stackyFACTSIt turns out the best way to manage a theme park crowd is to trap them in a windowless room and threaten them with a hanging corpse.
It turns out the best way to manage a theme park crowd is to trap them in a windowless room and threaten them with a hanging corpse. The 'stretching room' isn't just a spooky parlor trick; in Disneyland, it is a brilliantly disguised industrial elevator required to physically move guests under the park’s train tracks to the actual ride building outside the park berm. It is the perfect marriage of boring architectural necessity and legendary theatrical storytelling.
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