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So, I was reading TheBloggess.com, a wonderful blog that usually makes me laugh myself silly, and she put up a post about something I've seen before: some of the artwork from the stretching portraits at the Haunted Mansion ride in Disney. (The post in question is here.)(First note: I've never been to Disneyland, just Walt Disney World. And I never went to this ride until Grad Night, in high school. What I discovered that night is that the ride is /charming/. I also discovered that it's a good ride to make out on, as long as you don't get so engrossed that you forget to keep an eye out for mirrors.)
And that post had a link that led me to a blog that is entirely about the Haunted Mansion ride, an utterly fascinating blog that analyses nearly every single thing about that ride, from the Imagineers who created it, to the characters that they wrote and the way that the gags have to be humorous moments that you can pick up on in less than five seconds, to the very wallpaper and the throwaway tidbits that people might not even be able to see, but are there to add to the feeling of the ride.
I do find it fascinating, what people will choose to geek out over, and the fact that the workers on this ride loved it so much that some of them wrote fanfiction about some of the ghosts, which is why the three hitchhiking ghosts, (all three are built around hitchhiker tropes: the Travelling Man, the Escaping Convict and...and the bald one who got named Ezra. And I have just lost what trope he is.) There's also a bride ghost, and the speculation about whether she's one of the ones from the stretching portraits and the family graveyard outside, (although that graveyard has been replace. I never knew that the headstones were either characters or tributes to the imagineers who made it, but either way, I always loved those fake headstones.)
Anyway, the blog is called Long-Forgotten, and it's utterly brilliant. I spent FAR too long reading it last night and plan to go back and read more of it today.
Also, go read the saga of Beyonce, the 5 foot metal chicken. You're welcome for that link.
And that post had a link that led me to a blog that is entirely about the Haunted Mansion ride, an utterly fascinating blog that analyses nearly every single thing about that ride, from the Imagineers who created it, to the characters that they wrote and the way that the gags have to be humorous moments that you can pick up on in less than five seconds, to the very wallpaper and the throwaway tidbits that people might not even be able to see, but are there to add to the feeling of the ride.
I do find it fascinating, what people will choose to geek out over, and the fact that the workers on this ride loved it so much that some of them wrote fanfiction about some of the ghosts, which is why the three hitchhiking ghosts, (all three are built around hitchhiker tropes: the Travelling Man, the Escaping Convict and...and the bald one who got named Ezra. And I have just lost what trope he is.) There's also a bride ghost, and the speculation about whether she's one of the ones from the stretching portraits and the family graveyard outside, (although that graveyard has been replace. I never knew that the headstones were either characters or tributes to the imagineers who made it, but either way, I always loved those fake headstones.)
Anyway, the blog is called Long-Forgotten, and it's utterly brilliant. I spent FAR too long reading it last night and plan to go back and read more of it today.
Also, go read the saga of Beyonce, the 5 foot metal chicken. You're welcome for that link.