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| Kickin ass for the sheer hell of it since june 1996.We love our music, we love our fans and love the rock.It's all about letting go and getting up to face the day.Peace fuckers, see you on tour...Some of you have been asking for banners to put on your Myspace so we'll start posting some of these..."Are you sure you want to delete this comment?"When are you coming back to the U.Way more brutal than Chicago!Thanx to the Haunted for all the Metal inspiration.Thanks for the add guys!!!Thanks so much 4 the add.Greetings Thanks for the add.The Haunted is the fuckin shit!Thanx for letting us post.Thank mans for the add...Thanks for the add, happy new year for you and Let The Metal flow!Hello greetings from transilvania you have fans here !!!!THE HAUNTEDstoppin by to show our respect.You guys are so lucky...You guys are fucking killer.Yo Yo Yo thank you for add meI am thaiboy ilove you THE HAUNTED !!!You guys fucken rock are you guys melodic death metal?LEASTEN YOUR RECORDS NOW!!!...This is not a MySpace login page, please do not enter your MySpace login information (email address or password).Do you wish to continue your form submission?"Id + " Link: " + targetLink.For the film of the same name, see The Haunted Mansion (film).The Haunted Mansion is a dark ride attraction located at Disneyland, the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World, Tokyo Disneyland, and Disneyland Park in Paris (as Phantom Manor).Foyer and Stretching Gallery
2.Hallways of the Mansion
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4.The house originally had a rural American design and was intended to be at the end of a crooked path that led away from Disneyland's Main Street, U.Walt turned to imagineer Ken Anderson and assigned him to make a story for The Haunted Mansion, which would go on to Phantom Manor one day.Walt was even supposed to narrate one version!In 1961, handbills announcing a 1963 opening of the Haunted Mansion were given out at Disneyland's main entrance.Disney legend, Rolly Crump, was assigned the task of designing the attraction, having just completed the sculptures of the gods statues that appear in the Enchanted Tiki Room.Although supposedly an abandoned structure, the exterior appears new and the surrounding grounds meticulously maintained.Designers wanted to make the exterior of The Haunted Mansion look like the stereotypical haunted house, but Walt vetoed the idea, proclaiming, "We'll let the ghosts take care of the inside.Walt lived there and they just called it a haunted mansion to keep people out.One rumor for the change was that the original attraction had frightened a guest so badly that he died of a heart attack.Since the attraction was never implemented as a walkthrough experience, this rumor is clearly false.No guests have ever died of fright riding the Haunted Mansion.Professor Marvel's Gallery, which was "...This was to be built as part of Disneyland's Discovery Bay expansion area.The Haunted Mansion brought record crowds to the park and the park had to close to other coming guests so there would be room!In 1999, a retrospective of the art of the Haunted Mansion was featured at The Disney Gallery above the entrance to rates of the Caribbean.When the 2003 film The Haunted Mansion was released, a retrospective of its art was featured in the gallery as well.In October 2005, Slave Labor Graphics began publishing a bimonthly Haunted Mansion comic book anthology giving the Disneyland Mansion a backstory, with the main recurring story of Master Gracey recalling the old sea captain storyline.For each of these parks, the Haunted Mansion is an original attraction.Claude Coats designed the mansion's facade which is much more based on a Dutch style colonial manor home.The mansion is considerably longer than Disneyland because of the park's much larger scale.When decided where to be placed at, imagineers researched Japan's culture and found that ghost stories categorized as Fairy Tales.The colonial setting worked perfectly and made an awesome thematic bridge.When The Haunted Mansion was transplanted to other Disney parks, space management was much less of a problem.For example, in Disney World's Magic Kingdom, the entire show building is located within the park boundaries.Just prior to Halloween, the Haunted Mansion closes for its conversion to Haunted Mansion Holiday.The Haunted Mansion Holiday, based on Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas.Every holiday season the Haunted Mansion at Disneyland is transformed into Haunted Mansion Holiday.This crossover, based on Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas, began in 2001.The attraction is closed again in January when it is returned to the regular Haunted Mansion.In 2004 a similar overlay was installed for Tokyo Disneyland as "Haunted Mansion Holiday Nightmare".The attraction is very popular and a good portion of guests come to the park to see the overlay.The bride became more gloomy, and Leota has free will floating, which is controlled by a highly powerful computer.The new show scene introduced in the attic portion of the ride follows a ghostly bride named Constance (played by Buffy The Vampire Slayer actress Julia Lee and voiced by Kat Cressida), now described as a "black widow bride," and slowly uncovers her bloody past, which includes the murders and decapitations of all her previous husbands (named Ambrose, Frank, Reginald, Marquis, and George) in an attempt to gain their vast fortunes.The new effects start when visitors first enter the mansion's attic.Near the end of the attic, an ethereal glow is seen and a sweet but sinister voice is heard."You may now kiss the bride", "And we lived happily ever after", "As long as we both shall live", "For better or for worse", "Here comes the bride", "'Till death do us part", "Through sickness and in...Every few sayings, she raises her hand and an axe appears in it.Her face and her entire body are projected, very similar to the Leota effect in the Seance Room and the Little Leota effect at the end of the ride.At Walt Disney World Resort, The Haunted Mansion closed for refurbishment on June 7, 2007 and reopened September 13, 2007.After the staircase scene, there are all new ghoulish eyes that glow while monsterous sounds echo through the halls.Seven of the Sinister 11 are now located in the loading area of the ride while the other four are located in various parts of the mansion.Disneyland's one thousandth ghost with the addition of his nickname, a joke epitaph and the signatures of Disney Imagineers on a tombstone to be displayed in the attraction.Its placement is guaranteed for ten years and will remain as a permanent exhibit.The tombstone is located near the end of the graveyard scene and can be seen just as the vehicle enters the graveyard gates.The money has been donated to the Boys and Girls Club.The Queue
The queue of the Haunted Mansion is outside the building, winding, first past a pet cemetery, and then to a Mausoleum built into the hillside as well as a cemetery above.This caused Imagineers to arrange the headstones at Walt Disney World in an order that encouraged forward movement, and forced the removal of some headstones from Disneyland.Walt Disney World soon got a pet cemetery as well.The Hearse has been falsely rumored to have carried the body of Mormon prophet Brigham Young.About once a minute, the face moves outward ever so slightly, the eyes blink and move back and forth, and the face returns to its original position.The effect is achieved with simple animatronics.Foyer and Stretching Gallery
Guests stand in line outside the mansion, and are led into a spooky parlor by Cast Members dressed as maids and butlers.The door they entered through then becomes a wall, and the chilling voice of Paul Frees introduces himself as their "Ghost Host" and taunts them:
Your cadaverous pallor betrays an aura of foreboding, almost as though you sense a disquieting metamorphosis.Is this haunted room actually stretching?And consider this dismaying observation: this chamber has no windows, and no doors...Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!As the voice speaks, the audience's eye is drawn up to four portraits on every other wall of the octagonal shaped room.At the attraction in Disneyland, the room is, in fact, an elevator with no ceiling that is being lowered slowly to give the illusion that the room itself is stretching; this brings the guests down to where the ride begins, below ground level.This stretching room effect is duplicated at the three Mansions at other Disney theme parks, but only one of these requires guests being moved beyond the railroad tracks.The Walt Disney World and Tokyo Disneyland attractions have stretching rooms with ascending ceilings, rather than descending floors.Only Phantom Manor at Disneyland Paris uses the same descending floor as Disneyland, to transport guests toward the structure containing the major portion of the ride.In one attic wedding portrait, the bride Constance is shown much younger, holding a rose in the same manner as the woman in the portrait.Also, the groom has a distinctive handlebar mustache, just as the bust on the tombstone does.Portrait Gallery
When the walls finally do open, guests are ushered into an art gallery with paintings that depict seemingly innocent scenes.With every flash of lightning, the paintings flicker with ghastly images (including a demure young woman sprouting snakes from her scalp (a la Medusa), a magnificent sailing ship at sea becoming a tattered and ghostly version thereof in a storm, and others).The grim busts of a man and woman placed at the end of the hall seem to turn their heads, glaring at the guests as they walk past.The effect is unnerving and extremely convincing.The special effects throughout the ride were groundbreaking when the mansion first opened.After ascending a dark staircase, guests embark on an eerie journey through the mansion and witness some amazing sights, all created with special effects.In the ride at Walt Disney World, guests see the library scene that involves books being pushed around, ladders moving from side to side, a group of staring busts and a piano playing on its own accord, followed by a disturbing room full of staircases that defy physics.Monstrous screams and roars are heard thundering through the hall with the banging of the doors and eerie family photos of demons line the walls; also a ghostly grandfather clock with a demonic physique and 13 hours on it with the hour hand on the 13 and the minute hand moving continuously, a dark shadow of a claw passing over it as it chimes midnight (this clock is, in fact, moving backwards) rests at the end of the scene.In the Anaheim and Orlando mansions she floats gracefully around the table and in Anaheim a series of several green spirits stare at riders from the corner of the room.It is worthy to note that, during the Haunted Mansion Holiday, Madame Leota is one of the only remaining characters of the original attraction.During her chanting, she acknowledges the eerie gifts she received from the "thirteen days of Christmas" (an obvious allusion to the song, the Twelve Days of Christmas).As guests pass onto the balcony of the magnificent grand hall, the happy haunts begin to materialize.Translucent couples waltz to the music of a macabre organist, while a ghostly birthday party appears to be taking place at the dining table (a dinner plate and two saucers combine to make a "Hidden Mickey").Some spirits sit on the chandeliers, gorging themselves on wine.An important part of Disney history is located in the ballroom scene of the original Anaheim attraction: the pipe organ on the far left of the scene is the original prop from the studio's 1954 release, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.Prior to the construction of the Haunted Mansion, the organ had been on display in a shop in the "Main Street, U.The organs in the other parks are replicas of the prop.The damaged area has been disguised by a fake spider and web.Because of the size of these panes of glass, they cannot be replaced without removing the roof of the show building.It features a collection of wedding gifts, personal items, mementos, and wedding portraits.As she raises her arms, a hatchet appears in her hands.At Tokyo, the bride is darkened and pop up banshees emit frightening screams and roars.Ahead, guests can see ghosts rise up from the ground as a mysterious fog covers the graveyard below.The Doom Buggies reach the ground, and turn towards the graveyard's gate.Next, guests see a mummy and an old man.The old man tries to listen to what the mummy is saying through an ear phone, but the mummy is just too hard to understand underneath its bandages.Magic Kingdom) his cloak forms a "Hidden Mickey".Passing by three large mirrors, guests discover that one of the trio has hitched a ride in their Doom Buggy.When the New Orleans Square area was added in the early 1960s, there was no more room in that quarter of the park for large attractions.The famed "stretching rooms" were implemented simply so guests could be moved underground and outside of the park without them knowing.The show building extends an additional ten feet below the backstage ground level, though much of the attraction takes place around ground level.The layout of the track is convoluted, but it's essentially a clockwise loop that runs through the outer areas of the building.This leads to some interesting spatial relationships between them.Another way into the show building from within the park is through a door in one of the queue's crypts.Near the tower, a pair of stairways lead beneath the Doombuggy track and into a passageway that travels between the loading area and the graveyard, below the endless hallway, and behind the ballroom.For instance, the wood that the ballroom walls are built of is easily seen from backstage.The tops of the large, squarish indentations in the sides of the building mark the floor level of this attic space.It is worth noting that at Disneyland, the Haunted Mansion and Splash Mountain show buildings are very close to each other.Guests evacuated from Splash Mountain during a breakdown will verify that the Haunted Mansion show building is virtually indistinguishable from the Splash Mountain building, and that the two have only a few yards of pavement between them.Because of the Magic Kingdom's different layout, the Haunted Mansion show building is instead located next to the one that houses "It's a Small World".This version of the ride takes place within a similar building, though this one is larger and entirely enclosed by other areas of the park.Since a wheelchair ramp was added to the front of the mansion, guests rarely see this area.Kim Ivrine also played Madame Leota for Haunted Mansion Holiday.Between the Disneyland and the Magic Kingdom versions of the ride, different recording sessions were used in some places.The Magic Kingdom version of the ride includes the library scene, in which a unique piece of narration is used.At Tokyo Disneyland, whose mansion is a carbon copy of the one in Florida, both inside and out, the narration is provided by Teichiro Hori, a movie producer from Toho Studios (Hori also provides the voice of the talking skull in Tokyo's version of Pirates of the Caribbean).In 2002, an imitation of Paul Frees could be heard in the Disneyland and the Magic Kingdom versions instead of the original safety spiel, giving a more detailed warning in the load area, followed by a Spanish spiel.In Tokyo, the safety spiel is done by the Ghost Host himself.Phantom Manor
An opening narration by Vincent Price was recorded, and initially was used.The only member of the Mellomen heard is that of the deep bass voice of Thurl Ravenscroft (best known for voicing Tony the Tiger in television commercials), who sings as part of a quintet of singing busts in the graveyard scene.Exit
A Musical History of Disneyland 13 minute ride through
"Grim Grinning Ghosts" has also been used in various other shows in Disney theme parks such as:
Fantasy in the Sky
Remember...Spooky Night in Disney's Haunted Mansion
Disneyland Records released The Story and Song From The Haunted Mansion as a record album in 1969.It featured the story of two teenagers, Mike (Ron Howard) and Karen (Robie Lester), who get trapped inside the Haunted Mansion, with Thurl Ravenscroft as the Narrator, Pete Renoudet as the Ghost Host, and Eleanor Audley as Madame Leota.Previously, as the Haunted Mansion attraction was in its planning stages and still known as "The Haunted House," Disneyland Records released the album Chilling, Thrilling Sounds of the Haunted House (1964), a collection of sound effects and brief "stories in sound" introduced by a narrator.Many of the sound effects, originally created for the vintage Disney cartoons, were later used in the Haunted Mansion ride.Required ticket: "E" (discontinued)
Ride system: Omnimover
Number of Vehicles (a.Magic Kingdom
Grand opening: October 1, 1971 (Opened with the Magic Kingdom)
Number of Vehicles (a."Doombuggies"): 160
Recently The Haunted Mansion at Magic Kingdom was closed for refurbishments.The attraction was given a new scene not before seen at the other Haunted Mansions; a surreal, M.Also, several elements were duplicated from Disneyland's Mansion, including the changing portraits, the floating Madame Leota and the revised attic scene with Constance.Every morning a cast member digs up fresh soil and places it in front of Master Gracey's headstone, as well as placing a fresh cut rose on top of the grave, to make it seem like the Ghost Host just died.Sign that was displayed outside The Haunted Mansion at Magic Kingdom during its closure for renovation.Disneyland Paris
Grand opening: April 12, 1992 (Opened with Disneyland Paris)
Phantom Manor (version of Haunted Mansion in Frontierland)
Number of Vehicles (a.In popular culture
In the sing along songs video Disneyland Fun, during the song "Grim Grinning Ghosts", two of the kids go over to the ride and the girl wonders what happens there at night and in her thoughts we see Disney villains (the Evil Queen, Captain Hook, the Big Bad Wolf, and Maleficent), Donald in a ghost costume and dancing trees dancing in front of the Haunted Mansion.This was also in Let's Go to Disneyland Paris at the Phantom Manor only they used Jafar instead of Captain Hook.Also in Happy Haunting the kids and the Disney characters have the party in the Haunted Mansion.The Haunted Mansion was parodied in Timon and Pumbaa's Virtual Safari 1.The Hitchhiking Ghosts are parodied in the pilot episode of Clerks: The Animated Series.The mansion was parodied in My Life as a Teenage Robot, when Brad and Tuck go to "Wizzly World" and ride a haunted house where paintings with moving eyes, cheesy pop up ghosts, and hanging corpses, all try to be friendly.Disney Legend Marc Davis said he hated it and thought Walt would have never approved of it.An early unused morphing portrait of a woman leaning on a grave that changed into herself holding a hatchet and her husband's ghost next to her, may be the inspiration for Constance.Vampires, voo doo, werewolves, and zombies, were originally considered for the mansion, but Walt wanted a retirement home for ghosts not monsters.When it comes to the Haunted Mansion, theming is a matter of grave importance."Optical Illusion Device", Keller; Allan, 1998.Snopes (August 21, 2007).The "E" Ticket, (41)
This is the Fall 2004 issue of the magazine The "E" Ticket that was dedicated to the Haunted Mansion at Disneyland."Haunting Melodies: The Story Behind Buddy Baker's Score for the Haunted Mansion".Back issues can be found at The Book Palace and its home page can be found here Site no longer active."Tales from the Crypt: Life in the Haunted Mansion."The Haunted Mansion: From the Magic Kingdom to the Movie.New York: Disney Editions.It includes information on The Haunted Mansion movie.Fan site with very detailed information on the history, special effects, layout, etc.All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.The following story takes place on a stormy night in a part of Neopia known as the Haunted Woods.The small
villages near the forest all have their stories about ghosts, demons, and other strange and horrible creatures
that live in the Haunted Woods, and NO ONE from any of these villages will ever enter the forest for fear they
will never return.The Haunted House is a Choose Your Own Adventure game, where you must select an action to see what
happens next.TIP : To read more of the adventure try using the arrows next to the text box.These scroll the text up and down.....Create a configuration object and add the keywords to the conf.Use of this site signifies your acceptance of the Terms and Conditions.Moved Permanently
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