Walt Disney World Haunted Mansion Full 4K Ride Though

Welcome foolish mortals, to JoeDarthmaz's 4K Ride-through video of Walt Disney World's Haunted Mansion. This video features 4K quality video as well as enhanced audio to heighten the experience of the classic Disney attraction.

The Haunted Mansion has always been one of my absolute favorite attractions and I have waited for years until I was able to film a high quality recording of this classic, before bringing it to the channel. Many hours went into the editing of this video and I hope that it will make you feel like you were transported right into a doom buggy ride vehicle to enjoy one of the best Disney attractions ever created.

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Haunted Mansion Stretching Room Pre-Show

Welcome foolish mortals! There are few Disney attraction pre-shows as classic and iconic as the Haunted Mansion "stretching room."  Whether it is the gloriously creepy tones of the score, the skin crawl-inducing yet buttery voice of the ghost host, or the ingenious physical transformation of the wall portraits and the stretching room itself, this pre-show set the bar high over fifty years ago when and the attraction opened in 1971.

Join Joe Darthmaz for a trip into the stretching room of the Haunted Mansion where there are no windows and no doors and where we are all faced with this chilling challenge...to find a way out!

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darthmaz314 Disney Snapshot of the Day - The Haunted Mansion Signpost

The darthmaz314 Disney Snapshot of the Day tribute to Halloween continues with a close-up look at the signpost for Disney's classic attraction, Haunted Mansion. The snake entwined demonic looking face at the top seems a little "unDisney," but that is just one aspect of what makes it great.

The Haunted Mansion Signpost
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darthmaz314 Disney Snapshot of the Day - A Disney Hidden Gem - Mr. Toad in The Haunted Mansion's Pet Cemetery

Yesterday's darthmaz314 Disney Snapshot of the day focused on the Haunted Mansion's Pet Cemetery and in that post, we alluded to a "a former Magic Kingdom tenant, now residing" there. Set far to the back and left of the Pet Cemetery, one can see a statue of Mr. Toad, the star of the now closed Magic Kingdom attraction, Mr. Toad's Wild Ride. This wild and wacky dark ride was a Walt Disney World opening day attraction and originated and continues to operate at Disneyland in California. Based on the Disney film, The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad, it took guests on a wacky car ride through England, led by your host Thaddeus J. Toad, Esq., and believe it or not, made a quick visit to of all places... a Disneyfied version of hell!

In 1997, Mr. Toad's ride had come to an end and Disney decided to replace the attraction with The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, which currently operates in its place. Mr. Toad's Wild Ride closed on September 7, 1997, but not before a grassroots campaign by "toadies" (big fans of the ride) who protested the attraction's closure and all but chained themselves to it to prevent it from going away forever. Although Disney snatched Mr. Toad away in favor of the more popular and mainstream Pooh and friends, it did leave subtle and hidden tributes to Mr. Toad and his friends throughout the Magic Kingdom.

One of these tributes is the Mr. Toad statue that resides fittingly, although a little morbidly, in the Pet Cemetery. So the next time you exit The Haunted Mansion, glance to your left as you walk through the exit queue and stop to pay your respects to the departed pets of the Mansion and the host of a departed attraction...Mr. Toad. 

Mr. Toad Statue in The Haunted Mansion Pet Cemetery
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For more information about Mr. Toad's Wild Ride at the Magic Kingdom and Disneyland, check out the links below.

http://allears.net/tp/mk/toad.htm

http://www.yesterland.com/mrtoad.html

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darthmaz314 Disney Snapshot of the Day - The Haunted Mansion Pet Cemetery

Halloween season marches on at Walt Disney World and so does darthmaz314's nod to Halloween. The Haunted Mansion is known as home to 999 happy haunts, all humans who have passed into the spirit world. But did you know that outside the mansion is also the haunted home to the pets of the happy haunts? 

darthmaz314's Disney Snapshot of the Day spotlights the Haunted Mansion's Pet Cemetery, located on the right of the attraction building along the exit queue. Next time your there, be sure to pay your respects to the pets of the spirit world. And be sure to check back for our next post, another darthmaz314 Hidden Disney Gems piece, which highlights a hidden tribute to a former Magic Kingdom tenant, now residing in the mansion's Pet Cemetery. 

The Pet Cemetery at Walt Disney World's Haunted Mansion
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darthmaz314 Disney Snapshot of the Day - The Ominous "Face" of Walt Disney World's Haunted Mansion

Today's Disney Snapshot of the Day shines an eerie spotlight on the Haunted Mansion as it appears during nights of the Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween Party. The creepy tint of the party lights bathe the mansion in an eerie glow that is unique to the Halloween season at the Magic Kingdom. 

Walt Disney World's Haunted Mansion - courtesy darthmaz314.com

There are so many unique facets of the mansion, most of which go unnoticed by the casual guest. Case in point, the "Haunted Mansion Face," which is highlighted below. Notice how the illuminated symmetrical openings above the gated solarium windows give the below pictured portion of the mansion the appearance of a masked face. The mansion seems to ominously glare at you from a distance, almost daring you to come closer and experience all 999 happy haunts that dwell within. Welcome foolish mortals to the Haunted Mansion...   

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darthmaz314 Disney Video Featurette - The Haunted Mansion "Stretching Room" Pre-Show

Our last post was a Disney Snapshot of the Day featuring the Haunted Mansion Stretching Room Ceiling. In this post, we bring you a video of the entire "stretching room" pre-show experience. Enjoy "foolish mortals!'

darthmaz314's video of the Haunted Mansion 

"Stretching Room" pre-show

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iOaKy_jBx0 

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darthmaz314 Disney Snapshot of the Day - The Ceiling of the Haunted Mansion Stretching Room

On September 15th, the first Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Party of 2015 was held at Walt Disney World’s Magic Kingdom park. In honor of this official start of Disney World’s Halloween season, darthmaz314 brings you the first in a series of Disney Snapshots of the Day celebrating Halloween and all things eerie and creepy at Disney. Today’s snapshot features Disney’s ghoulish guilty pleasure, the timeless classic, the Haunted Mansion. Can you guess what this image is?

Haunted Mansion Stretching Room Ceiling - courtesy darthmaz314.com

It is one of many things that causes guests to look up during their visits to the Magic Kingdom...in this case, straight up! It is none other than the ceiling of the infamous Mansion "stretching room” pre-show area.

Any “foolish mortals” that have visited the mansion know that their first stop after walking through the interactive queue is the so-called “stretching room.” There, “bodies” are asked by the morbidly dreary Mansion employee cast members to stand in the “dead center” of the room, away from the walls just before they are sealed in the octagonal shaped chamber. They are then greeted by the infamous ghost host, legendary voice actor Paul Frees, who points out not only the portraits that adorn the walls of chamber, but the very ominous and uniquely strange feature of the room that they currently occupy…it is “stretching” before their very eyes. Or is it?Another frightening feature of the room, as pointed out by your humble disembodied host, is that it has no windows and no doors. The challenge then presented to the “bodies” occupying the room is to “find a way out!”

Finally, the host and narrator generously suggests that there is always “his way out,” a line punctuated by a crash of lightning and a snuffing out of the room’s already dim lighting, forcing all to look up to the ceiling (pictured above,) which has disappeared completely and been replaced by a skeletal figure hanging from a noose high above their heads. A blood-curdling scream accompanied by a thunderous crash yanks the occupants of the stretching room back into a more familiar reality as the lights and the ceiling return to view and guests are then herded toward the attractions loading area.

The stretching room is only part of the now legendary Haunted Mansion, which has a presence at every Disney park worldwide. For the complete stretching room experience, check out the video in our next post.

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darthmaz314 Disney Snapshot of the Day - A Spirit Materializes by the Haunted Hearse Outside Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom

Our Disney Snapshot of the Day today forces you to make a choice. Is the photo below a camera mishap or a once in a lifetime photo that captures the supernatural as it makes itself know to the world of the living? Has one of the "Happy Haunts" of the mansion been caught on camera as it whisks away from the hearse parked outside the building after a jaunt through the world of the living? Has one of the "grim grinning ghosts" actually "materialized?" darthmaz314 lets you make the choice.

Haunted Hearse Outside Walt Disney World's Haunted Mansion

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