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.

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.