In this film, the skull mounts a merry-go-round headdress being worn by the titular character with monsters on it. It is possible that the 2009 cake which is made to look like a merry-go-round with monsters on it is an allusion to a skull resembling Jack Skellington in the 1988 film Beetlejuice.The gingerbread houses are often designed to look asymmetrical and crooked to match Tim Burton's German-expressionist art-style.2022: A gingerbread guillotine overtop of a fireplace with Lock, Shock and Barrel atop it. 2021: This gingerbread house was a conglomeration of several if not every previous gingerbread house, built to celebrate the 20th Anniversary of Haunted Mansion Holiday.2020: No gingerbread house due to Disneyland's shutdown as a result of COVID-19.To the left of the mansion are figures of the Singing Busts and the Hitchhiking Ghosts while the Caretaker and his dog can be seen on the right. Figures of the Hatbox Ghost, Pickwick, the Tightrope Walker, Constance Hatchaway, and Madame Leota are seen on the mansion's roof, appearing and disappearing. At the center of the mansion is a man-eating wreath with a large number 50 within its maw to commemorate the Haunted Mansion's 50th anniversary. 2019: A mansion with various gingerbread figures of characters from the attraction both on and around it.2018: A gingerbread house decorated for Christmas that is being uprooted by a giant spider.2017: A mansion that's covered in bugs that scurry around as a giant Oogie Boogie stands behind it, having pried the roof open, so he can eat all the bugs.The ghost appears to be sewing itself inside, not unlike the ghost that appears to be walling himself in in the graveyard. A ghost's arm protrudes from the mansion's front and its eye can be seen in the upper window. 2016: A mansion that is similar in appearance to Sally.The house leans to the side as if threatening to topple over. 2015: A massive mansion of cards with spiders being used to lift pieces up like cranes while a construction worker gingerbread man stands around it.2014: An iron maiden like the mansion that opens to reveal a gingerbread man inside.The thirteenth door has Jack as Sandy Claws. Each week, a new door is opened, and a new cookie with Jack's face is added. 2013: An advent calendar mausoleum, with thirteen doors.The train carries a cupcake, which the birthday ghost blows out whenever it travels to her side of the table. 2012: Jack's house on top of a large hill with Zero floating around the top of the tower and a ghost train traveling around the table.2011: A mansion that transforms into a hideous monster, with glowing eyes, columns for teeth and a large tongue.It also features the quintet of singing pumpkins in front. 2010: A mansion shaped like a tombstone with Jack popping out in a similar fashion to the pop-up ghosts in the graveyard.2009: A scary-go-round, with bonedeer and Zero spinning around.2008: A gingerbread coffin, which opens to let the gingerbread zombie inside sit up.2007: A mansion jack-in-the-box, with Jack in a jester's hat and two jack-o-lanterns bouncing out of the top and a crank on one side.2006: A mansion with tentacles and snakes coming out of the sides, and skeletal hands prying off the top, like the man in the coffin in the conservatory scene.2005: A mansion with a man-eating wreath on the front, impaling gingerbread men on the table with forks and knives.Around the doghouse are various treats for Zero, who appears in front of the house and flies around it before disappearing 2004: Zero's doghouse with bones for columns.2003: Oogie Boogie standing on a roulette wheel with a small gingerbread house in one hand, a bowl of ice cream in the other, and two dice cakes on his leg.2002: A stack of presents in the shape of the mansion.Around the Mansion, ghosts can be seen rising out of their graves to join the celebration. One arm has a cake, which the birthday ghost blows out. 2001: A twisted, monstrous version of the Mansion, with arms hanging off the sides to keep the house balanced.While the house is made of real gingerbread and icing, it will often have mechanics built in and be built around metal rods and weights to support the massive size of the houses. The house's design changes every year, sometimes the even having moving pieces. The Gingerbread House appears in the ballroom on the dining table between the Birthday Ghost and Great Caesar's Ghost at the macabre Christmas celebration being thrown for the ghosts by Jack Skellington and the residents of Halloween Town.
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