Let's Get Weird!!!

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So...what exactly does it mean?

Well, it could be a couple of things.

First, I was like OH MAN DR. STRANGE RIDE. This could happen, and if I could pick from any of the possibilities, it's the one I'd want to see the most. It'd also HAVE to be in Disneyland, because Florida can't have Marvel stuff in the parks due to Universal still having the rights to all the Marvel characters for all theme parks east of the Mississippi River FOREVER (or until Marvel/Disney fork over enough to buy them out which hasn't happened yet).

Or it could be just a comic book tying into a Disney concept. What's the concept?

MUSEUM OF THE WEIRD.

The Haunted Mansion was planned out for quite some time before the ride came out, and one of the original concepts was a walk through "Museum of the Weird" where you'd see a bunch of stand alone exhibits that would display some crazy special effects/ghost stuff, then go to the next exhibit. It was a cool idea with some cool designs - some of which, like the demonic clock actually pictured on the poster, made it into the Haunted Mansion in an altered form.

You can read more about that stuff here, or check out Jason Surrell's amazing book on the Haunted Mansion - here's an amazon link.

Now, this concept is old as dirt, they wouldn't possibly think of revisiting it, right?

Well, they basically opened it in Hong Kong earlier this year as the "Mystic Manor"

Here's a video of it. Kind of a cross between the Museum of the Weird and the Haunted Mansion.



Not saying Dr. Strange couldn't be involved, and I hope he is, but I think a comic based on that concept is a bit more likely- I hope I'm wrong. Dr. Strange could be added to the Museum of the Weird concept quite easily, and it'd work great. Plus I'm a huge fan of the Doc. -Casey