hatbox ghost enthusiast

Selene Nightingale

With all the polls I’ve been doing for the new Haunted Mansion bride of course I had to draw her! I know the effect maybe isn’t as popular as old mansion practical ones, but I think this new addition has a certain beauty to it, even if it is almost fully digital.

Adult Swim Co-Founder Andy Merrill Unveils That He Developed His Version Of A "Haunted Mansion" Series At Disney Television Animation But Got "Killed" Once Walt Disney Studios And Guillermo Del Toro Expressed Interest On Axed Film Adaptation.

Grim Grinning Ghosts almost came out to socialize at Disney Television Animation for a third time.

Andy Merrill one of the key veterans that founded Adult Swim at Cartoon Network as well proving the voice of the character Brak in Space Ghost Coast to Coast revealed that he attemped to pitch a animated series based on the beloved "Haunted Mansion" attraction at Disney Television Animation.

According to Merrill, a full pitch bible was written alongside a pilot script with Merrill detailing the pitch bible was very big however he would mention that the project was killed when Walt Disney Studios and Guillermo Del Toro expressed interest in making a new film adaptation of the ride but that project also got killed in the mid-2010s.

"I had an annual pass at the time and would drive to Disneyland and go on the ride over and over, taking mental notes of what I hadn’t seen. I included all of the international versions of the ride and the Florida one. I even wrote part of a pilot script. My show bible was pretty large. I worked for about 15 months. Disney kept stringing me along and then killed it when Guillermo Del Toro expressed interest in making a film, which never happened" --- Andy Merill

Based on the anecdote it seems that Merill's pitch was before Disney Television Animation tried to revive the idea in 2014 with two more attempts by Joshua Prett and Scott D. Peterson ("Phineas And Ferb", "Milo Murphy's Law") as a standalone television special for Disney XD and Shannon Tindle (Laika Studios "Kubo And The Two Strings", Netflix Animation "Ultra Man: Rising") as a mini-series also for Disney XD however executive changes at Disney Branded Television in 2017 shelved it's production, since then the studio has only touched the "Haunted Mansion" IP in the Random Rings and Chibi Tiny Tales short-series for crosspromotion material.

Merill is not stranger to Disney as he provided voice acting work in Disney TVA in shows like Gravity Falls as "Teeth” during “Weirdmaggedon”, Jelly Lips in the Disney TVA pilot “Club Sandwich” co-created by Craig Lewis (“StuGo”, “Wander Over Yonder”, Cartoon Network Studios “Chowder”, “Fosters Home For Imaginary Friends”) and currently is doing Pat Chatterly in “Kiff”.

Maybe one day the mansion's doors will open once again at Disney Television Animation with a new film or animated series for Disney+, beacuse we feel that animation is the next logical step after two failed attempts with live-action films.

Dakota x Cavendish: "Dakota literally went back in time hundreds of times to save Cavendish from dying, creating duplicates of himself in the process which he then stored on a deserted island. these alternate Dakotas literally have to live out their entire lives on an island with no connection to the outside world just because they love Cavendish that much. someone asks if it's worth it and he jusr goes "he's Cavendish, what're you gonna do?""

Hatbox x Bride: "These two don't have one canon personality (the HM franchise, the lore and its characters have the particularily to change in every adaptation) and in her case not one design (though I love her faceless bright eyed shadowy look, creepier and less human) and Disney tries to make us believe she never existed or is the Black Widow Bride, all I know is that back then the Beating Heart Bride aka Emily and the Hatbox Ghost were canonically groom and bride haunting the attic together and their gigs worked together. The potential of a romance between such creepy odd looking ghosts with the taller younger woman and the smaller older man always fascinated me and sounds much more interesting than the other adaptations that depict her with Mr Prettyface Ghost (Master Gracey)"

Hatbox x Bride: "These two don't have one canon personality (the HM franchise, the lore and its characters have the particularily to change in every adaptation) and in her case not one design (though I love her faceless bright eyed shadowy look, creepier and less human) and Disney tries to make us believe she never existed or is the Black Widow Bride, all I know is that back then the Beating Heart Bride aka Emily and the Hatbox Ghost were canonically groom and bride haunting the attic together and their gigs worked together. The potential of a romance between such creepy odd looking ghosts with the taller younger woman and the smaller older man always fascinated me and sounds much more interesting than the other adaptations that depict her with Mr Prettyface Ghost (Master Gracey)"

Leota x Harriet: "Mentor/Mentee ship. Leota helps Harriet to really come into her own as a psychic and save everyone from the Hatbox Ghost. After the climax, Harriet feels bad that Leota will be trapped in her crystal ball again, but Leota assures her that she is okay with it."

I missed them, so they're back hehe

So Emily is kind of back, and Hatty is excited.

Heres some more haunted mansion fan art Im obsessed with the bride and in honor of the new one I thought I would draw her again💜💜