This holiday season the Haunted Mansion gingerbread house will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the classic Disneyland dark ride.

As Disney takes another shot at turning the Haunted Mansion into a movie, we take a look back and remember how hard it was to get the attraction made in the first place.

Disneyland’s Haunted Mansion revolutionized the haunted house when it opened more than 50 years ago, introducing high-quality illusions and technology to the Halloween mainstay.

Will Disneyland add new show scenes during Haunted Mansion makeover? The classic haunted house attraction in New Orleans Square will return by the start of Halloween Time 2024 on Aug. 23.

To see the complete list of which parts of previous houses received a nod in the new house, head on over to the official Disney Parks Blog. The gingerbread house from Haunted Mansion Holiday in 2018.

It took two months and $200,000 to transform the run-of-the-mill California subdivision home into the Ghostly Retreat worthy of comparisons to the venerable Disneyland haunted house.

Will Disneyland add new show scenes during Haunted Mansion makeover? The classic haunted house attraction in New Orleans Square will return by the start of Halloween Time 2024 on Aug. 23.