Walt Disney World has announced the location of the Hatbox Ghost in the Haunted Mansion at Magic Kingdom. The ghost will materialize in the attraction later this year and guests will soon see temporary barriers set up for his arrival.
Here is what Disney said:
“Later this year at the Walt Disney World Resort, one of our most iconic specters will set up residence in the Haunted Mansion of Liberty Square in Magic Kingdom Park. The Hatbox Ghost will appear to guests as they pass the Endless Hallway, welcoming himself inside from the swinging wake in the cemetery and grinning at the Doom Buggies as they set off deeper into the mansion. Guests will soon see temporary barriers materialize as we await his apparition.”
The Hatbox Ghost will not be in the same location he’s in at the Haunted Mansion in Disneyland. In the original version of the ride, he’s at the end of the attic scene, after the Bride. At Magic Kingdom, he’ll be earlier in the ride, by the Endless Hallway, where guests see a candelabra floating by itself.
This will make the Hatbox Ghost the first specter guests actually see on the ride. In fact, the ghost will appear before the narration that states happy haunts are “beginning to materialize.”
The temporary barriers will presumably go up during the ride’s August closure, but the ghost won’t be installed in time for the start of the Halloween season.
The Hatbox Ghost was in the original Disneyland Haunted Mansion on opening day. Technology had not quite caught up to the ghost’s vanishing and appearing head, however, so the ghost only last a few weeks before disappearing for nearly 50 years. The Hatbox Ghost returned to the Haunted Mansion at Disneyland in 2015. He appears at the end of the attic scene, after the Bride. Disney recently shared a video about the Hatbox Ghost’s history, teasing his future appearance in Magic Kingdom.
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