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theenderdraco's haunted mansion sideblog

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happy hatbox came back from the void day

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY BOY HE’S BEEN BACK HOME FOR 10 YEARS NOW!!!!!!!

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Selene Nightingale

With all the polls I’ve been doing for the new Haunted Mansion bride of course I had to draw her! I know the effect maybe isn’t as popular as old mansion practical ones, but I think this new addition has a certain beauty to it, even if it is almost fully digital.

Her name is still in the works, but Selene Nightingale seems to be the one that’s sticking. And I’m naming the one eye’d cat Scrim. We haven’t decided how exactly Selene departed the land of the living yet, but we shall see :3

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Adult Swim Co-Founder Andy Merrill Unveils That He Developed His Version Of A "Haunted Mansion" Series At Disney Television Animation But Got "Killed" Once Walt Disney Studios And Guillermo Del Toro Expressed Interest On Axed Film Adaptation.

Grim Grinning Ghosts almost came out to socialize at Disney Television Animation for a third time.

Andy Merrill one of the key veterans that founded Adult Swim at Cartoon Network as well proving the voice of the character Brak in Space Ghost Coast to Coast revealed that he attemped to pitch a animated series based on the beloved "Haunted Mansion" attraction at Disney Television Animation.

According to Merrill, a full pitch bible was written alongside a pilot script with Merrill detailing the pitch bible was very big however he would mention that the project was killed when Walt Disney Studios and Guillermo Del Toro expressed interest in making a new film adaptation of the ride but that project also got killed in the mid-2010s.

"I had an annual pass at the time and would drive to Disneyland and go on the ride over and over, taking mental notes of what I hadn’t seen. I included all of the international versions of the ride and the Florida one. I even wrote part of a pilot script. My show bible was pretty large. I worked for about 15 months. Disney kept stringing me along and then killed it when Guillermo Del Toro expressed interest in making a film, which never happened" --- Andy Merill

Andy Merrill “Brak” 🐸 ❌👑 (@amerrill2.bsky.social)

While packing, I came across a Haunted Mansion Lego set that I’ve never opened. I must have got it when I was pitching a Haunted Mansion sh

Based on the anecdote it seems that Merill's pitch was before Disney Television Animation tried to revive the idea in 2014 with two more attempts by Joshua Prett and Scott D. Peterson ("Phineas And Ferb", "Milo Murphy's Law") as a standalone television special for Disney XD and Shannon Tindle (Laika Studios "Kubo And The Two Strings", Netflix Animation "Ultra Man: Rising") as a mini-series also for Disney XD however executive changes at Disney Branded Television in 2017 shelved it's production, since then the studio has only touched the "Haunted Mansion" IP in the Random Rings and Chibi Tiny Tales short-series for crosspromotion material.

Merill is not stranger to Disney as he provided voice acting work in Disney TVA in shows like Gravity Falls as "Teeth” during “Weirdmaggedon”, Jelly Lips in the Disney TVA pilot “Club Sandwich” co-created by Craig Lewis (“StuGo”, “Wander Over Yonder”, Cartoon Network Studios “Chowder”, “Fosters Home For Imaginary Friends”) and currently is doing Pat Chatterly in “Kiff”.

Maybe one day the mansion's doors will open once again at Disney Television Animation with a new film or animated series for Disney+, beacuse we feel that animation is the next logical step after two failed attempts with live-action films.

Maybe hire Patrick McHale (Cartoon Network Studios "Over The Garden Wall") to do it or revive Del Toro's and Merrill's idea as an animated film.

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Best non-canon Disney couple round 2: Dakota x Cavendish vs Hatbox x Bride

Dakota x Cavendish

Hatbox x Bride

Voting ended onDec 25, 2025

Dakota x Cavendish: "Dakota literally went back in time hundreds of times to save Cavendish from dying, creating duplicates of himself in the process which he then stored on a deserted island. these alternate Dakotas literally have to live out their entire lives on an island with no connection to the outside world just because they love Cavendish that much. someone asks if it's worth it and he jusr goes "he's Cavendish, what're you gonna do?""

Hatbox x Bride: "These two don't have one canon personality (the HM franchise, the lore and its characters have the particularily to change in every adaptation) and in her case not one design (though I love her faceless bright eyed shadowy look, creepier and less human) and Disney tries to make us believe she never existed or is the Black Widow Bride, all I know is that back then the Beating Heart Bride aka Emily and the Hatbox Ghost were canonically groom and bride haunting the attic together and their gigs worked together. The potential of a romance between such creepy odd looking ghosts with the taller younger woman and the smaller older man always fascinated me and sounds much more interesting than the other adaptations that depict her with Mr Prettyface Ghost (Master Gracey)"

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Best non-canon Disney couple part 2 round 1: Hatbox Ghost x Heart Beating Bride vs Leota x Harriet

Hatbox x Bride

Leota x Harriet

Voting ended onDec 9, 2025

Hatbox x Bride: "These two don't have one canon personality (the HM franchise, the lore and its characters have the particularily to change in every adaptation) and in her case not one design (though I love her faceless bright eyed shadowy look, creepier and less human) and Disney tries to make us believe she never existed or is the Black Widow Bride, all I know is that back then the Beating Heart Bride aka Emily and the Hatbox Ghost were canonically groom and bride haunting the attic together and their gigs worked together. The potential of a romance between such creepy odd looking ghosts with the taller younger woman and the smaller older man always fascinated me and sounds much more interesting than the other adaptations that depict her with Mr Prettyface Ghost (Master Gracey)"

Leota x Harriet: "Mentor/Mentee ship. Leota helps Harriet to really come into her own as a psychic and save everyone from the Hatbox Ghost. After the climax, Harriet feels bad that Leota will be trapped in her crystal ball again, but Leota assures her that she is okay with it."

Tags: @ben-the-hyena and @wilygryphon

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grim grinning ghosts come out. happy pride month <3 

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Hey everybody!! Got a new animatic I’ve been cooking up for the past couple of weeks! (I mean technically I was working on it since last year and I had the idea for it since 2 years ago😭😭) Anyway, it’s a bit self indulgent with my interest in the Haunted Mansion but I hope you guys are able to check the full thing out on Youtube!

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Saw a video of the "Tapestry of Happiness" projection for the Disneyland 70th, and I am obsessed that they managed to fit in a bit of Hattie/Emily when they featured Haunted Mansion--Hattie is off wandering around, and Emily (interestingly enough, in her original design rather than the current one) is right behind him, not about to be separated again for another 56 years.

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happy hatbox came back from the void day

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY BOY HE’S BEEN BACK HOME FOR 10 YEARS NOW!!!!!!!

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Hatty!! 👻

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I did a render over myself. The face is a screenshot, and I rendered the hand and every strand of hair by hand.

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❤️🎩

I missed them, so they're back hehe

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So Emily is kind of back, and Hatty is excited.

I haven’t been able to draw something properly so I’ll leave these here in the meantime.

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Been a long time since Iv posted on here

Heres some more haunted mansion fan art Im obsessed with the bride and in honor of the new one I thought I would draw her again💜💜

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Emily/the Beating Heart Bride & the Hatbox Ghost together: 1969//2003//2025

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After the recent change in Disneyland, Hattie is very happy to have his bride back ❤️✨

Meanwhile, Connie’s gotta find somewhere new to live… I hear the Hollywood Tower Hotel is nice.