneyland COULD have phase two so this mabye means that Haunted Mansion, It's A Small World, and Pirates Of Carribean could be coming into the picture.

Something about that just made my ears peark up! Keep us updated.

[DisneyMickey]

Isn't the Haunted Mansion in Fantasyland because the Japanese think ghosts stories are fantasy or something like that?

Personally, I think they could put a Mansion in Adventureland. It would take some serious retooling to tie it in with Adventureland, but they could do it.

[Dustysage]

Actually, there is very little chance that we will ever see a Haunted Mansion at HKDL. Simply for cultural reasons.

I lived in Hong Kong for a summer and the Chinese are extremely superstitious about the dead, spirits and ghosts. It is extremely taboo to talk about them or to have images that represent them.

So for Disney to build a Haunted Mansion would be a huge waste of money - no one would ride it, and a huge slap in the face to the Chinese culture.

I think there is a very good chance that a Haunted mansion WILL get built at HKDL eventually. The area behind center street is a likely spot, where it was originally planned for Disneyland years ago before the New Orleans concept.

Spirits and watchful ancestors are very much a part of Chinese culture. Hong Kong is more western than asian in its influences. I spend a lot of time there for work and don't see any reason why the middle class wouldn't be interested in a special effects attraction like the Mansion.

[Adventurer]

Isn't the Haunted Mansion in Fantasyland because the Japanese think ghosts stories are fantasy or something like that?

Err no, it's because at the time the Phantom Manor concept hadn't been thought up and Fantasyland was the only place it would fit other than Main Street.

Personally, I think they could put a Mansion in Adventureland. It would take some serious retooling to tie it in with Adventureland, but they could do it.

Errr....NO

[Adventurer]

The area behind center street is a likely spot, where it was originally planned for Disneyland years ago before the New Orleans concept.

Was it? I'd never heard that. I just thought that that would be a good place.

[Evil Minion]

Oh goody. In a few years I can fly thousands of miles across the globe and spend thousands of dollars to go on the exact same rides I've been going on for the past 20 years that are only 20 minutes from home.

[WDW1974]

First off, I would take anything Screamscape says with a grain of salt. But I do know WDI has worked up a proposed version of the Mansion and it was an Adventureland attraction that was different (but with many familiar elements) of all the prior ones. I'd love to see HK's version go there, but Main Street might open up other storyline possibilities.

As to Tokyo's Mansion, I believe it was put where it was because WDI felt that was the best place to stick it since OLC 'ordered' the WDW MK's version, which really wouldn't have fit anywhere else. Although having seen pics, I admit it's weird to see Dumbo right near the Mansion.

[Adventurer]

But I do know WDI has worked up a proposed version of the Mansion and it was an Adventureland attraction that was different (but with many familiar elements) of all the prior ones.

I'll believe this when I see concept art and/or this info turns up in a Jim Hill article or some other book about Disney parks/attractions/imagineering.

[SpeMarX]

TDL's Haunted Mansion being at Fantasyland is one of the biggest Disney mysteries that there are. Not even Leotta knows why!!

The Castle in TDL Fantasyland European. The Mansion in Fantasyland is European. The theme works for me.

The important thing is how the outside looks. If you can make the building look like it's in the right place while keeping to the theme of the ride, then it works.

Examples: TToT in DCA, Startours in MGM Studios or THM in TDL.

Even PotC could work in a Fantasyland if they put a good theme to a building for it.

[Adventurer]

The Castle in TDL Fantasyland European. The Mansion in Fantasyland is European. The theme works for me.

Actually the Haunted Mansion is not European. It's design idea was mansions in the Hudson River Valley in New York, and an actual mansion in Pennsylvania was used by artists to sketch some details.