- " Where Pachyderms reside with worms within a tomb most elegant. You'll find long gone our mastodon Beloved Penny, the elephant."
- ―Penny's Epitaph
Penny the Elephant is an animal buried at Disneyland's Haunted Mansion.
Description[]
Background[]
Penny the Elephant's statue in Main Street, U.S.A.
Penny the Elephant was a domesticated elephant which died and was buried in the Pet Cemetery of the Haunted Mansion in New Orleans, Louisiana. It is unknown if those who buried Penny there were residents of the estate, lived in the area of the estate, or moved the elephant post-mortem.
History[]
The crypt of Penny was added in 2016 and is actually a cleverly-disguised exhaust chimney for the Disneyland Railroad. Along with this, it is likely that the elephant itself is a referance to an acryllic Indian-elephant statue nicknamed "Penny" which appeared in the Penny Arcade of Disneyland Paris' Main Street U.S.A. and was later moved to the Gibson Ice-Cream Parlour in the same, "Land". It would later be moved once again to the Tropical Imports gift-shop in Disneyland's Adventureland.
Penny the Elephant's statue relocated to Adventureland at Disneyland
Appearances[]
Penny's tomb is located in the Pet Cemetery and is an above-ground crypt with the tomb's pillars looking like upside-down elephant legs and a statue by the tomb resembling a trunk. At the top of the crypt there is a small statue of a mouse which mirrors the myth that elephants are afraid of mice.
Trivia[]
- Penny is not the only character from a Main Street Penny Arcade to be connected to the Haunted Mansion. Esmeralda is a fortune-teller found in Disneyland's Main Street Penny Arcade and was featured as a character in the Ghost Post interactive game and whose tarot cards feature artwork from the Stretching Room.
- During the Halloween season, the elephant at Tropical Importals is sometimes made to glow green with red eyes.[1]