October 2011
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The Haunted Mansion's Ghost Bride
One of the most mysterious parts of the Haunted Mansion ride has always been the ghost of a bride in the attic. For decades, no one could quite figure out who she was supposed to be, and a multitude of rumors sprung up around her identity. One claimed that she was the ghost of Master Gracey’s late bride who unintentionally locked herself in a trunk in the attic on their wedding night and...
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Some Stories Behind the Haunted Mansion
There are many background stories about the Haunted Mansion rides in Disney World and Disneyland floating around out there (every pun intended :]). It seems that there was never any one clear choice made by the original designers of the attraction. In fact, according to Imagineer Wayne Jackson, who built the infamous Hat Box Ghost, “Walt’s attitude was that he didn’t want a...
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The Story of Phantom Manor
Henry Ravenswood (born 1795) was a Western settler who struck gold in Big Thunder Mountain and founded the Thunder Mesa Mining Company, thus creating the city of Thunder Mesa (Frontierland as a whole). Ravenswood became rich and built himself a Victorian manor high on Boot Hill overlooking Big Thunder Mountain, where he raised a family and had a daughter, Melanie Ravenswood (born 1842).
Big...
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Yale Gracey, the Imagineer who created most of the effects for the Haunted Mansion, and the namesake of the Mansion’s owner in many of the ledgends surrounding the ride, actually met a mysterious and grisley end.
On September 5, 1983, he was shot by a transient who broke into the Bel Air Bay Club cabana where he and his wife were staying. To this day, the motivation behind the crime is...
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So, does the floor descend or does the ceiling...
Well…both — it depends on the location. As with Pirates of the Caribbean, the space-strapped Disneyland in California needed to transport guests to a large building beyond the park’s berm. The Chamber is actually an elevator that takes guests down to an underground passageway, which leads to the show building. Disneyland Paris’ Phantom Manor uses the same concept. In the Florida and Tokyo versions...
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The Haunted Mansion was originally supposed to be...
In one of the Haunted Mansion’s early drafts, Walt Disney himself recorded the narration for the attraction.
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princessmilktea reblogged your photo: Many stories have popped up based around a…
So looking for this next time I go to Disneyland.
Unfortunately, the “ring” is only at Walt Disney World.
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Eleanor Audley, the voice of the Wicked Stepmother...
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Some of the Imagineers, who gave us the Haunted...
RIP in memorium Uncle Myall, here you’ll rest for quite a while- For Chuck Myall, Art Director
Here rests Wathel R. Bender, he rode to glory on a fender - For Wathel Rodgers, Illusionist and mechanical genius
At peaceful rest lies brother Claude, planted here beneath this sod - For Claude Coates, Art Director and Master of Paint Effects and Lighting
RIP Mr. Sewell, the victim of a...
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Cast members helping people get into the Haunted...
kodessa asked: is it sad that i can remember which version of the haunted mansion is on the disney sing a long video?
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The Haunted Mansion is the only place in all of...
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Rolly Crump and Yale Gracey, the two Imagineers put in charge of the spectral effects for the Haunted Mansion, were given a large studio at WED enterprises; they studied reports of hauntings and Greek myths and monster movies, eventually making quite a show in their private studio. Some of these effects frightened the cleaning crews that came in at night to such an extent that the management...
So Halloween is on Monday
I was originally going to save all of my Haunted Mansion ride trivia for Halloween day, but I just have too much of it! So, starting today, it’s officially Halloween weekend in my eyes, and that means HAUNTED MANSION WEEKEND!
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Come Little Children from Hocus Pocus
Another theory is that the song originated in medieval times and was adapted for the movie.
(Submitted by itscauseimpretty)
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New "Haunted Mansion" movie in the works? →
From the article:
It was recently reported that Guillermo del Toro, the director of “Hellboy 2” and “Pan’s Labyrinth”, will be involved with the production a new Haunted Mansion movie for Disney which will premiere in 2012. According to all reports, Guillermo del Toro is a hardcore Disney fan and is especially fond of the Haunted Mansion attraction; he even has a...
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Joseph Barbera (of Hanna-Barbera) tells in his autobiography My Life in ‘toons: From Flatbush to Bedrock in Under a Century, that he saw “The Skeleton Dance” at the third balcony of the grand Roxy Theater in New York: “I saw it about seventy miles from the screen, but the impact on me was tremendous nevertheless. I saw these skeletons dancing in a row and in unison, and I...
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"The Skeleton Dance" - 1929
Worried that he would be too dependent on Mickey Mouse, Walt Disney wanted to diversify. Carl W. Stalling came up with the idea of producing “musical novelties” (which would later become “Silly Symphonies”). He even came up with the idea of the dancing skeletons for the first of the series (as a child he had seen an ad in “The American Boy” magazine for a...
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