Disneyland offered a first look inside the new Haunted Mansion gift shop that doubles as Madame Leota’s private sitting room as the Anaheim theme park opened the attraction’s expanded queue that winds through a series of themed gardens.
Madame Leota’s Somewhere Beyond gift shop will open this winter in the Haunted Mansion’s carriage house next to the ride’s exit in New Orleans Square at Disneyland.
Concept art of the Madame Leota’s Somewhere Beyond gift shop next to the Haunted Mansion exit in New Orleans Square at Disneyland. (Courtesy of Disneyland)
The winter time frame puts the opening of the Madame Leota gift shop somewhere between late December and late March.
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Merchandise will be displayed on antique desks, cabinets and chests “kindly lent” from Madame Leota’s collection, according to the backstory created for the shop.
Concept art of the Madame Leota’s Somewhere Beyond gift shop next to the Haunted Mansion exit in New Orleans Square at Disneyland. (Courtesy of Disneyland)
Concept art of the Somewhere Beyond gift shop shows Leota’s boudoir on the upper mezzanine level with a fainting couch and crystal ball used in seances by the Haunted Mansion’s resident seer.
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The shop will sell Haunted Mansion and “Nightmare Before Christmas” apparel, accessories, collectibles and home decor.
Riders now walk through gardens dedicated to Haunted Mansion residents Master Gracey and Madame Leota in the new outdoor queue for the popular Disneyland attraction. (Courtesy of Disneyland)
Disneyland also announced the Haunted Mansion virtual queue will no longer be used starting on Tuesday, Nov. 26. The standby and Lightning Lane queues have reopened.
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Visitors using wheelchairs and scooters will now exit the attraction via a new accessible elevator in the expanded queue area of the Haunted Mansion grounds.
Riders now walk through gardens dedicated to Haunted Mansion residents Master Gracey and Madame Leota in the new outdoor queue for the popular Disneyland attraction. (Courtesy of Disneyland)
The outdoor queue now winds through gardens dedicated to mansion residents Master Gracey and Madame Leota as well as under an iron and glass greenhouse.
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