What is better? Phantom Manor or Haunted Mansion?

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What is Better?

Phantom Manor
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29%
Haunted Mansion
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39%
impossible to choose
9
32%
 
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What is better? Phantom Manor or Haunted Mansion?

Post by MetalRage » Aug Thu 14, 2008 11:28 pm

I've never been to Disneyland so i haven't been on Phantom Manor. So i was wondering which is better? Haunted Mansion or Phantom Manor? I love the Haunted Manson!
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Post by js3901 » Aug Fri 15, 2008 7:37 am

the 2 attractions have different story lines, so they really can't be compared. it's like apples and oranges.
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Post by Cheshire Cat » Aug Fri 15, 2008 1:58 pm

I jumped the gun and voted for Phantom Manor, but then I continued to sit here and think about it for almost..well...for longer than I should have :wink: :lol:. There's things that are really cool in each of them, and things like the Graveyard and and the Underworld really can't be compared because they're meant for different audiences.

I thought about how I really love the dramatic soundtrack to Phantom Manor, but then again, I like the subtle music from the Haunted Mansion.

Of course there's also a big gap of technology advenacement between the contruction of the two.

At first it seems as if they're comparable, but they're really different enough to the point where they're almost completely different attractions.

It's not a replica like Small World, which can be compared easily. It's more like a cousin. :lol: . You can try to rate The Haunted Mansions, but you can't rate Phantom Manor, only explain the differences and similarities.

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Post by agingerbugg » Aug Fri 15, 2008 2:20 pm

So what are the differences? js3901 said they have different storylines, what is the story of Phantom Manor? I know the story of HM already.
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Post by Le Duc et La Duchesse » Oct Thu 30, 2008 4:00 am

I've chosen Phantom Manor beacause I'm a DLRP fan, but I think likejs3901, these are very different things and so difficult to compare... :wink: :mickey:
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Post by elizabethswann » Oct Thu 30, 2008 1:39 pm

I've only been to the Haunted Mansion but after seeing pictures of both the inside and outside of Phantom Manor, it makes me desperate to want to try it.

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Post by mindflipper » Sep Tue 08, 2009 1:28 pm

I've been on both, and I love both of them. I judge each separately on its own merits. I think they did an excellent job on Phantom Manor. Anyone know what Hong Kong Disneyland's Mystic Manor will be like?

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Post by alsirrap » Jan Sat 09, 2010 3:52 am

I have only seen online videos of Phantom Manor, but if nothing else, Paul Frees plus(szzz) the Haunted Mansion far above the Phantom Manor. I couldn't believe in theory that anyone could top Vincent Price for that kind of voice over, but it's truly no contest.

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Post by mindflipper » Jan Sat 09, 2010 1:11 pm

As js3901, they are different attractions - it is like comparing apples and oranges. The HM was no central story-line, it's a tour. The PM does have a background story-line to it.

The Vincent Price narration was dropped only after a few months for a very well done creepy French narration. One thing I love about the Phantom Manor is the incredible soundtrack score composed by John Debney (academy award nominated for his soundtrack, The Passion of the Christ). The short suite of music released on the DLP CD's over the year doesn't do it justice. Check out the soundofmagic.com for some of the tracks from this ride.

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Post by Millionaire2K » Mar Tue 30, 2010 8:43 pm

Never been on Phantom Manor so i'll say HM :lol: !

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Re: What is better? Phantom Manor or Haunted Mansion?

Post by jenko » Jul Mon 18, 2011 5:25 am

The thing I love about phantom manor is it actually has a really good storyline. And its not just limited to the ride either, the whole of frontierland shares the storyline and it carries on throughout all the attractions in the land. It comes together perfectly too. The only thing I dislike about phantom manor is it hasnt been given all the updates that the floridian version has been given recently.
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Re: What is better? Phantom Manor or Haunted Mansion?

Post by mindflipper » Jul Mon 18, 2011 9:28 am

Some of those upgrades don't fit with the PM, like Constance, the Black Widow Bride ghost in the attic. I think they could modify the new effects with the mirror at the end to work with the Phantom instead of the HHG at WDW...

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Re: What is better? Phantom Manor or Haunted Mansion?

Post by jenko » Jul Tue 19, 2011 6:41 am

One thing that always bugs me about PM and HM, in the lift scene (gallery), when the lift stops and you look up to see flashing light, arent you supposed to be able to see something? I can never make out what it is
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Re: What is better? Phantom Manor or Haunted Mansion?

Post by mindflipper » Jul Tue 19, 2011 9:27 am

jenko wrote:One thing that always bugs me about PM and HM, in the lift scene (gallery), when the lift stops and you look up to see flashing light, arent you supposed to be able to see something? I can never make out what it is
It's a person hanging from the rafters. In the HM, the Ghost Host informs you that there are no exits to the room, but "of course, there's always my way out." The joke being suicide was his way out. At the PM, the body hanging from rafters has been done so by the Phantom, meaning "my way out" is to have you dangling from a rope like his poor victim.

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Re: What is better? Phantom Manor or Haunted Mansion?

Post by Brian845 » Sep Wed 21, 2011 10:31 am

mindflipper wrote:
jenko wrote:One thing that always bugs me about PM and HM, in the lift scene (gallery), when the lift stops and you look up to see flashing light, arent you supposed to be able to see something? I can never make out what it is
It's a person hanging from the rafters. In the HM, the Ghost Host informs you that there are no exits to the room, but "of course, there's always my way out." The joke being suicide was his way out. At the PM, the body hanging from rafters has been done so by the Phantom, meaning "my way out" is to have you dangling from a rope like his poor victim.
In all my years of visiting Disneyworld I never figured this out until quite recently (within the past couple of years), and only by reading a bit more about the Haunted Mansion online. It's a very subtle effect.

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