Haunted Mansion
- Disneyland - The Haunted Mansion (1969)
- Disney World - The Haunted Mansion (1971)
- Tokyo Disneyland - The Haunted Mansion (1983)
- Hong Kong Disneyland - Mystic Manor (2013)
- Disneyland Paris - Phantom Manor (1992)
History of the Haunted Mansion
Ride System
Guests take an elevator (disguised as a stretching room) down into the bowels of the Haunted Mansion, and after walking through a gallery, they use a moving walkway to take a seat in a 'Omnimover' which travels around the attraction on a track, hidden from view. Unlike earlier ghost trains, the Omnimovers run on a continuous track. Due to the darkness, and very careful design of the ride vehicles, guests aren't aware of each other.
- OmniMover – Patented by Disney and first used on the Haunted Mansion Links: 1968 Patent
The OmniMover cars in the Haunted Mansion are popularly known as Doombuggies. The ride system was built by Arrow Development.
At the end of the journey, guests exit the vehicle via another moving walkway and then take an inclined moving walkway back to the real world.
Illusion
The ballroom scene features a huge Peppers' Ghost effect, where ghosts are created using reflection on large panes of glass which can't be detected by guests, making the reflections appear to be transparent ghosts. The ghost figures are full size figures which are perfectly positioned to line up with the furniture in the main ballroom scene, even though they're located below and above the Omnimover track.
Show Building
The actual ride takes place in a warehouse-type building just outside the edge of the theme park. The elevator enables guests to travel to a level where they can go under the railroad tracks that form the boundary of the Magic Kingdom. When they're walking through the gallery of transforming portraits, they're actually walking under the tracks into the show building.