The Haunted Mansion: Imagineering a Disney Classic

Bought this for my Wife who is a HUGE Disney fan and she loves it. Also The Haunted Mansion is one of her favorite rides. The illustrations are great. Nice, Colorful and detailed. It's a great Disney book. Was a little disappointed it showed up slightly damaged. Could've used some bubble wrap or something to protect it. But over all great buy.

First off, the book cover glows in the dark which is cool! Secondly, it's packed full of high quality photos illustrating the Imagineering process at each of the Disney parks around the world that have a Haunted Mansion attraction. There's enough detail to ensure you come away with more knowledge than you had but it doesn't get into the weeds with explanations. A very fun read for Haunted Mansion or Imagineering fans.

Boy this book really instills my love for the haunted mansion!! This book is the reason why I get caught in the immersive story that is refreshed over and over again. The book is a "plussed" re visit to the "Haunted mansion : from the magic kingdom to the movies" series Jason Surrell published over 10 years ago. Sure the movie tidbits were fun to read and gloss over the concept art of the film. But I believe the reasoning to eliminate the material is relevance to the entire story of the haunted mansion brand. It is 2015 and people want to hear fresh material. This is what the readers are getting with this book (meanwhile the book layout is the same as the previous books before it). There is new development on mystic point, the interactive queue at the magic kingdom in Walt Disney World Haunted mansion, and of course a more detailed walk through of the Haunted Mansion Holiday overlay seen at Disneyland in Anaheim and Tokyo Disneyland. I think the main thing you should look for when buying the book is that Hong Kong Disneyland is still new to guests and there could many U.S. guests yet to visit the park. Be amazed and have an open mind when reading the material on mystic manor!!

Received as a gift. Great book for HM fans.

I have enjoyed dreading this book. Be ready, though, it is about all of the haunted houses throughout the Disney properties...and they differ. I enjoyed reading about the development of them, and the differences between the international parks. I originally purchased it to read up on the Disney World attraction, so was not happy with all the insertions of the other parks---I would have preferred that they separate the discussion by park rather than intermingling it. I did not know that the Haunted Mansion in Disney World told a story, in spite of having ridden it many, many times. For example, the bride has been married five times, and if you look quickly when you get to the attic, you will see two brides on on the left side---first marriage, she wears one strand of pearls---second, two strands---up to five (three brides on the left side on the doom buggy). The wedding gifts are staged to be more elaborate with each wedding, The grooms' heads disappear signifying their deaths....on to the next wedding!

It's good so far (about 15% of the way in), but... I already wish there were more details about how the individual props and mechanical parts of the ride, sets, and props work. A lot of time so far is being spent on who worked on which part of the project and when. Not much detail on the actual artistic or technology parts of the ride, which is what Imagineering is actually about. Maybe this all needs to be put into the sequel, "The Haunted Mansion: Imagineering a Disney Classic 2: The Dead Rise Again"?

This is basically a reprint of 2003's "The Haunted Mansion: From the Magic Kingdom to the Movies", completely scrubbed of any references to the underwhelming Eddie Murphy film, and with a new chapter on Hong Kong Disneyland's Mystic Manor (informative with lots of illustrations and photos) and a few new spreads on recent additions to the Anaheim and Orlando attractions (the attic bride and hatbox ghost for Disneyland, the new elaborate queue and gift shop at WDW). Even though the film was a letdown, its a shame to completely omit it from this new version--it is part of the attraction's history and produced some interesting design work that is worthy of inclusion. Also, too bad they didn't include a section on Mansion collectibles--a glaring omission from the first edition that they could have corrected here. That said, this is still the tops book for Haunted Mansion fans and there's enough new material here to warrant a repurchase.

Loved the original artwork they included as well as the new photos of the various rides. Perfect for any Disney fan - tells the entire story of all of the happy haunts on the classic Disney ride. So much information from the concept work on the ride, alternative story ideas and how they received cameos on the final rides along with background on many of the headstones from the que. Absolutely loved this book!

I love this book its very interesting has a lot if information about the ride the characters about the parks which i love has beautiful photos and pictures amazing for any disney fan

Este libro está genial para los fans de phantom manor o Haunted Mansion de Disney, explica sala por sala como es y habla de las diferencias entre las distintas casas de los parques Disney. Aporta muchas fotos y me ha encantado. Viene en inglés

The cover front and back are abit frayed and torn here and there

Da collezionista di oggetti della Disney posso confermare l unicità di questo libro. Il libro é molto ben dettagliato e descrive sia la storia sia il funzionamento della famosa attrazione haunted mansioni. Il libro é composto da molte pagine. La copertina si illumina al buio. Se interessati al genere consiglio l acquisto.

Tiene muchas ilustraciones, fotos, planos, soy fan de esta atraccion de disney y lo necesitaba en mi vida sí o sí