Three Halloween Town troublemakers from Tim Burton’s “The Nightmare Before Christmas” have broken into Haunted Mansion Holiday and installed a cake-cutting guillotine on the gingerbread house that dominates the Grand Hall of the Disneyland attraction each year.

Gingerbread cookie versions of Lock, Shock and Barrel stand atop the 2022 Haunted Mansion Holiday gingerbread house that serves as the highlight of the seasonal ride overlay that runs through early January in the New Orleans Square haunted house attraction at the Anaheim theme park.

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Boogie’s Boys — as Oogie Boogie’s henchmen are known — are a costumed trio of mischievous trick-or-treaters who assist the villain in the 1993 Disney stop-motion film that serves as the inspiration for the annual Haunted Mansion seasonal attraction overlay.

This year’s animated gingerbread house features a dropping guillotine that slices a cake and a pair of tick-tocking long spears that distribute the cake slices.

The devil-costumed Lock operates the guillotine while the witch-costumed Shock and skeleton-costumed Barrel man the spears from atop the gingerbread house designed in the style of the Haunted Mansion exterior.

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Each year, a team of Disneyland designers, carpenters, special effects technicians, pastry chefs, bakers and confectioners spend up to four months creating the gingerbread house that wows Haunted Mansion riders every Halloween and Christmas season.

This year’s 300-pound gingerbread house was created using 35 pounds of gingerbread, 45 pounds of fondant, 20 pounds of sugar and 20 pounds of icing.

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Disneyland’s gingerbread mansions seem to grow more elaborate every year with the grand scale essential since riders only see the confectionery creations for about 10 seconds from approximately 10 feet above the Haunted Mansion’s Grand Hall.

Planning for the next gingerbread house typically begins as the current one is being taken apart at the end of each holiday season. The Disneyland team typically spends up to four months creating each season’s Haunted Mansion Holiday gingerbread house.

After carpenters build the frame and bakers create the edible edifice at a remote location, Disneyland’s tech team disassembles, transports and reassembles the gingerbread house in the Haunted Mansion’s Grand Hall — which can take two to three weeks.

Scent-sensitive fans will notice the smell of fresh gingerbread wafting through the air as riders pass the Grand Hall scene in Haunted Mansion Holiday.

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The annual gingerbread house is intended as a special treat for the ghosts who dance around the Haunted Mansion’s Grand Hall. It’s become a Haunted Mansion Holiday tradition to leave out a plate of shingle-shaped cookies for one particular spectral spirit that likes to swipe roofing tiles off of the gingerbread house. The plate of shingle cookies “disappears” every year.