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That's pretty close to it, I think. They would want to test it throughly on site, to make sure it looked right. So hey, why not let him get a brief public viewing, like a soft opening, before going down for the HMH overlay? Think of the buzz, the anticipation, toward the end of January.

williamtaylor1969 wrote:

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Dan Olson,
I have just read thru all 23 pages of comments on this, and I have two questions! So, how does the hatbox ghost fit into the whole "Constance" attic story? Or is this just another misc piece of non-story placement?

Secondly, I saw where you said that the "Hatchet Man" is the "Ghost Host", and I was wondering, so the Hatchet Man is the "Lord and Master of the Haunted Mansion"? And then Master Gracey, being a fan created notion is not to be mentioned or referred to in any shape, manner or way?

Just curious,

William (the Bloody)

There's another long thread on the boards about the whole Master Gracey/Ghost Host issue, so we won't open that up again here. The issue is only a big deal because WDI seems to think it's a big deal, and they create the "reality" in the HM.

http://disneyshauntedmans...ku.com/topic/6570?page=1

I understand from a reliable source that the Constance story will be developed further, so we'll have to get used to it. There's no hint anywhere that the guy in the Dorian Gray-like changing portrait has any role, under the name of "Master Gracey" or any other. The closest thing to WDI tipping their hand about what's in store is a paragraph at Julia Lee's official website. She's the face of Constance in the wedding portraits.



The language is ambiguous. Is the "final conquest" the fifth husband or an additional, sixth husband? The old HBG was explicitly identified as the groom or husband of the attic bride. Whether a (theoretical) HBG2 will maintain that role, no one knows. Whether he would be identified with one of the five, no one knows. I would expect him to be a sixth, however. Hatchet Man is the Ghost Host, but there's no proof that the GH is the owner of the HM, despite all the valiant efforts some people make to prove that he is. It's a retirement home, and he's the host, and he has some connection to the building because he hung himself in it, but none of that proves he's the owner, although he could be. Old, unused spiels don't count. It looks to me like there are at least two male characters waiting to be developed in the unfolding Constance saga, because the HBG and Hatchet Man/GH died differently (beheaded vs. hanging). Her "final conquest," who is the "owner of the Mansion," could be (1) George, (2) Hatchet Man/Ghost Host, (3) HBG, or (4) a fourth character yet unknown.