Thread: Jack vs Oogie! 2011 happyholidayhome Halloween Show

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I haven't posted in forever, it has been a rough year. But I managed to get something off on Halloween night. It seems that no matter when I start, I never have enough time. This year our theme was the Nightmare Before Christmas, more specifically the Haunted Mansion Holiday from Disneyland. There was going to be a semi-epic battle between Jack Skellington and Oogie Boogie! I would love to say that the Halloween show went off without a hitch, but it never does (at least mine). I managed to drop my amp on the monitor cable and made a very nice cut (could have been worse, at least the amp survived) so the singing pumpkin projections were out. There was one RGB Firefli Pixel that was stuck on. The fire aspect did not work 1/2 the time... I almost started a candy riot! Yada Yada Yada.... To top it all off, I was at the dentist Friday and they said I needed an emergency Root Canal.... But who has time for that, (worst pain in my life on Saturday, but the antibiotics kicked in and so did the various prescription drugs) postponed it to Tuesday!



The Mountain (taken from the graveyard scene in the Haunted Mansion Holiday) has 32 plastic pumpkins (most of them are pumpkin cady buckets, but some are actual blowmolds!). It took 5 Firefli units to cover the mountain so that each pumpkin was RGB capable.

On a side note, the talking pumpkin hads been together for 4 Halloweens and sitting outside the whole time and still works! The fence has also been assembled for 4 Halloweens with the orange Costco LEDs attached are still alive (one small section was out).

During the final setup during the day droves of cars came by and asked what time the show was. I actually thought the turnout would be low, I was dead wrong. We did 3 shows, and the crowd for the first show was amazing. The show times were 7:30, 8:00 and 8:30 (in retrospect, we should have started earlier being a school night). We are in the California central valley and we had people drive almost 2 hours in rush hour traffic from San Francisco to watch a ten minute show!!

Hope you enjoy it! (if you don't, I am sorry)

For those fellow Firefli users, you will enjoy the caption and the 9:00 mark!

That was awesome. Great job.

Awsome job.

Croly Hap! That is awesome! Love it.

That was amazing! But I wished it was the music from the movie. Just a personal preference. I don't like Marilyn Manson and all that loud racket.

Wow! Looks awesome!
Are you using LOR to control the lights?

I originally had only music from the movie. Then actors started dropping like flies (I lost 4 people on October 1st) and I had to change things. Then when I had to start cutting all references of santa from the Oogie Boogie song it just became ridiculous. So I started from scratch and made sure I had the Haunted Mansion Opening. I scrapped the "This is Halloween" from the movie cause it is an ensemble piece and I lost my ensemble, the Marilyn Manson version seemed to fit better as "just a song." I used "Equinox" as the Oogie Boogie song cause my 3 year old loves that song (Whenever I come home from work he always asks for my phone and sits on the couch and listens to the song). Then, "Reptile's theme" song was perfect for a fight scene and for the finally, "Dies Irae" was a guaranteed song from the beginning, just had to find a version that was on par with the rest of the music. And well, "He's A Pirate" has ended every Halloween show I have done.

Hopefully I made you chuckle!

Love it!!!

Did you make your pumpkin?How big is he?

LOR S2.9.4 controls everything. The Firefli mountain is on its own network. We swapped lights on cotumes for FIRE!! this year.......Lights are much more reliable!