HexMe wrote:
I'm going with what you say CT, cause there is just no excuse for Imagineering creating a decidedly flat-faced Constance and expecting us to accept it any other way.

Can someone please tell me though WHY there is a cake in the attic? Was there some sort of Victorian tradition that I'm unaware of where there was a cake MODEL or SCULPTURE presented at weddings, along with an edible cake? Or was there some sort of Victorian practice of not letting anyone eat it, and preserving the cake? Did I miss some of the storyline as in...Connie's ecto-mojo is somehow keeping the cake fresh for the next wedding? If not, I have to ask...what servant would think it's a good idea to dispose of a cake in the attic, what in the world were cakes made of back then that the thing hasn't melted, and why isn't it growing fur by now? But seriously, when Imagineers were sitting discussing their plans for the attic overhaul, and they were throwing out ideas for different wedding paraphernailia to have lying around, WHO said to put the ruddy cake in the attic?
It's a very good question, and you have to get pretty metaphysical to justify it ("metaphysical" in this case = far-fetched, special pleading, quite-a-stretch, etc.).  If you go with the theory that the house is kept in an unnatural state of preservation, thanks to its ghost infestation, and that it falls into a state of normal decay once the ghosts leave the walls, then I suppose you could imagine that with Connie's materialization accomplished, the cake is about to collapse into a moldy, unidentifiable, rat-eaten blob.  Any second now.  *tap tap*  Comin' right up.  *tap tap*  Oops, we're out the window and just missed it, I guess.

Hmm.  Johnny may offer a more credible explanation.