Board Thread:Club Penguin/@comment-26815954-20161003154759/@comment-4500149-20161005043858

The ghost sprite is "old blue" this year because that's the only sprite Club Penguin chose to use. Likewise, the white ghost is the only color they used for the player card. This seems intentional, as the other colors don't even appear in their files.

As for the ghost's special action (scaring), it turns into the player's color because that's what it's supposed to do - check the player's current color and use that color in the scaring animation. However, the problem this year is that the ghost's sprite doesn't match the player's color to begin with (there is only an "old blue" ghost sprite). That's why it changes color when the player performs the special action.

Pinkie Pie Puffle wrote: when scaring [the sprite] returns to the penguin color If anything, that's the only part we can really call a glitch here.