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Beware of These Hitchhiking Ghosts
,Let's look at the other major addition to the WDW Mansion: The new Hitchhiking Ghosts. Â Carsillo's team spruced up the classic threesome we encounter as we enter the crypt, and they changed the mirror...
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A Weirder Haunted Mansion
.It's not too hard to visualize what the Haunted Mansion would have looked like if Ken Anderson's pioneering labors had been realized. Â We have an abundance of concept art, plus show scripts and...
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.7-11is indeed a lucky combination.Some startling new photography appeared July 9 and 14 of 2011, necessitating a revision of the early history of the attic bride. Â Accordingly, I'm letting you know...
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The Beginning of the Endless Hallway
.Life~by~the~Drop Jeff FillmoreOnce you've boarded your doombuggy, the Haunted Mansion almost becomes a different ride, doesn't it?  The walk-thru portion has one feel and the ride portion another....
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From Creepy Old Flicks...Part Two
.Thanks to our ever-vigilant readers and friends, new material (which is really old material) necessitates the need for new posts (with things that really belong in the old posts).  Blogging allows...
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Is the See-Saw Just So-So?
.If I were asked which full tableau in the Haunted Mansion has attracted the least interest, I would have to pick the royal playground scene—the king and queen on a teeter-totter and the duchess on a...
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Snow White Looks upon Death
.I apologize for the long wait since the last post (long by Long-Forgotten standards, anyway). Â This isn't "the next post" so much as a snack to tide us over until dinner. Â It's a visual coincidence,...
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Claude Coats: The Art of Deception and the Deception of Art
.(Edit:Â Feb 2012, new artwork added)Of all the major contributors to the creation of the Haunted Mansion, the most elusive is Claude Coats (1913-1992). Â That is primarily because no interview with Mr....
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The Lost Graveyard
Updated May 26 and Nov 21, 2012.The orange text toward the end represents a radical revision of theoriginal post in light of new evidence that surfaced in November 2012.It sounds a little funny to say...
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Haunted Organs and Ghostly Hitchhikers
.Update: New art added February 21, 2013.As we've said before, the Imagineers responsible for creating the Haunted Mansion scoured the nooks and crannies of popular culture looking for ideas, reading...
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Alfred Hitchcock on the Haunted Mansion
.Taken from a 1972 interview......(Left: Jacket art for Alfred Hitchcock's Ghostly Gallery by Fred Banbery [NY: Random House, 1962].  Right: Rolly Crump concept art)..........................A big...
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The Ghostland Around Us, Beneath Us
.Updated May 24In an early post on this blog, I presented my reading of the three-act play that everyone seems to agree is the basis of the Haunted Mansion ride.....Act One: The ghosts can't seem to...
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Walls and Stares
.Major updating May 27-29; May 31We've done a lot of posts exploring the historical, literary, cinematic, and even musical roots of things that go bump in the night at the Haunted Mansion. Â There are...
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The Haunted Mansion is Blue, and Phantom Manor is Pink
.I've lived long enough to watch the modern feminist movement go through more than one intellectual stage. Â In the 70's it was still called "women's lib" more often than "feminism" and a bad guy would...
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Into the Dark Forest
.Before someone asks, I must say that the amazing synchronicity between this post andTHIS ONEis coincidental. Â I had no inkling what the next Passport blog was going to discuss. Â The post you're now...
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Doing the Dishes
.As I'm sure many of you know, the ballroom scene in the Haunted Mansion has a soundtrack in addition to the organ. Â It's party noise, the sound of clinking glasses and laughter. Â (Bonus trivia: Â At...
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The Gargoyles
.So begins the booklet accompanying the souvenir record album, "The Story and Song from the Haunted Mansion." Â As we've said in one way or another more than once, the gist of the attraction consists in...
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The Haunted Clock
.You see an ominous grandfather clock, forever striking thirteen, as the shadow of a threatening hand slowly descends. Â The stuff of nightmares, no? Â This is another brilliant Haunted Mansion tableau...
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The Haunted Mansion in Miniature
.In an earlier post I mentioned how the Disney Imagineers create scale models of the attractions they are building, a doll house version.  The models are set up high on tables with a narrow gap snaking...
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Do You Remember Miss April-December?
.I do.  So do many of you.  She is the only prominent Mansion resident other than the Hat Box Ghost to be removed absolutely, leaving no trace behind.  (Purply Shroud is another, and so are the attic...
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