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My phantom manor drawing
Here is the drawing I made of phantom manor. It's my take on the character, Melanie Ravenswood. Phantom manor is a Disney ride, strongly influenced by the haunted mansion. However, phantom manor is a darker ride, and actually has a consistent storyline, unlike the haunted mansion, whose story is just myths from guest. I will also put the story, as I've heard and read it, of phantom manor below. Phantom manor is only in Disneyland Paris, so I sadly never had the chance to ride the ride. But in my picture I really wanted to make the bride, Melanie, the main focus. As I felt so bad for her. I also wanted to incorporate some haunted mansion memorabilia. Such as the hatbox ghost as a king painting, medusa, and the original haunted mansion bride, Constance, who killed her five husbands with her infamous axe. And see the shadow up at the top left corner? That would be the phantom. This is all done in colored pencils too, so it's not a painting, but rather on paper.
Phantom manor story:
Henry Ravenswood was a western settler who struck gold in the big thunder mountain, and founded the thunder Mesa mining company. Thus creating the town, Thunder Mesa. Ravenswood became very wealthy, and married a woman named Martha. He built a Victorian manor high on Boot Hill, overlooking big thunder mountain, where he raised a family and had a daughter Melanie Ravenswood, born 1842.
Big thunder mountain was rumored by natives to be cursed, and to be the home of the thunder bird. A powerful spirit possessing a treasure. According to the legend, it's wrath could cause a devastating earthquake. However, Henry Ravenswood would not believe such stories. As time went on, the gold in big thunder mountain ran out, making miners dig deeper into the cursed mountain. It also led all the towns people, mainly miners, to leave thunder Mesa. Which made Henry Ravenswood very angry. Melanie at this time has grown up to be a beautiful woman, and became engaged to a train engineer who planned to take her far away from thunder Mesa, which upset Henry Ravenswood very much. Henry did everything he could to stop the wedding, even threatening his daughter, saying "you will never leave his house". But his useless attempts came to a hault, when the thunder bird was awakened, and caused a terrible earthquake that killed Henry and his wife, Martha, and half the town.
On Melanie's wedding day, a mysterious phantom appeared in the house. While Melanie was preparing herself for her wedding, the phantom lured her fiancé up to the attic, where he hung him by the neck from the rafters. In the ballroom the bride say alone, with no sign of her groom. At this time all of her guests left, and started to eat the grand feast in the dining hall, which was meant for after the wedding. As guests were partying, Melanie was convinced "some day, he will come". And so, never taking off her wedding dress, or put down her bouquet, she wandered aimlessly around the estate, looking for her lost fiancé, while singing melancholy songs of lost love. The phantom, which is rumored to be her father, laughs at her human devotion of true love. Days became months, and months became years, as Melanie lost her youth, she still has seen no sight of her intended. The house began to fall into disrepair, people fled the once gold rush town, making the town a ghost town. the phantom began to invite his ghostly demons to stay in the house and in the ghost town. As more time went on, Melanie found her long lost love dead in the attic. At that time she realized what was going on, and saw the phantom, who she realized was her father. As he laughs at her shocking sad discovery, saying "you will never leave this house!". She fled, she tried to escape by getting in a carriage, unknowing that the town she once knew, had become a ghost town. And everywhere she went, she kept seeing the phantom. As he kept laughing at her distress and mocking her true love. Melanie tried to escape her phantom father, but landed in a ditch with sharp rocks from the thunder bird earthquake, and died. She never got to leave her house, she was cursed from the beginning. She now is rumored to still be in the manor on Boot Hill, searching for her lost fiancé, singing melancholy songs of lost love. With the phantom, and his demons haunting her.
My phantom manor drawing
Here is the drawing I made of phantom manor. It's my take on the character, Melanie Ravenswood. Phantom manor is a Disney ride, strongly influenced by the haunted mansion. However, phantom manor is a darker ride, and actually has a consistent storyline, unlike the haunted mansion, whose story is just myths from guest. I will also put the story, as I've heard and read it, of phantom manor below. Phantom manor is only in Disneyland Paris, so I sadly never had the chance to ride the ride. But in my picture I really wanted to make the bride, Melanie, the main focus. As I felt so bad for her. I also wanted to incorporate some haunted mansion memorabilia. Such as the hatbox ghost as a king painting, medusa, and the original haunted mansion bride, Constance, who killed her five husbands with her infamous axe. And see the shadow up at the top left corner? That would be the phantom. This is all done in colored pencils too, so it's not a painting, but rather on paper.
Phantom manor story:
Henry Ravenswood was a western settler who struck gold in the big thunder mountain, and founded the thunder Mesa mining company. Thus creating the town, Thunder Mesa. Ravenswood became very wealthy, and married a woman named Martha. He built a Victorian manor high on Boot Hill, overlooking big thunder mountain, where he raised a family and had a daughter Melanie Ravenswood, born 1842.
Big thunder mountain was rumored by natives to be cursed, and to be the home of the thunder bird. A powerful spirit possessing a treasure. According to the legend, it's wrath could cause a devastating earthquake. However, Henry Ravenswood would not believe such stories. As time went on, the gold in big thunder mountain ran out, making miners dig deeper into the cursed mountain. It also led all the towns people, mainly miners, to leave thunder Mesa. Which made Henry Ravenswood very angry. Melanie at this time has grown up to be a beautiful woman, and became engaged to a train engineer who planned to take her far away from thunder Mesa, which upset Henry Ravenswood very much. Henry did everything he could to stop the wedding, even threatening his daughter, saying "you will never leave his house". But his useless attempts came to a hault, when the thunder bird was awakened, and caused a terrible earthquake that killed Henry and his wife, Martha, and half the town.
On Melanie's wedding day, a mysterious phantom appeared in the house. While Melanie was preparing herself for her wedding, the phantom lured her fiancé up to the attic, where he hung him by the neck from the rafters. In the ballroom the bride say alone, with no sign of her groom. At this time all of her guests left, and started to eat the grand feast in the dining hall, which was meant for after the wedding. As guests were partying, Melanie was convinced "some day, he will come". And so, never taking off her wedding dress, or put down her bouquet, she wandered aimlessly around the estate, looking for her lost fiancé, while singing melancholy songs of lost love. The phantom, which is rumored to be her father, laughs at her human devotion of true love. Days became months, and months became years, as Melanie lost her youth, she still has seen no sight of her intended. The house began to fall into disrepair, people fled the once gold rush town, making the town a ghost town. the phantom began to invite his ghostly demons to stay in the house and in the ghost town. As more time went on, Melanie found her long lost love dead in the attic. At that time she realized what was going on, and saw the phantom, who she realized was her father. As he laughs at her shocking sad discovery, saying "you will never leave this house!". She fled, she tried to escape by getting in a carriage, unknowing that the town she once knew, had become a ghost town. And everywhere she went, she kept seeing the phantom. As he kept laughing at her distress and mocking her true love. Melanie tried to escape her phantom father, but landed in a ditch with sharp rocks from the thunder bird earthquake, and died. She never got to leave her house, she was cursed from the beginning. She now is rumored to still be in the manor on Boot Hill, searching for her lost fiancé, singing melancholy songs of lost love. With the phantom, and his demons haunting her.