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Disney Looking for Mansion Resident
Theme park holding an auction on eBay with the highest bidder winning a tombstone
in the Haunted Mansion attraction.
Thursday, October 14, 2004
By Lisa Johnson
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If you've been dying for your fifteen minutes of fame, Disney is giving you a "once-in-an-after-life-time" opportunity to become an honorary ghostly resident of the Haunted Mansion. This marks the public's first-ever chance to be an enduring part of a Disneyland attraction.
In an effort to raise funds for The Boys and Girls Clubs of America, DisneyAuctions.com
is holding a "spirited" event that will allow the winning bidder to receive
a personalized "tombstone" in the finale graveyard scene of the attraction with
a humorous epitaph (inspired by the lucky bidder's interests and hobbies) written
by the team at Walt Disney Imagineering.
But wait. There's more. The winning bidder will also receive a
one-of-a-kind miniature replica of the tombstone and a certificate officially recognizing him/her as an Honorary resident of the
Haunted Mansion; and the successful bidder and a guest will be spirited away from his or her hometown to Disneyland in time for a midnight "burial" ceremony on Thursday, October 28, officially placing the tombstone in the graveyard of the Haunted Mansion.
The auction will be featured on eBay at www.DisneyAuctions.com
and begins at 6:00 p.m. (EST) today, October 14, and ends Thursday, October
21, at 6:00 p.m. (EST). The winning bidder will be publicly announced on Friday,
October 22.
As "die-hard" fans of the landmark Disneyland attraction know, the Haunted Mansion is home to "999 happy haunts ... but there's always room for one more!"
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