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Haunted Mansion Tabletop Block Puzzle

Carrie — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 17:31:06 +0000

When it comes to my collection, I enjoy having anything that will help my house look or feel more like the Haunted Mansion. I think that’s why I’m so drawn to The Haunted Mansion Tabletop Block Puzzle. I think this piece fills my craving for everyday ‘haunted-houseware’ items. I’m not normally a fan of puzzles. Don’t have the patience for them, but I like the feeling of this toy. The pieces are chunky, and I don’t mind people picking up the blocks and examining them a little closer. I can set this piece on the coffee table in our haunted library, and not cringe when someone wants to touch it. It’s a great conversation starter. Collectors prize their one of kind, low edition pieces, and I’m no different, however I find it refreshing to incorporate pieces in the collection that invite one to sit down, stay and, yes, even play!

I would have preferred to shoot this puzzle on the coffee table in our library, but that room is getting an overhaul and is unavailable.

How I adore the attention to details, such as these faces in the molding located in the 4 corners of the frame.

While this is a sturdier collectible, I don’t recommend dropping the blocks in the puzzle as my 11 year old assistant did. No harm done here, folks.

Here are the six different scenes you can make with this puzzle. I love the wallpaper and adding the 40th logo was a nice touch, I thought!

Here are the specs for this piece:
Title: Haunted Mansion Tabletop Block Puzzle
Artist: John Mauvezin
Medium: Mixed Media
Edition Size: 300

As Giddy Girlie mentioned in the comments of my last post, there were some pieces from the Haunted Mansion 40th event still available at Disneyland as recently as the last weekend of February. And thanks to my dear, dear friend, Guy the Ghoul for sending me this perfect housewarming gift.

Conservatory Coffin

Carrie — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 01:34:43 +0000

Oh, Internet! I’m so glad to be back! And with something as exquisite as this next piece. Kevin Kidney and Jody Daily really outdid themselves with the Conservatory Coffin.

I’m in love with this piece, which is so appropriate with Valentine’s Day around the corner. Seriously. I love to hold this coffin in my hand, and run my fingers across the tiny details of the molding, the claw feet, the tassels. The tiny magnetic candle holders push me over the edge, though. You can remove them and set them next to the coffin, or put them on the coffin and feel that pull of the magnet lock them into place. Its the most delightful quality to this limited edition collectible. The coffin offers an eery green glow with the touch of a switch, and with the turn of the key, the hands push the coffin lid up and down ever so slowly. If you didn’t get your bony fingers on this piece at the Haunted Mansion 40th event in 2009, then have fun bidding for it on eekbay.

Oh, and Internet, don’t be hating the dusty outline of candlesticks on the coffin lid. I’m just keepin’ it real.

Haunted Mansion Holiday Event Lenticular

Carrie — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 00:10:17 +0000

I need some help folks. I need the info for this lenticular. I thought it came out in 2001, maybe 2002 at the Disneyland Haunted Mansion Holiday Event. What was the edition size – 150 or 120? What was the price? One of the reasons I started this blog was to have a place to catalog my collectibles, but I certainly don’t know everything. I blame my children. I used to know everything until I had kids and then they came along and sucked all the good brain cells right outta me!

Thanks for your help!

Check back tomorrow for Fanmade Friday with a give-away!

Let’s SHAG, baby!

Carrie — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:28:40 +0000

I remember feeling disappointed when I first saw that the SHAG “Spirited” Haunted Mansion 40th Anniversary Cocktail Reception (which is sold out) was being held on August 8th, the day before the much debated opening date of Haunted Mansion. I thought there should be something on August 9th to celebrate this special occasion! Well, I was hasty to assume that Disneyland would celebrate the Mansion’s birthday with nothing more than a birthday sticker… albeit a cute sticker, indeed! Besides the Shag Cocktail Reception and the highly anticipated Anniversary Merchandise Event, Disneyland is hosting a SHAG Haunted Mansion Product Release & Signing from 10:00-1:00 on August 9th. Now, I have a hard enough time getting my husband to stand in a line longer than 10 minutes at the park, so this event is out of the question. And there’s that little matter of our passes expiring last year…. But, I would love to be at Disneyland that day, not only to wish my favorite antebellum mansion and her 999 Happy Haunts a very spirited birthday, but also to get my hands on some really groovy merchandise!

Call me a wanna-be 50’s hip home-maker, whatever… I’m so dorking over all the housewares stuff. And I don’t want to receive nasty grams about being a homemaker. I love my job! The pay sucks, but the hugs and kisses from my happy husband and children offers huge dividends!

Oh Magic Collectors Fairy, I beseech you to please bring me one of these, so that I may fill it with homemade cookies for all the children of the world….

I’ll give up chocolate and start drinking for one of these….

and a set of these….

I’ll give up harmful plastic water bottles for one of these…

I vow to put all future wedding portraits in these mats… whether the couple is goth or not!

I know that some of the merchandise will be sold out the day before August 9th, but I grew up believing that a dream that I wish will come true and that mice and birds will clean my house and sew my clothes…