Disney has now made a number of motion pictures primarily based on theme park rides. And whereas they haven’t all been huge hits, within the case of the one franchise that was, the Pirates of the Caribbean movies had been so large that they ended up changing into a part of the journey. One has to imagine that if Disney’s new Haunted Mansion film can be successful there’s no less than the chance that one thing related may occur with the historic Haunted Mansion at Disneyland or Magic Kingdom. Or maybe, it’s already occurring.
Whereas the Haunted Mansion film is overflowing with references to the long-lasting attraction, there are quite a lot of of the grim grinning ghosts which are fully unique creations. I not too long ago had an opportunity to talk with Haunted Mansion VFX Supervisor, and frequent Disneyland customer Edwin Rivera, and requested him what it might be like if, like Jack Sparrow, some component he labored on from the film made it into the journey. Surprisingly, he says Walt Disney Imagineering appeared to be planning on doing precisely that even whereas the movie was nonetheless in manufacturing. He defined…
It’s humorous you point out that. When Disney got here out to take a look at the set, a number of the Imagineers had been there and stated “Oh, we’re taking that, and we’re taking that’ specific half. So I feel a few of that’s already occurring.
Whereas Rivera couldn’t recall what particularly it was that Walt Disney Imagineering noticed that they needed to take, it actually appears like they noticed some stuff that they thought they might use not directly. Maybe we’ll get a brand new ghost added to the 999 completely satisfied haunts from amongst these within the movie.
It needs to be stated that simply because Imagineering might have been planning to carry parts from the Haunted Mansion film into the journey, that doesn’t imply it is going to really occur. There have been apparently related plans when the Haunted Mansion film starring Eddie Murphy was made 20 years in the past, however when that movie failed to search out an viewers any plans that had been made evaporated.
But it surely’s additionally doable that Imagineering might be wanting so as to add easy parts from the movie, like specific props. Doing that would add a little bit of the flavour of the movie to the attraction at Disneyland or Walt Disney World with out remodeling the attraction into one thing completely new. In the identical means that the precise chest of gold from Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl sits inside Disneyland’s model of that journey, maybe a chunk of the Haunted Mansion film might be positioned someplace on the journey with out making one thing out of it. Rivera even steered that any adjustments is perhaps that straightforward since he can’t actually think about the place Imagineers would put something from the movie. He continued…
In taking a look at that journey once we went by way of it, there’s a lot element and a lot, little fine details all over the place, so I can’t think about which “gap” they might have wanted to fill however perhaps they simply made room for a number of the props and set that we have now.
If Imagineering is wanting so as to add one thing like easy props to the Haunted Mansion at Disneyland or Walt Disney World, that would occur anytime, and sure would with little if any fanfare. For something greater, it is going to possible all come down as to if or not Haunted Mansion is successful on the field workplace and turns into a serious franchise. Even Jack Sparrow wasn’t added to the Pirates of the Caribbean journey till the primary film had been a smash and a sequel had been launched.
