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Petition To Stop Disneyland From Removing ‘The Haunted Mansion’ Attraction!

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I didn’t think there was anything worse than Universal Studios Orlando getting rid of their Ghostbusters show. Then they got rid of the Alfred Hitchock attraction. What came next made my skin crawl; the removal of ol’ King Kong, which was dwarfed in comparison when Uni celebrated their 100th anniversary by taking Jaws out of the theme park as well. The only thing worse in my life was when EPCOT decided to retool Journey into Imagination, thus bastardizing my childhood memories forever. Just when I thought it couldn’t get worse, it did…

According to the ever-so-popular Disney blog DisneythePooh, Disneyland California will wave goodbye to The Haunted Mansion dark ride that opened back on August 9, 1969. The attraction will take attendees on one last tour August 9, 2012 before it’s demolished for a future attraction, one that will drive you to insanity.

Both Disneyland and Disneyworld butchered their Pirates of the Caribbean attraction by adding Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow throughout. Now they’re punching us fans right in the nose as they’re replacing the Haunted Mansion with an entire new land. By summer 2015 “New Orleans Square” will be trasnformed into “The Caribbean,” all based around the Pirates attraction. Inspired by Universal Orlando’s new “The Wizarding World of Harry Potter”, the land will be completely revamped to match Walt Disney Pictures popular franchise that’s banked more than $4 billion worldwide over the course of the release of the four films. All star Depp.

While the Disneyworld Haunted Mansion, opened on October 1, 1971, is still safe, Disney made it very clear that it could dismantle the Orlando mansion castle in order to expand the park northward with its own “Caribbean”. The delay is the extreme difficulty in relocating the original Pirates attraction to where Haunted Mansion used to be. DisneythePooh implies that they may just revamp the Pirates ride completely…

Say “goodbye”, foolish mortals, to the Haunted Mansion.

DisneythePooh has set up a petition to stop the removal of the classic dark ride that, for now, will still be haunting Tokyo Disneyland and Disneyland Paris. You can also type #SaveHauntedMansion to @Disney.

Horror movie fanatic who co-founded Bloody Disgusting in 2001. Producer on Southbound, V/H/S/2/3/94, SiREN, Under the Bed, and A Horrible Way to Die. Chicago-based. Horror, pizza and basketball connoisseur. Taco Bell daily. Franchise favs: Hellraiser, Child's Play, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Halloween, Scream and Friday the 13th. Horror 365 days a year.

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‘Final Destination: Bloodlines’ Adds “Chucky” Actor Teo Briones and More to Lead Cast

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Pictured: Teo Briones in "Chucky" Season Two

The Final Destination franchise is returning to life with Final Destination: Bloodlines. With filming now underway, THR reports that three actors have joined the lead cast, including “Chucky” actor Teo Briones.

Brec Bassinger (“Stargirl”) and Kaitlyn Santa Juana (The Friendship Game) join Teo Briones, who played Junior Wheeler in season two of “Chucky,” as the leads in the sixth installment of the horror franchise.

Zach Lipovsky and Adam B. Stein (Freaks) are directing the fresh installment that also includes Richard Harmon (“The 100”, Grave Encounters 2), Anna Lore, Owen Patrick Joyner, Max Lloyd-Jones (The Book Of Boba Fett), Rya Kihlstedt (Obi Wan Kenobi), and Tinpo Lee (The Manor) among the cast.

Production is now underway in Vancouver.

What can we expect from the upcoming Final Destination 6? Speaking with Collider, franchise creator Jeffrey Reddick offered up an intriguing (and mysterious) tease last year.

“This film dives into the film in such a unique way that it attacks it from a different angle so you don’t feel like, ‘Oh, there’s an amazing setup and then there’s gonna be one wrinkle that can potentially save you all that you have to kind of make a moral choice about or do to solve it.’ There’s an expansion of the universe that – I’m being so careful,” Reddick teased.

Reddick continued, “It kind of unearths a whole deep layer to the story that kind of, yes, makes it really, really interesting.”

Final Destination: Bloodlines is written by Lori Evans Taylor (“Wicked Wicked Games”) and Guy Busick (Scream), with Jon Watts (Spider-Man: No Way Home) producing.

Producers on the new movie for New Line Cinema also include Dianne McGunigle (Cop Car) as well as Final Destination producers Craig Perry and Sheila Hanahan Taylor.

This will be the sixth installment in the hit franchise, and the first in over ten years. Each film centers on “Death” hunting down young friends who survive a mass casualty event.

The latest entry is expected in 2025, coinciding with the original film’s 25th anniversary.

 

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