Bring Mystic Manor to California Adventure!

[Dick O Dell]

We just got back from a one day trip to Disneyland yesterday. We didn't go to DCA because of time (coming from San Diego) and while I was in the park, I was thinking about comments someone made on this forum regarding how Ariel's Undersea Adventure will be a legitimate solid D+ ride DCA has beeen missing. I starting analyzing, as I walked around DL with my family, why I love that park so much. It's not just the E-tickets which get me going, and of course the personal touch from Walt doesn't hurt, but the really good D ticket rides are what give that park it's "meat". Most of the Disneyparks around the world, have E-tickets but how many of them have really really good D ticket attractions??

One of the most loved is Haunted Masion at DL and the Magic Kingdom. Mystic Manor is going to fill that niche at the Hong Kong park eventually, according to Disney. If AUA is one of those solid D tickets at DCA, I think expansion part deux should include a Mystic Manor counterpart stateside to Hong Kong's version. I think the area between TOT and Carsland would be perfect for it. Build out a nice hillside leading over into Carsland with MM right next door to TOT. I think the look of MM will compliment TOT's facade and act as a transition between Hollywoodland and the natural look of Carsland. Plus it will be one more solid D-ticket to fill out DCA as they continue to reimagine this park into a true Disney theme park.

I really would love to take an adventure through that magical mansion they want to build in Hong Kong and I believe they can bring it over to Hollywoodland and it would fit right in.

What are your thoughts? Am I off base here or do we have a great reason for Disney to maximize their investment in MM by using it in another park here in the U.S.??

Here is a proposed storyline:

Imagine something like the Magic Castle (in hollywood) The World Famous Hollywood Magic Castle.
Have you seen this thing?:
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It looks like it would fit in with this park very well, especiall after the renovation of Hollywoodland.

Possible Storyline: A formerly famous magician at the turn of the century, down on his luck after having his best illusions stolen, revamped and used by his archrival....in desperation to regain his noteriety and fame travels to an unknown island in the Carribean to find a sacred talisman. It is rumored to bring the possessor knowledge and power over the physical world we live in....enabling the ability to make things disappear and reapper, or the wearer himself to do the same. The magician decides he needs this talisman so he can claim the title of greatest magician and illusionist of all time.

The magician finds the talisman with the help of a local tracker, who the magician promises to take with him to America, once they have the idol in their possession. They find the talisman in the hands of a feared voodoo witch doctor, and through an elaborate scheme, they steal it and escape into the night. The witch doctor, enraged by this casts a spell and curses whomever possesses the stolen talisman and anything connected with it. By direct contact or through any means the talisman is used to give the bearer wealth, power, health, or any other benefit, a curse will be cast that person and all connections to him.

Unaware of the curse, the magician uses the talisman's power to create amazing and unheard of new illusions, causing him to enseat his rival as the greatest illusionist in all the world and thus aiding in his acquiring his vast wealth. With this newfound power, he builds the Manor and begins to travel around the world, collecting artifacts in order to possess the power any of them may contain. Some items are no more than mere figureheads and decorative while a rare few actually have a bit of power which he harnesses to supplement his skills in magic and illusion.

Eventually, the magician is inquired to invest in a hotel which is to be built down the hill from his mansion. He eventually decides to do so, but on the condition of anonymity which is granted. The hotel is very successful until that fateful night when tragedy struck....and the Hollywood Tower Hotel, becomes the Hollywood Tower of Terror...no one dared stay within it's walls again.

Since the magician's fame, wealth, the manor and the Hotel were obtained by possession of this talisman, they all become cursed by it....the Magician mysteriously disappeared and his manor fell into disrepair. Years later his great nephew takes over the house and in order to afford the upkeep, he turns it into a museum. Over the years, strange occurances have been reported at the manor but it remains open to daring guests who bravely or foolishly continue to visit the grounds to see for themselves what exists within the walls of the house on the hill and run the risk of falling prey to the curse of the talisman themselves...

[Wreckless Abrandon]

I'm all for it! Even though Mystic Manor might be considered too similar to some as the Haunted Mansion, DLR needs a track-less attraction considering we got ripped off with Pooh Bear's Track-less Design... and not to mention even Monster's Inc with the interactive flash light aspect.

Oh and a huge bonus would be if the Danny Elfman musical score is true!

[Dick O Dell]

Danny Elfman is rumoured to be doing the music for MM??

[Dustysage]

This idea has come up a few times, I think that is because it makes a lot of sense. A version of Mystic Manor in Paradise Pier could be very cool. Especially if they make it different enough from Disneyland's Haunted Mansion.

[k_peek_2000]

Danny Elfman is rumoured to be doing the music for MM??

Not rumored. Confirmed. Disney released a press video of Danny meeting with imagineers and being toured around the models and concept art. He is apperently a huge Disneyland Haunted Mansion fan (like pretty much every other person in Hollywood).

It would be nice to have a variation of Mystic Manor, but not exact. Maybe something like Mystic Manor but themed to the Winchester Mansion or something similar that would fit the Victorian Seaside theme.

Oh, and change the name. The last thing we need is ANOTHER "MM" acronym in Paradise Pier.

[Sing*Along*Song]

Ah, I would love it if MM came to the California parks.....

And with all the technology they have nowadays, it would be a scream!

[DLRaddict]

I wish they would take the concept and ride system and put it in a haunted funhouse instead. There by eliminating all similarities to the Haunted Mansion across the Esplanade.

[LangenFox]

No thank you! We already have the original Haunted Mansion.

We don't need another manor/mansion in the Disneyland Resort. Also, Mystic Manor won't be DCA's Haunted Mansion. The theme won't fit Paradise Pier.

[calsig31]

I'm sorry, I don't know too much about the ride. How is this different than Haunted Mansion?

[DLRaddict]

I'm sorry, I don't know too much about the ride. How is this different than Haunted Mansion?

Well, it isn't a ghost story, it is actually a fantasy story. It is where an explorer has collected artifacts from all over the world and brought them to his house, then his monkey sets off something (I don't remember what) and everything in the house comes to life.

[MistaDee]

A clone would not fit the theme terribly well. It would fit california because it is very reminiscent of the Carson Mansion. In its current form I could have seen MM go in where the Little Mermaid did because it would fit the victorian motif well. However the story would not be a good fit.

Instead I think they should use the effects and animatronics as well as the ride system that they've already done the R and D for and transfer the theme more towards a creepy funhouse or haunted circus of some kind. All different skinned AAs and sets but with the same layout and mechanics. That way you get a discounted-unique E ticket

[Wreckless Abrandon]

I'm sorry, I don't know too much about the ride. How is this different than Haunted Mansion?

For starters, it uses the trackless technology (or a variation?) that Winnie the Pooh uses in Japan.

And yes, this may be similar to Haunted Mansion, but it's more of a combination of the Enchanted Tiki Room, the Haunted Mansion, and Indiana Jones. And why not have similar attractions? We have Astro Blasters/ Toy Story Mania... both shooting arcades. Space Mountain/ California Screamin/ Matterhorn... all coasters with varying themes. Pirates/ Splash Mountain/ IASW... all flume rides with varying thrill levels. Haunted Mansion/ Little Mermaid... both use a Doom Buggy/ Clam Shell design.

Opening in 2013, Mystic Manor's story takes place in the early 1900's as a tour of an artifact museum. It comes alive when a little monkey opens an enchanted music box.

Different artifacts come to life fighting each other, attacking the monkey, cannons fire at the guests, scarab beetles and mummies reach for guests, a painting of a Nordic god comes to life "chilling" guests, a two story tiki statue spews lava cooking guests, blow darts fly across, and a vortex spins guests around each other.

Drastically different than Haunted Mansion as the guest is more of a participant than ever throughout the attraction.

Make it a 1920's museum and we'd have a hit!

[seafaring_ghost]

This idea has come up a few times, I think that is because it makes a lot of sense. A version of Mystic Manor in Paradise Pier could be very cool. Especially if they make it different enough from Disneyland's Haunted Mansion.

Perhaps something in the line of a museum of strange and odd things on a pier.... you know like Rolly Crump's Museum of the Weird.

[SoCalFan]

I've heard this idea tossed around many times and I fully support a ride like Mystic Manor coming to DCA. The actual look of HKDL's mansion would fit perfect in the pier but I actually think I like your idea better. Have it serve as some type of transition from the art deco Hollywood to the more natural desert. You could definitely have fun playing with that...movies film out here in the desert all the time. You can definitely have a ride with movie elements, Native American myths, desert/Western folklore that is done in the same way Mystic Manor is done. I would really love this to go between Carsland and HL now lol right past the last stop on the trolley. Another cool place would be in Pacific Wharf (if room permitted).

[DLRaddict]

All different skinned AAs and sets but with the same layout and mechanics. That way you get a discounted-unique E ticket

Then you would get all these people on here who would call that cheap and un-disney like.