Our latest photo report brings us to Epcot, just days before the Food and Wine Festival takes over for its longest run in park history. Crowds are light now, but things are just starting to heat up… Immediate Boarding Soarin’ Around the World was posted at a 5 minute wait, so I decided to time … Read more
Over the weekend, the 2016 version of Haunted Mansion Holiday debuted at Disneyland Park as part of the HalloweenTime festivities. New for 2016, guests will find a new gingerbread house, as well as a new moving Sally figure in the graveyard scene. Enjoy:
Trader Sam’s at the Disneyland Hotel will be celebrating “Mahalloween 2016” with a special mug and drink… The mug looks like a tiki totem featuring the Hitchhiking Ghosts from The Haunted Mansion. The mug will be released as a part of Halloween Time at the Disneyland Resort sometime in the next few days.
Today, we take a short trip to a rainy Epcot to see what’s new and exciting in our latest photo report (and no, Haunted Mansion in the title is not a mistake): Steps Toward Security Work was finally completed on the new emergency stairs at the Epcot Monorail station. New safety protocols have required these … Read more
The infamous Hatbox Ghost returned to Disneyland’s Haunted Mansion over the weekend, revealing the classic concept brought to life with new magic. Just how did Imagineers make this happen? Take a look:
HE’S BACK! Video courtesy of Disney Hipsters on Instagram: A video posted by Disney Hipsters (@disneyhipsters) on May 9, 2015 at 9:22am PDT Using projection mapping technology, Disney has successfully brought the Hatbox Ghost back to the Haunted Mansion at Disneyland starting today. The original effect installed in 1969 never quite worked properly and was … Read more
from DestinationVinylmation.com This is part of a series of articles spotlighting the Vinylmation that were previewed at this year’s annual Walt Disney World Pin and Vinylmation trading and merchandise event, “The Imagination Gala.” The event was held at Epcot’s World Showplace from September 5-9, 2014. Today we look at the limited edition combo packs DDG has … Read more
By now you’ve heard that Disney Television Animation is developing an animated special based on the enormously popular and pseudo-mythological Haunted Mansion attraction. At this point details are sketchy, but what we do know is that the special will be animated by horror artist, New York Times best-seller, and children’s book illustrator Gris Grimly. Gris’ … Read more
Tonight on WDWNT: The Radio Show we introduce a brand new game called Haunted Mansion Ghost Catching Adventure. It is a choose your own adventure type trivia game where you take part in a story involving the Haunted Mansion and must answer questions to capture ghosts. As always, we will be giving out some great … Read more
Even though the California and Florida editions of Disney’s Haunted Mansion were not constructed on the same day 45 years ago, it seems appropriate to acknowledge August 9, 1969 since the versions are so similarly conceived. So it is in this “spirit” that we have caught up with DoomBuggies.com founder, Mousetalgia founder and co-host, and … Read more
Ep. 145 America on Parade This week we review the Park 13 Haunted Mansion and Tower of Terror LE box sets. We preview the upcoming Indiana Jones series. We have news about Valentine’s Day, Aladdin and Disney Store figures. And we have an interview with Disney Design Group artist Maria Clapsis. Download podcast
The Park Limited Edition combo sets are really impressing me. I can not wait for the Tower of Terror blind box set or this, the Haunted Mansion Stretching Room four 3″ figure combo pack. This set was designed by Ron Cohee and will be released on December 20th at both D-Streets and Online. The price … Read more
Haunted Mansion Stretching Room LE from Park 13 LE 2000 12/20 $59.95 Update: Back of figures and HQ photos added. Figures based on the Haunted Mansion Stretching room. I hope there’s something special that shows the rest of each painting (as seen below). What do you think they could do?
Starting the opening night of Mickey’s Not-So-Scary Halloween Party at the Magic Kingdom Park on September 10th, guests will be able to pick up an event-exclusive Sorcerers of the Magic Kingdom game card! This new Hitchhiking Ghost Sorcerer’s of the Magic Kingdom spell card, in concert with other spell cards, enables players to guests join Merlin’s quest to defeat … Read more
WDWNT Reporter Dirk Wallen recently visited three of the Walt Disney World theme parks and has a number of newsworthy photos to share with us from his trip. With all the D23 Expo coverage we’ve been dealing with, it has taken a while to get to this report, but better late than never, so let’s … Read more
I spent a majority of last weekend visiting the Magic Kingdom and I took a number of newsworthy photos to share, so let’s take a look at what’s new around the park: The Villas at the Grand Floridian are looking great Moving to the Magic Kingdom, the MyMagic+ service center is sitting dormant in Town … Read more
