Interactive Queues At Disney

And lastly, there’s just a ton of little quality-of-life details that get continually added into the Parks, even into the older attractions. One of my favorite details was added in 2002 to the Haunted Mansion: a headstone for Madame Leota.

To offset the long waits and large crowds, Disney makes the queues for the attractions as interactive as possible. And the coolest thing about this Leota tombstone is that the face will occasionally open its eyes, look around, and then close its eyes again.

It happens just often enough that you might catch it once, maybe twice, if you’re specifically looking for it. And it happens seldom enough that you could tell the people next to you what you saw, and they would not believe you.

In 2011, the Disney Imagineers added an entire extension to the outside graveyard in Walt Disney World, with a stone organ that plays when you touch it; a sea captain’s crypt that squirts water when you pass by; and a stone bookshelf that randomly pops its books out.