Many of the Hidden Mickeys in the Haunted Mansion no longer exist, due to the Haunted Mansion Holiday overdressing for Nightmare Before Christmas. See Nightmare Before Christmas Holiday Hidden Mickeys
REPORTED: anon 16 OCT 01
Nightmare Before Christmas merchandise cart outside the Haunted Mansion and the Port D'Orleans store are the only places where you can buy Nightmare Before Christmas merchandise in the park from October through December. Order Nightmare Before Christmas merchandise online: VHS (NTSC or PAL) or DVD (North America or Europe) or the movie soundtrack. More merchandise is available at the Disney Store Online.
REPORTED: Meg 08 OCT 01
Special funnel cakes are for sale -- with chocolate syrup "web" and gummy spider from October thru December.
REPORTED: Meg 08 OCT 01
While waiting in the queue, one of the songs they play is "Silent Night" backwards
REPORTED: Jason 22 FEB 02
Clock in place of funeral wreath-- the Nightmare Before Xmas Halloweentown clock that counts down to Halloween-- in this case, "Halloween" is replaced by "Xmas."
REPORTED: Meg 08 OCT 01
The Cast Members at the Haunted Mansion enjoy speculating about the past lives of the Mansion's residents. The Ghost Horse at the hearse had been named "Penny."
REPORTED: Jed 01 APR 99
Stretching room paintings are all new -- one starts out displaying the Haunted Mansion itself. Stretching room painting-- hearth, fireplace, stockings and a sleeping children painting. Paintings change when room stretches - clomplete with black light effects. Zero, the ghost dog, is in one of the stretching paintings as is a ghost and a jack-o-lantern.
REPORTED: Meg 08 OCT 01
There is a new item in the Holiday Haunted Mansion, if you look directly behind Madam Leota there is a new room, with a rotating star made up of all the cards that you see floating around the room. Normally there is just a black wall there. There is also a new room in the Ballroom scene, between the shooting portraits. If you look you now see into a library with a rotating stack of books in the middle.
REPORTED: Dave Provenza 24 NOV 01
There is a new attic scene. Instead of the hanging man, it's a giant Jack Skellington-as-Sandy-Claws hologram that grins and swoops down.
REPORTED: Meg 08 OCT 01
The changing paintings in the corridor are all new. From right to left: Jack as Sandy Claws flying in sky, Jack holding jack-o-lantern in pumpkin patch, snowman made of pumpkins, Haunted Mansion exterior, and Sally with her Christmas tree vision. Then alternate/changed versions of these are, in order: don't remember, Jack dressed as Sandy Claws holding something Christmasy, snowman made of snow, Haunted Mansion decorated for Nightmare Before Xmas, and Sally's Christmas tree vision (in the movie, she sees a pretty Xmas tree, then it erupts into flames.)
REPORTED: Meg 08 OCT 01
The busts that follow you are now draped in spiderwebs and a tombstone sign reads "Free Sleigh Rides."
REPORTED: Meg 08 OCT 01
Inside of the Haunted Mansion Holiday, after you get off of the elevator, look straight ahead. You should see two busts that follow you. Once you get close you will see that there are spider webs on each of them. In the weaving of the left spider web are the words "Ho Ho Ho." In the weaving of the right one, is the word "NOEL."
REPORTED: Andrew Passarotti 23 OCT 01
Doom Buggy boarding area: big display banner that reads "Merry Christmas" and then changes to "Scary Christmas." Jack as Sandy Claws, Lock/Shock/Barrel, ghosts.
REPORTED: Meg 08 OCT 01
Instead of the floating candlestick in hallway, it's Zero the ghost dog. At the end of the hallway is a big pile of dog bones!
REPORTED: Meg 08 OCT 01
The clock in the corridor of doors has a tag on it reading to Leota.
REPORTED: Jared 24 OCT 01
The guy trying to escape the coffin is now joined by Halloweentown characters.
REPORTED: Meg 08 OCT 01
You know how the raven recurs in lots of places in the non holiday mansion? He has been replaced by a specific character from the movie-- the little bat-doll-boy-come-to-life that Jack Skellington leaves for the little black children on Christmas Eve. So where the raven once was, this boy is now.
REPORTED: Meg 08 OCT 01
New decorations in the corridor of doors-- bunches of man-eating Venus fly traps (think Little Shop of Horrors [Order DVD (North America or Europe) or VHS (NTSC or PAL)]) They're singing.
REPORTED: Meg 08 OCT 01
Madame Leota's room has been redone. She has a new head in her ball and new spiel. The new voice doesn't match the old Eleanor Audley very well. Her head looks faker now. Instead of floating instruments, there are giant tarot cards. (These are seen in the movie, when Jack is performing experiments and he builds a house of tarot cards that collapse during his song.) The boy-bat-doll thing replaces the raven on the back of the chair.
REPORTED: Meg 08 OCT 01
On the holiday version of Haunted Mansion they have put tarot cards in Madam Leota's room, on one they put 'three life lines' and as you know Disney owns Who Wants to be a Millionaire....
REPORTED: Casey 06 DEC 01
In the new Haunted Mansion Holiday, the light above Madme. Leota's table has been changed from just a black lampshade with tassles to a stained glass spider webbed one.
REPORTED: Brandon Chaplin 14 NOV 01
In the ballroom, the ghosts are now having a great Christmas party. The place settings are made of new (black) china.
REPORTED: Meg 08 OCT 01
CONFIRMED: Kayla Sampson 10 OCT 01
CONFIRMED: Joe Fletcher 29 OCT 01
The attic scene: the attic is now stocked with Christmas packages. There are lists of names everywhere. "Leota" is on the "Good" list! A giant yellow/purple snake encircles the attic and his tail is curled into an Xmas tree. He's flanked by candy canes. And skulls. Snake's mouth, holding a list. "Megan" is the third name down! (Between "Keith" and "Roxy.")
REPORTED: Meg 08 OCT 01
In the Attic scene, there's a huge scroll representing Santa Claws' "naughty and nice" list which includes the name "Leota"... Madam Leota, of course.
REPORTED: anon 16 OCT 01
Yes indeed Leota's name is on Santa's list. As naughty of course.
CONFIRMED: Jared 24 OCT 01
In the graveyard, there's the curly little mountain thing from Halloweentown. It's been snowed upon, and there are jack-o-lanterns everywhere.
REPORTED: Meg 08 OCT 01
In the mechanical trees (when the Doom Buggy goes backward down the small hill.) the Bat-boy-thing is in place of raven.
REPORTED: Meg 08 OCT 01
The graveyard caretaker and his dog are on vacation -- so here's Jack and Zero!
REPORTED: Meg 08 OCT 01
The graveyard ghosts surrounded by snow. Skeletons hanging from trees. Instead of singing busts, there are singing jack-o-lanterns. Ghost angels trumpeting carols. The new soundtrack of the Mansion is mainly Nightmare Before Xmas music, but the graveyard retained a newly mixed version of Grim Grinning Ghosts.
REPORTED: Meg 08 OCT 01
I went to Disneyland for Christmas of 2001, when they had the Haunted Mansion Holiday. At the end of the ride where the hitchhikers are supposed to be, there is a scene with Lock, Shock, and Barrel with some toys. No need to worry, I noticed that the hitchhikers are still in the scene. They are on top of a hill in the background.
REPORTED: Haunted Mansion Freak 15 MAY 02
Instead of the hitchhiking ghosts, there's this new tableau. It's the stuff Jack delivered on Christmas Eve in the movie-- jack-o-lantern headed jack-in-the-box, etc. Instead of hittchiking ghosts in the mirrors, there is a skull and the jack-o-lantern headed jack-in-the-box - also a black cat.
REPORTED: Meg 08 OCT 01
Instead of Little Leota, it's Sally -- with a caption of "Merry/Scary Christmas to all, and to all a good fright!"
REPORTED: Meg 08 OCT 01
Once, when I was in the park at Christmas time. I was standing in line for the Haunted Mansion and I saw a tombstone on the hill (by the train tracks) that said Ebonezer Scrooge!
REPORTED: Crow T. Robot 03 JUN 99
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