Floating Candelabra

The Floating Candelabra is an object from the Haunted Mansion attraction at the Disney Parks.
==Background==
This candelabra is an object carried by an invisible entity to make it seem like it is floating. It is located at an endless hallway as an illusion where it is seen floating by itself and due to the object located inside the mansion, it can be interpreted as if a ghost were holding the candelabra to give the illusion of it floating inside the mansion.
===Effect===
The effect used for the candelabra was used as an illusion which was created through mirrors and a forced perspective. In addition to using a mirror make it look like the hallway having an infinite amount of rooms as well as having the candelabra not as being very far away, this illusion also uses a candelabra connected to the mirror and a motor behind it to make it look like it is floating to give the illusion of said effect.
==Appearances==
===The Haunted Mansion===
In every version of the Haunted Mansion attraction located at Disneyland, Magic Kingdom, and Tokyo Disneyland respectively, the candelabra is seen in the Endless Hallway scene where it is seen floating on its own.
In addition to this said scene in all three versions, the candelabra also makes an additional appearance in the queue area in the Florida and Tokyo versions of the attraction, an additional candelabra appears floating on a stairway overhead the guests riding on their Doom Buggies into a portrait corridor.
===Phantom Manor===
The candelabra is encountered in the Endless Hallway scene like in the regular Haunted Mansion attractions. However, there is an added effect of Melanie Ravenswood holding the candle appearing from thin air with the Phantom behind her, albeit set in Ravenswood Manor.
==Other appearances==
===The Haunted Mansion (SLG Comics)===
In the SLG Comics adaptation of The Haunted Mansion, the candelabra is given to Mr. Coats, who is one of the two architects hired by William Gracey alongside Mr. Davis who helped construct the Gracey Manor. After Coats killed Davis to claim his credit over the founding of the Mansion and then finding himself in a room showcasing a labyrinth of hallways, Coats died when trying to escape the room, causing him to turn into a spirit while using the candelabra to find a way out of the hallway.
===The Haunted Mansion (2003)===
The candelabra from the original attraction only appears in the beginning of the film during the opening credits. Although it is not seen again throughout the rest of the film, Ramsley uses a candelabra to guide the heroes to their rooms while walking down a hallway as an homage to the Endless Hallway scene from the original attraction.
===The Haunted Mansion (video game)===
In the video game adaptation of the franchise, the candelabra is seen in the upstairs hallway. Additionally, various floating individual candles appear in the Dining Room area which Zeke can collect to to place ontop of the chandelier, which is a reference to the candelabra from the original attraction.
===Kinect: Disneyland Adventures===
The candelabra is the one guiding the player across the Stretching Room level in the Haunted Mansion attraction while collecting coins along the way and avoiding floating obstacles, including other candelabras. The candelabra also appeared in the Escape the Mansion level near the piano. If the player shines their flashlight on it, they earn a secret.
===Muppets Haunted Mansion===
The Ghost Host is the one who carries the floating candelabra while guiding Gonzo and Pepe throughout the Haunted Mansion. Whenever the Ghost Host releases it from his grasp, it allows it take it to the air while singing "Life Hereafter". He also uses it to guide Gonzo to Room 999, leaving him a plan to rescue Pepe from the Bride in the attic.
===The Ghost and Molly McGee===
The floating candelabra was used in the episode "Home is Where the Haunt Is" as part of Scratch's plans to prevent realtor Candace Green from selling the McGee house by scaring any buyers away, specifically when Candace was onto him. She disregarded the levitating candelabra as a "cliché", while he referred to it as an "homage".
===Haunted Mansion (2023)===
The candelabra appears in the 2023 reboot of the 2003 film adaptation of the attraction.
==Trivia==
*In the Haunted Mansion Holiday overlay at Disneyland and Tokyo Disneyland respectively, the candelabra was replaced by Zero from The Nightmare Before Christmas.
==External links==
*Floating Candelabra on Haunted Mansion Wiki.
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Category:The Haunted Mansion