Posted on Saturday, 29th October 2011 by Nancy Johnson

For the last 10 years, from the end of September until after the New Year rings, Jack Skellington has brought the Haunted Mansion Holiday to delight Disneyland Resort guests with his “vision” of Christmas.   This year, I thought it would be fun to share some of the unique and wonderful sights that guests will find [...]

Tags: Christmas, Disneyland, Disneyland Resort, Haunted Mansion, Haunted Mansion Holiday, holidays, Jack Skellington, Nightmare Before Christmas, Spiral Hill, Zero
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Posted on Wednesday, 19th October 2011 by WebmasterLeah

Post by Chris Heinrichs Let me preface this by letting everyone know that I’ve had a love affair with the dead for many years now (not as creepy as it sounds). I didn’t visit Walt Disney World for the first time until I was an adult for the 25th Anniversary celebration. Back in those days [...]

Tags: Haunted Mansion, Imagineers, Merchandise, Noah, Room for 1 More event
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Posted on Tuesday, 13th September 2011 by Nancy Johnson

The sight of this sign is enough to get die-hard Disneyland fans in a tizzy! Halloween Time will be coming to the Disneyland Resort this weekend, September 16, 2011!   The extremely popular Haunted Mansion Holiday is in the final stages of preparation to provide guests with an amazing holiday experience from opening weekend until right after [...]

Tags: Disneyland, halloween, Halloween Time, Haunted Mansion, Haunted Mansion Holiday, Jack Skellington, Nightmare Before Christmas
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Posted on Wednesday, 16th March 2011 by WebmasterLeah

For months, we’ve been hearing rumors of a new interactive queue being installed at The Haunted Mansion in the Magic Kingdom.  Well, it seems the time is finally here!  Today was the last day of our week-long trip to Walt Disney World and as we were walking through Liberty Square this morning, we noticed a [...]

Tags: disney world, Haunted Mansion, interactive queue, Magic Kingdom
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Posted on Wednesday, 16th March 2011 by Dave Parfitt

Each Disney destination including Disneyland, Walt Disney World, Tokyo Disney Resort, Disneyland Paris, and Hong Kong Disneyland has its own Imagineering team to maintain and develop the parks.  Long-time Walt Disney Imagineer Kim Irvine founded Disneyland’s Imagineering office in the early 1980’s, and currently serves as the Art Director for Disneyland.  On Saturday, March 12, she [...]

Tags: Buzz Price Award, DIS Interview, Haunted Mansion, Haunted Mansion Holiday, Imagineering, its a small world, John Hench, Kim Irvine, Mary Blair, Walt Disney Imagineering
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Posted on Friday, 4th February 2011 by Tony Spittell

I have heard a legend about people riding Space Mountain, Tower of Terror, Expedition Everest, and Test Track in Walt Disney World and then riding Space Mountain and Tower of Terror in Disneyland on the same day! The planning that went into that had to be intense and amazing. This story was inspiring too. Why [...]

Tags: Big Thunder Mountain Railroad, Disney railroad, disney world, Disneyland, Haunted Mansion, Magic Kingdom
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Posted on Sunday, 12th December 2010 by Dave Parfitt

I read an interesting thread on the DISboards recently started by “meliss8599.”  The original post asked, “If you could live in a scene or ride at Walt Disney World, what would it be?”  She suggested she would love to live in the farmhouse scene in Epcot’s Living With The Land boat ride attraction, or Peter Pan’s Flight with [...]

Tags: disboards, Haunted Mansion, Living with the Land, Minnie's Country House, Peter Pans Flight, Swiss Family Treehouse, Twilight Zone Tower of Terror
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