Description And Comments

Only slightly scarier than a whoopee cushion, The Haunted Mansion serves up some of the Magic Kingdom's best visual effects. The attraction is a masterpiece of detail. "Doom Buggies" on a conveyor belt transport you through the house from parlor to attic, then through a graveyard. Two new scenes were added in the substantial 2007 refurbishment: an M.C. Escher-like room full of stairs heading in all directions, and a montage explaining the fate of the many husbands of the mansion's mistress. However, the storyline remains thin and unemphasized.

Some children become overly anxious about what they think they'll see. Almost nobody is scared by the actual sights.

The Haunted Mansion is one of veteran Unofficial Guide writer Eve Zibart's favorite attractions. She says:

This is one of the best attractions in the Magic Kingdom. It's jam-packed with visual puns, special effects, hidden Mickeys, and really lovely Victorian-spooky sets. It's not scary, except in the sweetest of ways, but it will remind you of the days before ghost stories gave way to slasher flicks.

A Temple, Texas, mom isn't convinced:

You say the actual sights are not really frightening. What isn't frightening about a hanging corpse, a coffin escapee, and an axe-welding skeleton bride?

A new set of interactive elements was added to The Haunted Mansion's outdoor queue in 2011, ensuring that guests have something to occupy them when lines are long. Features include a music-playing monument, an old-fashioned pipe organ, and a ship captain's tomb that squirts water. Disneyphiles will recognize the names on many of these new elements as tributes to the mansion's designers.

Touring Tips

Lines here ebb and flow more than those at most other Magic Kingdom hot spots because the Mansion is near The Hall of Presidents and the Liberty Belle Riverboat. These two attractions disgorge 700 and 450 people, respectively, when each show or ride ends, and many of these folks head straight for the Mansion. If you can't go before 11:30 a.m. or after 8 p.m., try to slip in between crowds.

The Haunted Mansion Wait Times

This chart shows you roughly how long you'll wait for The Haunted Mansion when you visit on a day with a given Magic Kingdom Crowd Level. The blue bars represent the average "peak" wait time (that is, how long the line will at its busiest). The bottom and top black lines represent the range of peak wait times to expect (for you fellow nerds out there: it's the 5th percentile and 95th percentile of peak wait times). Please note that these are estimates, and for a better forecast for your travel dates, see The Haunted Mansion Wait Times.

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Special Comments

Frightens some very young children.

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Disney Dish with Jim Hill

I'LL TAKE MY GHOST TO GO, PLEASE

WDW guests have been buzzing about the new high-tech Hitchhiking Ghosts who've recently begun appearing in The Haunted Mansion. Soon you'll be able to bring the spirited hijinks of the Prisoner, the Skeleton, and the Traveler home with you. The Imagineers are readying an image-capture system that will take video of your family interacting with these silly spooks, which you'll be able to buy as a souvenir once you exit the mansion.

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