Glow-in-the-Dark Madame Leota Loungefly Mini Backpack Arrives at Walt Disney World

Call in the spirits, wherever they’re at! This new glow-in-the-dark Loungefly mini backpack channels the Haunted Mansion’s mystical psychic, Madame Leota.

It’s available at Uptown Jewelers in Magic Kingdom.

Madame Leota Loungefly Backpack – $88

The Madame Leota Loungefly mini backpack features the blue-haired medium in her crystal ball as the front pocket.

There are candles and floating musical instruments around her.

The backpack is black with purple and teal blue trim.

A candelabra is pictured on this side pocket.

An angry purple cat is on the other side.

The pleather sections of the straps are purple. The rest of them are black and covered in music notes.

On the back, debossed text reads “Madame Leota: Knower and Seer of All,” with a Haunted Mansion logo placed in the “O.” The text is in purple, teal, and white, while the ride’s logo is pink. A few spooky eyes are pictured around the words.

On the inside, this backpack’s lining features more artwork of Haunted Mansion characters.

This backpack is also available at Disneyland Resort.

Check out more Haunted Mansion merchandise from Walt Disney World:

The Haunted Mansion

This classic Disney attraction can now be found at several Disney Parks around the world. The first iteration opened in 1969 at Disneyland as part of the New Orleans Square expansion. Two years later, it was an opening day attraction in Liberty Square at Magic Kingdom, and in 1983, it was an opening day attraction at Tokyo Disneyland, too.

The Disneyland Paris version of Haunted Mansion is named Phantom Manor, while at Hong Kong Disneyland, Mystic Manor is a completely different attraction that draws some inspiration from the original whilst avoiding references to the afterlife out of respect toward traditional Chinese cultural precedent.

The Hatbox Ghost inside The Haunted Mansion at Disneyland Resort

Haunted Mansion is full of famous ghostly characters and spirits like Madame Leota, the Bride, the subjects of the stretching room portraits, and the Hatbox Ghost.

The Hatbox Ghost was in the original Disneyland Haunted Mansion on opening day. Technology had not quite caught up to the ghost’s vanishing and appearing head, however, so the effect only lasted a few weeks before disappearing for nearly 50 years.

This effect returned to the Haunted Mansion at Disneyland in 2015. He appears at the end of the attic scene, after the Bride “greets” guests. The Hatbox Ghost will soon be installed in the Magic Kingdom version of the Haunted Mansion, too.

‘Haunted Mansion’ Movie

The upcoming “Haunted Mansion” film follows a doctor (Rosario Dawson) and her 9-year-old son (Chase Dillon) moving into a haunted abode in New Orleans. Dawson’s character ends up calling in a priest (Owen Wilson) to exorcise the manor. They also get help from a widowed scientist-turned-failed-paranormal expert (LaKeith Stanfield), a French Quarter psychic (Tiffany Haddish), and a historian (Danny DeVito).

Jamie Lee Curtis portrays Madame Leota, and Jared Leto serves as the Hatbox Ghost. Curtis called the film “modern, fresh, old-fashioned, and scary, but not scary like a monster movie. It’s scary, like a Disney ride, and funny. If you go on that ride, there’s a lot of humor as well as the scary, ghost-y stuff.”

Curtis, Wilson, and Stanfield briefly worked the Haunted Mansion attraction at Disneyland to promote the film.

During the “Studio Showcase Day 1: Celebrate the Magic of Disney and Pixar” panel at the D23 Expo 2022 in Anaheim, Disney debuted the “Haunted Mansion” trailer. Director Justin Simien took to the stage to speak about the project and detail some of the cameos audiences can expect from Winona Ryder, Dan Levy, Hasan Minhaj, and more.

Walt Disney Studios will present a behind-the-scenes look at “Haunted Mansion” during Midsummer Scream — Halloween & Horror Convention in Long Beach, California, at the end of July.

Due to the SAG-AFTRA strike, the film’s Disneyland Resort premiere will be a fan event, with D23 Gold Members getting free access.

“Haunted Mansion” will be in theaters on July 28, 2023. You can watch the trailer below: