Gingerbread Houses

50th Anniversary House — The 2019 gingerbread house, built to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Haunted Mansion.

The Gingerbread House is a tradition of the seasonal Haunted Mansion Holiday overlay. As the name suggests, it is a gingerbread house themed around the Haunted Mansion and/or The Nightmare Before Christmas in-order to serve as a centre-piece of the table in the ballroom. Every year, the design of the house changes.

Description[]

The Gingerbread House appears in the ballroom on the dining table between the Birthday Ghost and Great Caesar's Ghost at the macabre Christmas celebration being thrown for the ghosts by Jack Skellington and the residents of Halloween Town. The house's design changes every year, sometimes the even having moving pieces. While the house is made of real gingerbread and icing, it will often have mechanics built in and be built around metal rods and weights to support the massive size of the houses.

Variants[]

2001: A twisted, monstrous version of the Mansion, with arms hanging off the sides to keep the house balanced. One arm has a cake, which the birthday ghost blows out. Around the Mansion, ghosts can be seen rising out of their graves to join the celebration.
2002: A stack of presents in the shape of the mansion.
2003: Oogie Boogie standing on a roulette wheel with a small gingerbread house in one hand, a bowl of ice cream in the other, and two dice cakes on his leg.
2004: Zero's doghouse with bones for columns. Around the doghouse are various treats for Zero, who appears in front of the house and flies around it before disappearing
2005: A mansion with a man-eating wreath on the front, impaling gingerbread men on the table with forks and knives.
2006: A mansion with tentacles and snakes coming out of the sides, and skeletal hands prying off the top, like the man in the coffin in the conservatory scene.
2007: A mansion jack-in-the-box, with Jack in a jester's hat and two jack-o-lanterns bouncing out of the top and a crank on one side.
2008: A gingerbread coffin, which opens to let the gingerbread zombie inside sit up.
2009: A scary-go-round, with bonedeer and Zero spinning around.
2010: A mansion shaped like a tombstone with Jack popping out in a similar fashion to the pop-up ghosts in the graveyard. It also features the quintet of singing pumpkins in front.
2011: A mansion that transforms into a hideous monster, with glowing eyes, columns for teeth and a large tongue.
2012: Jack's house on top of a large hill with Zero floating around the top of the tower and a ghost train traveling around the table. The train carries a cupcake, which the birthday ghost blows out whenever it travels to her side of the table.
2013: An advent calendar mausoleum, with thirteen doors. Each week, a new door is opened, and a new cookie with Jack's face is added. The thirteenth door has Jack as Sandy Claws.
2014: An iron maiden like the mansion that opens to reveal a gingerbread man inside.
2015: A massive mansion of cards with spiders being used to lift pieces up like cranes while a construction worker gingerbread man stands around it. The house leans to the side as if threatening to topple over.
2016: A mansion that is similar in appearance to Sally. A ghost's arm protrudes from the mansion's front and its eye can be seen in the upper window. The ghost appears to be sewing itself inside, not unlike the ghost that appears to be walling himself in in the graveyard.
2017: A mansion that's covered in bugs that scurry around as a giant Oogie Boogie stands behind it, having pried the roof open, so he can eat all the bugs.
2018: A gingerbread house decorated for Christmas that is being uprooted by a giant spider.
2019: A mansion with various gingerbread figures of characters from the attraction both on and around it. At the center of the mansion is a man-eating wreath with a large number 50 within its maw to commemorate the Haunted Mansion's 50th anniversary. Figures of the Hatbox Ghost, Pickwick, the Tightrope Walker, Constance Hatchaway, and Madame Leota are seen on the mansion's roof, appearing and disappearing. To the left of the mansion are figures of the Singing Busts and the Hitchhiking Ghosts while the Caretaker and his dog can be seen on the right.
2020: No gingerbread house due to Disneyland's shutdown as a result of COVID-19.
2021: This gingerbread house was a conglomeration of several if not every previous gingerbread house, built to celebrate the 20th Anniversary of Haunted Mansion Holiday.
2022: A gingerbread guillotine overtop of a fireplace with Lock, Shock and Barrel atop it.
2023: A gingerbread mausoleum belonging to a shrouded gingerbread ghost named "Von Ginger".
2024: A gingerbread Frankenstein's Monster strapped to an operating table with interchangeable heads and a gingerbread Igor by the controls.

Trivia[]

The gingerbread houses are often designed to look asymmetrical and crooked to match Tim Burton's German-expressionist art-style.
It is possible that the 2009 cake which is made to look like a merry-go-round with monsters on it is an allusion to a skull resembling Jack Skellington in the 1988 film Beetlejuice. In this film, the skull mounts a merry-go-round headdress being worn by the titular character with monsters on it.
The year 2020 had no gingerbread house due to Disneyland being shut down as a result of the COVID19 epidemic.

Gingerbread Houses

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