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You Know You’re Addicted To The Phantom Of The Opera When…

DISCLAIMER: I wrote some of these, but the majority of them were written by the folks at phantomoftheopera.com. link.


…When every single story your teacher asks you to write turns into a Phantom fic.

…When even your friends' friends know about your obsession and warn THEIR friends not to ask if Phantom's a musical or an opera.

…When you print out drawings of Leroux Erik by yourself and some of your favorite artists on DA, cut them out so you get a paper doll, and put them in a book, and carry them everywhere you go, and you speak...

The Haunted Mansion ride at Disney has always been one of my favourite things, and Phantom tops the list at #1 fave thing. And a while back I started noticing really heavy similarities between the two things and I found many of them interesting. I thought I would share these observations here, so that others might enjoy the coincidences, or homages if you'd care to take it that way.

We will begin in the Foyer. Above the fireplace hangs a portrait where a young gentleman (presumably Master Gracey) hangs. It is here that the unseen guide for the attraction first makes his presence known.
"When...