If you ever find yourself time-traveling to 1975 and need to impersonate a Disneyland Haunted Mansion ride-operator, we’ve got you covered: just remember that in 1975, food and drinks were absolutely not allowed past the main gate, and that E-tickets should be torn in half and placed in the ticket box. (Thanks, Changa!)
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Haunted Mansion/Ikea mashup tee
Nothing conjures up the eldritch geometries that are the secret fuel of Disney’s Haunted Mansion like the hair-pulling geometrical puzzles posed by Ikea assembly instructions: hence, Spöke Håus, $20 and up on Teefury, proving once again that trademark violation is your best entertainment dollar.
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A shrewd guess about the Haunted Mansion’s mysterious Squeaky Door Ghost
One of the most exciting elements of Imagineer Christopher Merritt’s astounding, essential Marc Davis in His Own Words — a two-volume set of one of Disney’s most storied Imagineers, whose contributions to the Haunted Mansion, Pirates of the Caribbean and other rides cannot be overstated — was the revelation that there was a fully prototyped ghost for the Haunted Mansion that appears to have never been put into production.
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Fan-made “rideable” Haunted Mansion poster
Cartoonist Vince “Untold Tales of Bigfoot” Dorse (previously) continues to make astoundingly cool Haunted Mansion fan media: his latest is a “ride through” illustration of the Mansion and its many set-pieces, which imagines a coherent geometry for the ride.
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Her Universe launches a line of licensed Haunted Mansion clothing
The last five years have seen a renaissance of merchandise related to Disney’s Haunted Mansion, hearkening back to the glory days of amazing fright masks, magic tricks, and novelties from Randotti (my personal faves).
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Kickstarting a cover of GRIM GRINNING GHOSTS with mashup legend dj BC and friends!
Dj BC (previously) writes, “I’m the producer behind Ghost Cave. You might know me from the mashup albums The Beastles, Ziggy Stardust Remixed, Wu Orleans, the Santastic Christmas Collections, and others. Up next is a glorious 7″ vinyl record package, in a limited edition of 500 (100 purple, 400 black). And it’s LEGAL!”
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“The Stab”: a forgotten nearly-was Haunted Mansion changing portrait
The queue area at the Haunted Mansion at Disneyland features a row of changing portraits wherein paintings everyday scenes are revealed as sinister and haunted (originally the effect was done with crossfading slide-projectors; now it’s done with an amazing, crisp electroluminiscent effect).
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A 3D papercraft Haunted Mansion board game to print and assemble
Escape from the Haunted Mansion is a massive, ambitious free papercraft project to download, print, mount on coreboard, cut out, assemble and play. I have no idea if the gameplay is any good, but the model is freaking gorgeous. It’s from the good folks at Disney Experience, who have a wealth of papercraft Disney projects and other fan media for you to play with. (via Metafilter)
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Haunted Mansion wallpaper, wrapping paper, and fabric!
Spoonflower’s gorgeous selection of Haunted Mansion patterns can be printed on demand on wallpaper, giftwrap, or fabric: from the green strips of the maids’ uniforms to the purple and black stripes of the butler’s vests, to motifs picked up from the characters and decor (tightrope walker girl’s floral print, hitchhiking ghosts, Leota’s seance room), the variety is amazing. (via Disney’s Haunted Mansion)
The stories behind the names on the Haunted Mansion’s tombstones
The tombstones at the Haunted Mansions in Disney’s themeparks are a kind of credit reel that pay tribute to the Imagineers who made the Mansion possible; in this short Disney video, you get some potted biographies of the honorees, from Claude Coats to Marc Davis to Harriet Burns to the incredible and weird Rolly Crump.