Showing posts with label haunted mansion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label haunted mansion. Show all posts

Sunday, February 22, 2015

DISNEY HAUNTED MANSION PAINTINGS

Most of these pictures are from The Haunted Mansion at Disneyland and Disneyworld. The yellowish portrait near the end is from a Ghostbusters movie.  


I'm partial to portraits of misers so I'll start with that.


The picture morphs into one showing a greedy relative who did away with the miser to get his money.


Here's a couple who might be decribed as mean and cheap. You'd expect that they'd be friends of the miser but that's not likely. True misers have deep disdain for those who are merely cheap.



Let us not forget the rides many interesting mini-portraits. That skull character on the left is beautifully designed.


Back to the large portraits; here's (above) Jack the Ripper.


And here's (above) Rasputin and his famous penetrating stare. Disney's good at making morphing pictures.


Here's (above) The Cat Lady....

....and here's the lady cat.


Above, Count Dracula.



Here's the morphing Medusa.


Who the heck are these kids (above)?

I know this guy.


 Here's a concept drawing that may never have been fully painted.


I notice that the Mansion contains no "mystery" paintings, i.e. pictures that contain a hidden picture or message. Can you see the hidden picture in this (above) one?


I'll end with this (above) over-the-fireplace portrait from the Ghostbusters movie. It  inspired me to consider leaving a creepy portrait of myself behind when it's my turn to kick the bucket.


It should be underlit and spooky. If I become the family patriarch my relatives would expect no less.


I'll include lots of esoteric symbols and a hint of a hidden fortune in the house. If I have greedy successors then they'll obsess over the supposed meaning of the thing.


Thursday, February 19, 2015

DISNEY HAUNTED MANSION BUSTS

Above, from Disneyworld's Haunted Mansion, the evil twins Wellington and Forsythia.


Who are these characters? It's not hard to imagine a whole film built around them.


From the same Haunted Mansion garden, it's (above) a bust of Uncle Jacob, a murderous miser.


Yikes! Is that Thurl Ravenscroft (above, foreground), the voice of Tony the Tiger?


Above, the Evil Coachman.

Evil coachman can be found in any era.


Here's some inverse statuary from Tokyo Disneyland.


Uh oh, I'm all sculptured out. How 'bout a couple of framed pictures from the mansion hall?


The park should sell posters of this ghost ship.


One final picture. I want to end this on an uplifting note.