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Haunted Mansion Halloween Village Display Final Images

Well, here are images of the final display. It really looked great when viewed from the outside at night. The kids loved it.

Disneyland Haunted Mansion Diorama. Lighting Effects, showing Attic below and graveyard above. Off to the right top is the Disneyland Haunted Mansion Paper Model. So, just like in the actual ride, you go down below ground to get to the rooms.

Disneyland Haunted Mansion Diorama. Lighting Effects, showing Conservatory, Stretching Room below and Haunted Mansion Paper Model above.

Disneyland Haunted Mansion Diorama. Stretching Room with lighing effects. The purple glow in front is from a black light. The "candles" are LEDs. The glowing ghost is a toy I found over at Target before Halloween for $2. To the left is the Conservatory.

Disneyland Haunted Mansion Paper Model (200% blowup from original). Lighting Effects. Most of the lighting is from a Black Light. Since the white card stock glows under black light the whole model glows. In front are some practical lights (pumpkins, skulls, and such. On the right is the Ghostbusters Ectomobile from last year's display. The green lighting is a mini spot light behind the mansion.

Disneyland Haunted Mansion Paper Model, side view. The large white thing is a curtain. The glowing orange blobs on the roof are a light up pumpkin necklace.

Disneyland Haunted Mansion Paper Model. Same angle as above but with daylight instead of practical lighting. This is a great comparison and shows just how much a little bit of lighting does to enhance the display.

Disneyland Haunted Mansion Rooms Diorama

Disneyland Haunted Mansion Rooms Diorama, Hallway with Demon Clock and Attic with Bride

Disneyland Haunted Mansion Rooms Diorama, Conservatory with Coffin and Stretching Room with Portraits

Here are two pictures showing the finished Disneyland Haunted Mansion Rooms Dioramas. You can see in the bottom picture how these are placed below the Halloween Village display, the Stretching Room is basically below the Haunted Mansion paper model which is right behind the Ghostbusters car (from last years display).

These pictures are using daylight, the display is much better at night with the built in lighting, but these show all the details. In the top photo I added in a McDonalds kids toy, this one of Madam Leota in her Crystal Ball. The bottom picture shows the finished Conservatory and the Stretching Room with a Jack Skellington purchased at Disneyland, a light up Ghost from Target, and the Caretaker and Dog.

Disneyland Haunted Mansion Hallway Diorama

The last of the Disneyland Haunted Mansion Diorama rooms is the Hallway. This one is a simple construction, mostly used to house a 50% scale build of the Demon Clock from The Disney Experience web site. http://www.disneyexperience.com/ This is a great site for any fan of Disneyland.

This first image shows the basic construction. This is one more of the 1 foot square rooms, sized like the others. On the left side is a straight wall with a bit of Haunted Mansion Foyer wallpaper. The right side is set at an angle for a little more interest with the spooky eyes wallpaper from the Disneyland Haunted Mansion Hallway. The wood flooring is just some wood contact paper. And of course the Demon Clock from The Disney Experience built at 50% scale to fit the model. After finishing this room I picked up a smaller paper model from Trader Sam at The Disney Experience that would have been a better fit, but I already built this one, so it stays.

Here is the finished model. This includes a little lead figure suit of armor, that I put on a box to bring it up a bit in the display. The door on the right is just a print out  pasted onto a piece of black foam core, cut out, and attached to the wall. The picture and the Tomb Sweet Tomb on the wall are from a little Disneyland Haunted Mansion paper box that I found on one of the Disney web sites, family.go.com You can find tons of great Disney stuff on this site. The link will take you to the Disneyland Haunted Mansion paper box.

Finished Disneyland Haunted Mansion Paper Model at 200%

Well here it is, the finished model. This works great at 200% and I almost feel like rebuilding the other Haunted Mansions from HauntedDimensions.com at 200% as well. If I have some spare time this year I may just do that.

Disneyland Haunted Mansion Paper Model from HauntedDimensions.com, built at 200% scale

You get a bit of a feeling for how large this is with it just sitting here on my dining room table. But to really see the enlargement, here is another picture next to one of the HauntedDimension.com models built at 100% size. The other model is of the Paris Disney Haunted Mansion and is about the same size this enlarged one would be if built at the regular scale.

Disneyland Haunted Mansion Paper Model from HauntedDimensions.com, built at 200% scale next to another building built at 100% scale to show the enlargement.

The nice thing about the enlarged size, it is big enough to look correctly scaled with my store bought Halloween village decorations. This model looks great at 200%, all of the detail holds up perfectly. It really feels like it was meant to be built at this size.

Disneyland Haunted Mansion Stretching Room Diorama

The 3rd part of the 4 part Disneyland Haunted Mansion Diorama set is the Stretching Room. This was a quick build based upon 4 bookmarks available at Haunted Dimensions, link at right.

Disneyland Haunted Mansion Stretching Room Diorama, approximately 1/12 scale. This one is real easy, mostly just printouts with some practical lighting.

Here is the finished diorama, with practical lighting effects. Below are several build pictures of this simple diorama.

This Disneyland Haunted Mansion Stretching Room Diorama is based around 4 bookmarks by Ray Kiem and his Haunted Dimensions. Link on the right. It was his model of the Conservatory Coffin and these bookmarks that gave me the idea to do this 4 part diorama.

Here are the 4 bookmarks from Haunted Dimensions. The pictures slide in and out of the bookmark, but I am using them glued in the fully extended position. They are sitting inside of the basic 1 foot square diorama box, this time in white foam core (I ran out of black). The back wall is simply 4 foam core panels.

Disneyland Haunted Mansion Stretching Room Diorama, showing basic form and contact paper

The back wall was covered with standard wood grain contact paper available at most hardware and home improvement stores.

Disneyland Haunted Mansion Stretching Room Diorama, showing the wall panels in place

Here is a top view showing the wall panels lined up against the display walls.

Disneyland Haunted Mansion Stretching Room Diorama, with contact paper applied to the wall panels.

And here are the walls with the contact paper applied.

Disneyland Haunted Mansion Stretching Room Diorama, applying the floor printouts.

In this picture you can see that the bookmarks have been glued to the wall panels. The floor is made from several printouts of the same wall pattern used in the Disneyland Haunted Mansion Attic diorama. This time cut into triangles and glued to the floor. The extra white spaces were filled in with more of the wall print.

Disneyland Haunted Mansion Diorama finished, with practical lighting effects.

And here again is the finished Disneyland Haunted Mansion Stretching Room Diorama. The lights were some miniature battery operated Christmas lights that I had layout around from last year. These were picked up in a craft store and are designed for use in Christmas Village displays. Installing them was simplicity itself, I simply poked a pencil through the front of the display at the top of each candle in the bookmarks and stuck the lights through from the back side. The figure is a Disneyland Haunted Mansion Action Figure of the Caretaker. He may or may not make it into the final display, I haven't decided yet.

Just one diorama to go, that is a bit of the hallway showing the Demon Clock and a doorway. With of course that spooky eyes wallpaper.

Disney Haunted Mansion Attic Diorama

Here are some shots from my diorama of the Attic in Disney's Haunted Mansion. There is still a little bit of detail work to do, but this one is mostly finished. Next up is the hallway with the Demon Clock, wall pictures and one of the doors.

Disneyland Haunted Mansion Attic Diorama, showing printouts of wall and floor

Here is the basic box for the Disneyland Haunted Mansion Attic diorama. Just like the Conservatory diorama, this one is 1 foot square. The back wall slopes in a bit. The back wall, and the floor are simply some wood look paneling that I did up in Photoshop.

Disneyland Haunted Mansion Attic Diorama with wall and floor installed. Plus roof beam and haunted portrait.

Here the paneling and flooring is fully installed. Also installed is a brace and joists, made from some foam core with more of the wall printing glued on for detail. The picture is from the Disneyland Haunted Mansion that I found online, one of the Bride pictures. I placed it into a frame I found at a crafts store.

Disneyland Haunted Mansion Attic Diorama, stuff collected for the display, mostly paper models.

Here is some of the stuff I collected to fill up the Attic. In front, of course, is the Bride. This is a Disneyland Toy and stands about 6 inches tall. Just to her right is a vase with flowers and to the far right is a wedding cake. Both of these are from a Party Store and are candles used for weddings. The lantern in the front center is a Colman givaway that I have had around forever. Most of the rest is an assortment of paper models that I found all over the web. Different boxes, trunks, furniture, etc.  The wrinkled picture in the background is a printout of a photo of the actual Disneyland Haunted Mansion Attic that I am using for inspiration. I am not making an exact replica, but it will feel right. The Demon Clock is for the Hallway diorama.

Disneyland Haunted Mansion Attic Diorama finished, except for cobwebs

Here is everything placed into the Diorama. I still need to move a few things around, take off that black base on the Bride, glue everything down and add cobwebs, but this is basically it. There is another picture of the Bride from the actual ride to the left of the Bride, in a small frame from a crafts store. It is kind of hard to make out in this photo but in the back right corner is a worn out mirror, this is actually a Disneyland Haunted Mansion Toy from McDonald's, I painted the frame gold instead of the purple plastic it came with. It is sitting on a plastic trunk that is another McDonald's Disneyland Haunted Mansion toy. Also impossible to make out in the photo are the cards on the table, those are actual doll house sized wedding cards from the turn of the last century. With the right spooky lighting this will look great.