Disneyland's Haunted Mansion Holiday gets a longer run into 2023

TP20001 day ago

Yes, exactly my thought! When I was watching the incredible HD video ride-thrus and it got to the Rapunzel loading area and... Oh, hell! It's another boat ride?!? 🤣 Oh, you should go! Especially currently where the exchange rates are so favorable to Americans and our greenbacks. You might be surprised how easy a week's trip to Tokyo can be. My thrice-cancelled Japan trips from 2020-2022 has now morphed into a 2025 trip for the World's Fair in Osaka, and I've got a few other trips planned for this July-October, but it's sooooo tempting when you see what the exchange rates and costs are like now in Japan in '24. o_O

eddie1041 day ago

I don’t believe Tokyo has any more expansion space? So they had a good idea to build people eaters with decent capacity to help eat up crowds.

truecoat1 day ago

Having 3 of the 4 be boat rides is great for capacity but they feel so similar. I would have liked to see a variety but it doesn't matter to me as I'll probably never go.

TP20001 day ago

Me too. But then I'm not the target audience for these Fantasyland-style rides, so I had to temper my thoughts a bit. It appears that the Frozen ride would be considered an E Ticket, if only just barely because the boats have lapbars for the mild Pirates-style drops. Tokyo's version looks clearly superior to the Norway Pavilion version in Florida. I would classify Peter Pan and the Rapunzel rides as solid D Tickets. Some impressive and nifty technology on both, but then it's 2024 and in this future year we were supposed to have flying cars and Pan Am flying us to the moon, so the least we can expect is a visually impressive D Ticket ride. The Tinkerbell spinning outdoor thing was interesting. It reminded me of a better version of Heimlich's Chew Chew Train if TDA actually spent some money on it. Overall though, I was most impressed by the queues for all four rides and their aesthetics. You could only do that in Japan though, where their monolithic culture allows them that luxury. If they built a queue like that in the USA, it would be tagged up and vandalized faster than you can say "8th Grade Field Trip". But it's telling that is what $2 Billion in park expansion just bought them. I wonder if the YouTube crowd is going to be disappointed when they see what $2 Billion buys Anaheim spread over 10 years as part of DisneylandForward. They'll probably still claim it's all AMAAAAAZING, but I think some folks are going to be underwhelmed by what shows up in Anaheim's two parks by 2035. ;)

truecoat1 day ago

I was underwhelmed.

Disney Analyst3 days ago

Last night in the city.

Rich T3 days ago

Thank you. Yes. Well, that and add a few measley words actually describing what it is…

Rich T3 days ago

In contrast to what I experience on DL’s current website, most restaurant web sites I visit do give me all the info I need about an item up front without my having to click through to another page. Including Universal Orlando’s Restaurant app entries (There are things that bother me about Universal’s app, but it does give me enough info about individual rides and eateries, efficiently presented on one page.) Totally agree there are big differences between designing menus and brochures for screens vs print. I’m saying Disney can do better. I’ve seen better. And, to be clear, I’m not aiming my criticisms at the people creating the pages; Disney’s app and websites work well and are visually pleasing. The site creators are just doing what Disney requests. and I personally think Disney—the corporation—in a lot of areas, currently has their priorities backwards.

Communicora4 days ago

That is an improvement. I'd argue it should also have a short description above the tags.

Communicora4 days ago

You are going to the expo?!?!! I went to the Asahi Expo in 2005 and I'm trying to figure out if I can get back there for Osaka's.

waltography4 days ago

Can't believe I missed the discussion on UX lessons related to information architecture! So disappointed. 😂 Totally agree on all counts - I'm not saying Disney's great at organizing information on their sites and apps, but the way they present their attractions is inoffensive in my eyes. Perhaps they could move the tags to below the attraction and add them to pillboxes to make it clear they're tags for the ride:

MoonRakerSCM4 days ago

8:00pm- "Come over now, we're going north" 12:00am in Panamint Valley- That was a quick 300 miles. I'm tired.

Nland3164 days ago

I’d much rather see an expanded version of the Tangled ride versus seeing anything Frozen related here at DLR. It feels like the sleeper hit of the FS expansion out of all of the new additions.

lazyboy97o4 days ago

Except menus are organized in just the way you claim they are not. If there are only a few entree choices they’ll all be together, but they’re still listed separately from the appetizers and dessert. If there are many entrees then they get sorted groups into different categories like sandwiches or seafood. They often do have symbols to denote up front information such as an item being vegetarian. Sometimes there even different physical menus for drinks, specials, dessert and/or children. But most importantly, how you design a webpage that has to work on a interactive screen that could be anywhere from 3” wide or 12” wide is completely different from how you design for a printed product.