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Haunted Mansion Lenticular Pin Collection
When Disneyland was celebrating its 50th Anniversary, the Disney Catalog came out with some wicked cool Haunted Mansion items, including this limited edition pin collection.
Now, I’m not a pin collector, but lenticulars have a very high ranking in this house, so the fact that these were pins quickly became outranked by their cool lenticular status! Honestly, I’m very impressed with these mini-lents….
Now I was all excited to use a fancy-schmancy mouse roll over effect to show you the lenticular pins, but after spending a day trying to figure out why the code wouldn’t work, I learned that WordPress hosted blogs don’t allow mouse roll over effects. Boo! (If I’m incorrect, Internet, pray tell!)
Here’s the Screaming Pop-Up Ghost
Here is my favorite pin. Madame Leota, of course! “Creepies, crawlies….”
Medusa…she’s pretty cool, too!
and finally…the Hat Box Ghost with Crown
Jody Daily, Disney Artist, talked with DoomBuggies.com about the pin set:
“The hatbox ghost actually would have 4 stages (head, eyes, nothing, and eyes again fading back to the head). Leota has three different expressions (closed eyes & mouth, open eyes/closed mouth, open eyes and mouth). The other three pins have only two stages, but on the screaming “pop-up” head portrait we tried to line up their eyes exactly so that the eyes will stay the same. GEEKY!”
These little suckers were difficult to photograph, so I apologize for the quality of the images. Video would be nice, and perhaps I’ll update this post with a video soon. Thanks to my daughter for loaning me her Webkins bat for displaying!
Disneyland Haunted Mansion Pin Collection
Exclusive to Disney Catalog
Edition Size 1500
Pins range in size from 1.5 to 2 inches
Original Price: $44.95
Released April 7th, 2006
Haunted Mansion Tabletop Block Puzzle
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.
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.
by Carrie
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