Which Haunted Mansion facade looks more foreboding to you? Personally, I thing the outside of the HM at WDW looks more eerie...........I hope when they finish making the new HM movie that it looks like the one from WDW, since they already made one that looks like the DL version. What are your thoughts?
I agree. I think WDW looks and feels scarier. And the queue is better, IMO.
Hrmmm... I'm probably going to get overly analytical on this - BUT!
The Dutch Colonial architecture in WDW is foreboding on the landscape - but because I am only really versed in one New England ghost story it's overall presence in the area doesn't do much for me as far as setting the scene goes. If it didn't have the small domed turret with the bat on top of the weather vane I'm not sure I would find it scary at all. It's the other elements at WDW that get me into the "Haunted" feeling. The iron fence - the grave yard - the hearse in the rose garden - the fact that you're walking into the basement of the "house" that make this feel haunted to me. I've never really felt like I'm walking into the house at the WDW Haunted Mansion, it just happens to be up on the hill in Liberty Square. Liberty Square in general doesn't help set the spooky stage for me.
The plantation style Greek Revival with the wrought iron balcony on the other hand sparks my imagination. I'm very well versed in New Orleans vampires and Southern ghost stories, so for me the architecture itself in Disneyland Haunted Mansion evokes that spooky don't know what's going to happen next feeling. In Disneyland I don't need the "extras" the beauty of the place hides what's lurking inside. Plus - walking in the front door of the building feels more genuine to me. The moment I enter New Orleans Square I begin to get into the haunted mind set - the supernatural is one of the things that New Orleans is all about - the plantation house on the outskirts of town is a sublime setting for something dastardly.
Hi Kristen! What does the outside of DL Haunted Mansion look like? It's not similair to WDW in that there is no graveyard, hearse carriage, or toppled over birdbath with those gorgeous "Don Juan" roses growing over it? Very curious.
It has a small cemetery that is located to the left of the building in the picture above - it's a more structured and formal. The queue path is lined with the formal hedge and bricks that you see, but you don't pass the cemetery when the queue is short, only when lines are longer. There is a white hearse that is just off to the right of the picture near the Italian cyprus, at that point you're almost in the front door.
The DL Haunted Mansion was built to look like the actual mansion that the story is based upon. I've heard that Walt wanted to build the ride in the haunted mansion but the building was too small for the ride. So he built a replica on stage and kept the other one backstage.
Are the rides the same or different once inside?
I believe they are relatively the same with minor differences.
Are the rides the same or different once inside?
One difference is the stretching room. But wont say the difference... lol
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For the most part they are the same. If I remember correctly, they were in planning and all of the original sets and props were made at the same time, updates to the attractions have been made differently throughout the years, and DL gets the Haunted Mansion Holiday (when Jack Skellington takes over) overland between Halloween and Christmas. There are a few basic differences some are technical and some show setting, the biggest ones to me are in the Seance Room and that the light level in DL seems much much darker to me than WDW.