Queued Up for the Happy Haunts

Today's post is rather overdue, because it's a photo tour of the new Haunted Mansion queue that debuted at the beginning of last year, after a nearly year-long refurbishment that saw the attraction itself down for six months before reopening the August prior at Haunted Mansion Holiday and the line into the attraction redone to provide greater accessibility to disabled guests and undergo a narrative reconfiguration.  The new queue features a variety of scenes referencing the attraction within, including a Spanish Fountain, the One-Eyed Cat's Garden, Master Gracey's Garden, Madame Leota's Garden, the Mansion Greenhouse, and the Sea Captain's Crypt.  Stylistically, a lot of the scenes are a departure from the Southern Plantation aesthetic of the building itself, blending more into Art Nouveau and Georgian Revival, so there's arguably an inconsistency here that doesn't make much storytelling sense.  But maybe because the attraction is about the supernatural, and it can be argued that the stylistic transitions create a foreboding eeriness, I don't find the eclectic queue scenes to be very bothersome. Maybe it's because they are largely very photogenic, and classic elements like the punny tombstones have been retained. But I think the "new" Haunted Mansion queue is largely pretty pleasant!

What do you think?