Disney Parks Blog is launching a new, four-part series of Disney Paper Parks inspired by Halloween and the Haunted Mansion! The printable activity sheets help guests bring a piece of the Disney Parks into your own homes, complete with instructions about how to create 3D versions of some of your favorite aspects of Disney Parks.
Today’s part-one release includes Haunted Mansion home decorations! Bring the macabre style of the Haunted Mansion into your home by printing out and crafting these spooky decorations that appeal to a variety of ages and skills. From the bats atop the queue stanchions to paper chains inspired by the Haunted Mansion’s wallpaper, the finishes will set the mood of the mansion in your home.
You also can use this release to transform your home with the spirits of the mansion using grinning ghosts shadow puppets! Just as the Haunted Mansion is filled with illusions, the shadow puppets include rotating hand shadows, the Hitchhiking Ghosts, the Hatbox Ghost, and more (there’s always room for one more).
There are other fun surprises in the activity sheets, as well. The sheets were created for the Disney Parks Blog by talented Imagineers Stephanie Jazmines and Amy Young, and require the use of scissors, glue and folding along dotted lines in specific directions.
For best results, we recommend printing the sheets at their actual size, not scaling them to fit the page. We also recommend adult participation or supervision for those with little ones to help make this great activity even more enjoyable. Have fun and stay tuned for more Disney Paper Parks: Halloween Edition activity sheets!
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I applaud the use of special effects in this ad. The clouds on the ground and the swirl magic streak are nice touches, but personally the whole thing is a bit too busy for my taste. Seeing this car did bring me back to the days when everyone’s older relatives had huge cars like this. The kind that had incredibly springy suspension where if you would hit a bump the car would then proceed to bounce for the next 7 minutes. This ad also gets bonus points for being the only one on this list to take place at night.
The Buick Century in this ad has to be the most boring car I’ve seen. It looks like a nondescript generic off-brand toy car you’d get out of those 25 cent capsule toy machines outside of a pharmacy. Did anyone go out and buy this car and think “Yes, this is nice and exactly what I want in a car?” HOWEVER, the blandness of the car actually works in the ads favor. You have the iconic Mickey floral and Main Street train station contrasting with the vanilla ice cream of automobiles. This ad is great for that reason, the mention of the 15% discount for Magic Kingdom Club members, and that great retro WDW castle logo in the corner.
Whoever put this ad together was burdened with the gargantuan task of trying to make a minivan sound fun. I also think it’s ironic that a highly themed thrill ride was paired with the most boxy, clunky, and uninteresting vehicle one could imagine. But I have to give credit where credit is due, they really did try for this one. You can tell they tried to give it some extra ommph by adding Mickey to the photoshoot, which could not have been cheap. Overall I do like this ad because it’s unique. Most of the other ads sat the car in front of the castle and called it a day, but for this one they put it in front of a ride, which is unique.
Think about the kind of pull National Car Rental had to have in order to get a picture of a car in front of Sleeping Beauty Castle. Disneyland’s castle is a nationally recognized icon and to this day is one of the most photographed subjects in the world. It’s one of those things that you have to think would never happen in today.
National Car Rental must have been an unstoppable goliath by the time this ad was made. Not only is the car parked in a prime spot in front of Sleeping Beauty Castle, but every member of Disney’s Fab Five is along for the photoshoot. Impressive stuff. The Mickey balloons in the back are also a nice touch. Honestly, Pluto with his head out of the window giving the thumbs up alone would have shot this ad high on the list for me, but instead it’s the cherry on top of the sundae.
The cream of the crop when it comes to Disney News Magazine car rental ads. A rental car, driving down Main Street, curb packed with onlookers, and the hot new Mickey Mania parade in the background. Incredible. If this wasn’t proudly tattooed on the back of the CEO of National, I hope he or she at least had a framed copy of it hanging on the ceiling above their bed.