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[IMG][/IMG]som of the markers I have made.

added another prop, a spider victim, have to redo my web on the big night.

Originally Posted by Kenpilot

How long have you been putting stuff out and celebrating where you're at? I had the same problem. 1st year I only had literally about 3 TOTs. second year maybe 10. After I started building more and more each year, word got around and I'm now into my 5th year. This past year I had well over 100. If you build it, they will come!

I've been in the Phoenix AZ area for 7 years and each year has been slightly different than the last. Few years ago, for 2 years in a row, almost no TOT'ers due to local church having a carnival to keep the kiddies from celebrating the negative holiday . Year before last they didn't do this carnival and we had tons of treaters.

Kids and I drove around last week to see what people had out and almost nothing in a square mile of nothing but residential homes. Think there were more people who decorated last year. I'm really hoping it's due to the economy and will get better next year. Regardless, won't stop me from doing my thing!

One Pine Cemetery 2009 ( cylonfrogqueen and Hamm)

mr nightmare, those props are fabulous
tech, that is very nice, you're spider victum and webbing is great
cylon, nice setup. your lighting is superb and i love your gravedigger, hands coming out of the ground, big tombstone, siloette, okay okay, i love everything

This is a really awesome thread. Thanks to all of the posters for sharing your amazing cemeteries.

Thanks! I'll post new pics of this years set up after this weekend.

Ok so here it goes. No, I did not get all the things done I wanted to. "D.Ed Ringer" tombstone prop did not make it for Halloween night and neither did the "Following, Blinking Eyes Madame Leota" tombstone. :O( But My Ichabod Crane stone got finished and was a hit!

I also emplyed a slightly different lighting scheme. A little bit of a mish-mash but it worked better than simply throwing blue & amber spots on everything.

These are just a few stills, hopefully some video to follow.

Wet cold night in Atlanta but still had around 500 people come by.
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Suhmwnla0gE]YouTube - Halloween 2009 Animatronic Skull in Graveyard Pirate Routine.[/ame]

Part of the Show leading up tp Halloween night.
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46RtRUQn4Cs]YouTube - HALLOWEEN 2009 Animated lights and music.[/ame]

I added 16 new tombstones and 2 new crypts. there were a few other new props, but really, the big changes were the new markers. some of the old stuff suffered squirrel damage while in storage over the summer, but none of it affected appearance at 20' in dim light so I didn't do any repairs that were not structural, but *did* begin a campaign to obliterate the squirrels in our yard. Weather was awful for the entire month leading up to the Big Night, but turned out pretty good when it mattered. We caught rain and a little snow as late as 10/30 and had gusty winds all day Sat, but things settled down at dusk 10/31. I wish I had had a fog machine! It was the perfect night for it. The night was clearing with an almost full moon and it was crisp before turning COLD at about 9pm. We had only 2/3 the number of ToTs we had last year, but it means more candy for us. I posted a ton of pics in my albums so I'll just toss up some of my favorites here. Got feedback for me? Let me know!

Enjoy!
ondeko