Lightning
I was there not long after The Haunted Mansion opened, and the paintings flashed with the lighning. They were done with the same rear projection as the morphing paintings. It was a good idea but just didn't look good. You could see the things change, but couldn't really tell exactly what it was that you just saw. So the lightning thing was an original, it just didn't work well so they changed it.
The next time I went a few years later the lighning was gone. I remember being disappointed by the slow morphing. I liked the idea of the lighning effect, but at least this way you could see what they were changing into.
I'm glad to see the original idea return with a new effect that works better. Gee, it worked well enough for Brett to photograph it! That's cool!
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