SECRETS REVEALED Of Disneyland's Most Controversial Building
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- Madam Leota's Somewhere Beyond shop at Disneyland is causing a lot of controversy. What do you think?
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Chris ... I agree with so many comments here. The Imagineers should have used similar brickwork as around the HM exit at the top of the moving sidewalk, and combined it with wood and roofing using similar materials and style as the "harbor" buildings just across the walkway, plus build in a little "false perspective". It really seems like someone decided to take the easy way out. If you think about the scale and cozy-ness of the former "Merlin's Magic Shop" and current hat store by Peter Pan and Mr Toad, they could have accomplished so much more. It really does feel like a "home depot" one size fits all solution. The inside is TOTALLY awesome, and they really dropped the ball.
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Building in the real world, no one would put the carriage house in front of the mansion
For me I think it’s a mixture of the size and honestly the building itself looks like it belongs at Knotts. Thanks for another great video! 😊
New building is completely out of place. Forced perspective is even backwards when it comes to the lanterns hanging outside. The ones higher up are larger! lol
Great video as always.
I think they should have made it shanty style. It would have blended in with the New Orleans feel although not as fancy as the haunted Mansion. A rustic shanty wooden structure would have blended in with splash mountain.
Love what they’ve done with the mansion itself, but the gift shop is sadly disappointing.😪. Thanks for the video Chris.
No forced perspective 😢😢😢😢😢😢😢
It’s hulking. Cuts off
So many angles and views of Haunted Mansion. Man, this one is going to take a while to get used to 😔
I think it’s always going to stick out like a sore thumb. 😕
@ sadly, I think you’re right 🙁
You just kind of have to ignore it. Just walk right on by
But imagine if you didn't have to ignore it if it fit into the area that's what we want
I think one of my biggest complaints is that between the size and the placement of this shop it blocks the viewpoint of seeing the Tiana's Bayou Adventure mountain and drop as you approach the ride. Now you can only see the mountain and drop when you are at the bridge. Before you could see the mountain and logs dropping as you approached the ride. I feel it helped build up excitement for the log ride.
I also don't know if this shop was necessary as the same merchandise can be found at the shops in New Orleans Square.
So many people never found that shop. It was really quite hidden even if you go on pirates
Storytelling is so important at a Disney park. When a guest enters Disneyland, there is a certain level of trust that the illusion will be maintained. This new building damages the story and breaks the trust a little. Its shortcomings tell me that there was something more important to the management than the guest experience. We all know they want to sell stuff; I prefer when they are more subtle about it, drawing me in with carefully crafted design.
Exactly, the main focus here was to get another store installed immediately with zero regard for Aesthetics or forced perspective or continuity of story. This is so gross I don't even know what to say
The new shop doesn’t look like it belongs to the Haunted Mansion. It fits better in Critter Country.
This may sound harsh, but whoever made the decision involving this 'building' should be fired. The look and feel of it are not in alignment with the usual thoughtful planning and aesthetic excellence that Disney is known for! Sloppy and disappointing
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Looks like something Eisner would do.
This is 100% a prefab structure, I thought that even before seeing this video
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I was there a week or so ago when it was raining and they had that front door closed and it the whole thing barricaded with sandbags… meaning, Disney built a terrible off the shelf building and didn’t even build it in a way that it wouldn’t flood. It’s a disaster all around.
Lol, it's almost like a comedy skit
I love Disneyland like everyone here but this building is a huge mistake and should be torn down and done right.
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Kim Irvine is the voice of Madame Leota when it’s the nightmare before Christmas version
Having visited many plantations along the Mississippi in Louisiana it looks like the carriage house I have seen in many. They were utilitarian. The inside would not be finished, but the outside would be painted to not look worn. Many of the old carriage houses have been converted into gift shops for those who visit the homes.
The only problem I see, is that the carriage house is so close to the Main House. There were usually gardens between. Look at Homas House and Oak Alley Plantation.
Hi Chris, I really loved this video. The second half was so informative and I actually watched it again with my husband because this perspective angle was so true. It doesn't fit in. We believe it is also a barn looking structure, definitely doesn't fit in! Thank you for all your hard and great work. The place is so crowded now I'm glad you go for us and we don't have to
Thanks! I’m glad you and your husband enjoyed it!
The reason it still blends in between the shop and the Bayou edge, is because they're using no-see-um Green (go away green), LOL 😂
also if it was blended it would connect the ghosts to bayou magic
Leota Toombs has to be one of the coolest names ever! They should have a themed beverage cart called "Spirits".
Unfortunately the Imagineers dropped the ball on the design of that building. 😢
Somewhere beyond is.....too new. It needs to be aged/haunted with occasional whispers of the dead. Ghosts need to appear occasionally using Pepper's Ghost effect. The current store is a sanitized verison of what it could have been. It reminds me of Monsters Inc. ride - Just slapped together teases of what should have been. This was not creativity of a Dinsey Imagineer. There are just a few hints of what the store should have been. I appreciate most of Disneyland, but there are some lemons and this has been added to that basket.
I'm not going to lie, I cried a couple of tears at the end... I needed to hear that 💔
Great video Chris! The barn is a bit odd given Disney's history with being so detail-oriented. It also blocks views of HM and Tiana's, which goes against their reputation with sight lines.
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I really don't see the size of the coach/carriage house as a problem: it's meant to be large enough for the hearse, harnesses and for the coachman's quarters. I find it odd that people are complaining about how clean & fresh it looks. Since Walt didn't want the exterior of the Mansion to look run down, it would make sense that outbuildings look fresh as well. I do think the wooden slatted look is a tad basic (and modern looking) for such elaborate grounds. I'd rather see most of it in stone, with ivy on Tiana's side for a better transition.
We all know that Madam Leota spent most of her life as a medium, but did you know as a kid she was an extra large? She did a lot of jazzercise & crunches in high school to drop off the weight. It was tough, but if the spirit's willing...
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Because of the placement of the building out front, I think a gatehouse concept in the same architectural style of the main house would have made for a better visual. Carriage house would have traditionally been out back.
The design problem with the exterior is that it's an attempt to average the look of the Mansion and the look of Tiana. And in trying to work with two different styles, it works with neither.
That being said, the interior looks really fun and I can't wait to see it!
The interior is awful. There's shabby chic wood everywhere that just looks cheap. It reminds me of something you would see at a Cracker Barrel. The insides are not lit well and they are very awkward, I just want to leave every time I go inside
Hey Chris! Leota Tombs’ daughter Kim Irvine is now the face in the new floating ball. Which is cool that when they redesigned the séance room they used Leota’s daughter! And in the drawing above the door it appears to me that the mom (Leota) is the one holding the ball with the face of the daughter (Kim) in it.
What an architectural nightmare! Madame Leota's is way too big, way too bright, and just plain wrong. And the real nail in the coffin? That ghastly service area you have to walk through on your way out of the Haunted Mansion - talk about ruining the whole creepy vibe. I wouldn't be surprised if more than just a few grinning ghosts take their haunting elsewhere!
Yeah, all throughout Disneyland there are solid wood "Cast members Only" doors hiding the backstage. This is the only place I can recall where such a door is just an iron gate and we can see all the plumbing and air-conditioning or whatever.
Did Disney actually pay retail for a prefab store or did they pay the business rate? Most of the buildings on Main Street USA are actually 1950's warehouses with facades. The original Tomorrowland and Fantasyland were even more tacky due to the money running out during 1955.
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When you first showed it, I could tell something was off and I couldn't quite place it. I don't know. Thanks for showing and telling us all about it.
That barn belongs in Frontierland.
We love your videos, but I'd like to make a small critique if I may.
When zooming in and out, maybe try to do it a little slower.
Those quick in and outs can be dizzying to some.
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I'll keep that in mind for future videos! 🤩
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I was there while they changed from Holiday to regular Haunted Mansion, so the ride was closed, passed in front of the shop, and even though it’s my favorite ride, for some reason I didn’t feel like entering the shop. The merch looks great btw, but the building isn’t “beckoning” enough I guess. I would’ve loved some HM stuff, but for some reason I didn’t go in
fun fact, that Bat chandelier was made my Rejuvenation Inc. which is now part of Williams Sonoma. Rejuvenation made that Bat chandelier years ago and Disney has had it for a while. Yes, I can sense that something is off with the perspective and look of the building.
I guess Kim wasn’t involved in the barn decision cause she never would have allowed THAT! I wonder if Disney would ever go back and fix it? I hope so.
Paint the outside like how they painted the inside beams with that black and white deterioration look and RE THEME THOSE HORRID barn doors into something that looks more like a crypt door! Then you will have something at least better to look at!
I’m extremely disappointed in the shop. I agree with those thinking the exterior is completely 100% out of place. So sad how it totally ruins the perspective of the haunted mansion! That’s all bad!
Regarding the interior decor- stuff on Amazon and AI?? An absolute shame. Just a shame. I read somewhere that imagineers would actually go out to thrift at antique stores to fill up the props in the attic of the haunted mansion. Or they would create things in house. Why is that so much effort now? Why are we being lazy??? I shouldn’t be able to just buy the same decor online. If I’m paying top dollars to attend disney, to be in an immersive magical land, things should be unique and immersive, it shouldn’t look like the Halloween section of Michael’s or Joanne’s……… Disney needs to do better. They do that AND raise prices - that’s crazy!! I really hope they turn things around and make things special again. Because right now, with how things are with that shop and decorating with Amazon or online crap, the quality of Disneyland is just going to go down if it continues that way.
That’s why everyone loves and is so obsessed with Disney and all the older rides, because they are ORIGINAL and unique! Not because they are filled with a bunch of cheap crap anyone can find online. Like I said, such a shame. Such a shame.
to me, I think that the barn should be made to look like it belongs in New Orleans, like the haunted mansion. It doesn’t have the right design elements to make it match just doesn’t feel right like it belongs there.
First time I've seen this. Without the forced perspective it looks like the largest building on Earth. Especially when viewed in comparison to the mountain right next to it.
I think the inside is awesome. I hated the outside from day one said it was way too big. I am so disappointed in Disney for not spending the money letting the imagineers to build something. That’s who is at fault. Thanks as always Chris!
Keep up the great work! I love all of your secrets revealed videos!!!
I never knew I needed to hear a song about “forced perspective”! Love it!!
As always, another great video Chris!
I'll be curious to see if my opinion would change if I ever visited the park (who am I kidding, Disney has made that an impossibility with all their price hikes); but on camera I really don't see the issue. Yes, I think it's likely a customised Home Depot shed, but I don't hate that either...I will say the tea drinking ghost on Amazon isn't the same as the one in the shop and the veiled woman could just as easily be a replica 😀
Chris, I was so happy to see this video. I really do think Disney did that “building” on the cheap, and crammed it into a small space where it really should not be. They really hurt the overall views of HM and Tiana’s. Big blunder on Disney’s part.
Love your videos! My daughter and I are hoping to run into you one of these days. As for the building, it does look really large and it of place in videos. We'll just have to wait and see what it looks like on person when we visit in July.
Just went today 2-4-25 and they have walls up around where you’re standing. Went on Sunday 2-2-25 and it wasn’t there! So who knows what’s going on!
the world is amazing because each individual can be passionate about anything that speaks to them - i don't have to be passionate about disneyana as long as others are that can, and then share - wonderful. this was an informative little take and i think it speaks to walt, who created this world, and the inheritors who run a business. if they were as passionate as founder walt, they would take every small chance to create and maintain the quality of their illusion, and hence the value of their creation. great job chris.
I haven’t seen it; we’re not going back until November. But on the interior, I see distressed wood beams sliding into… absolutely perfectly maintained wood walls?
It’s an enormous miss, especially placed against one of the most iconic sights in the park (and even blocking it from some angles).
I don’t think anyone should be fired over it, though. Whoever made these decisions should certainly learn from it. Management should dedicate proper storytelling & research time into projects moving forward.
And everyone needs to take a step back from “we just need a place to sell more merch” and instead ask how Walt would have solved the problem.
From top to bottom, it’s a training issue for a whole lot of people.
as a haunted mansion fan since i was 11, this shop makes me so DAMN excited! excuse my language here but i dont think anyone understands! then you add in the fact that they sell nightmare before chrismas stuff year round? which of course is my favorite disney movie of all time..yeah ill be dropping thousands of dollars here whenever i choose to go! regardless of it being controversial to some i really hope it stays! excellent addition by disney! now my only other hope is they add their own indiana jones shop by the temple of the forbidden eye...all of my money would be gone in an instant. thank you for doing this video and making all that you do. makes my day every time you upload. much love brother and i hope i get to meet you one day!
I dunno i was at disneyland a couple of weeks ago, and it didn't really bother me. Since it doesn't abut backstage It's not like you can hide a larger store behind a facade like on main street so the building was gonna have to be as big as it had to be to be a giftshop.
I think once people get used to it, itll blend into the landscape.
It’s a shame that Disney seems to have slacked on this one. They usually get this stuff SO right that it’s a bigger letdown when they don’t.
Not lately they haven't gotten things right. Look at Avengers campus. That's the biggest mistake in the history of theme parks. And this is after the gigantic waste of space Galaxy Edge
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Scale of the building is definitely off, I think with some work they can fix it.
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There are a few significant issues with the building. 1) it sits too close to the walkway. A coachhouse would have a lane leading up to it, so it should be set back a bit, 2) it does not carry through an antebellum aesthetic. It could have more delicate features to better match the mansion, 3) the construction is too weighty, overbearing. possibly using a partial brick facade, even using forced perspectives to reduce the slat and beam sizes, as well as windows, as it went up. But obviously Disney cheaped out on that, as it is easier to just build it in a simple utilitarian barn style. I’m sure it wasn’t a kit or prefab, but it wasn’t a thematically driven construction either. And 4) Its just right there in your face, with no landscaping or greenery to soften the harsh angles of the building front. At least the inside is well decorated, but a bit cramped. We were shocked this week to find out how small it was inside when we saw it for the first time.
Although it’s something that can be ordered online (I have a bonded stone version of the famous original) the bust does have a tie in to the Haunted Mansion. It was used as a prop in the recent Haunted Mansion movie.
One way to loop in the Gypsy fact would be to cover the barn with a gypsy tent make it look like a mobile store.
The building is crummy but it's not a kit. The whole thing is metal framed. It has to meet commercial building codes which are super strict in Anaheim. Just like anything else, Disney has to submit plans to the city and they have to get a building permit. The city would not have let them slap up a kit.
I think they should’ve made it look like the Haunted Mansion, with the force perspective, to keep the whole exterior look intact. Hopefully the people in charge of Imagineering see this video and listen to critiques so they can re-imagine the exterior of this less than ideal building.
This is a situation of too many chefs, ruined the broth: the park wanted to buy a shed and put it in front of the mansion, and Imaginaire were brought in very much as a second thought. The signs don’t go with the style of the building, this building ends up being right across from Fowler‘s Harbor, which look like it’s been there for 150 years. Due to the adjacency, this should certainly be weathered. I don’t think Walt had in mind that you would put this thing outside of the gates of the haunted mansion, and yet still consider it part of the mansion, regardless of Madame Leo’s involvement.
The fix is so easy!! They need to build a wall right at the border or Tiana and HM and have one side of it be the HM property fence. It can be stone or wood with vines. It can have fake trees behind it. Tianas perspective would simply be extended dirt of the mine with some different plants. So easy. Something to separate
Cutting corners is not using imagination, the TRUE imagination went with Walt and his original crew. If it's true about the "pre fab" or mail order barn, then it won't take too many $90 jerseys or $38 ears to recoup the cost of purchase and labor, that's just business and we have to deal with the "eye sore" that is. This version of "Forced Perspective" is upside down, Big building at little cost. Just my thoughts.
Back when the Haunted Mansion had a Fastpass distribution area, there was a gryphon statue there that has now been relocated to another part of the queue. At that time, I spotted that same gryphon statue out front of somebody's house in Grover Beach, CA. I assume that means it was a statue that Imagineering bought retail and incorporated into the setting, but it looked like it had been there all along, so that's not a problem. Some of the new queue elements, however, look like they were hung yesterday. I understand the outside of the Mansion is meant to look pristine, but there must be some way to make it look like they've been there a long time, but are well taken care of.
That shop has been cursed since the beginning.
Six Ouija boards jammed inside as decoration makes perfect sense.
The roof line at the gift shop looks the Flying Nuns hat 😅
We were just there and saw you entering the park wearing that jacket (i think it was Thursday, Jan 30). It was our first time seeing this building in person. It appears "clunky" and out of place to me.
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The barn's color scheme doesn't help. To make it blend in better, they should have matched the color of the Haunted Mansion exterior.
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I think the outside is too plain. If they had put more thought into the exterior decor and accessories, they might have been able to make it look at least a bit smaller than it really is. I was there the last week of October, right before the construction walls came down. The Imagineers sure know how to put some things in plain sight and not have people noticing what they have done. I have a habit of reading shirts that people are wearing, billboards when riding in the car, you get what I'm saying. I never thought that I would ever be taking pictures of the construction walls on the main walkway side of Madame Leota's shop. On those walls was what you hear Madame Leota saying while you are riding through the seance room in Haunted Mansion.
I think it’s interesting that Disney doesn’t make you exit thru the Haunted Mansion store, like they do with other rides such as Runaway Railway. It’s easy to skip which is too bad because the inside (especially in person) looks great.
I think the columns in front of the mansion get subtly thinner up high as well. I get they built the store to hide Tiana's Bayou, but they could have done a better job. It does ruin the mansion scaling. The one in Florida is actually brilliant - it's up on a hill so you have to crane your neck which makes it seem enormous and no person can walk near it. It's a big facade but miniature. I think the front door would only be chest high to a normal person. It looks like it's farther away than it actually is, but the angling of the lawn is very steep and part is hidden so you can't tell.
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It has similarities to Walt Disney's barn in Carolwood that is open to tour. I wonder if that has anything to do with why it looks like it does?
22:04 the lack of forced perspective throws it off completely. It’s way too big, and doesn’t look right with either the Haunted Mansion or Tiana’s Bayou Adventure. If it’s meant to be the carriage house for HM, it should be smaller, and painted in keeping with the main house. Disney failed completely on this one. Thank you for posting a thoughtful analysis of this, Chris!
Great video!
As for the new shop, the lanterns they hung on the outside really helped to make it feel more themed, but using a pre-fab building (or building one that could be mistaken for one) is just Un-Disney and sadly an indication of recent trends with the company's output. The script to "Wish" also felt pre-fab.
I like the inside. It does, however, look like a modern pre-fab on the outside. Maybe it should be painted a color similar to the Haunted Mansion so it doesn't stand out so much. I don't know if that would interfere even more w/forced perspective. AND, it looks too new and too plain on the outside. I live in a big old Victorian house that also has a carriage house. The style of the buildings here match, but Madame Leota's doesn't match at all w/ the style of the Haunted Mansion. They need to put some lattices or something and maybe some vines growing on the sides. It has to look like it could be haunted.
I think the gargoyles in the shop are the same ones in the stretching room and in the outside garden area (queue line)
Get rid of Madam Leota's house and replace it with Madam Leota's Marketplace, a semi open-air, walkable market where you can find exotic, spooky goods as well as Mansion merch.
Master Gracey valued Madam Leota's supernatural help so much that he moved her into his carriage house. This is partially explained in the movie from 2023. Many of the "buy off Amazon" products were also used as props in the movie, so it isn't like the Imagineers just filled their Amazon shopping cart and called it a day; we don't complain that the truck parked by Indiana Jones was a real truck (Mercedes Benz LG3000) that many people drove because it was a prop from the movie. The biggest surprise here is that Madam Leota is not portrayed as Jamie Lee Curtis because we know how much the execs love "synergy;" I think we should all be very thankful to Kim Irivine (who I would assume loves the Haunted Mansion more than anyone else) for keeping the store about her mom, the Madam Leota that we all love.
This is a miss for me. What concerns me the most it’s that it seems to be a trend that is making me sad. The intention to detail and decline in the art stylings in recent additions really concerns me.
Super disappointing seeing a pre-fab building with tacky decor from Amazon next to one of the most iconic rides in the history of the parks. Disney keeps increasing their prices, makes record profits, and they give us this in return.
The original concept art for the shop showed a smaller, creole-style building similar to Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop Bar and Marie Laveau's House Of Voodoo in New Orleans. I think if they had gone with that original plan, it would have fit in MUCH better to not only the Mansion, but also integrating it with New Orleans Square AND Bayou Country. But Disney has gotten careless and sloppy, because they don't know why these spaces functioned the way they did to begin with.
While we have not seen it in person as of yet, from what we have seen on various videos, blogs, photos, etc., we HATE it! It diminishes the structure of the Haunted Mansion. It has ZERO (pun somewhat intended) aging or forced perspective. Look at Kim Irvine's excuse - reason speech regarding the AI image. She wondered why people noticed such a minor detail. If a leader of Disney or anyone having anything remotely associated with Imagineering wonders why fans would notice a small detail, that person is in the wrong business. The good ole days of Imagineering TRAINED us and TAUGHT us to appreciate the minor details. That building is an eyesore and reflects the current lazy and shortsighted attention to detail that I see has become all too prevalent in and at Disney in the last decade or so.
For me it's the color. The haunted mansion is very pretty and white, then the store is vomit green or "go away green"
11:51 "Spirit" Jerseys .....missed pun opportunity 😂
it's giving Micheal Eisner era vibes in it's cost cutting efforts
the horse is no longer eating a plant that was invisible. It is ALL about the magic. and the strollers full of little ones. I always had to walk.
I wonder if Disney is shrugging it all off as "toxic fans" or do they know they messed up on the gift shop?
I love Disneyland with all my heart. But Disney really messed up on this one and that monstrosity of a pre-fab barn ruins that whole area. Whoever made that decision should be fired. And then Disney should admit their huge error with this, and eat the $90,000 they spent ion that thing, and tear it down and start over and actually build something with forced perspective that will make that area feel like Disneyland again rather than some run-of-the-mill amusement park. Walt Disney is most likely rolling in his grave over this one! What disrespect this is to Walt Disney and his dream for this park!
Disney could disassemble it and use it as a tool shed on the backlot for maintenance. 😂 So maybe not a total loss. 😂
Disney figured we'd be too busy with our phones and the app to notice, we now spend more time looking down trying to figure out the what, why and where. The kids don't care, it's the true adult fans of the "old" or "analog" Disney that notice. Just my opinion.
Knotts Berry farm type beat 😂
I agree that the building looks pre-fab. Either the designers were told “get one of these pre-fab structures with a few custom modifications,” or the creative team REALLY checked out during the design process. If it’s supposed to be a carriage house, how about making it LOOK LIKE a carriage house with all the carriage house paraphernalia, or even horse stalls to divide up the interior space? Why is the interior ceiling weathered but the walls pristinely painted? Had it been me, I would have gone back to Rolly Crump’s original fortune teller’s wagon design but applied the “Harry Potter Quidditch Nationals tent” illusion so that it LOOKS like a small fortune teller’s wagon on the OUTSIDE but when you step INSIDE, it opens up into a space much larger than the volume defined by the wagon’s exterior. This would have required mirrors or foliage masking or some OTHER form of concealing the actual retail building, but this is simply not Disney’s best work. It’s also sad that some of the merchandise is “Amazonable.” The reason to have a retail space like this is to have items which one can obtain ONLY at this location; THAT’S what brings people in: that “Disney exclusivity." Practically the only thing that really spoke to me amidst the piles of shamelessly promoted and OVERLY EXPENSIVE merchandise was the original spiderweb Tiffany lampshade. Manufacture THOSE and sell them and you’ve got a truly GREAT piece (despite the fact that they would probably be upwards of about $1,500). Overall I would say Disney scored a “C+” on the superficial design elements used to tie the structure to the Haunted Mansion, but an “F” in terms of capturing the actual SPIRIT (pardon the pun) of what this COULD and SHOULD have been. Thanks for the video, Chris.
They could have hit so many antique stores to get stuff..
When was this building put into the park? Is it relatively new?
My only problem with that building is that is should have been back further. It's bam in your face when it maybe should have been back a few feet. Even if you come off the ride and end up in the shop before going outside like Pieces Of Eight, it would be good
Funny how broccoli mountain isn’t running. Lol
62 - That's what it feels like outside right now, in the negative. Still here commenting away!
Yes, it goes without saying the building looks absolutely horrible, and it ruins everything around it. If it's not pre-fab, it looks like it, and that's bad enough. I hate complaining, but they're destroying this place I love.
biggest blunder is the new gift shop for Haunted Mansion
❤Thank you so much for this adventure I have been wondering what this shop was like since it opened. You are the only one that has done an in-depth coverage of my Haunted Mansion obsession. You should see our Haunted Mansion Halloween decorations I wish I could post a video of our place❤ You are outstandingly amazing ❤ 👻