Disney’s Haunted Holidays Scares Up A Lot Of Fun

Disney.com is celebrating Halloween (and more) with a special Haunted Holidays site, and there’s a lot to explore and a lot of fun and spookiness to find. You want to make sure to really look around, because some of the best stuff is a little hidden, and several of the video clips are quite interesting.

Overview:

Disney.com is celebrating in spooky fashion this Fall with the new “Haunted Holidays” promotion offering exclusive videos, games and activities. The special destination on Disney.com (www.disney.com/HauntedHolidays) will be updated with new features often from now until the New Year!

“Haunted Holidays” brings together scary attractions like the Haunted Mansion, notorious villains from classic films like “Snow White,” and then embraces the holiday “spirit” literally with special features on the upcoming “Christmas Carol” film from Walt Disney Studios.

From Pirates to Muppets, from London to New Orleans, “Haunted Holidays” on Disney.com brings together an array of exclusive and never before seen features from some of Disney’s most popular films and characters. Highlights include:

The Haunted Mansion

Often picked as a favorite attraction by Disney Parks guests around the world, the Haunted Mansion is celebrating its 40^th anniversary this year, and on Disney.com you can watch exclusive behind-the-scenes videos that look at the history and Imagineering that went into creating the spookiest place at Disneyland. The Haunted Mansion Chapter features:

“Choose your Demise” game, in the “spirit” of the real Haunted Mansion elevator portraits the portraits featured in this game may not be as they appear.
Exclusive flip book of Haunted Mansion images and artwork
Exclusive, behind-the-scenes videos and fan videos at Disneyland Resort

The Muppets

The Muppets have “dug up” their favorite spooky jokes in honor of Halloween – check out all-new videos and shorts, you don’t have to be a werewolf to howl at these jokes, even our mummy likes them. Chapter features are:

Hidden “pop-up” Halloween jokes
Original Halloween-themed videos
Fan-favorite Muppet sketches

Nightmare Before Christmas

What holiday is complete without a visit to Halloweentown with Jack Skellington? Continuing a Disney Halloween tradition, the “Nightmare Before Christmas” Chapter features:

Video of Rise Against’s music video “Making Christmas”
Links to Disney.com Create portal photo mash-up featuring “Nightmare” characters
Character flip book

Also at the site -

Haunted Mansion

Videos of fan stories
Game “Choose your demise”
Flip book of images/artwork of the Haunted Mansion
Portrait changer – young girl transforms to old woman

Snow White

Behind-the-scenes clips from the DVD
Mouse over apple locket and image changes from Snow White to the castle

Pirates of the Caribbean Online

Downloadable POTCO world map
Downloadable Jolly Roger Wanted poster
Mouse over pirates – they start to fight

A Christmas Carol

Movie Surfers clip in video player
Scrooge Dance animation frames (click on the object multiple times, it looks like it’s dancing – original animation from movie)

Nightmare Before Christmas

Rise Against’s music video of “Making Christmas”
10/7 – Create portal photo mash-up will be linked
Character flip book

Tale of Two Cities

Spooky ghost tours of London and New Orleans – new video each week
Maps of London and New Orleans

Princess and Frog

Character tarot cards
Flip book of images from the film
Videos: 1) film trailer and 2) The Princess and the Frog story

Cartoon Classics

Videos of classic Disney cartoons related to the holidays
Links to related games

To help celebrate, I have a copy of A Muppets Christmas Special Letters To Santa to give to one lucky winner. Check the Haunted Holidays site out, and leave a comment telling me your favorite part, and you are entered to win. U.S. and Canada only. Winner will be selected Nov. 26th.

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