About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 146. Chapters: Haunted Mansion, Fantasmic!, The Great Movie Ride, It's a Small World, Pirates of the Caribbean (attraction), Jungle Cruise, The Timekeeper, Indiana Jones Adventure: Temple of the Forbidden Eye, Star Tours: The Adventures Continue, Spaceship Earth (Epcot), Carousel of Progress, Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln, Splash Mountain, Big Thunder Mountain Railroad, Phantom Manor, Country Bear Jamboree, Journey into Imagination with Figment, Luxo Jr., Haunted Mansion Holiday, The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (attraction), Submarine Voyage, Toy Story Midway Mania!, The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Undersea Adventure, The Seas with Nemo & Friends, The Hall of Presidents, Matterhorn Bobsleds, Universe of Energy, ExtraTERRORestrial Alien Encounter, Indiana Jones Adventure: Temple of the Crystal Skull, Walt Disney's Parade of Dreams, Enchanted Tiki Room, Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage, Disney's Once Upon a Dream Parade, Peter Pan's Flight, America Sings, Dinosaur (Disney's Animal Kingdom), Expedition Everest, Living with the Land, Western River Expedition, It's Tough to Be a Bug!, Muppet*Vision 3D, The Enchanted Tiki Room (Under New Management), World of Motion, Innoventions (Disneyland), The Barnstormer. Excerpt: The Haunted Mansion is a dark ride located at Disneyland, the Magic Kingdom (Walt Disney World), and Tokyo Disneyland. Phantom Manor, a significantly re-imagined version of The Haunted Mansion, is located exclusively in Disneyland Paris. Each incarnation of the attraction features a ride-through tour of a haunted house in Omnimover vehicles called "Doom Buggies," preceded by a walk-through show in the queue. The attraction showcases a number of age-old tricks, advanced special effects, and spectral Audio-Animatronics. The Hall Of Portraits which guests pass through after they step off the elevatorEntering the queuing area through a pair of ornate gates, guests find themselves in the mansion's well-tended gardens and courtyards. The queuing path leads guests past a pet cemetery, a mausoleum with pun names, and a white carriage hearse led by an invisible horse. The path leads guests onto the porch, where they are led into the mansion's foyer by somber house servants. At the foyer, the Ghost Host (voiced by Paul Frees) welcomes the guests as the Cast Members usher them into the first room: an octagonal portrait gallery. The door slides closed and the tour begins. As the Ghost Host taunts his guests, the room begins to "stretch." The portraits on the walls elongate, revealing the fates of previous guests as fallows: a bearded gentleman holding a document wearing only his undergarments from the waist down and standing atop a lit keg of dynamite, a pretty young lady holding a parasol balancing on a fraying tightrope above the gaping jaws of an alligator, Constance Hatchaway holding a rose while sitting atop a tall gravestone, at the bottom of which is a stone bust of her husband George with a hatchet embedded in his head and a man in a bowler hat sitting on the shoulders of another man, who sits on the shoulders of a third man who is waist-deep in quicksand. ..".And consider this dismaying observation: this chamber has no windows and no doors... which offers you this chill
