October 27, 2025 • 32 mins
👻 What if Disney made Halloween at Walt Disney World even spookier?
This week, Lou Mongello shares his five original, story-driven Disney Halloween ideas that could transform the parks with new attractions, experiences, and eerie overlays - all filled with that perfect mix of nostalgia, storytelling, and Disney magic.
From haunted celebrations of extinct attractions to imaginative new Halloween experiences, Lou dreams up what could make the Walt Disney World Halloween season even more magical - with creative concepts that celebrate Disney’s history, innovation, and a few friendly frights along the way.
🎃 Whether you love the Haunted Mansion, Mickey’s Not-So-Scary Halloween Party, or just the fall vibes in the parks, you’ll love these spooky “what if” ideas inspired by Disney’s unique blend of fun and fantasy.
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Have you ever seen a haunted house?
We're gonna bring ghosts fromall over the world, but we haven't
got the ghosts in there yet.
We're out collecting the ghosts.
Creepy creeps with eerie eyesstart to shriek and harmonize Grim
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gringo Scott to.
Socialize.
Well, if you should decide tojoin us, final arrangements may be
made at the end of the tour.
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End of the tour?
Yeah.
Take two.
WDW Radio, your information station.
It's spooky season once again,and I love Halloween, especially
at Walt Disney World.
But what if there was evenmore of it in the parks?
This week I'm sharing my fivespooky Disney Halloween ideas for
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Walt Disney World.
New attractions, enhancementsand experiences that blend nostalgia,
creativity and a little bit ofDisney magic.
I want to know from you whichone's your favorite or what spooky
idea would you love to seecome to life in the parks?
Hello my friend and welcome toWW Radio, your guide to the Disney
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So my schedule has just beencrazy, but I promise to get better
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This week I'm putting on myimaginary and imagineering hard hat
and stepping into the role ofat Home Imagineer.
I love Halloween.
I am an admitted kid at heart.
I love spooky season and themovies and the music and the costumes
and even candy even though I'mnot a sweets guy and pumpkin spiced
everything and apple cider andthe overlays and the Disney parks
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around the world as well asthe additional parties and stories
and experiences.
And Disney, especiallyglobally does Halloween really well.
Obviously in Walt Disney Worldwe have not so scary Halloween party
which goes back to 1995 whentickets were $16.95.
Disneyland has the OogieBoogie Bash and overseas Disneyland
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Paris has done things like aHalloween soiree.
Mickey's Halloween CelebrationParade Festival all October in Tokyo.
It's a relatively recent thing.
Around late 1990s, around 1997they started having Disney's Halloween
and guests would come in costumes.
They would do some parades.
Shanghai started theirHalloween Carnival in 2018.
They also have a dance partyand costume culture and themed snacks
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are starting to really grow.
Hong Kong Disneyland is wherethey really turn it up to 11.
Going back to 2007, they'vehad haunted Halloween with mazes.
They have Disney HalloweenTime, a little bit softer villain
meet and greets and someabsolutely wild and somewhat scary
walkthrough experiences likethe Nightmare Experiment as well
as the Maze of Madness.
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The Nightmare Experimentcontinues and obviously Disney Cruise
Line has Halloween on the highseas which goes back to 2013 on the
Disney Dream.
But because I love it so much,I just wish there was more including
and especially at Walt Disney World.
And I understand why we don'tdo some of the seasonal overlays
like at Disneyland because theexperience and vacationers here are
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different, whereas Disneylandis primarily locals and repeat visitors,
etc.
But as Dame Judi Gent says,let's have some fun, shall we?
What if we could dream up ourown spooky overlays and haunted ish
experiences for the parkswhere our imaginations and probably
budgets could go wild?
I am not saying that any ofthe following things I'm about to
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say are in any way realistic,but hopefully fun.
Maybe even provide a littlespark of inspiration.
So these are my 5ish favoritewhat if Halloween concepts, ideas
that blend story and history,maybe some nostalgia, a few happy
haunts along the way.
And of course I want to hearfrom you.
I want to know which of these,if any, you would love to see come
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to Walt Disney World.
More importantly, what youridea for a spooky Halloween addition,
overlay or experience you'dlike to see come to Walt Disney World.
Again, to be clear, these arevery, very, very blue sky, not fully
flushed out.
Don't think about things likelogist and budget and time etc.
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But let your imaginations run wild.
And number one, I'm going tostart in Epcot center, specifically
in World Showcase for aLegends and Lore nighttime tour.
I want you to imagine a latenight after hours, maybe even something
like a candlelit tour duringfood and wine season festival that
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focuses on the mythologicalbeasts and historical hauntings and
folkloric shadows of some ofthe World Showcase pavilions and
creatures of each culture.
This could even be like a sip,stroll and listen type experience
where instead of costumes andghosts, the focus is really on atmosphere
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and storytelling and sharingthe legends and stories of each of
the different pavilions.
So because you obviously comefrom future World, it's always going
to be future world to me.
And you have to go leftbecause left is right.
You start off in Mexico andmaybe celebrate the spirits of Dia
de los Muertos and you havethis marigold flower bridge between
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the living and the deadguiding the loved ones home.
And if you listen closely, youmight even hear the echoes of La
Llorona, the weeping womansaid to wander near the water searching
for her lost children.
And to be clear, I do notclaim to know any or all of the stories
and fables and mythology andHalloween season ghost lore.
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So these are just quick ideasfrom a kid who grew up in Jersey.
But over in Norway, obviouslyyou have the land of trolls and Norse
gods, but in the dark forestsof Norway, there's the Legend of
the Huldra, which is abeautiful forest spirit that lures
travelers off the path withtheir song before vanishing into
the mist.
In China, you have the legendof the moon rabbit, who you can see
on clear nights near theTemple of Heaven.
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Ghost stories are a major partof Chinese culture, especially during
what they call the HungryGhost Festival in Germany, Obviously
the medieval pass is filledwith lots of eerie folklore that
you could draw from.
Like the Lorelei is a sirenhaunt, the Ry river, and there's
a legend of the kobolds andthe dark black forest, which are
these mysterious spirits ofmines and hearths that were blamed
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for noises and missing tools.
In Italy, there are plenty ofghost stories and legends going back
to ancient Rome, as well as alot of Italian Catholic guilt and
the legends of the lamures whowere believed to be these vengeful
spirits of the dead who wouldreturn if their rights were neglected.
Over in the AmericanAdventure, obviously we have everything
from Salem witches to colonialghost tales to southern folklore.
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I mean, the legends are asvast as the nation itself.
So I think there's a lot youcan draw from here.
In Japanese folklore, beautyand terror sort of coexist.
So there are things like theUrai or ghosts that appear as figures
in kimonos.
There's also the Kitsune, theshape shifting fox spirits that are
said to trick travelers orsometimes protect them.
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In Morocco, which I think isbeautiful at night, you have the
stories of the Jin, who arethese beings of sort of smokeless
fire that live among us, thatare both kind and chaotic.
Over in the France pavilion,look, Paris is said to be one of
the most haunted cities in Europe.
And I wish there was some wayto create replicas of the miles of
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catacombs that live beneathits streets.
But there's also stories of LeDamlanche with the White lady who
appears on lonely roads towarn travelers of dangers ahead.
Over in the uk, I think ghoststories are sort of part of Britain's
DNA.
I think there's a way to sortof lean into the idea of stepping
into this sort of Victorianghost stories or the headless ghost
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of Anne Boy Lynn.
I think there's a lot that youcould draw from here.
And the vast Canadianwilderness is also home to lots of
eerie legends and creatureslike the Wendingo, this spirit of
both greed and hunger.
And again, I think there'sjust a lot to draw from here culturally
from a storytellingperspective and having actors come
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and share these stories andlegends in a way that's both educational
as well as atmospheric.
I think it's more aboutleaning into the culture as opposed
to the horror and honoringthat real folklore with Epcot and
Disney's legacy of edutainmentDNA for what I think could really
be sort of this cross betweencultural storytelling and fun, very
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well themed supernatural theater.
And yes, I resisted thetemptation to talk about the potential
food opportunities.
Okay, next we're going to gonumber two.
We're gonna go over to theMagic Kingdom.
And still one of my favoriteattractions, one that I think potentially
offers a neat story andpossibly somewhat realistic storytelling
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perspective, and one that alsoties back to Walt Disney.
I want you to imagine theHaunted Railroad, sort of the ghost
train of the Magic Kingdom,where you have nighttime runs of
the Walt Disney WorldRailroad, featuring spooky narration
and effects.
So during Halloween season,which I know begins in August, the
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railroad tell stories fromeach different land as a train circles
the park at night.
Each segment has its ownnarrator, like a ghostly conductor
or a mischievous spirit goingthrough the tunnels.
I think you could have, like,theatrical fog effect at different
stations or as you go throughsome of the different lands.
And again, every station,every area will tell a different
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ghost story attached torailroad history from phantom trains
and vanished passengers andsome of these historic railway mysteries.
And as you circle the park,the lighting will change to make
some of these scenes that werevery familiar look very different.
And so, like, Main street cantalk about these opening day spirits
that still walk the park.
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And Frontierland Stationshares Old west ghost town tales.
And Fantasyland could talkabout some of these fairy tale warnings
and enchanted forests at night.
And I could imagine havingeither the overhead conductor sharing
these stories or real liveactor conductors who are on the different
train cars enhancing the experience.
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And this is actually somethingthat I think could realistically
be executed because it doesn'treally require much of a change of
infrastructure.
And I think there's a highpayoff factor for guests in terms
of really effective storytelling.
For number three on my list,we're going to stay in Magic Kingdom.
Again, suspend your bit ofdisbelief because we're going to
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go over to Tomorrowland andWalt Disney's Carousel of Progress,
A Century of Frights, where Ithink there could be this humorous
and still heartwarmingHalloween overlay showing how Americans
have celebrated spooky seasonthrough time.
So, for example, each era andscene would showcase how we have
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experienced Halloween throughthe decade.
So in the 1900s, very simple.
The family's just going togather around for parlor games and
bobbing for apples and tellingghost stories by candlelight and
the father can talk about, youknow, the old country superstitions
that they brought over andmaybe even some subtle nods to spiritualism
and seances that were popularback then in the 1920s.
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It's about sitting around theradio that is crackling with that
very early sort of firsthorror radio drama and think about
how cool the costumes would be.
And they're carving turnips,which were the original jack o' lanterns
before pumpkins.
And Uncle's going to talkabout those new moving pictures with
Lon Chaney before we move intothe 1940s where the family is still
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listening to the radio, butthis time it's sort of an Orson Welles
style radio.
Horror and trick or treatingis just start to becoming a thing.
And because of things like warrationing, costumes are being created
from bedsheets and flour sacks.
And I think there's this coolopportunity for learning about history,
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right?
Those sort of wartime thriftcostumes and things that really happened
during that time, like theimpact of the War of the Worlds broadcast
moment.
Then, in the quote unquotemodern day, the family is going to
talk about their elaborateHalloween decorations outside that
we can sort of see through the window.
There's animatronics and musicand lights.
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And they are planning tostream their horror movie marathon
on Disney plus, talking aboutsort of the retro Halloween versus
modern Halloween.
There could be some not sosubtle nods to Disney's own Halloween
content here.
So you have this sort ofmodern, smart home decor with still
everything pumpkin spice andugg boots and down vests and still
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this tie into there being agreat big beautiful tomorrow.
And I think this concept worksbecause I think it still keeps the
charm of the attraction andmore importantly, the family, while
teaching how Halloween hasevolved alongside technology and
culture.
For number four, and I justrealized there's probably gonna be
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more than five because I don'twant to abandon a couple of these
ideas.
For number four, we are going to.
This might be nightmare fuel,but we're gonna stay in Magic Kingdom.
We're gonna go over toFantasyland to It's a Small World
when the lights go out.
This is an after hours overlaycelebrating how every culture is
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gonna once again, like what wetalked about in Epcot, gonna sort
of honor the spirits and the harvest.
And so as your boat passesthrough all of the different scenes,
the lighting is very different.
The dolls are sort of sleepingin these much darker scenes.
And as your boat comesthrough, very subtle lighting is
going to reveal them innighttime moonlit settings, but also
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showcasing their uniqueHalloween or Harvest or Day of the
Dead traditions like theJapanese Oban lanterns and Irish
Samhain celebrations and theChinese Hungry Ghost festivals.
So there is a differentversion of the music, almost sort
of like a music box version ofthe song in a minor key.
So it's sort of gentle andmysterious as opposed to being scary,
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but really about celebratinghow different cultures honor the
supernatural and some of thechanging seasons and in their own
ways.
So it's not scary.
This is done very gently, veryinclusively, very educationally.
So it's still a little, or forsome people, a lot spooky, but still
kind of comforting.
And I think it works becauseit's educational, it's culturally
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respectful, it uses theexisting infrastructure and I think
creates a very differentemotional experience of a very familiar
attraction.
And as I'm saying this outloud, I wish I could ask Richard
Sherman what he would think ofthis idea and how he could make the
It's a Small World theme,maybe in that minor key, just a little
bit scary.
Er, I don't know.
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We'll never know.
Anyway, we're going to stay inMagic Kingdom, where it seemed like
a lot of my ideas are taking shape.
And finally we're going to getto something that involves one of
my favorite parts of theDisney experience, which is, of course,
food.
We're going to head over toSkipper Canteen and the haunted mess
Hall.
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And this is an experience thatis as much about the actors as it
is the environment, because Ialmost sort of picture this as an
immersive dinner show wherethe Jungle Cruise skippers spend
one cursed night in the canteen.
And what you do is youtransform the restaurant into this
immersive Halloween dining experience.
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Right.
The Jungle Cruise Skippers arestuck in the canteen, and like the
Adventures Club, some of themounted animals and artifacts have
come alive.
And throughout dinner, thereare subtle or not so subtle animatronic
movements.
There's projection effects onthe walls, maybe showing some of
the different jungle spirits.
I think you could even drawfrom some of Jungle Cruises and other
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stories around the world.
And I think the Skippers areperforming as if they're sort of
like trying to survive thenight with obviously their humor
still intact.
It's very easy to add or evenrename some of the menu items with
some spooky names, but keepsome of the cool flavors.
And I think there's anopportunity here to emphasize the
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society of explorer andadventurer lore, where you have those
tales of the cursed artifactsand the mysterious disappearances
and some of the things thatmaybe were discovered in the Jungle,
but maybe should have stayedlost and maybe even like guests could
help try and break the curse.
I think there's a lot ofopportunity here and I think it works
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because you have thiscontained space.
You can utilize the existingdecor, add things like flickering
lanterns or vines on the wallsand glowing artifacts.
I think it's a ticketed experience.
I think you can leverage thatsea mythology that I think Disney's
been quietly building in the background.
More importantly, I think itshowcases and brings to the forefront
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cast members and their talentas they perform in character.
I think there's jokes couldmeet jumpish moments.
I think there's a lot ofreasons why it would work.
And I think from a somewhatselfish perspective, I think this
is something that I wouldlove, love, love to see.
Not because I love food, but Ilove Skipper Canteen, I love the
Jungle Cruise, I love theactors, and I'd love to see more
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sea lure woven into not justthe Halloween season, but all year
long in the parks.
Number five on my list leansvery heavily into not just nostalgia,
but legend and legends.
This is the mysterious manoror the Museum of the Weird finally
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gets built.
Roly Crumps unrealized dreamis finally brought to life.
This living in cabinet ofCuriosities where imagination sort
of haunts itself.
I want you to imagine thisstandalone attraction or maybe even
something that is annexed tothe Haunted Mansion.
Again, don't worry aboutlogistics and where it would actually
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go.
Just follow me around the roomwith this.
That brings the Museum of theWeird to life.
This is a very surreal,immersive experience where every
object tells a story and maybethings don't stay still for very
long.
It is this celebration of thestrange and the whimsical and the
wonderful side of Disney's imagination.
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And some of those things andthose incredible ideas that never
made it off the shelf at 1401Flower Street.
It's not a haunted house.
It is a curiosity cabinet.
And maybe like this mysteriousmanor is this once forgotten, boarded
up old museum that finally hasits doors opened, tucked somewhere
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behind Liberty Square or evenNew Orleans Square at Disneyland.
And it was maybe like foundedby this eccentric collector.
Who knows, maybe he was evenone of Walt's earliest imagineers.
Who knows, Maybe his name was Roli.
Who knows, maybe he evenvanished before the museum opened.
But every year on All HallowsEve, the exhibits awaken and tell
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their stories once more.
I think this could be this asit was almost originally imagined,
this walk through or eventrackless sort of hybrid attraction.
Again, it's surreal, not scary.
Where the portraits follow youand these artifacts sort of murmur
little secrets.
There is like I imagine again,I'm thinking back to some of the
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early concept art.
This music room that has likeself playing instruments and floating
chairs and melting candles andmaybe even this corridor of lost
dreams.
Maybe you sort of go into thisback room where you see blueprints,
not real blueprints, butimagineered blueprints of unbuilt
rides that start to animate.
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And I think there's so manyopportunities for incredible Easter
eggs and original artworkreproductions and sketches and nods
to other haunted mansions andmystic manors and phantom manors
around the world.
And I think it works becauseit honors very, you know, and Disney's
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Even done this at D23s in thepast very the weird and wonderful
legacy.
And I think there's thisagain, this.
There's this eerie wonder interms of what this attraction could
be.
Nods back to Disney's andimagineering's history and legacy
and, and this sort ofspiritual sequel or almost addendum
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to the Haunted Mansion.
And I think even from, youknow, sort of a more grander scale,
this is about imagination thatnever dies.
Like it's spooky.
Yes, a little bit.
But it's also a love letter toWalt's creative spirit, Rolly Crumps
playfulness and the weird sideof Disney's creative DNA.
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And I'll call this 5A because,and I know I'm telling you to suspend
your disbelief and maybe Ican't suspend my own, but because
of what it is and where Ioriginally envisioned it would or
could be.
It can't be.
This is Muppet Vision 3DReturn to the Haunted Mansion.
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This would have been or couldbe if they built a new theater or
some other experiencesomewhere else.
A seasonal Halloween time filmoverlay which is almost like a sequel
to Muppets Haunted Mansion onDisney plus, which I think by the
way is not only some of thebest Muppet stuff they've ever done
on Disney plus.
I think it's some of the bestoriginal content ever put on Disney
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plus.
And the idea is that this issort of a Muppet Halloween takeover.
And Gonzo and Pepe are filminga new documentary and the Electric
Mayhem is there.
Like they're doing a jamsession with this ghost band.
And I think you could have theSwedish Chef in a haunted kitchen.
Obviously Statler and Waldorfwere there.
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They've been ghosts all along.
Piggy.
There's this entire finalemusical number and their rendition
of grim grinning ghosts.
I think this Makes sensebecause I'd love to see more Muppets
you could have rest in peace,use the original theater.
I think it's family friendly humor.
I think there's a cool likesocial buzz that would have have
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attached itself to this.
And I think it connects theMuppet and Haunted Mansion fandoms
as they make this sort of mockumentary.
Like they can't go back to theHaunted Mansion again.
So Pepe is just like, allright, we're gonna go and film a
documentary to make the reallybig money.
And that's exactly what this is.
They, the Muppets would sortof arrive at the mansion with their
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big 3D cameras and you wouldsort of go through these different
acts and scene with all of thedifferent characters.
And I think the pre show andthe post show and gosh, I wish it
was still there.
The gift shop could have allfeatured theming and story elements
and merchandise to celebratethis idea of the Muppets Haunted
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Mansion.
Had the theater still beenthere, it would have been a very
low lift in terms of a lowbarrier to entry with no major construction.
But alas, this and probablyall of my ideas will never come to
fruition.
It was more about sort ofimagining two of my favorite things
during my favorite time ofyear, Muppets and Haunted Mansion
and one of my favoriteHalloween shows which is the Muppets
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Haunted Mansion on Disney pluscoming together for an in park sequel
type experience and a coupleof quick honorable mentions.
I had more ideas, but I wantto try and keep it as much as I can
to my five.
But these just sort of bearmentioning I think would obviously
you have to somehow leveragethe Twilight Zone Tower of Terror.
And what I wish we could seeis a Twilight Zone Tower hotel year
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round or even seasonal lounge.
A highly themed and obviouslywe see this shift with things like
Geo82 etc, a highly themed,possibly even adults only bar or
lounge adjacent to theTwilight Zone Tower of Terror where
guests can come in for notjust like an elevated experience,
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but can encounter thesemysterious characters and maybe even
solve a hotel mystery.
Maybe this is like, maybe it'seven a ticketed experience.
I'm thinking out loud withmultiple seatings per night.
Think like Hoop Dee Doo but ina lounge setting.
You can call it like the 5thDimension Club or something.
And there's cool mixologyfocused cocktails, a lot of immersive
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detail that really sort offeels as though it came right out
of the hotel and lobby andreally have this storytelling driven
experience that maybe justlasts, you know, a couple hours.
Throughout the night.
I just dig Tower of Terror.
I dig Halloween.
I just think something likethat would be super, super cool.
Especially if it's somethingthat's not just a passive sit in
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the lounge type of experience,but something not like an escape
room, but almost like this.
Not murder, but like a murdermystery type experience that lasts
a couple of hours and happensmultiple times throughout the evening.
And then finally I tried tothink of something and I asked myself,
like, what if you could dosomething outside of the park that
you didn't need a park ticket?
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Or it wasn't an after hours experience.
And that brought me over toDisney's Grand Floridian Resort and
Spa because I think thearchitecture, the theming, the location
could lend itself.
And I haven't sort of fullyflushed this idea, but could almost
lend itself to this limitedrun, almost sort of a signature dining
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experience that wouldtransform one of the resort ballrooms,
which are relatively sort of plain.
And I've seen what they'vedone at in for events in the past
and weddings and corporate events.
They can convert this into anincredibly well themed, haunted turn
of the century, almost like amasquerade ball, where not just guests
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could come either in, youknow, semi formal dressy wear or
sophisticated costumes, butthere would be costumed actors there
for this elaborate, albeitsomewhat spooky banquet.
And I have one other conceptfor an attraction that I realize
isn't necessarily spooky anddoesn't even necessarily have to
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fit within the Halloween season.
So maybe I'll save this ideafor another Blue sky concept show
in the future.
But these are just a few 5ishof my ideas for new Halloween attractions,
overlays and experiences thatI would love to see come to Walt
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Disney World.
Some are spooky, some arenostalgic, but are all inspired by
a little bit of Disney magicand some imagination and lots of
caffeine.
But I want to hear from you.
What do you think of my ideas?
Which one would you like tosee come to life?
Or more importantly, what kindof new Halloween experience would
you create for Walt Disney World?
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In fact, that's just the right spirit.
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This week I'm putting on myimaginary and imagineering hard hat
and stepping into the role ofat Home Imagineer.
I love Halloween.
I am an admitted kid at heart.
I love spooky season and themovies and the music and the costumes
and even candy even though I'mnot a sweets guy and pumpkin spiced
everything and apple cider andthe overlays and the Disney parks
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around the world as well asthe additional parties and stories
and experiences.
And Disney, especiallyglobally does Halloween really well.
Obviously in Walt Disney Worldwe have not so scary Halloween party
which goes back to 1995 whentickets were $16.95.
Disneyland has the OogieBoogie Bash and overseas Disneyland
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Paris has done things like aHalloween soiree.
Mickey's Halloween CelebrationParade Festival all October in Tokyo.
It's a relatively recent thing.
Around late 1990s, around 1997they started having Disney's Halloween
and guests would come in costumes.
They would do some parades.
Shanghai started theirHalloween Carnival in 2018.
They also have a dance partyand costume culture and themed snacks
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are starting to really grow.
Hong Kong Disneyland is wherethey really turn it up to 11.
Going back to 2007, they'vehad haunted Halloween with mazes.
They have Disney HalloweenTime, a little bit softer villain
meet and greets and someabsolutely wild and somewhat scary
walkthrough experiences likethe Nightmare Experiment as well
as the Maze of Madness.
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The Nightmare Experimentcontinues and obviously Disney Cruise
Line has Halloween on the highseas which goes back to 2013 on the
Disney Dream.
But because I love it so much,I just wish there was more including
and especially at Walt Disney World.
And I understand why we don'tdo some of the seasonal overlays
like at Disneyland because theexperience and vacationers here are
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different, whereas Disneylandis primarily locals and repeat visitors,
etc.
But as Dame Judi Gent says,let's have some fun, shall we?
What if we could dream up ourown spooky overlays and haunted ish
experiences for the parkswhere our imaginations and probably
budgets could go wild?
I am not saying that any ofthe following things I'm about to
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say are in any way realistic,but hopefully fun.
Maybe even provide a littlespark of inspiration.
So these are my 5ish favoritewhat if Halloween concepts, ideas
that blend story and history,maybe some nostalgia, a few happy
haunts along the way.
And of course I want to hearfrom you.
I want to know which of these,if any, you would love to see come
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to Walt Disney World.
More importantly, what youridea for a spooky Halloween addition,
overlay or experience you'dlike to see come to Walt Disney World.
Again, to be clear, these arevery, very, very blue sky, not fully
flushed out.
Don't think about things likelogist and budget and time etc.
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But let your imaginations run wild.
And number one, I'm going tostart in Epcot center, specifically
in World Showcase for aLegends and Lore nighttime tour.
I want you to imagine a latenight after hours, maybe even something
like a candlelit tour duringfood and wine season festival that
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focuses on the mythologicalbeasts and historical hauntings and
folkloric shadows of some ofthe World Showcase pavilions and
creatures of each culture.
This could even be like a sip,stroll and listen type experience
where instead of costumes andghosts, the focus is really on atmosphere
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and storytelling and sharingthe legends and stories of each of
the different pavilions.
So because you obviously comefrom future World, it's always going
to be future world to me.
And you have to go leftbecause left is right.
You start off in Mexico andmaybe celebrate the spirits of Dia
de los Muertos and you havethis marigold flower bridge between
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the living and the deadguiding the loved ones home.
And if you listen closely, youmight even hear the echoes of La
Llorona, the weeping womansaid to wander near the water searching
for her lost children.
And to be clear, I do notclaim to know any or all of the stories
and fables and mythology andHalloween season ghost lore.
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So these are just quick ideasfrom a kid who grew up in Jersey.
But over in Norway, obviouslyyou have the land of trolls and Norse
gods, but in the dark forestsof Norway, there's the Legend of
the Huldra, which is abeautiful forest spirit that lures
travelers off the path withtheir song before vanishing into
the mist.
In China, you have the legendof the moon rabbit, who you can see
on clear nights near theTemple of Heaven.
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Ghost stories are a major partof Chinese culture, especially during
what they call the HungryGhost Festival in Germany, Obviously
the medieval pass is filledwith lots of eerie folklore that
you could draw from.
Like the Lorelei is a sirenhaunt, the Ry river, and there's
a legend of the kobolds andthe dark black forest, which are
these mysterious spirits ofmines and hearths that were blamed
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for noises and missing tools.
In Italy, there are plenty ofghost stories and legends going back
to ancient Rome, as well as alot of Italian Catholic guilt and
the legends of the lamures whowere believed to be these vengeful
spirits of the dead who wouldreturn if their rights were neglected.
Over in the AmericanAdventure, obviously we have everything
from Salem witches to colonialghost tales to southern folklore.
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I mean, the legends are asvast as the nation itself.
So I think there's a lot youcan draw from here.
In Japanese folklore, beautyand terror sort of coexist.
So there are things like theUrai or ghosts that appear as figures
in kimonos.
There's also the Kitsune, theshape shifting fox spirits that are
said to trick travelers orsometimes protect them.
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In Morocco, which I think isbeautiful at night, you have the
stories of the Jin, who arethese beings of sort of smokeless
fire that live among us, thatare both kind and chaotic.
Over in the France pavilion,look, Paris is said to be one of
the most haunted cities in Europe.
And I wish there was some wayto create replicas of the miles of
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catacombs that live beneathits streets.
But there's also stories of LeDamlanche with the White lady who
appears on lonely roads towarn travelers of dangers ahead.
Over in the uk, I think ghoststories are sort of part of Britain's
DNA.
I think there's a way to sortof lean into the idea of stepping
into this sort of Victorianghost stories or the headless ghost
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of Anne Boy Lynn.
I think there's a lot that youcould draw from here.
And the vast Canadianwilderness is also home to lots of
eerie legends and creatureslike the Wendingo, this spirit of
both greed and hunger.
And again, I think there'sjust a lot to draw from here culturally
from a storytellingperspective and having actors come
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and share these stories andlegends in a way that's both educational
as well as atmospheric.
I think it's more aboutleaning into the culture as opposed
to the horror and honoringthat real folklore with Epcot and
Disney's legacy of edutainmentDNA for what I think could really
be sort of this cross betweencultural storytelling and fun, very
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well themed supernatural theater.
And yes, I resisted thetemptation to talk about the potential
food opportunities.
Okay, next we're going to gonumber two.
We're gonna go over to theMagic Kingdom.
And still one of my favoriteattractions, one that I think potentially
offers a neat story andpossibly somewhat realistic storytelling
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perspective, and one that alsoties back to Walt Disney.
I want you to imagine theHaunted Railroad, sort of the ghost
train of the Magic Kingdom,where you have nighttime runs of
the Walt Disney WorldRailroad, featuring spooky narration
and effects.
So during Halloween season,which I know begins in August, the
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railroad tell stories fromeach different land as a train circles
the park at night.
Each segment has its ownnarrator, like a ghostly conductor
or a mischievous spirit goingthrough the tunnels.
I think you could have, like,theatrical fog effect at different
stations or as you go throughsome of the different lands.
And again, every station,every area will tell a different
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ghost story attached torailroad history from phantom trains
and vanished passengers andsome of these historic railway mysteries.
And as you circle the park,the lighting will change to make
some of these scenes that werevery familiar look very different.
And so, like, Main street cantalk about these opening day spirits
that still walk the park.
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And Frontierland Stationshares Old west ghost town tales.
And Fantasyland could talkabout some of these fairy tale warnings
and enchanted forests at night.
And I could imagine havingeither the overhead conductor sharing
these stories or real liveactor conductors who are on the different
train cars enhancing the experience.
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And this is actually somethingthat I think could realistically
be executed because it doesn'treally require much of a change of
infrastructure.
And I think there's a highpayoff factor for guests in terms
of really effective storytelling.
For number three on my list,we're going to stay in Magic Kingdom.
Again, suspend your bit ofdisbelief because we're going to
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go over to Tomorrowland andWalt Disney's Carousel of Progress,
A Century of Frights, where Ithink there could be this humorous
and still heartwarmingHalloween overlay showing how Americans
have celebrated spooky seasonthrough time.
So, for example, each era andscene would showcase how we have
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experienced Halloween throughthe decade.
So in the 1900s, very simple.
The family's just going togather around for parlor games and
bobbing for apples and tellingghost stories by candlelight and
the father can talk about, youknow, the old country superstitions
that they brought over andmaybe even some subtle nods to spiritualism
and seances that were popularback then in the 1920s.
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It's about sitting around theradio that is crackling with that
very early sort of firsthorror radio drama and think about
how cool the costumes would be.
And they're carving turnips,which were the original jack o' lanterns
before pumpkins.
And Uncle's going to talkabout those new moving pictures with
Lon Chaney before we move intothe 1940s where the family is still
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listening to the radio, butthis time it's sort of an Orson Welles
style radio.
Horror and trick or treatingis just start to becoming a thing.
And because of things like warrationing, costumes are being created
from bedsheets and flour sacks.
And I think there's this coolopportunity for learning about history,
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right?
Those sort of wartime thriftcostumes and things that really happened
during that time, like theimpact of the War of the Worlds broadcast
moment.
Then, in the quote unquotemodern day, the family is going to
talk about their elaborateHalloween decorations outside that
we can sort of see through the window.
There's animatronics and musicand lights.
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And they are planning tostream their horror movie marathon
on Disney plus, talking aboutsort of the retro Halloween versus
modern Halloween.
There could be some not sosubtle nods to Disney's own Halloween
content here.
So you have this sort ofmodern, smart home decor with still
everything pumpkin spice andugg boots and down vests and still
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this tie into there being agreat big beautiful tomorrow.
And I think this concept worksbecause I think it still keeps the
charm of the attraction andmore importantly, the family, while
teaching how Halloween hasevolved alongside technology and
culture.
For number four, and I justrealized there's probably gonna be
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more than five because I don'twant to abandon a couple of these
ideas.
For number four, we are going to.
This might be nightmare fuel,but we're gonna stay in Magic Kingdom.
We're gonna go over toFantasyland to It's a Small World
when the lights go out.
This is an after hours overlaycelebrating how every culture is
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gonna once again, like what wetalked about in Epcot, gonna sort
of honor the spirits and the harvest.
And so as your boat passesthrough all of the different scenes,
the lighting is very different.
The dolls are sort of sleepingin these much darker scenes.
And as your boat comesthrough, very subtle lighting is
going to reveal them innighttime moonlit settings, but also
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showcasing their uniqueHalloween or Harvest or Day of the
Dead traditions like theJapanese Oban lanterns and Irish
Samhain celebrations and theChinese Hungry Ghost festivals.
So there is a differentversion of the music, almost sort
of like a music box version ofthe song in a minor key.
So it's sort of gentle andmysterious as opposed to being scary,
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but really about celebratinghow different cultures honor the
supernatural and some of thechanging seasons and in their own
ways.
So it's not scary.
This is done very gently, veryinclusively, very educationally.
So it's still a little, or forsome people, a lot spooky, but still
kind of comforting.
And I think it works becauseit's educational, it's culturally
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respectful, it uses theexisting infrastructure and I think
creates a very differentemotional experience of a very familiar
attraction.
And as I'm saying this outloud, I wish I could ask Richard
Sherman what he would think ofthis idea and how he could make the
It's a Small World theme,maybe in that minor key, just a little
bit scary.
Er, I don't know.
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We'll never know.
Anyway, we're going to stay inMagic Kingdom, where it seemed like
a lot of my ideas are taking shape.
And finally we're going to getto something that involves one of
my favorite parts of theDisney experience, which is, of course,
food.
We're going to head over toSkipper Canteen and the haunted mess
Hall.
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And this is an experience thatis as much about the actors as it
is the environment, because Ialmost sort of picture this as an
immersive dinner show wherethe Jungle Cruise skippers spend
one cursed night in the canteen.
And what you do is youtransform the restaurant into this
immersive Halloween dining experience.
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Right.
The Jungle Cruise Skippers arestuck in the canteen, and like the
Adventures Club, some of themounted animals and artifacts have
come alive.
And throughout dinner, thereare subtle or not so subtle animatronic
movements.
There's projection effects onthe walls, maybe showing some of
the different jungle spirits.
I think you could even drawfrom some of Jungle Cruises and other
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stories around the world.
And I think the Skippers areperforming as if they're sort of
like trying to survive thenight with obviously their humor
still intact.
It's very easy to add or evenrename some of the menu items with
some spooky names, but keepsome of the cool flavors.
And I think there's anopportunity here to emphasize the
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society of explorer andadventurer lore, where you have those
tales of the cursed artifactsand the mysterious disappearances
and some of the things thatmaybe were discovered in the Jungle,
but maybe should have stayedlost and maybe even like guests could
help try and break the curse.
I think there's a lot ofopportunity here and I think it works
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because you have thiscontained space.
You can utilize the existingdecor, add things like flickering
lanterns or vines on the wallsand glowing artifacts.
I think it's a ticketed experience.
I think you can leverage thatsea mythology that I think Disney's
been quietly building in the background.
More importantly, I think itshowcases and brings to the forefront
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cast members and their talentas they perform in character.
I think there's jokes couldmeet jumpish moments.
I think there's a lot ofreasons why it would work.
And I think from a somewhatselfish perspective, I think this
is something that I wouldlove, love, love to see.
Not because I love food, but Ilove Skipper Canteen, I love the
Jungle Cruise, I love theactors, and I'd love to see more
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sea lure woven into not justthe Halloween season, but all year
long in the parks.
Number five on my list leansvery heavily into not just nostalgia,
but legend and legends.
This is the mysterious manoror the Museum of the Weird finally
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gets built.
Roly Crumps unrealized dreamis finally brought to life.
This living in cabinet ofCuriosities where imagination sort
of haunts itself.
I want you to imagine thisstandalone attraction or maybe even
something that is annexed tothe Haunted Mansion.
Again, don't worry aboutlogistics and where it would actually
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go.
Just follow me around the roomwith this.
That brings the Museum of theWeird to life.
This is a very surreal,immersive experience where every
object tells a story and maybethings don't stay still for very
long.
It is this celebration of thestrange and the whimsical and the
wonderful side of Disney's imagination.
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And some of those things andthose incredible ideas that never
made it off the shelf at 1401Flower Street.
It's not a haunted house.
It is a curiosity cabinet.
And maybe like this mysteriousmanor is this once forgotten, boarded
up old museum that finally hasits doors opened, tucked somewhere
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behind Liberty Square or evenNew Orleans Square at Disneyland.
And it was maybe like foundedby this eccentric collector.
Who knows, maybe he was evenone of Walt's earliest imagineers.
Who knows, Maybe his name was Roli.
Who knows, maybe he evenvanished before the museum opened.
But every year on All HallowsEve, the exhibits awaken and tell
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their stories once more.
I think this could be this asit was almost originally imagined,
this walk through or eventrackless sort of hybrid attraction.
Again, it's surreal, not scary.
Where the portraits follow youand these artifacts sort of murmur
little secrets.
There is like I imagine again,I'm thinking back to some of the
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early concept art.
This music room that has likeself playing instruments and floating
chairs and melting candles andmaybe even this corridor of lost
dreams.
Maybe you sort of go into thisback room where you see blueprints,
not real blueprints, butimagineered blueprints of unbuilt
rides that start to animate.
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And I think there's so manyopportunities for incredible Easter
eggs and original artworkreproductions and sketches and nods
to other haunted mansions andmystic manors and phantom manors
around the world.
And I think it works becauseit honors very, you know, and Disney's
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Even done this at D23s in thepast very the weird and wonderful
legacy.
And I think there's thisagain, this.
There's this eerie wonder interms of what this attraction could
be.
Nods back to Disney's andimagineering's history and legacy
and, and this sort ofspiritual sequel or almost addendum
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to the Haunted Mansion.
And I think even from, youknow, sort of a more grander scale,
this is about imagination thatnever dies.
Like it's spooky.
Yes, a little bit.
But it's also a love letter toWalt's creative spirit, Rolly Crumps
playfulness and the weird sideof Disney's creative DNA.
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And I'll call this 5A because,and I know I'm telling you to suspend
your disbelief and maybe Ican't suspend my own, but because
of what it is and where Ioriginally envisioned it would or
could be.
It can't be.
This is Muppet Vision 3DReturn to the Haunted Mansion.
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This would have been or couldbe if they built a new theater or
some other experiencesomewhere else.
A seasonal Halloween time filmoverlay which is almost like a sequel
to Muppets Haunted Mansion onDisney plus, which I think by the
way is not only some of thebest Muppet stuff they've ever done
on Disney plus.
I think it's some of the bestoriginal content ever put on Disney
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plus.
And the idea is that this issort of a Muppet Halloween takeover.
And Gonzo and Pepe are filminga new documentary and the Electric
Mayhem is there.
Like they're doing a jamsession with this ghost band.
And I think you could have theSwedish Chef in a haunted kitchen.
Obviously Statler and Waldorfwere there.
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They've been ghosts all along.
Piggy.
There's this entire finalemusical number and their rendition
of grim grinning ghosts.
I think this Makes sensebecause I'd love to see more Muppets
you could have rest in peace,use the original theater.
I think it's family friendly humor.
I think there's a cool likesocial buzz that would have have
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attached itself to this.
And I think it connects theMuppet and Haunted Mansion fandoms
as they make this sort of mockumentary.
Like they can't go back to theHaunted Mansion again.
So Pepe is just like, allright, we're gonna go and film a
documentary to make the reallybig money.
And that's exactly what this is.
They, the Muppets would sortof arrive at the mansion with their
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big 3D cameras and you wouldsort of go through these different
acts and scene with all of thedifferent characters.
And I think the pre show andthe post show and gosh, I wish it
was still there.
The gift shop could have allfeatured theming and story elements
and merchandise to celebratethis idea of the Muppets Haunted
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Mansion.
Had the theater still beenthere, it would have been a very
low lift in terms of a lowbarrier to entry with no major construction.
But alas, this and probablyall of my ideas will never come to
fruition.
It was more about sort ofimagining two of my favorite things
during my favorite time ofyear, Muppets and Haunted Mansion
and one of my favoriteHalloween shows which is the Muppets
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Haunted Mansion on Disney pluscoming together for an in park sequel
type experience and a coupleof quick honorable mentions.
I had more ideas, but I wantto try and keep it as much as I can
to my five.
But these just sort of bearmentioning I think would obviously
you have to somehow leveragethe Twilight Zone Tower of Terror.
And what I wish we could seeis a Twilight Zone Tower hotel year
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round or even seasonal lounge.
A highly themed and obviouslywe see this shift with things like
Geo82 etc, a highly themed,possibly even adults only bar or
lounge adjacent to theTwilight Zone Tower of Terror where
guests can come in for notjust like an elevated experience,
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but can encounter thesemysterious characters and maybe even
solve a hotel mystery.
Maybe this is like, maybe it'seven a ticketed experience.
I'm thinking out loud withmultiple seatings per night.
Think like Hoop Dee Doo but ina lounge setting.
You can call it like the 5thDimension Club or something.
And there's cool mixologyfocused cocktails, a lot of immersive
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detail that really sort offeels as though it came right out
of the hotel and lobby andreally have this storytelling driven
experience that maybe justlasts, you know, a couple hours.
Throughout the night.
I just dig Tower of Terror.
I dig Halloween.
I just think something likethat would be super, super cool.
Especially if it's somethingthat's not just a passive sit in
(28:02):
the lounge type of experience,but something not like an escape
room, but almost like this.
Not murder, but like a murdermystery type experience that lasts
a couple of hours and happensmultiple times throughout the evening.
And then finally I tried tothink of something and I asked myself,
like, what if you could dosomething outside of the park that
you didn't need a park ticket?
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Or it wasn't an after hours experience.
And that brought me over toDisney's Grand Floridian Resort and
Spa because I think thearchitecture, the theming, the location
could lend itself.
And I haven't sort of fullyflushed this idea, but could almost
lend itself to this limitedrun, almost sort of a signature dining
(28:43):
experience that wouldtransform one of the resort ballrooms,
which are relatively sort of plain.
And I've seen what they'vedone at in for events in the past
and weddings and corporate events.
They can convert this into anincredibly well themed, haunted turn
of the century, almost like amasquerade ball, where not just guests
(29:06):
could come either in, youknow, semi formal dressy wear or
sophisticated costumes, butthere would be costumed actors there
for this elaborate, albeitsomewhat spooky banquet.
And I have one other conceptfor an attraction that I realize
isn't necessarily spooky anddoesn't even necessarily have to
(29:30):
fit within the Halloween season.
So maybe I'll save this ideafor another Blue sky concept show
in the future.
But these are just a few 5ishof my ideas for new Halloween attractions,
overlays and experiences thatI would love to see come to Walt
(29:51):
Disney World.
Some are spooky, some arenostalgic, but are all inspired by
a little bit of Disney magicand some imagination and lots of
caffeine.
But I want to hear from you.
What do you think of my ideas?
Which one would you like tosee come to life?
Or more importantly, what kindof new Halloween experience would
you create for Walt Disney World?
(30:13):
You can share your thoughtsand your own ideas by joining the
conversation and communityover in the clubhouse on Facebook
at www.radio.com clubhouse.
Or better yet, call thevoicemail at 407-900-9391.
Tell me what you'd love to seein the parks next Halloween and I
will play it on the air.
Because even if I get 999 great.
(30:35):
Ideas, there's room for a thousand.
Any volunteers.
That'S going to do it for thisweek's show.
Thank you once again forlistening and for being part of the
(30:56):
WWW family.
I am so incredibly grateful toand for you and I hope that you found
some magic, some fun, somedistraction and laughter in this
week's show.
I hope that you feel betterbecause of it.
And if you do and if you enjoythe show, please help spread the
word.
Tell a Friend Share it onSocial Tag me at lumangello.
I will make sure I follow youand reshare it.
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And again you can connect withme on Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn.
I am at Lou Mongello and youcan Also visit lou mongello.com if
you are looking for a speakerfor your next conference event or
for your school, or if you'dlike to work together and have me
try and help you turn what youlove into what you do with one on
one coaching, my momentumevents and other content courses
and community.
And I hope that you love andenjoy Spooky Season and Halloween
(31:39):
as much as I do with yourfamily, with your friends.
Whether you are trick ortreating or not.
I'd love to see how you'recelebrating Halloween.
Share your costumes,decorations, favorite treats or traditions
over in the clubhouse.
Or if you share them onsocial, Be sure again to tag me umangello
and until then, remember to bekind, choose the good.
Have a great day and evenbetter tomorrow.
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I love and appreciate you.
Thanks again.
Well, it sounds pretty good.
In fact, that's just the right spirit.
Hurry back.
Hurry back.
(32:20):
Be sure to bring your deathcertificate if you decide to join
us.
Make final arrangements now.
We've been dying to have you.
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