As the ride re-opens this weekend after its annual holiday makeover, fans might not be too keen on the change to the classic spooky attraction.
talked about some key changes made to one of the Haunted Mansion’s most memorable characters—the bride—to harken back to the mystery of its origins when the park opened.
“We thought, what if we change the story back a little bit to the original story that the Imagineers had about a lost bride in the attic mourning the loss of her husbands,” she told the LA Times. “It was a sad thing. It was a story about lost love.” Gone is the fan-favorite Black Widow backstory, which was part of the attraction’s last update in the early aughts. It featured a bride with an interesting sense of agency who added a fun sinister element to the ride with the gag of her numerous husbands’ disappearing heads . Times change, as do Disney attraction elements, and Disney Experiences has opted to go back to a more mysterious take.
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