Disney’s Haunted Mansion v2.0 sneaks in references to many of the people who designed its namesake ride.
in his spare time. He died earlier this year, so presumably someone asked his permission to be remembered in this movie as a malevolent, murderous spirit.The Haunted Mansion’s ghostly fortune teller was named after Imagineer Leota Toombs before the ride was even finished. Toombs first worked in Disney’s Ink and Paint department, where she met her husband, Harvey Toombs.
, “my eyes were the right distance apart to fit the test model.” To this day, her face is projected on the fortune teller’s ball withvoice actress Eleanor Audley reading the character’s lines. Jamie Lee Curtis performs both duties in the 2023 film.Tiffany Haddish’s character Harriet shares a first name with Harriet Burns, the girlboss of Imagineering. She was theby Walt Disney Imagineering and had to contend with the company’s boys’-club mentality in the ’50s.
on her milkman, who had weirdly hairy legs. Did she regret that choice when she had to place each leg hair individually on a robot’s leg? Who’s to say.Danny DeVito’s character Bruce Davis is likely a nod to Marc Davis, one of the last Imagineers to midwife the Haunted Mansion to completion. Davis butted heads with Claude Coates, who wanted the Mansion to be scary as shit. Marc Davis, on the other hand, wanted the Mansion to play host to his pun-inspired vignettes.
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