The Great MacGuffin's Mansion

The Great MacGuffin's Mansion is the setting of the Muppets Haunted Mansion special.

Description

Located somewhere in the Hollywood Hills of Southern California, the Great MacGuffin's Mansion is a Victorian house built by the same architects that built Ravenswood Manor, the Antebellum mansion, and Gracey Manor, located at the house number 924. In the early 20th century, it was the home of the stage magician The Great MacGuffin and his Red Herring assistant Pee Wee until he disappeared within its walls on Halloween night in 1921. In the decades since, many mortals have tried to survive a night within the Mansion's walls and escape by sunrise, only to fail and join the ranks of its happy haunts, with Gonzo and Pepe the King Prawn coming to the house on the 100th anniversary of MacGuffin's disappearance.

The Mansion is able to change its interior appearance as a response to the "sympathetic vibrations" of whatever mortals are taking on the Halloween challenge as a means of trying to lure them into staying and joining the spirits, resulting in the Muppety appearances its residents take on while Gonzo and Pepe are inside, with the Ghost Host and Constance Hatchaway being the rare human exceptions.

Features

• The Graveyard - Surrounding the entire Mansion, the graveyard merges the finale scene of the attraction with the Family Plot. As it is located outside the house, the ghosts lurking out here primarily appear in their original human forms, though assorted Muppet bedsheet ghosts also haunt the grounds. The Caretaker spends his days out here, usually preparing the tombstones for whoever ends up dying within the Mansion.
• The Foyer - Located at the Mansion's entrance, the house is able to return visitors that have successfully faced their fears back here immediately from a Corridor of Doors room in addition to its typical function of leading to the Stretching Room
• The Stretching Room - Only three paintings are seen in the special's stretching room: the Dynamite Man (played by Crazy Harry), the Tightrope Girl (played by Janice), and the Quicksand Men (played by Link Hogthrob, Dr. Julius Strangepork, and Ms. Poogy). The Gargoyle sconces also take the form of Mahna-Mahna holding candles of the Snowths.
• The Portrait Corridor - Contains the five changing portraits of Disneyland's hallway (With Annie Sue and Gaffer as the Werecat Lady, the Muppet Newsman as the Aging Man, Dr. Phil Van Neuter as the Black Prince, an unchanged Flying Dutchman, and Yolanda the Rat as Medusa) and a poster for the Great MacGuffin's magic show framed by two Bat Stanchions.
• The Corridor of Doors and Endless Hallway - The hallways are primarily presented as a continuous set of halls and the doors (featuring grillwork based on the face of Sweetums and a Doglion door decoration) are distinguished through plaques with room descriptions or numbers.
• The Séance Circle - Madame Pigota's Séance Circle is a heavily curtained space found in a door near the Grandfather Clock.
• The Grand Hall - The Grand Hall is the primary gathering spot for the Mansion's residents and notably features a vaudeville stage on the far side of the room from the Pipe Organ, presumably built as a performance space for The Great MacGuffin's magic shows.
• The Attic - The domain of Constance Hatchaway and her various husbands.
• The Spiral Staircase - Leading up to a pullchord door to the Attic, the spiral staircase has a large monster lurking in the shadowy depths below.
• The Kitchen - A scene present in earlier drafts of the special had a Kitchen scene for a ghostly version of the Swedish Chef
• Mad Scientist's Lab - Another deleted scene would have had the ghostly versions of Bunsen, Beaker, and Dr. Phil Van Neuter opening up Gonzo's head to see what made him tick.
• The Grotto - In an earlier outline when Pepe thought he was going to a Halloween party at the Playboy Mansion, he would have discovered a cauldron hot tub of literal Playboy bunny rabbits in this room that would immediately bare sharp vampire teeth upon seeing him.

Trivia

• The exterior of the house is based on the earliest designs of the Disneyland Mansion by Harper Goff and Ken Anderson from the 1950s.
• The Mansion's 924 house number is a reference to Jim Henson's birthday.