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Guillermo's HAUNTED MANSION Hatbox Ghost?
Hey folks, Harry here... Some HAUNTED MANSION geeks have been scouring the web looking for indications of life for their project. And over at Illusion Industries' website in their DESIGN area, they found something that looks like Bernie Wrightson's HATBOX GHOST. Now... so far as I know, Wrightson has never designed a HATBOX GHOST, but damn if that didn't stop ILLUSION INDUSTRIES from doing something that looks exactly like that. ALSO... According to ILLUSION INDUSTRIES list of projects, they haven't been tapped to do work for HAUNTED MANSION, and given they haven't worked with Guillermo in the past... well, it probably means that they do not have a gig on Guillermo's HAUNTED MANSION.
So, what is this?
First of all - that is absolutely the way I'd love to see the HATBOX GHOST looking in Guillermo's production of HAUNTED MANSION. I'd love one of these at geek headquarters and whomever the sculptor is... they're fairly godlike in my opinion, that's just awesome.
This could be one of several things. A sculptor at Illusion Industries could have just been a fan of Disneyland's HAUNTED MANSION and of Bernie Wrightson and just did this because he knew that it must be sculpted by him because the world would destroy itself if it didn't happen. It could be that Guillermo has asked a selection of companies to bid via creating a HATBOX GHOST and he'll decide which companies work on it based upon their interpretation. Or someone could have commissioned them to create this just because they're a huge fan and had the money to pay for it. IF it is for Guillermo's HAUNTED MANSION, and ILLUSION INDUSTRIES posted it on their website... well, there'll be angry calls soon. But honestly, it just looks like something done with a ton of love and talent to me. Let us bask in its glory!
Ye of little faith, no sooner does this story go out than I get an email from someone with a REAL HATBOX GHOST by Guillermo! Thanks Frank!
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March 21, 2012, 7:24 p.m. CST
Like Del Toro is ever actually going to make a movie again
by Detective_Fingerling
He is stuck in developmental hell.
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March 21, 2012, 7:25 p.m. CST
Speaking of Wrightson, I would LOVE to see the Frankenstein make-up test....
by the Green Gargantua
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March 21, 2012, 7:25 p.m. CST
and would love even more SOME PACIFIC RIM CONCEPT ART
by the Green Gargantua
ANY!!!!!!!!!!
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.... seriously?
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Wrightson did a lot of concept work for Ghostbusters. Some of his Gozer and Terror Dog concepts were truly terrifying. He did have some really funny stuff to like a ghostly barbershop quartet.
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even filming yet?
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Used to be a supporter of his, but now thinking Pan's was an anomaly. All his other stuff lacks heart. He's just another fanboy.
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..and yes, you just got........................ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...............coxxed!!!!!
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Doesn't look like concept art/sculpture. It looks like it's a decorative piece of art- especially since it has weathering and a stone-like appearance.
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in production, and is 100%
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As a certifiable Haunted Mansion geek, I can tell you this has nothing to do with Guillermo or the Haunted Mansion (except maybe as fan art). It's a casting from a sculpture that's been for sale for years -- I bought one myself 3 years ago at the October Shadows show over at Rick Baker's studio.
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Hat Box Ghost could be great, but over Del Toroing it could make this MUCH worse than the Eddie Murphy version.
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It's a piece called "The Victorian Ghoul" by Martin Astles. http://www.gallerynucleus.com/detail/8268 It's obviously inspired by the Hatbox Ghost though (and it's labeled as DesignHatBoxGhost on the Illusion Industries website).
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It's a piece of Mansion-inspired art by Martin Astles. http://www.gallerynucleus.com/detail/8268
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It's gonna come outta nowhere and blow everyone away.
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March 21, 2012, 9 p.m. CST
I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR PACIFIC RIM SINCE I WAS 5 FUCKING YEARS OLD
by the Green Gargantua
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March 21, 2012, 9:02 p.m. CST
HEY HARRY!! GO BACK AND READ YOUR GAIKING POST, you ever gonna explain wtf ?
by the Green Gargantua
seriously, you had a SHITLOAD of crazy things to say and now PR will lap it and there was never the promised update. come clean
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If so, why? Does amusement park ride movies demand to be made equal to that of board games?
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March 21, 2012, 9:45 p.m. CST
ITS LIKE HES TRYING TO COMMUNICATE WITH US! I JUST KNOW IT!
by Arcadian Del Sol
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Pirates had some horror elements but they weren't THAT fucked up.
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The skeletal pirates in the first POTC movie had a similar look. Martin Astles (who sculpted this) worked on that movie.
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Is just going to straight not exist. I find that amusing. Can't wait for Pacific Rim.
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March 21, 2012, 10:57 p.m. CST
Wow, just keep throwing shit to the wall until some sticks, Disney
by Nasty In The Pasty
It's been, what, eight years since the Eddie Murphy Haunted Mansion? It's like the Ang Lee Hulk and the Edward Norton Hulk...were even Hulk fans interested in seeing another Hulk movie so soon? It used to be that a few decades needed to pass before a new remake of a project would be done, now it's shrunken down to less than a decade. I can't wait for 2015's remakes of Inception, Kick-Ass and Tropic Thunder.
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First of all, exactly who are you calling a "geek"? — MORTAL! I'm the restless spirit that unearthed this corpse-like figure, so to speak. Secondly, I believe that this figure would make an IDEAL character concept design for, well, me — in Guillermo Del Toro's upcoming "Haunted Mansion" movie, of course, NOT the Disneyland attraction — to which I have yet to return and only Imagineer Tony Baxter and the bean counters at Team Disney Anaheim know why. (In truth, a few others do too, but they can't talk about it.) This character design evokes pathos, has depth, hints at a possible seafaring backstory, appears once gentlemanly, perhaps wealthy, worldly, cunning, crafty... It has MANY possibilities. Furthermore, it would work as prosthetic makeup applied to a living, breathing, foolish mortal actor's face, as opposed to the use of CGI or puppetry. I like this figure — A LOT. I'm not too fond of its hat though. It needs to be re-sized to fit the dapper doppelganger's skull properly. As for the artist, it is Martin Astles who works at Illusion Industries. The figure's original title was "The Victorian Ghoul," but its file name is currently "Hatbox Ghost" at the II website. I truly believe that this design might have been in the running for the Del Toro film characterization of yours ghoully. If it wasn't, it most certainly should be. It is very much how I see such a devilishly handsome and elegant ghost in a Del Toro film. And, yes, please feel free to bask in my glory in all of my various artistic interpretations. And please, tell Disney to put me back until they're sick of hearing it. I afterlive for the day that I return to The Haunted Mansion. Until then, I'll just hang out in MaliBOO and enjoy the view — of Elvira.
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By the time this movie comes out, it will have been at least a decade since that Eddie Murphy travesty (Haunted Mansion in name only).
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I loved the ride at Disney World, the movie failed to capture any of that magic. Gore Verbinski breathed new life into the tired Disney attraction. I hope Guillermo gets to do this.
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March 22, 2012, 4:26 a.m. CST
something that looks like Bernie Wrightson's HATBOX GHOST. Now... so far as I know, Wrightson has never designed a HATBOX GHOST
by loafroaster
Someone please explain this to me.
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March 22, 2012, 9:19 a.m. CST
So I take it ''The Hatbox Ghost'' is a big part of the ride?
by spacehog
Can someone provide some context here? I haven't been on the ride in like twenty years; do all the ghosts have names in, uh, Haunted-Mansion-fandom, or is this guy especially important?
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March 22, 2012, 10:31 a.m. CST
this video tells you everything you need to know
by CreamCheeseAlchemist
tinyurl 6qmtwbc
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March 22, 2012, 11:04 a.m. CST
also, doombuggies.com & the slg mansion comix...
by CreamCheeseAlchemist
There's no 100% official story but certainly characters. Hatty, Master Gracey, the Hitchhiking trio all have unofficial names, a variety of ghost brides over the years including Constance the Black Widow and the tragic Melanie Ravenswood of the Western-styled Phantom Manor in Paris, etc.
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http://www.thehatboxghost.com/
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More interesting than I would have guessed. Thanks!
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March 22, 2012, 11:54 a.m. CST
Yeah, this is a commercially available bust that has been around for a while.
by JediRob
I love Harry but, fail again. Google is your friend.
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Yeah, it's a go. I've heard good things from someone in Toronto.
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I was just contacted by the company & the sculptor. It was sculpted shortly after Guillermo announced it as a project as a pro-active bid to get involved in the project by the sculptor, Martin Astles - the lead sculptor at Illusion Industries. So it was made in an attempt to land a gig. BTW...
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Martin Astles is one of MY Facebook friends, and I'M the one who found the image on Illusion Industries' site, put two and two together and put the word out on Twitter, Facebook and MiceChat. Although this isn't THE design (and I never said that it was but merely that it was a possibility), it gives Haunted Mansion fans a clue as to what has been proposed and considered. And if the caliber of this work is any indication, movie goers are truly going to be in for a ghoulishly delightful treat!
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http://about.me/oldhattie
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Life size shogun warriors...sigh.
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...was conceptualized but never worked properly, and was never installed in the Haunted Mansion. It's one of the most famous things about Disneyland that never even made an appearance at Disneyland.
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March 23, 2012, 9:58 a.m. CST
Yes, IT WAS INSTALLED...and Disney History revealed film of it TWO YEARS AGO!!!! Get with it nerds.
by PJoseph
So, please let's get the facts straight. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnERBLhd5ac&feature=feedf
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