The Black Widow Bride in Disneyland's Haunted Mansion has received a new backstory that softens her murderous tendencies, transforming her into a more mournful and lovesick figure. Walt Disney Imagineering has integrated projection technology to introduce a ghostly bride in the attic scene, depicting her as a heartbroken figure mourning her lost husbands.
The Black Widow Bride in Disneyland’s Haunted Mansion who had a dark habit of beheading her husbands has traded in her axe for a new backstory that softens her murderous tendencies and makes her a more mournful and lovesick figure.
The new Haunted Mansion bride with a beating red heart and flowing gown appears to levitate in front of a shattered window while holding a three-pronged candelabra. Disney Imagineers heightened the saddened, lovesick and grief-stricken look on the new bride’s face, Imagineering creative director Kim Irvine told the“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,” Irvine told the Times. “It was a sad thing. It was a story about lost love.
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