But Webster has never enjoyed any such luck and remains today an enigmatic figure. Nowadays, we even have film footage and maintenance records proving once and for all that the HBG was in the ride for a brief time. Unlike Webster, however, the HBG had never been completely forgotten, since he appeared in the narrative and artwork for souvenir record albums and in prototype photos used by Disney for publicity purposes. That was when Imagineer Chris Merritt published archived photos of the HBG in The "E" Ticket magazine. That description, down to the last detail, could have been applied to the Disneyland Hatbox Ghost prior to 1999. Some say he was canceled (or removed) because he was too scary. Sources disagree over whether he was ever seen by guests, or even whether he was installed. If he was, he was quickly removed, leaving behind no photos, and if he was not, he almost was. Here's the skinny: Webster either was or was not in the WDW Mansion when it opened. Web is a bona fide Mansion mystery, far more obscure than his Disneyland twin, the Hatbox Ghost. I'm going to call this character "Webster" for short, and "Web" for shorter. At a minimum, it may be convenient to gather into one place all that is currently known about him, plus a wee bit more. Many of you have probably never heard of him, and for those who have, you may discover that some of what you thought you knew is wrong. Nevertheless, the Man in the Web, as he is usually called, is exactly the sort of thing this blog is about. It's strictly an Orlando story, and I usually leave WDW history to someone with direct experience of that park, like Foxxy.
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