Haunted Mansion Holiday

Haunted Mansion Holiday
Disneyland
Area	New Orleans Square
Status	Operating
Opening date	October 3, 2001
Tokyo Disneyland
Area	Fantasyland
Status	Operating
Opening date	September 15, 2004
General statistics
Attraction type	Omnimover
Manufacturers	Arrow Development (Disneyland)
Designer	Walt Disney Imagineering
Theme	The Nightmare Before Christmas
Music	Gordon Goodwin (original) Danny Elfman/John Debney (A Musical History of Disneyland)
Speed	3 mph (4.8 km/h)
Vehicle type	Doom Buggies
Riders per vehicle	2-3
Audio-animatronics	Yes
Host	Ghost Host (Corey Burton) (Disneyland version) Ghost Host (Ponta Mitsui) (Tokyo Disneyland version)
Disney's Fastpass available
Must transfer from wheelchair

Ghost Host (Corey Burton) (Disneyland version)

Haunted Mansion Holiday, also known as Haunted Mansion Holiday Nightmare, is a seasonal overlay of the Haunted Mansion attraction at Disneyland and Tokyo Disneyland that blends the settings and characters of the original Haunted Mansion with those of Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas. Taking inspiration from "The Night Before Christmas", the attraction retells the story of Jack Skellington (as "Sandy Claws") visiting the Haunted Mansion on Christmas Eve, leaving holiday chaos in his wake.

The Haunted Mansion typically closes for two and half weeks in August so it can be converted into the Haunted Mansion Holiday. The overlaid attraction is then open to guests from late-September through early-January, before being closed again during January so the overlay can be removed.

Two similar overlays - Country Bear Christmas Special and It's a Small World Holiday - had already been successful for some time when Haunted Mansion Holiday was developed. Initially, Disney considered doing a retelling of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, but decided against it due to the attraction's setting in New Orleans Square and the incongruity of bringing Santa Claus into the eerie environment of the Haunted Mansion. Instead, they decided to base it on The Nightmare Before Christmas after considering which Disney character would celebrate Christmas in the Haunted Mansion, should Santa Claus ever land there on his journey. Steve Davison took the idea and worked with Walt Disney Creative Entertainment to develop the overlay.