The Magic Kingdom is a theme park in Walt Disney World found in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. The second Haunted Mansion attraction is located in this park.
Description[]
The Magic Kingdom is one of Walt Disney World's four theme-parks (not including resorts or water-parks) and is themed around being an homage and sometimes recreation of Disneyland, taking its name from Disneyland's appointed pseudonym of, "Walt Disney's Magic Kingdom". Construction began on the park in 1967 and it first opened on October 1st of 1971.
Lands:[]
The Magic Kingdom is divided up into six themed, "Lands". Each of these six lands are found around Cinderella's Castle which serves as the central hub of the park. These lands include:
- Main Street U.S.A.: Themed around an idyllic recreation of Walt Disney's home-town of Marceline, Missouri from the 1910s. This is the first land entered within the park.
- Fantasyland: Themed around fairy-tales and folklore in a setting anachronistic to geography and era. It is split into three miniature lands, these being:
- The Enchanted Forest: An immersive area of Fantasyland which brings you into the magical world of stories like Beauty and the Beast, the Little Mermaid or Snow White.
- The Castle Courtyard: An area more similar to a performative medieval-fair built within the courtyard of Cinderella Castle.
- Storybook Circus: An area themed around a 19th/20th century style circus being operated by classic Disney cartoon characters.
- Tomorrowland: A land themed around an optimistic and science-fiction future for humanity, originally set in the distant future year of 1986.
- Frontierland: Themed around the romanticized Wild West and colonial American Frontiers of the 19th century.
- Adventureland: Adventureland is themed around an anachronistic jungle setting which includes the Caribbean, the Polynesian, South America, Africa and Asia. It is largely connected by theming of the colonial exploration from the late-19th/early-20th century.
- The Caribbean Plaza: This is a smaller themed area within Adventureland, themed around the Pirates of the Caribbean, being the remains of an old Caribbean pirate settlement build on Isla Tesora.
- Liberty Square: A land themed around revisionist and glamorized depictions of colonial America from the time of European settling on the land to the American revolution, to the western frontiers. This is the land which serves as home to the Haunted Mansion.
Haunted Mansion Connections[]
Haunted Mansion Features[]
The Haunted Mansion[]
The Haunted Mansion at the Magic Kingdom opened with the park on October 1st, 1971. It was the second Haunted Mansion attraction to open at any Disney park, proceeding the Haunted Mansion at Disneyland. It is built to resemble a Dutch Gothic mansion to match the late-17th century era of Liberty Square.
Memento Mori[]
Memento Mori is a gift shop in Liberty Square that exclusively sells Haunted Mansion merchandise. It opened on October 4th, 2014, replacing Yankee Trader. It was once the home and domain of Madame Leota, who came to Liberty Square after fleeing the witch trials in Salem. Many of her belongings can still be found in the shop, as well as a portrait of her.
Madame Leota's Vardo[]
Prior to Memento Mori's opening, Haunted Mansion merchandise was sold on a Romani caravan, or a Vardo, belonging to Madame Leota. It sat just outside of the mansion's exit, where the path between the Tangled restrooms and the mansion, today.[1] It was inspired by concept art by Rolly Crump for the Museum of the Weird. It is now defunct.
Haunted Mansion References[]
Being home to the Haunted Mansion, some of the Magic Kingdom's other lands and attractions have paid tribute to it.
Riverboats[]
In a removed spiel from the Liberty Square Riverboats, it was suggested that the mansion was built on Native American burial-grounds. It can be listen to here. Warning: this spiel contains an offensive racial slur.
Frontierland[]
A sign in Frontierland pointed towards the Haunted Mansion, reading "Gastley Manor". The Gastley was crossed off and "Haunted" was written above it. It has since been removed.
Skipper Canteen[]
Skipper Canteen is a restaurant in Adventureland themed after the Jungle Cruise and the Society of Explorers and Adventurers. One of the bookshelves has a titled called Myths of the Supernatural written by Gracey.
Shows and Parades[]
Mickey's Boo-To-You Halloween Parade[]
Mickey's Boo-To-You Halloween Parade plays annually during Mickey's Not-So-Scary Halloween Party. It features a variety of Haunted Mansion characters, including the Hitchhiking Ghosts, the Waltzing Dead, and Constance Hatchaway.
Happy HalloWishes[]
Happy HalloWishes was an annual fireworks show that played during Mickey's Not-So-Scary Halloween Party. It was hosted by the Ghost Host as a celebration of Halloween. It had its final performance in 2018.
Connections in other media[]
The Ghost Gallery[]
In the cast-member created Ghost Gallery backstory for the Haunted Mansion, Walt Disney World is treated as a real place within the Haunted Mansion's lore. The caretaker (here named Dick O'Dell) is an official cast-member and resident of Walt Disney World where the Haunted Mansion was relocated from its original home in New York. His dog Bony is also said to be a relative of other dogs found across the park.