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[pukkie]

I have no clue at all None what so ever Too big for a carnivorous planthouse 

 

I do kind a expect the grim reaper popping out of that top roof wheb guests use this building 

 

ooooh you do know I love the suspense as much as the surprise

[Fern]

Another clue: Guests pay 13 to go in the building.

[(Admin)Savannahjan]

Disney Haunted Mansion? 

[Fern]

3 hours ago, Savannahjan said:

Disney Haunted Mansion? 

Yep you got it. His father worked for Disney for a while. He also took me to this one when I was there. He took me to 3 Disney Parks of 4 in Orlando, the 2 Universal ones and Seaworld. And then to the Disneyland in LA the day before I came home.

[Fern]

I have also just released the Celestial Buildings by Dr Rick. They were started in 2008 and were shelved due to Rick's ill health and the info threads here vanishing as well.

 

From Jay: Yes, it is Disney's Haunted Mansion. The building itself represents the Haunted Mansion at Disneyland in California. A number of years ago, a number of designers in the RCT2 user community created a lot of Disneyland objects. That included objects for a Disney Haunted Mansion ride. They also used lots of tiny pieces to create the exterior of the building itself, as seen in the earlier image. So I do not take credit for that. I did not create it myself because they did a fantastic job at reproducing the actual Disneyland Haunted Mansion building. Here is a picture in Wikipedia of the actual building:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Haunted_Mansion_July_4.jpg

I did the layout of things around the building from lots of things made for RCT2. When guests use this building in ZT, most of the top of the building will disappear so that the inside of it can be seen. It contains an animated haunted mansion ride, with the entire layout done by me from lots of things made for RCT2. Some of those things are based on Disney's Haunted Mansion rides; some are based on other Disney rides, some are based on Harry Potter and Lord Of The Rings; the rest are other things that fit into a haunted mansion theme. The default price for guests to use the building is 13, since the "ghostfather clock" at Disney's Haunted Mansions strikes 13. Like Disney's Haunted Mansions, this is meant to be a playful haunt rather than a scary haunt. Disneyland has train tracks going around the park. When they designed the Haunted Mansion for the park, they didn't have room inside the train tracks for the ride. So what people see as the Haunted Mansion is a facade. It has a couple elevators disguised as stretching rooms to get people below ground. People then walk down a corridor that appears to have windows, but they are actually underground. That corridor gets the people to the other side of the railroad tracks where the building containing the actual ride exists. But in this version for ZT, the ride is inside the Haunted Mansion building. Disneyland's Haunted Mansion was created when I was a boy. It was made before portable computers and cell phones existed. Computers back then had to be in their own air conditioned computer rooms. Those computers were expensive. So companies used computers for payroll, financial, and scheduling purposes. But Disney used a minicomputer in one of those air conditioned computer rooms to control everything in the Haunted Mansion. That showed me that computers can be used to bring enjoyment to others. So it inspired me to become a computer software engineer, making programs that control machines. As it turned out, I did this work for manufacturing companies rather than for entertainment companies. But that desire to use computers to try to bring enjoyment to others is what eventually led me to helping in the ZT user community.

[Fern]

The Haunted Mansion has been released. You will need to also update your LANG--ZTCDD.dll

[Truly_happy]

On 10/5/2025 at 10:43 PM, Fern said:

He took me to 3 Disney Parks of 4 in Orlando, the 2 Universal ones and Seaworld. And then to the Disneyland in LA the day before I came home.

 

Was that all in one vacation? 

[Truly_happy]

Please thank Jay for that story. I most enjoyed the personal touch about himself at the end. He has the heart of an Imagineer.

[Fern]

1 hour ago, Truly_happy said:

 

Was that all in one vacation? 

Yes. I had 5 weeks in the US. He lives in Orlando so took me to a park every second day. We would arrive at one at opening time and leave at closing. Those parks are huge. I needed the next day to recover.  Other than them I mostly did driving tours through lots of National Monuments and Parks. We did Vegas to Vegas via Arizona, tip of New Mexico, back Arizona (Carlsbad Caverns) into Utah (Zion Park). Drove from Vegas to San Diego where I went to the wildlife park and the zoo.

[Truly_happy]

You've seen more of the country than I have! That must have been a highlight of your life. I hope my people treated you well. (It seems Jay sure did!)