Lightbulbs Render Millions Of Dollars In Imagineering R And D Useless
BoingBoing points us to some video of Disneyland's Haunted Mansion as only the highest security clearance cast members and after-hours cleaning women have ever seen it: with the lights on. As the ride abruptly comes to a stop and an unforgiving glare reveals an ugly truth involving cardboard tombstones and spooks-on-a-string, our tour guide, "supernumber18," narrates along to his her own jerky cinematography with the breathless exuberance of a 7-year-old detective about to solve [SPOILER!] The Great Santa Claus Hoax. If you can make it to the 3:30 mark, the plot thickens, as two suspicious youths are escorted by security out of the ride. You find out in Part 2 that they stand accused of attempting to swipe a wicker basket suitcase prop—a serious park crime, punishable by an afternoon assigned to Tigger and Jiminy Cricket on urinal-access-assisting duty.