Thread: Halloween Display for 2011

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If any of you pro's have any suggestions to make it better this year, feel free to chime in....this is only my 2nd year at doing much halloween decorating, and I have a lot to learn....

That was great!! For only your second year, you have a nice collection of props and you are using a lot of neat effects! I'll bet the TOT's loved it! How did all of your animatronics hold up this year?

The animatronics held up fairly well, I had to fix the tombstone lifter....one of the screws in his arms stripped. The skeleton in the coffin has always been broken in the fact that he doesnt turn his head...so I just forced it to turn towards the side. Everything else works/worked like a champ!

Very nice job on the decorating

Great job.I love the floating candle.
How easy is the coffin guy triggered to go off?Is it a load noise?

The busts with the bats & floating candelabra were my favorite. You covered it all. Really nice.

Looks excellent! That's sure a lot of props you have out in the yard.
I've got that same skeleton that sits up and talks. Luckily mine is still able to turn his head.

Very cool display! I bet your tots had a ball coming to your house. I love the flying bats- they always look so real. I got two of them last year and still haven't used them. I suspect the batteries don't hold out too long. They need to make them with a power cord for sure. Maybe next year I'll hang mine- love how real they look. I also liked your floating candleabra! Very cool! How'd you do that one?

How easy is the coffin guy triggered to go off?Is it a load noise?

I have the same prop. My experience this year with it is that it takes a loud noise to set it off. I had to put a speaker right in the coffin playing a thunder track to get it going a lot. A bigger drag is that the volume of that props sound track is very low. Hard to hear if there's lots of other noise going on.

Great display you had!

Dan

I have some bats too. People seem to love them. The batteries have to be replaced during the night though. Great yard especially only being your second year.

At only 2 years in you're way ahead of where I was at the same point. It all looks great and you definitely have a lot of good stuff going on. It must have looked really good in the dark. I would suggest you just let your imagination take you wherever it wants to go. You've definitely nailed this one down.