Le Bat En Rouge

Image by Strublay

In September I wrote a post about these lights, and I found this (above) in Disneyland today, in the Le Bat en Rouge store.
I feel kind of awesome for knowing where this came from.
And nerdy, terribly nerdy.

Image by Strublay

Image by Strublay

Bats Day in the Fun Park

Bat's Day.
Never heard of it? Oh neither did I, until last night. I was talking with a TLT comrade when a pretty little Cybergoth walked past, and then she said it:
Bat's Day.
The day when thousands of goths, of all shapes colors and nationalities, invade Disneyland. Its an unofficial event, but Disney allows the invasion because it involves Disney making money on the crowd of gothy consumers.

No folks, I'm not kidding. Its real. They even have a special, community made, ear hat for the occasion:

So getting one. found at LINK

Only picture that didn't involve a human, you all know how I hate using photos of humans I don't know.

I much prefer props.

Even better: Bat's Day is happening the same weekend as the Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides premier is happening. The same weekend Thor is coming out.
May 6th,7th,and 8th will be a massive streak of awesome. I'm not a full blown goth, in fact I'm more nerd than anything, but I can appreciate the goth aesthetic, and the fact that this happens AT DISNEYLAND, is so intensely awesome.
Are you interested in attending Bat's Day? Do you want to find out more about Bats Day, do you want to see a picture of 2000 goths in front of Sleeping Beauty castle in the daytime? Click the web poster above and check it out.

Bat's Day. So epic.

Jack, a quick tool tip, and Disney.

Image by Strublay

Long live the Pumpkin King! 

Come on, did you think that with 3 ghost pumpkins I wouldn't have ONE dedicated to Jack? 

How To Moment: I HATE the plastic things for cutting away the skin of my pumpkins, I like using Linoleum cutters instead.  Linoleum cutters can be found in art stores in the printing area. All you need to pick up are the blades and a handle, and there is really no need to purchase the fancy handle, just pick up the cheap wooden one by speedball. I used just a #2 Speedball Linoleum cutter blade to do Jack and Scarz. 

I've always had a fascination with Tim Burton's Nightmare Before Christmas, and I tend to have a Christmas themed around Tim Burton's exploration of what might happen if Halloween and Christmas collided. 

I also have a fascination with all things Haunted Mansion, but that goes w/o saying. 

So, what are you getting at Strublay?

Well I'm also taking my time posting on other Haunters for very specific reasons. 

First: In January I start an 8 month internship with Disney at the Disneyland Resort. So you can bet that there will be a gap of posting come mid-January. I'll be extremely busy with the move to Anaheim, and my first few weeks of work will be exhausting.

Second: My Sig. Other and I are considering houses at the moment. So while I'm in Anaheim, I'll also be coordinating a house move via phone webcam and weekly or bi-monthly visits. 

Countdown from MickeyPath.com

My 2011 is going to be insane, so I'm using HalloweenForum.com as my main resource and STUFFING my favorites folder to the brim with photo-sets from my fellow Halloween fanatics displays. So lets see if this works out.

Universal Studios, Blucky does Hollywood, and looking forward to Disneyland Halloween.

Found on Flickr, Image by Biggimote

I went to Universal Studios this weekend, it was an on the fly, hey lets go, kinda thing, and I'm actually quite happy we did it. You see at the beginning of the year my sig other and I took his brother to Universal Studios and we got a heck of a deal, "Buy one day, get 2010 free" So we have an annual pass for the price of a day. (Halloween Horror nights are blocked, bummer) So we can go anytime that there isn't black out dates, for free. A really awesome thing considering that just recently the studio tour opened king kong 3d, which is highly recommended btw (go first thing at opening, the line is the shortest its going to get all day... during the middle of the day the line was 75 minutes long for the studio tour, we waited 15. However if you get stuck in the monster line, believe me it is completely worth it, King Kong is really, really wonderful stuff)

The image above is also on the studio tour, for those of you who have never been to Universal Studios Hollywood, its the house from psycho! Here the image was taken during Halloween Horror Nights, and the psycho house is rightfully lit up at night in Halloween splendor. No one does horror quite like Universal. 

Also on the studio tour was Legit Halloween-y goodness! Wisteria Lane (The stepford... er... I mean Desperate Housewives Set {You think I watch that? HA}) is dressed up for Halloween, and who made an appearance on the set? 

Why BLUCKY of course!

Found on Flicker, Image by Polly Nesia

Yes fellow haunters, that lovable blow molded skeleton we love, or love to hate, is a Television star. He's hanging from one of the houses on Wisteria Lane, and will be featured on Desperate Housewives some time during October I would not wonder. Its nice to know that even Hollywood will resort to the use of a big lots Blucky every now and again, and the really funny part of the story is that I was seriously laughing my ass off about it and my Husband just stared at me, clueless as to what I was talking about. "Honey, whats a Blucky?"

The rest of Wisteria Lane was also dressed up for our favorite Holiday, as was another set for Parenthood. I'm sorry that I didn't get pictures, but the movement was jarring and taking out the dainty 1gig microSD card from my phone and sticking it on to the adapter to save photos to for my camera was out of the question at the time... It was early morning... I was tired. Waffles.

Found on Flickr, image by Disney1955

Lastly I'm looking forward to seeing Disneyland during Halloween time. Strublay and co. will be Heading to Disneyland in October, and I'll get to experience Halloween Time at Disneyland, a rare thing considering that I'm in school full time, but my primarily online class schedule permits me to go and do things I can't with a live class. I assure you I'll be taking a ton of HQ photos for the site.

It's my goal, as a resident of the south west, to visit every theme park around Halloween time. Not all at one time mind you, but one a year or so. I've done Las Vegas' Fright Dome, and I enjoyed it, but I now want to see how the big boys do Halloween. Disneyland Resort is first, and I'm looking forward to it. 

One last thing: I've gotten some awesome comments regarding my technique for witch jars and on the blog in general, I just want to let you know I just read them, and I'll be responding with another post here very soon.

Until I get that done: Have an awesome labor day!

Of Haunted Mansions, Grim Grinning Ghosts, and a Snow Covered Jack.

 

Found on Flickr; Image by Mastery of Maps

The original Haunted Mansion in unusual hues of blue and green, a rare sight to be sure. Can you believe that its been there, up and running at 1500 guests an hour, almost everyday for 40 years? Amazing isn't it?

*Correction*The Haunted Mansion carries 2000-2400 Passengers per hour, which makes it more epic.

I had a 4 day weekend with out internet, and so I have posted today 15 images of The Haunted Mansion, Enjoy!

  

Found on Flickr; Image by Philip Michael Photo

The Florida Haunted Mansion, I've never been to Walt Disney World, but it is my intention to go in the future.

  

 Found on Flickr; Image by Cuellar

Phantom Manor in Disney Land Paris. Apparently the Euro Disney version is much more graphic than here stateside, a lot of corpses running about...

 

Found on Flickr; Image by Joe Penniston

This is the first image I have by Joe Penningston, who takes incredible images of the Mansion and makes them available on Flickr.  This image is of the ghost horse in front of the WDW Mansion. This really is an incredible effect.

 

Found on Flickr; Image by Joe Penniston

A butler in front of the front of the Haunted Mansion in CA, the composition of this image is epic. Seriously.

  

 Found on Flickr; Image by Joe Penniston

The changing portraits, straight laced respectable Victorian paintings by day, but throw some lightning on those suckers and everything changes.

  

 Found on Flickr; Image by Joe Penniston

The floating Madam Leota effect. It comes and goes in Disneyland (when I went 4 years ago it was in, but this year it was out.... ) but when its up and running what an effect it is.

  

Found on Flickr; Image by Frogmiller

The Haunted Dueling Portraits, an effect you have to be looking for while your whizzing by the ballroom in your Doom Buggy, the ballroom has so many details its hard to catch in one ride.

  

Found on Flickr; Image By Joe Penniston

'Till death do us part, taken to new heights by the ghost bride in the attic.

Found on Flickr; Image by Joe Penniston

The poor shaking grounds keeper, the only "living" thing in the mansion besides the crows and the poor old dog next to him.

Found on Flickr; Image by Joe Penniston

The talking singing busts in the grave yard

 

Found on Flickr; Image by Joe Penniston

Hitchhiking ghosts!

Found on Flickr; Image by Mastery of Maps

The next three images are of the Haunted Mansion Holiday that takes place every year from October through the end of December. Above is the external overlay, in all its beautiful daytime Nightmare Before Christmas glory.

  

Found on Flickr; Image by Imperpay

The Pumpkin King Santa.

 

Found on Flickr; Image by SDG-Pictures

Finally my favorite prop, the Pumpkin mountian. I intend to have a fake pumpkin out this year, hopefully it will snow and I can have this at home for a bit... how nice that would be. Notice that this is the area of the singing busts above, and they have just been replaced with pumpkins... pretty neat trick.