Is The Haunted Mansion a World Class Attraction? (with Offhand Disney) • FOR YOUR AMUSEMENT 

Former WDW Cast Member and I did a backstage tour of this ride. My favorite fun fact is that in the ballroom, essentially impossible to see on the ride, there's a book of Florida tax laws because the only things certain in life are death and taxes

This is a crossover I never expected to see!! Let's go Offhand Disney!! So many good boys

My dad is an Imagineer and there was a period of like a month when I was a kid where we had a Madame Leota mock up head and ball in the back seat of his car when he was coordinating that project.

Me yelling at the screen when Ryan questions Dallin's love for Living With the Land "HAVE YOU NEVER WATCHED ANY OF HIS VIDEOS?!"

Another reason that they have those raven animatronics is because some of them are actually cameras, like the one mentioned in the ride from the attic to the graveyard.

Love Offhand Disney! So glad you’re having Dallin on the podcast (especially on Haunted Mansion)!

I remember once riding this in Magic Kingdom and the ride stopped for a few minutes as we were looking down on the ballroom scene. It's one of the best places for that to happen as you get to fully look around and see all the different things happening.

Woah wasn’t expecting to see Offhand around these parts but I’m glad y’all had him on! Haunted Mansion is probably the best, most complete overall attraction in the parks, imo, and I love learning more about it. If y’all haven’t already looked, Offhand has a Halloween video that is about four hours of all of times he has talked about the mansion and it is really a great watch, especially tonight on Halloween. Highly encourage you check his channel out if you haven’t already and like stuff like this!

My youtube worlds are colliding! I rode a doombuggy with Offhand during the Haunted Mansion 50th event and I saw Ryan and Shane live in Philly last year during their tour.

DALLIN!! YESS!!! The crossover I never saw coming...so hyped for this episode!

This is the crossover I never knew I needed 😍 I love both Offhand Disney and Watcher and y’all knocked it out of the park! Dallin was the perfect guest for this attraction.

Didn't expect to see Dallin on here but you can't have a haunted mansion podcast without Mr foolish mortals himself

I am a huge HM fan and visited Tokyo Disneyland this past July. The inside of the Mansion is pretty much identical to MK's original HM. It still has the neon spiders instead of the staircase and the original bride. The outside of the house is a little different, it also has a carriage house.

NO WAY, LETS GOOOOO DALLIN! Loving this new podcast and Offhand Disney!!

loved seeing dallin on here! if/when you guys do living with the land, PLEASE bring him back. he’s the perfect contender to fight for it’s honor

i went to disneyland recently for halloween and waited almost 2hrs for this ride. it was worth it for the 'nightmare before christmas' decorations and animations and i was only on my phone in queue to take pictures of everything.

Can’t believe my favorite channels are crossing over! Please please PLEASE invite Dallin back when you cover Pirates so we can hear him cover the lore of Jean Lefitte!

Bro seeing you guys nerd out like this is so fucking good, you guys have so much passion for this and I love it

That “Haunted Mansion was once workshopped to be a water ride” tidbit is just that monster mansion ride from that one Six Flags park. My theory is someone knows that there is creative connective tissue between the two (I don’t remember the details but I wanna say some Imagineers worked with Six Flags) and wherever he got that fact the people who wrote it just overestimated how much the Disney crew brought over to Six Flags with them.

my absolute favorite collab, i just know i will be rewatching this ALL the time

Have the boys thought about how by doing this scorecard they’re also lowkey making a ranking of these rides? I’ll be interested to see what rides end up getting the highest scores

the crossover i would’ve NEVER expected BUT ALSO THE BEST CROSSOVER

I don't even love Haunted Mansion, especially the overlay, but it is ALWAYS on my must-do list because it's just so iconic and nostalgic, and the lore is so rich. One of my first memories of it is going on it when we were the only ones in the stretching room and that just made it more terrifying as a kid 😂

Oh, the PERFECT crossover for this season!!

Great team-up!

I like that it's allowed to be shockingly dark but also fun and light. The entire ride if you're on it for the first time, you're almost 99% certain you will get murdered until it turns out the ghosts are just drunk 60's beatnik guys with no interest in you.

Can't believe no one brought up Monster Mansion at Six Flags when Ryan mentioned the rumor that Haunted Mansion was intended to be a boat ride. It was actually designed by ex-Disney Imagineers, so it feels like a non-canonical version of the Disney ride.

It's interesting to me, as someone who loves amusement parks, that I'm not a huge fan of Disney. I don't know if it stems from the fact that as a child in the 80's everything was broken when I visited Disney World. I was 6 or 7 years old when we went for the first time. I only have vague memories. But I remember the stretching room actually being the only part of the Haunted Mansion that freaked me out and it was mainly because it gave me a bit of motion sickness. I remember liking the haunted mansion mainly because it didn't break down. 😂. There were so many rides not working while we were there. The ones that did work broke down. We had to be taken out of the peter pan ride by ladders. And we got stuck multiple times in It's A Small World. Which was the worst ride to get stuck on with that god awful song. We waited forever to ride Space Mountain only to have it shut down just as we were about to get on. As a rollercoaster lover Disney was a disappointment to me. At the time they only had Big Thunder Mountain and Space Mountain neither of which were super impressive. Although not being able to see where you're going in Space Mountain gave it a bit more of an edge. We went back when I was a teenager and I remember thinking everything was either made for little kids or adults I think I was a bit jaded at that point. 🤣 I hope to go back with my nieces someday as they love Disney and have been a few times. We're thinking about planning a west coast trip and hitting up Disneyland this summer.

Ryan still actively trying to make Twix happen every chance he gets. Love the Enchanted Tiki Room set!

OFFHAND DISNEY?!?! I never would've expected this 😭

this podcast makes me so happy. I've always loved theme parks and like rides, but hearing people who know so much talk about it is so interesting 😊

This is an INSANE colab holy shit this is amazing

The only ride I went on twice at Disney World, once during the day and once at night during the Not So Scary event. Also went on the Nightmare version at Disneyland. Absolute legend of a ride!

I used to be so scared of the tombstone jumpers, but then I found out that they only pop up at breaks in the song and it became so much easier to predict.

THIS IS MY ROMAN EMPIRE (good to see you Dallin!!)

Ok, Offhand Disney guy sounds like he's Shane's little brother or cousin. I keep having to look back at the screen and I'm surprised by not Shane.

You should have shown an top view of haunted mansion, the mansion we all see is so small, and the rest is a giant warehouse, it’s kind of funny to see

I agree that the guests die by falling out the attic window into the graveyard. That’s why the caretaker and his dog are scared looking at all of us as we pass him. We’ve just become ghosts. As for the queue, my dad raised my brother and me on puns, so mine was the only family I’ve known that could stand in the line and genuinely laugh at the tombstone puns.

This is the perfect Halloween episode. Thank you

I bet the butterflies in the back were Shane’s idea

I’m really enjoying the For Your Amusement podcast!

Yay offhand Disney!

Note on the moms on phones - keep in mind it’s typically the moms organising everything. Booking the next ride on the Genie +, putting in a mobile order or reserving lunch, etc…it really takes away from the overall experience but that’s the system for now. :/ Also, APH here. HM is my favourite ride but no way I’d wait 60 minutes.

Now I can't wait for the Living With the Land episode

This is a crossover from my dreams!!! Love you guys!

i remember seeing offhand in the title a month ago and saying “i have to wait to watch this bc this crossover goes too hard” and now here i am. i love this pod

DALLIN! So cool to see him featured!

So far this one is my favorite!! There’s something about the Haunted Mansh…adding it to my continuous rewatch list 😅

This was such a good episode! Not to be biased cause Haunted Mansion is my favorite but also including Dallian was a perfect addition for this episode.

Going through the Haunted Mansion exhibit before Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln and seeing another nod to Greek mythology with Daphne from the story of Daphne and Apollo was an amazing experience

I’m so happy to see more content from Watcher! You guys are all my comfort entertainment. I put it on in the background and rewatch old videos all the time ❤

Fun episode, guys!

petition to bring Dallin back to defend Living with the Land please

awesome episode, no one better to talk about Haunted Mansion with!

OMG DALLIN!!!!!!!! So excited for this one!!!!

So psyched to see Dallin on here!

Definitely not a crossover I expected but am very happy to see!!!

I NEED Dallin to come back and fight for Living with the Land

THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT I NEEDED OH MY GOD HOW DID I NOT SEE THIS EARLIER

I went on the Snow white ride at Magic Kingdom when I was 7 years old. They forgot to turn the lights on so I rode it in the pitch black for the first time with all the sounds..it was terrifying. When it was over they apologized and sent us through again the proper way and it was even scarier seeing all the visuals.

This is the most wildly unexpected cross over I’m stoked

15:23 if u want to see a ride encapsulate that concept look at monster mansion at six flags over georgia. iirc a guy who worked on things like the country bear jamboree was comissioned to help design and build a ride at the beginning of the 80s for six flags to replace their old brer rabbit dark ride. they concocted the theme of a flooded georgia plantation house that has been occupied by monsters in the wake of its abandonment. its the most technically impressive non disney dark ride of the era and it traumatized many a child in the atl area. 107 animatronics, some of which standing 13 feet tall, and they manufactured a unique fur texture that was mold resistant so they could have so many furry characters on a water ride

Haunted Mansion is super fun, and it was especially fun riding it with my definitely-future-theater-kid nephew. He was LIVING in that mansion.

Crossover i never expected but SO happy for it!!!!!

This is my niche - y’all made this just for me 😭

the imagineer who finally pulled off the hatbox ghost effect is daniel joseph!! he worked on it in his garage during his lunch breaks at work!!

Omg best guest ever

What an insane crossover!!!

the collab I never expected omg

I didn't know if falling out of the attic is canon for the Haunted Mansion, but I love that they made it canon Phantom Manor in Paris.

Damn. Dallin slammin the KS moms lol

IM SCREAMING. MY TWO FAVORITE RU-vid CHANNELS COMBINED????

The first time I went on it I was in my 20's and the Ballrooom blew my mind. I didn't know peppers ghost trick then, but even knowing it now it holds up. Amazing.

Offhand Disney! Offhand Disney! Offhand Disney! Offhand Disney!

The minute FYA was announced, I started hoping you'd have Dallin as a guest! Love to see it!

30min seems low for Haunted Mansion. I feel like I always see it around 45 these days. It moves but when you are stuck in those switch backs it is BRUTAL.

Just got back from DisneyWorld and my Dad randomly mentions when we got there that his cousin worked on The Haunted Mansion, apparently he worked on the lighting!

🔥🔥🔥Broooooooo this is like to of my fav worlds colliding! 🔥🔥🔥🔥

this is MY roman empire

Just watched Offhand Disney's exhaustive deep dive into every illusion in the Haunted Mansion (which was excellent!) and so had to come re-re-re-watch this episode :D

I had thought that the Haunted Mansion had an early iteration of projection mapping for the Madam Leota figured head. So I thought it would be a pass for the Tony Stark test

Here for the peoplemover.

love this podcast pls keep doing it

As a fan of both my heart is so happy

I LOVE that Vincent Price does the opening voice over in Paris!

Gotta love a guy who doesnt skip leg work day

I’m a Disneylander. I live in OC, have the Magic Key for Disneyland. Finally went to Orlando for the 2nd time ever earlier this summer to Disney (and Universal). Our Haunted Mansion is a fantastic ride, but not quite world class, even with the Nightmare Before Christmas theming. I can honestly say that Haunted Mansion at Magic Kingdom is HANDS DOWN a world class attraction! Easily!

Honestly, surprised they didnt mention or talk about the singing busts in the graveyard, and how they have evolved those.

Please come back for living with the land!

Living with the Land is unironically my moms favorite ride of all time

I would 100% buy a little leota for the top of my tree 😂

One time that my family and our family friends went to dland and since i dont like rollercoasters all some of us did was just loop through haunted manch over and over again

Omg Dallin! The best guest for a Haunted Mansion episode ofc

ive never been more excited for a podcast

They say Shane sneaks onto the Haunted Mansion with the Hitchiker Ghosts every full moon.

Great show, Fresh baked brought me here. Awesome convo and future trivia winner here lol . Thx again. Ps. Get provost park pass on here you'd guys have a great talk

Love you guys great work

Kinda surprised that you guys didn't mention that the actual design was based off of the Harry Packer Mansion in Jim Thorpe, PA

pls bring Dallin back for living with the land😭😭🙏🏼

Can't wait to see what you all have to say about Tower of Terror whenever that one comes around. If you ever need an expert on the ride, I'm your girl.