The challenge for Walt Disney Imagineering is fitting a rethemed scene in the limited space above the stretching room.

Disney currently operates classic versions of the Haunted Mansion ride at Disneyland ... remove a grim-grinning ghost from the iconic stretching room at the start of the experience.

The “ceiling” of the stretching room is a scrim, with lighting effects revealing the body hanging from the real ceiling’s rafters at the climax of the pre-show. When The Haunted Mansion becomes the ...

T he hanging corpse in The Haunted Mansion’s stretching room at Disneyland will still be hanging when the ride reopens on Saturday, January 18 — but Walt Disney Imagineering is still thinking ...

Disneyland’s Haunted Mansion could lose one of its ... of room in the “rafters” above the stretching room. Imagineering would have to make a rethemed scene fit in the same amount of space.