Make a haunted mansion restaurant!! Ghost hostesses and a lightning storm by window by your table, with ghostly deserts!

If Disney was truly trying to scare guests they would never have removed alien encounter.

"What would you change about the Haunted Mansion?" simple: i'd give Constance the animatronic she deserves

The candle man could sing a creepy version of “Be Our Guest” and be sponsored by Magic Candle Co.

My first fix: get the riders to stop talking over the Ghost Host in the lobby and stretching room. I'm from out of state and every time I've visited in the last two years (twice, because, yeah, going to DL is expensive) the crowds inside the Haunted Mansion are 1) actual crowds of too many people herded inside, and 2) rude and loud. Come on, people, stop talking to each other during the show - and it's as much a show as going to the theater albeit a much shorter one - and LISTEN and look around you.

One of the biggest things I want is an updated doom buggy loading zone. Phantom Manor has an epic grand staircase with a giant window and lightning outside. I WANT THAT!!!

When he said “Man eating Plant” I immediately thought of Audrey II from Little Shop of Horrors

As long as Paul Frees’ iconic narration as Ghost Host stays and it’s still the legendary Thurl Ravenscroft singing Grim Grinning Ghosts- I can get behind this if it were real

My biggest problem with this is the trackless approach. The trackless vehicles need a level surface to operate and over 70% of the ride is a big upwards slope. I found some other discrepancies with the idea but it's your vision, you had a lot of fun with it. Great video.

When I hear "man eating plant" I think of a dude calmly eating a salad.

The Candle man absolutely should be added to the ride somewhere, also I wish they were able to add another room somewhere, something simple like a living room with a fireplace, maybe a rocking chair going by itself in the corner and some wind coming through the windows. My only issue with the Disneyland version is it’s too short lol

It seems to me that many of the ideas for the Museum of the Weird, if incorporated into the Haunted Mansion from the start, would be incredibly iconic today. I can definitely see Wax Candle Man or Man-Eating Plant t-shirts being sold in the parks if they had made it in.

You know how there is a guest suite in Cinderella's Castle? You know how they are building an immersive Star Wars hotel in WDW? Well, that, but for the Haunted Mansion.

They’d should implement/plus the original illusions. The candle hallway/chill that never worked, make the raven relevant, etc.

I feel the attic is a wasted scene. I'd like to see that area re-imagined.

I'd love to see the attic scene as it was originally envisioned before Hattie went out of comission the first time, now that he's back, reunite him with Beating Heart at last. I'd put it all back how it was supposed to go, with more updated effects for the pop up heads and scenery, swap Constance for Beating Heart again, not the initial corpse-like one but the eerie glowing eyes/uncertain expression one, put the beating sound front and center. I love the original take on the attic that suggested a story for the guest to fill in rather than the over explained Constance take.

The Madam Leota scene should be mostly the same but with the trackless buggy you could circle around her a couple times while getting a better view of the room, with some updated effects

I’ve always thought the loading area should look like a solarium or sunroom looking out onto the property gardens, instead of just a dark void. I like that the Disney world version is a part of the house, even if it’s just a hallway.

Get rid of derpy Constance and make her creepy again.

I've heard the gargoyles talk once it was when we were stuck in the room because of the big line when I heard them start whispering I got a chill down my spine cause I never knew they did that

The omnimover ride system is high capacity. Make it trackless and the capacity will drop significantly.

Hey Offhand Please make this a series on other rides or lands like tomorrow world or fixing fantasy land or fixing New Orleans square stuff like that

I would definitely change up the bride. Look, Constance is cool, but Emily has more intrigue, more mystery, and much more heartache. Constance is just, haha axe go brrrr. Edit : Also! You know how when after the stretching room, the wall opens to the painting gallery, but above the door is just this huge ugly black wall of nothing? Yeah I'd wanna do something with that, maybe wood paneling, idk, something.

I would have the doom buggies breaking away after madame Leota’s scene. Maybe it would be a scene with a climax to it like in Mystic Manor with Pandora’s box, but instead of the doom buggies just going on their way they are all thrust backwards as if a ghostly blast of wind pushes them all away from Leota’s table into the darkness and when the lights come up again your doom buggy will be alone in its own area of the ride. This is where you can implement the scenes of the wax candle man and man eating plant.

I’ll be honest, I have never heard the gargoyles talk when I go on the Haunted Mansion, not even on my recent trip

There NEEDS to be a haunted mansion restaurant. That would be the most popular restaurant in the park hands down. If Pirates can have one why can’t HM !!!

One of the few things I would change about the Disneyland version is Hatchaway. I like her current backstory, but her design looks too projected. The fifth incarnation of her should keep the backstory but take inspiration from the first two designs.

I love everything you said except that the new Doom Buggies should be called “Doom Buggy Boo.0” instead of “2.0”

I would love the interactive queue that they have in Florida to be brought over to California. I've never been but augh, it looks like so much fun.

a better title would be How to IMPROVE The Haunted Mansion

Child me was fascinated with the fact that one of the former bride scenes had her dress poking out from a trunk to imply her body was in it

The art for the man eating plant would be a badass tattoo

I think that the trackless idea is a cool idea in theory, but I also feel like the haunted mansion already has a person per hour problem on some days, and that would just exasperate it. I do like it though!

The idea to split the Doom Buggies up in the Corridor of Doors is gold.

Can we get a proper Constance/bride?! MY GIRL NEEDS SOOO MUCH MORE REP!

Jump start the Disney Ride Extended Universe by having Emily Blunt end the Jungle Cruise movie by moving to New Orleans with a ship captain she meets to get married. Just tease the start of haunted mansion for the next film.

I LOVED EVERY SINGLE IDEA FOR THE HALLWAYS THEY SOUND SO COOL DISNEY LISTEN TO THIS MAN

I just bought 2 candles from the Magic Candle Company for Christmas presents, and they’re great!

I've had an idea to enhance the ride for non-english-speaking or multilingual guests. Each doombuggy is equipped with a ghost-box like device that is stylized to look like something from the late 1800s to early 1900s. There would be a dial or buttons that would be used to select a language which would show on a little display/window. The device would "tune in to a spectral frequency" of a ghost narrator speaking the selected language. By default (when the buggies cycle back to the loading zone) it is set to the classic english narration. It would add a small amount of interactivity to the ride, albeit mostly utilitarian. It would probably work better in Orlando due to World's higher number of international visitors, but it would still be nice in Land, especially with the holiday overlay having more narration and giving the writers a creative challenge in adapting it while keeping the rhyme.

i actually really really like the breaking away in the corridors of doors into 4 different scenes 👀

I'd add an additional scene to the graveyard. Yes there would be the crypt with skeletons, but would also be a scene where you come to some old rusted railroad tracks. On it is a steam locomotive standing at a decrepit old station that looks like it hasn't been used in a long time. A skeleton engineer leans out of the cab at the headlight shinning down the rusted rails while a shadowy fireman stokes the fire. Behind the locomotive and coal tender is a specially designed railroad car with one large window. Inside is a coffin, telling you that this is a funeral train. A ghost of a well dressed man in late 19th clothing sits on the coffin (presumably his) talking with a group of ghostly pallbearers. The car behind it is a regular passenger car with a few ghostly passengers seated and talking, then the last car you see before you move on is a dimly lit caboose. On the back platform of the caboose stands a skeleton conductor who beckons you to come aboard with one hand and be holding a red train lantern in his other. This will be inspired by the concept art for a scene at the Phantom Manor's Phantom Canyon scene. Visit sight below for more details phantommanorlegends.wordpress.com/tag/phantom-canyon/

I agree, I adore the Haunted Mansion as is, but I also think there are some wonderful ways to build on it with modern tech that would keep the same "spirit" but enhance the experience.

Title: How to FIX the Haunted Mansion Me: Impossible

I’d like that wax man feature. I’ve always felt that more could be bone with Madam Leota’s room.

I wish the originally store of Mr Gracey was still intact. It’s such a dark story. With all the changes, it’s so disjointed and confusing. I used to think the hanging man was just someone who was murdered to look like a suicide for no apparent reason. Also knowing that you’re actually being pushed out of the attic and into the graveyard is genuinely scary.

I think Madame Leota's parlor has to go first since it's supposedly implied that she's the one that kind of allows the ghosts and ghoulies to appear to us.

I clicked on this just to see what you thought needed fixing, lol. This was such a great video! I'd love a part II.

I heard at one point they were going to have a restaurant inside the ride similar to Blue Bayou. I'd love to see that happen.

The gargoyles would have to say "lets stay 6 feet apart"

I know what it needs... JEAN LAFFITE

I’d “feed” the caretakers dog. Puppers so scared and emaciated it always makes me kinda sad.

Simple, add a Eddie Murphy animatronic, replace the ghost host with Eddie Murphy, add cheap open house theming so lackluster you would miss it.

Dude ive been going threw some crazy depression stuff because of covid. And I just wanted to say Thank You for these videos. They make me so happy!

(though i must admit, the graveyard could have a few more layers of outward depth) not more things, doing things. just more depth. not in the front but the far back horizon, a few more grave stones, a few more trees, a few more thickets, maybe hills and a moon rise? "depth". as it stands currently, you can see the back wall, even with the atmosphere cheese cloth stuff..

Love your ideas, but I have to say the ONLY thing you forgot was UPGRADING CONSTANCE! Her projection is atrocious imho

I really like these "new" ideas. I would further say that implementing these improvements might actually be fairly easy. You have to remember in all cases the HM ride is actually in what's essentially a warehouse behind the Haunted Mansion's facade (well facade in Diseny World - Disneyland's ride is below and behind the HM building). It would be quite easy to just tear down the "interior" warehouse ride, leaving the facade part alone, and rebuilding an entirely new larger "interior" warehouse with technical modernization of the old scenes and the addition of new scenes. The only down side is that I'm sure the ride would probably be out of commission for a couple years. (PS - I agree, NO VIDEO SCREENS!)

I'd make Purple Shroud a recurring character throughout the ride but have him only appear each time for a split second. Make the guests have to REALLY look to find every appearance.

I would make it more cohesive thematically. There are clearly tiers of ghosts and effects that got more budget than the others and it makes it a jarring kind of hodgepodge. Like the Halloween section at Goodwill with all the soundmakers going at once and most of them need new batteries.

Glad Constance stays in your version. She's my favorite character in the mansion and I know she has a lot of mixed reactions from the fandom. I love the idea of breaking off and seeing her husbands! Also, instead of her model being a weird, janky projection, it would be awesome of Constance was an actual animatronic.

Probably should have labeled it as 'Enhanced' or 'Improved' so you didn't have to repeat yourself. XD

Personally, I really love all these ideas and think they suit the Haunted mansion perfectly. I remember I had an idea similar to yours, but with the haunted mansion holiday decor- now hear me out at least. Remember how at the beginning of the nightmare before Christmas, there were all the doors for the different holidays? Well, I thought many years ago, it would be a neat idea to go through them to see how Jack and the citizens of Halloween town would take those holidays over in Tim Burtonesque style. Of course, they'd be strange and Bizzare, yet would still be charming, and offer a glimpse of what could be if jack took over another holiday. Nevertheless, I love both Mansion(s)- overlays?- respectively and feel as if these additions would be the epitome of the haunted mansion itself.

if i got to make a change to the haunted mansion i would probably make a christmas carol version since that is what they almost did but then they picked nightmare before christmas but i just think a christmas carol haunted masion would be cool-

That hallway/floating candles is my favorite piece in the mansion aside from the shadow playing piano.

I love how you chose to "plus" the Haunted Mansion by using the Corridor of Doors to expand the attraction and include interesting and fun concepts which were abandoned for various reasons through the development of the attraction for various reasons. You brought in some really interesting ideas and I wish some of them could be included in the ways you introduced them. I was fortunate enough to meet Marc Davis, Xavier Attencio, and Tony Baxter while I worked at Disneyland in the early 1990's. See both the inside of the attraction with the lights on as well as the area around the Show Building. Unfortunately the land needed to expand the scenes off of the Corridor of Doors is occupied by three large natural gas storage containers for Fantastic, the Sound Room for Pirates of The Caribbean, and the Show Building for Pirates of the Caribbean itself. The room for Madame Leota's seance is significantly larger than what is actually used, as is the cemetery. Additionally if more back stage workshops are moved offsite as were done with the expansion of Batuu, the back portion of the Show Building for Haunted Mansion technically could be added onto and the attraction could be made longer. With this being said; it would be a hard sell changing a "people eating" attraction like the Omni-Mover over to to a slower load-unload system of the Trackless Ride systems with both Park-Ops and corporate. The other hard sell being, will these additions actually get butts through the turnstile when the existing attraction already draws HUGE numbers as it is? The bottom line being-you might sell the corporate big wigs on plussing the attraction with inexpensive polishes and upgraded special effects than on a major expansion to a very popular attraction.

Been going on that ride monthly since 1969 it has really been going down in original quality and many budget cuts or pure neglect of tiny but big details to us lifers I wish all of it were brought back and repaired 110% in addition to the new features especially the attic and cemetery

Phantom Manor is a far darker and more gothic version, it satisfies my needs for a more “grown up” version. Still not SCARY, but there’s no jokey ghosts, no cheesy puns. It’s got Vincent Price, haunting music and a town full of undead cowboys, and I love it!

I love how your ideas tie in original concept art in such a creative, interactive, and genuinely frightening way!

I loved this video, so I decided to share some ideas of my own! The trackless Doom Buggies aka Doom Buggies 2.0 would give the house more of an exploring feel! With that you could go where were your buggie takes you then return to the group for the important scenes. The first idea I have (now I know it may not work as the DL HM is smaller and older, but it's worth a shot) Going down the endless hallway for a way out. You go down the hallway of creaking, opening doors and torches on the walls, maybe add some more changing paintings until you reach the end of the hallway with the floating candelabra and a disbodied voice shouting at you to "GO BACK!" and your buggie gets pulled backward, allowing you to return to the other buggies. The second idea expands on the door idea. How there could be other rooms that you can see other ghosts in. This would be a room that has a ghost in her bed tossing and turning, trying to sleep as the party in the ballroom is disturbing her undead beauty sleep. There is an angry ghost cat at the foot of her bed hissing at you as well as the ghost's husband coming out of the extra door on the side, a bathroom, yelling at you with his fist in the air for adding to the disturbance of his wife's sleep, maybe add some toilet paper on his foot for a gag. The third idea is just adding to the ghosts and scenery in the graveyard. I feel that scene is rushed when it is supposed to be the best part of the ride! Add some new ghosts, like a plague doctor and a plague victim. The plague doctor pouring some unknown potion on his patient as the patient laughs. The scenery could be more trees and a moon! To add that there are 999 happy haunts, add some more tombstones near the back with the trees and skyline. Those are my silly suggestions! Hope you enjoyed them!

I'd like to see out the windows of the Haunted Mansion to the "world outside." This would actually be projection screens. For instance, at WDW we could see out the window behind the ghost trying to escape it's coffin. What do we see outside for instance? Well, we see a decrepit ghostly Liberty Square riverboat floating by filled with ghosts and beyond that Tom Sawyer's island where all the trees are dead and ghosts are there on holiday!

Imagine a ride just like Haunted Mansion, but with a Halloween Horror Nights style of horror

I think the idea of Constance is cool. Her projected face looks positively goofy and she doesn't scare me nearly as much as she did when I was younger when I kept my eyes closed and could only hear her. I'm not old enough to have gone on the ride when the attic bride was a thing but apparently the bride had an animatronic rather than a projection? Constance definitely deserves better.

Of course as I was watching this, I was thinking about things I would add on top of this, along with how everything would be translated over to the Haunted Mansion Holiday. Here’s what I came up with. Regular Haunted Mansion: - Make the cue more interactive like in Orlando and Tokyo - Add something to the loading zone. It’s just a black void and is desperately in need of something there - Replace the bride. Right now the bride looks kind of stupid. I would swap her out with a new bride similar to the first, but much more lifelike. She would still say what she does right now. - Bring back the beating heart in the attic. Haunted Mansion Holiday: - The Gargoyles would whisper what they normally do, along with creepy versions of line from Christmas carols. An example would be “Deck the halls with bones, so jolly. Tee hee hee.” - Changing portraits would be changed like the rest. They would be Nightmare Before Christmas themed. - The Wax Candle Man room would be mostly the same. The main difference would be that instead of regular candles, they’re scented candles. The room would smell really nice until you get to the Candle Man. You would also see he has a half melted label that reads something like “Rotting Corpse.” - The Man Eating Plant room. Is this where the wreath is? Ha! No! The wreath is where he normally is. The plant in this room is the same except that it’s in sync with Kidnap the Sandy Claws and shares a slight resemblance to the plants in the choir. Not a giant version of the plants in the choir, just a resemblance. - Captain Gore’s room would just be a Christmas party that you crashed. That’s it. -The Mystery House would be a lead in to the ballroom. The ghosts would be making their way to the party. -The attic would be the most different room. Instead of the paths leading to one of Constance’s husbands, they would lead to one of five characters. These would be the three jack in the boxes that are already in the holiday attic, the vampire teddy bear, the snake eating the naughty-nice list, that creepy duck toy, and a bone rooster sitting on top of a piano being played by a ghost. -Constance would be in a more festive dress rather than her bridal gown and have different lines. What these lines are I haven’t figured out yet. -The Hatbox Ghost could have a Santa hat on top of the hat he’s already wearing along with the little pin thing he already has. -The skeletons in the crypts would have Santa hats on them. -Instead of Oogie Boogie replacing the hitchhiking ghosts, he would stand along side them. The hitchhiking ghosts would also be wearing festive attire. Thoughts? I’m probably going to edit this over and over again as the days go by, and new ideas come.

To fix haunted mansion they need to bring back the beating heart bride the pop up ghosts and find a way to get the la da singer back into the us rides

One thing I would change if I was given free reign is to make it feel more like you're actually moving through the rooms of a house. Currently the transitions between scenes does not feel like I'm exploring an actual house.

14:44 He actually pulls off a pretty good and convincing robot/animatronic impression, also I think these ideas are really cool and could potentially be looked upon if the haunted mansion ever needed refurbishments.

This will kill the capacity of the mansion. Expect huge wait times.

My two cents: Lightweight headsets Bluetooth audio from the Doombuggy in order to enhance or fill out, add depth and immersion into the sounds. Sounds are often lost by variations in the speaker volumes or locations, at least last time I was there in 2015. But there's more! With typical 3 DOF-type sensors in the headset, the sound would focus on what you are looking at. If you want to keep head-tracking Madame Leota after you pass by on the way to the ballroom or following one of my favorites, the Singing Busts in the graveyard. The guest gets real immersion in what interests them as well as the full sound of all that goes on if not looking at any particular featured scene and in the background when "focused". As noted in other comments about the lobby and stretching room, it just seems to get noisier and noisier every day and in a trackless vehicle with (presumably) no shell as the track Doombuggy currently has, you surely get the enjoyment of hearing more of people's opinions and discussions. That kind of impolite self-centeredness can, and IMO certainly does, crash the intended experience of the Haunted Mansion. And for the final touch, Little Leota then gets the added "job" of reminding you to drop off your headset as you pass by her lest you suffer a horrible fate as the eternal "hang-in" for the Ghost Host in the Stretching Room when he needs a break - to go for a stretch, I suppose. Or would he be doing the opposite... well, anyway.

Yes! SO yes! I've always wanted to go through those doors!! Daydreaming about how I would plus attractions is one of my favourite things to do in the park, just letting my mind wander. More videos like this please!

Absolutely LOVE the idea of a trackless ride splitting off in the hallway! It's such a natural progression of the ride that would add so much to it! And the wax candle man is so creepy! Great idea to add him to the ride.

1. Update the charging portraits (maybe make them interactive) 2. Fill in the void in the loading area. 3. Maybe have the doors in the hallway open as you pass by revealing a different ghost each time.

Why not add a room with "all" of the brides having a tea party?

personally my fix for the attic would be to just revert it to how it was before 2006 (pop up groomsmen, and the Beating Heart Bride) In addition to the Hatbox Ghost and the piano, the piano can stay

I think you've really outdone yourself with this video. I LOVE the idea of trackless buggies that split off into the four rooms. What a really cool idea! Haunted Mansion is also my wife and I's favorite ride (but we're in NJ so WDW is our park of choice), so this would give us even more reason to ride it over and over again. :) Our son was born in February, and we're already planning a trip for possibly 2021-2022 to WDW and can't wait to introduce him to the ride...... Even if he'll be a little on the young side!

For the winchester inspired room, I’d love if the buggy “almost” falls out of the door to no where. Genius ideas, my dude.

Endless Staircase, ya say? Are the ghosts doing BLJ’s up there?

Rad video but he forgot the spoiler timestamp for Runaway Railway he said he’d put

The one thing I’d change is reverting the black widow bride’s appearance back to how she looked when the ride first opened. Where her only visible features were her glowing yellow eyes, a pulsing red light for her beating heart, and the ethereal blue wedding dress. All other features shrouded in pitch black shadows with the addition of a bloody axe in one hand and a candlestick in the other with a ghostly blue flame burning at the tip of the candle. I find this appearance to be far more striking and frightening compared to her current design. And it’s also symbolic of the loss of her humanity in becoming so evil in life that in death she is merely a shadow of who she was in life with very little resemblance of ever being human at all. Becoming closer to a demon in appearance because of her evil actions in life.

The Candle Man scene is an amazing idea and that artwork!!! wow! I love it. It would be horrifying to hear him groan and struggle to step around while splashing in himself, so great 👏🏼

Even though the Haunted Mansion isn't necessarily scary, I'm always comforted by the fact that there are people around me at all times while I'm on the ride even if I can't really see them because of the shape of the Doom Buggies. So,u a trackless system with much more space between cars would probably deter me to be uncomfortable *just* enough to maybe not enjoy the ride as much. But, I do see how a trackless system would work well and that it could be implemented in some way in a Haunted Mansion 2.0 some time in the future!

This would be so cool, especially the wax ghost!

Love the idea of using old concept ideas to refresh the mansion. I am always here for making my favorite ride longer and using lore from the ride itself! Also, I got a Magic Candle Co gift card for Christmas and I can't wait for them to come in!

One thing I would change about Madame Leota's room is the annoying musical instruments floating around on clearly visible strings, playing at an annoyingly loud decibel.

They should add taking a picture of people at the end of the ride like MK

If they ever do a new Disneyland in another country they should consult you.

I never noticed that the gargoyles spoke/whispered! I guess it’s always been too loud and I always left as soon as the doors open because I was too excited to get on the ride

I always “like” your videos but never comment. But I just wanted to tell you how much I enjoy your videos.

I want to get rid of Constance or upgrade her. I do miss the beating heart bride and the mystery surrounding her. However I wouldn’t mind Constance getting an upgrade instead of being a projection.

one thing i always thought would be neat was having a headless horseman takeover around halloween, and save the holiday takeover for when the rest of the park is festive. if not, he could always haunt the mr. toad ride, since that was his sister film, after all.

I’ve never been to Walt Disney World so I’ve never experienced their version of The Haunted Mansion, but the whole talking/singing gargoyles thing is very awesome and creepy

These ideas are absolutely amazing in my opinion, fell in love mostly with the candle man idea, the smell of wax burning, he groans aloud as he reaches a drippy hand at you..running off just at the last moment..oh that would be a chilling sight! But the ride would probably be down for years to do this all. Though I agree, a trackless ride system update would be much loved. I always also felt Hallway and Attic needed more, they felt a tad bare bones in a way, at least compared to the Ballroom and Graveyard, not to say the ride or atmosphere isn't greatly held together through the whole ride but if there was more I definitely wouldn't protest that.