Add some spooky string lights or project orange pumpkins onto your home. If you’re not sure, browse here for all the Halloween decoration ideas you could want, from the most frightful to festive party tableware to props. You’ll impress all of your visitors when you fill your haunted house with endless Halloween decor-and our exclusive animatronics and creepy props will surely leave all of your guests in awe! No matter how you want to decorate for the season, Spirit is here to make sure your frightful fun lasts all the way until Halloween. While one part of Rolando's dream became a reality, the other part came true in May when his wife and three children joined him in their new home in the United States.Create the haunted house of your dreams (or nightmares!) when you shop Spirit’s wide selection of Halloween decorations! From scary Halloween decorations to party decorations, we have everything you need to transform every room of your home. Alexander's National School of Fine Arts and two years at the Havana Center of Fine Arts.Īdept in sculpturing all media, Rolando has begun the resumption of his career at WED by carving wooden furniture and ornamentation for Disneyland's Haunted Mansion. Rolando received his formal art training as a student for seven years at Havana's St. For two decades, art and educational publications have featured articles on his works. The sculptor's work has been exhibited in many countries throughout the Americas and in Spain. Rolando went to WED for an interview, presented his credentials, and was promptly made a member of the WED Imagineering staff. He had been at Disneyland for only a few weeks when the word went out from WED that new projects required the talents of an additional sculptor. Rolando Santana came to this country yearly in 1969. The Haunted Mansion is the only attraction to be in a different Land in each of the four classic Disney Theme Parks? It's in New Orleans Square here, in Liberty Square at Walt Disney World, Fantasyland at Tokyo Disneyland, and Frontierland at Disneyland Paris (where it was also renamed Phantom Manor).Ĭuban Sculptor Carves Furniture for Disneyland's Haunted Mansionįor Ciro Rolando Santana y Arrite, a soft-spoken, wiry little Cuban sculptor of extraordinary talent, a temporary position at Disneyland has become a springboard to the fulfillment of a longtime dream - to bring his family from an adopted home in Puerto Rico to the United States and continue his career as a sculptor. And have you ever noticed that the face of the clock striking 13 rests in the mouth of a beast-eyes above, gnarled feet below, and a barbed tail for a pendulum?

The human-body-as-architecture elements were originally designed for a never-built part of the Haunted Mansion called 'Museum of the Weird'? Some examples are skull-like wainscoting in the changing portrait gallery and door frames, the face-like patterns hidden everywhere, and the bony-arm candelabras in the unload area. Leota's face (as well as both face and voice of 'Little Leota' at the attraction's end) was Leota Toombs, a longtime Imagineer whose daughter, Kim Irvine, is a current Art Director with WDI's Disneyland Design Studio.Due to an oversight, the dancers in the ballroom dance BACKWARDS? If you look closely, you'll discover that the women lead! Eleanor Audley, voice of Maleficent and Cinderella's stepmother, was the voice of Madam Leota. Paul Frees, who also voiced Ludwig Von Drake and most of the Pirates of the Caribbean characters, provided the voice of the Ghost Host? The broken singing bust was voiced by Thurl Ravenscroft, best known as the voice of Tony the Tiger.

Rumors abounded for years that the Hatbox Ghost was being returned to the Mansion and FINALLY it happened on Saturday, May 9, 2015. At the time, the effect did not really work very well and was unconvincing, thus, it was quickly removed. The figure’s head was supposed to disappear and reappear in the hatbox. The Hatbox Ghost was a figure located in the attic that was removed either during the preview stage or shortly after opening. You can view it just after leaving Madame Leota's seance room. Instead, Disney covered up the hole in the glass by disguising it as a spider web and placed a fake spider right over the the hole. The Haunted Mansion Ballroom glass was so large that the roof of the building would have had to be removed/destroyed to replace them. 22 caliber with bullet fragments matching between the holes.

Later investigtation by Anaheim Police determined the holes to be.

A third hole was found in the Primeval World diorama. Two confirmed gunshots struck both the Haunted Mansion ballroom glass wall and a snowflake on Adventure Thru Inner Space. Ballroom trivia: During summer 1974 somebody fired off multiple rounds using a firearm within the park.

Haunted mansion portraits