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Haunted Mansion reviews

Theme Park Insider readers offer their ratings and reviews for Haunted Mansion, a dark ride in New Orleans Square at Disneyland.

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Posted: September 21, 2008

Enter through the front porch of this antebellum mansion, then descend below ground via the stretching portrait room to waiting doom buggies below for a musical journey through the world's most famous haunted house.
This ride changes every Christmas to be themed after "Nightmare before Christmas" and is not at all the same. It has blacklights and more cartoon like.

Trivia spoilers: In Disneyland's Mansion you descend in the stretch room. In Walt Disney World's Mansion though, you remain still while the ceiling rises above you. The head in the crystal ball (the face is of Disney Imagineer Leota Toombs and the voice is of Cinderella's wicked stepmother, Eleanor Audley) and the ghosts in the ballroom are not holograms. Look for the "hidden Mickey" (Mickey's head) on the ballroom table made by a plate and two saucers, and in the white robe of the phantom in the mausoleum as you leave the graveyard scene. The face and voice of the little woman at the end is also that of Leota Toombs. During the Haunted Mansion Holiday make-over of the Mansion, the real daughter of Leota Toombs replaced her in the crystal ball.

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69 votes, so far

One of the few rides in Disneyland that has a better clone in Florida. Don't be discouraged; it's still jam-packed with amazing effects. Even if you visit during Christmas, crowds aren't a problem as this loads insanely fast. Not to be missed, 8/10. - Alex Taphorn

oh my how I love the Haunted Mansion, it has one of the best effects in the park and the music just like pirates, its a small world and spalsh mountain its very catchy this ride used to scare me when i nwas little but it will always hold a special place in my heart - daniel reyes

It's OK I guess, the first part is kind of fun and I would certainly do it if my group wanted to go on, but I would probably skip it if I didn't have much time and wanted to do my the more thrilling rides in the park. - Alicia Pearce

The exterior is awesome, but compared to the WDW version, the whole interior was lack luster. - Skipper Adam

Nightmare Before Christmas was indeed better but still fun. This one I went on with my younger cousin and it was fun. We really enjoyed the sfx, they were incredible! - Teddy D.

love the Nightmare before Christmas version even more than the original. 10/10 - Will Chilcote

HIGHLY reccommend this ride! the effects on this ride are AMAZING!!! i love this ride! one of the best rides. truly amazing. - N O

When I was five, I hated this so much because it freked me out - Steven D

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