Doom buggy race!

For several years now, Disney has been promising an animated TV special, or perhaps even series, of their classic ride The Haunted Mansion. In 2014, amazing horror illustrator Gris Grimly announced that he had been hired as Art Director and Executive Producer. Yet nothing ever materialized of that partnership. Early this year, however, Disney finally released a trailer for the series, now animated by Shannon Tindle, creator of last year's excellent animated film Kubo and the Two Strings:

As cool as that looks, Disney is still dragging its feet on making the dream of a Haunted Mansion cartoon a reality. Hard to understand why, considering how many people love the Haunted Mansion ride, and how rich it is in storytelling opportunities. Who wouldn't want to follow the adventures of Madame Leota, a ghostly head trapped inside a crystal ball? Or take a trip with some hitchhiking ghosts? 

My theory on the delay is that Disney is haunted by an entirely different kind of ghost--the one of that awful Eddie Murphy Haunted Mansion movie from a few years ago. But c'mon, Disney, you know you can only go up from there! Until you come to your senses, us happy haunts will have to satisfy ourselves with the beloved Haunted Mansion music of yore. Here's a cover Los Lobos did of the Haunted Mansion theme, "Grim Grinning Ghosts":

And of course the original!