Mickey Mouse & Friends

Mickey Mouse & Friends is a Disney franchise referring to the ensemble of classic Disney cartoon characters. The use of their roster can be regularly found in Disney Parks, merchandise and specials to name a few. As a result they have had many unofficial and semi-official tie-ins with the Haunted Mansion.

Haunted Mansion Appearances[]

Attractions[]

Hidden Mickeys can be throughout all versions of the Haunted Mansion, including Phantom Manor and Mystic Manor. Outside of the Endless Hallway, there is a semi-anthropamorphic armchair often put forth to feature a, "Hidden Donald" in its design.

At the Explorers Lodge in Hong Kong Disneyland, the passports of Mickey and Minnie can be found in a lounge dedicated to their adventures. Their passports can be found and their visa stamps include the sigils of Mystic Manor and the Society of Explorers and Adventurers. These passports also identify them as having been born in 1928 in Burbank, California.

Unused[]

The Lonesome Ghosts were planned to host the Haunted Mansion in an unused Ken Anderson draft of the attraction.

Live-Appearances[]

In 2019, Mickey Mouse made appearances dressed in Phantom Manor and Frontierland themed outfits outside of Phantom Manor's entrance.

Also in 2019, in Disneyland Mickey could be seen at Club 33 dressed in a Haunted Mansion-inspired costume to help celebrate the mansion's 50th Anniversary. Minnie Mouse wore a matching dress. Goofy could also be found outside the mansion, dressed as his incarnation of the ghost Jacob Marley from the 1983 Disney adaptation of Charles Dickens' The Christmas Carol.

Television[]

Disneyland Fun/Let’s Go to Disneyland Paris[]

The Grim Grinning Ghosts segment of this sing-along features Donald Duck in-front of the Haunted Mansion, being terrorized by scary trees and the Disney villains Maleficent, the Evil Queen, Captain Hook, the Big Bad Wolf, and Jafar.

House of Mouse[]

This TV series revolved around the Mickey Mouse universe characters hosting a nightclub where Disney characters all attended to dine and watch entertainment. The show featured several allusions to, and appearances of Haunted Mansion characters, namely the Hitchhiking Ghosts. The ghosts from the attraction were even kept in the club's basement within a crate labelled, "Hitchhiking Ghosts". In the episode House Ghosts, the Hitchhiking Ghosts, the Hatbox Ghost, the Executioner, and The Bride appear as well as the Lonesome Ghosts and the Skeletons from The Skeleton Dance to frighten Pete away.

In the direct-to-DVD spinoff film Mickey's House of Villains, the Hitchhiking Ghosts, Madame Leota and the Opera Singers are among the ghosts released by the Disney Villains to take over the House of Mouse.

Happy Haunting: Party at Disneyland[]

A Day at Disneyland[]

In this souvenir video tour of the park, Chip and Dale take a frightening ride aboard the Haunted Mansion at night. When leaving the attraction screaming in terror, they run by Mickey and Minnie at the Rivers of America, serving as a transition into the video's abridged presentation of Fantasmic.

Chip and Dale riding the attraction would later be used for a Magic Kingdom souvenir DVD.

In Other Media[]

Spooky Tenants[]

This comic revolves around Mickey, Donald and Goofy travelling to the haunted Harker House and convincing the ghosts to retire to the Haunted Mansion.

Epic Mickey[]

This video-game is set in, "The Wasteland", a twisted Disneyland created by the wizard Yen Sid to serve as a home to forgotten and discarded cartoon characters. In the game Mickey travels to this wasteland finding it to be lead by his precursor Oswald the Lucky Rabbit and under threat from the villainous Mad Doctor. He also finds robotic, "Animatronic" variants of his friends like Donald, Daisy and Goofy.

In the New Orleans Square/Critter Country inspired, "Bog Easy", Mickey meets with the Lonesome Ghosts and goes on a quest in the Wasteland's Haunted Mansion, Lonesome Manor. Lonesome Manor was used by a lair for the Mad Doctor in his goal to serve the villainous Shadow Blot (an adaptation of the Mickey Mouse villain, the Shadow Blot). The, "forgotten" Mickey Mouse character Horace Horsecollar also recruits Mickey to go to Lonesome Manor in order to find evidence that Constance Hatchaway murdered her husbands by finding her hatchet.

The Haunted Mansion: Haunted Happenings[]

This storybook revolves around Disney's Sensational Six starting a cleaning company called the Squeaky Cleaners. They get hired by one Mr. Gool to clean up the Haunted Mansion.

Disney Parks Shows[]

Mickey's Boo-To-You Halloween Parade[]

Mickey's Halloween Celebration[]

Spooky "Boo!" Parade

Merchandise[]

A vast aray of merchandise has been produced representing Mickey & Friends experiencing the Haunted Mansion and/or representing Haunted Mansion characters.

Clue[]

The Haunted Mansion edition of the game has Mickey and his Friends as the Suspects, though the game is framed as trying to determine which character was haunted by a ghost in a room in the Mansion.

Stretching Room[]

Fitting into the popular gimmick in Disney Parks merchandise is to parody the stretching room portraits with other Disney characters. This featured:

Goofy dressed as the orator, standing atop the lit keg of dynamite.
Mickey, Donald and Goofy dressed as the three men as they sink into quicksand.
Minnie Mouse dressed as the tightrope walker, standing on a tightrope over the gaping jaws of the crocodile from Peter Pan (1953), replacing the alligator.
Daisy Duck dressed as the black widow, sitting atop Donald Duck's tombstone.

The Disneyland Paris variant of this for the original Phantom Manor has Stitch and Tinkerbell fill in the roles instead.

Haunted Mansion Pin-Set[]

One pin-set featured pins of the characters replacing those of the Haunted Mansion. This included Mickey as the caretaker and a ballroom dancer, Minnie as Constance Hatchaway and a ballroom dancer, Goofy as the organist and mummy, Pluto as the caretaker's dog, Donald as an Opera Singer, Daisy as an Opera Singer and Madame Leota, Pete as the Executioner, Chip n' Dale as the Duelists, as-well as Huey, Dewey and Louie as the Phantom Five.

A variant of this line exists with Mickey as the Haunted Armour, Minnie as the Beating-Heart Bride, Donald as Ezra, Pluto as the caretaker and Goofy as the Coffin Occupant.

Vynilmation[]

A vynilmation series of Mickey Mouse characters dressed as Haunted Mansion figures was released, in addition to a pin series based off of said figures. This included: Mickey as a butler, Minnie as a maid, Goofy as the caretaker, Donald as the organist, Pete as an opera singer, and Daisy as Constance Hatchaway.

Character Navigation[]

A reference for the Mickey Mouse universe characters within this article, not original to the Haunted Mansion franchise.

The Sensational Six[]

Mickey Mouse: The primary mascot of the Walt Disney Company who first appeared in the 1928 short Plane Crazy and then later in the short Steamboat Willie.
Donald Duck: One of Mickey's best-friends, Donald first appeared in the 1934 Disney animated short, The Wise Little Hen.
Goofy: Goofy (originally Dippy Dawg) is Mickey's other best-friend who first appeared in the 1934 short Mickey's Revue.
Minnie Mouse: Mickey's girlfriend Minnie is a fellow anthropomorphic mouse who first appeared alongside Mickey in Plane Crazy and again in Steamboat Willie.
Daisy Duck: Donald's girlfriend and fellow anthropomorphic duck who first appeared in the 1940 short, Mr. Duck steps out.
Pluto: Mickey's pet dog Pluto who first appeared in 1930's The Chain Gang.

Assorted[]

Pete: Pete AKA Peg-Leg Pete is Mickey's nemesis and the most predominate villain of the franchise who first appeared in 1925's Alice solves a puzzle, making him the oldest recurring Disney character.
Oswald the Lucky Rabbit: Walt Disney's original central cartoon creation who is a precursor to Mickey Mouse and first appeared in the 1927 short Trolley Troubles.
Huey, Dewey and Louie: Donald Duck's nephews who first appeared in the 1937 newspaper Donald Duck comic and later appeared on-screen in the 1938 short Donald's Nephews.
Chip 'n' Dale: Two anthropomorphic chipmunk brothers who frequently antagonize Donald Duck and Pluto, having first appeared in the 1943 short Private Pluto.
Horace Horsecollar: Horace Horsecollar is an anthropomorphic horse who is often depicted as a detective, and often as Mickey's own horse. Horace first appeared in the 1929 cartoon, The Plowboy.
The Lonesome Ghosts: A group of cartoon ghosts who served as enemies to Mickey, Donald and Goofy in the 1937 short, The Lonesome Ghosts. Later, they scared Pete and pulled down his underwear making him naked during the Grim Grinning Ghosts song from House Ghosts.
Yen Sid: Mickey Mouse's sorcerer master from the Sorcerer's Apprentice sequence of the 1940 film, Fantasia. His appearance is supposedly modelled after that of Walt Disney, hence his name being DISNEY spelt backwards.
The Mad Doctor: The Mad Doctor AKA Doctor XXX is the titular antagonist of the 1933 Mickey Mouse short, The Mad Doctor. He is also technically a public-domain character due to the short having never been subject to Disney's copyright laws as a result of having been ignored for having been too scary in its initial release.
The Phantom Blot: A villain of Mickey Mouse who first appeared in the 1939 comic Mickey Mouse Outwits the Phantom Blot and who made several subsequent appearances in television, shorts, and video-games.

Other[]

Sometimes, Disney characters not primarily featured in the pantheon of Mickey Mouse and Friends characters. Here this might include:

The Big Bad Wolf: From the Three Little Pigs (1933) and it's sequels, spin-offs and assorted Mickey Mouse universe appearances.
Tinkerbell: A character who appeared in Peter Pan (1953) and was based on the same character from the original J.M. Barrie stories. She has since been used as one of the most predominate and prolific characters in the Disney company's media.
The Neverland Crocodile: A character who appeared in Peter Pan (1953) and was based on the same character from the original J.M. Barrie stories. It is a crocodile which swallowed a clock and is fixated on eating Captain Hook.
Stitch: An alien who first appeared in the 2002 animated film, Lilo and Stitch.