The Haunted Mansion
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The Haunted Mansion is one of the most popular and beloved attractions in Disney theme park history, and can be found in each Magic Kingdom Park around the globe.This newly updated book brings the Mansion's inhabitants to an afterlife like never before. Magic Kingdom's Haunted Mansion illustrates how the Mansion's 999 "grim grinning ghosts" moved from sketches to reality, evolving from earliest story concepts through adaptations and changes as it moved into each of the parks, to the very latest ideas for show enhancements.This book also confirms and dispels the various myths and rumors that have surrounded the mysterious Mansion since its opening. And now new history has been added as the attraction continues to evolve.In this third edition, there are even more details and artwork depicting the Imagineering of the attractions in California and Florida, as well as the corresponding Haunted Mansion attractions in Tokyo, Paris, and Hong Kong.
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This was such a fun book. If you're a fan of the Disney parks and The Haunted Mansion ride, I highly recommend it. It goes into detail from the early imagineering days in the 1950s all the way through the different adaptations the ride has gone through to make it, or a version of it, fit into all the Disney parks. From there, the book covers each portion of the story/ride, from the outside queue and Portrait Chamber to the Grand Hall and Graveyard, including the differences between the attractions and even tidbits about the holiday Nightmare Before Christmas overlay. The author gives some fun insight, being one of the imagineers who worked on various enhancements, and points out details you might not have noticed before. As for why I didn't give this book 5 stars - there were a couple places I would have loved more detail, and I wish some of the pictures had been larger. Overall, I definitely recommend picking up a copy if you like this kind of nonfiction writing.
