Thread: Haunted Carnival

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Hey preparing for Hallowe'en next year, planning to shop the sales this year for my theme next year since this years is all sorted out. I want to do a haunted carnival, I saw a skelton tight rope walker on here which was amazing, and I plan to have a clown with some tnt and a clown in a small kiddie car, but was wondering if anyone had any other suggestions?

You could do all sorts of carny games with animated Bluckys as the patrons.
Fortune teller
Ferris wheel
Whack-a-mole
Water gun squirt
Juggling
etc...

In fact, there's a video someone posted around here of one of the producers of The Simpsons show, the local news covered his front yard a few years ago and he had an amazing setup. It looked all pretty straightforward to make and setup.

hmmm those are good ideas, how would I do a ferris wheel? I have a pretty big front yard so all those sound great

Yea it was called Boney Island and it was on the HGTV show What's with that really haunted Halloween house? Look up Boney Island on YouTube there are a bunch of videos of it. Instead of Whack-a-Mole it was Whack-A-Ghoul.

oh my goodness, that is exactly what I want to do! Thank you soooo much!

Well, if you want to do a killer clown in a mini clown car, it is easy. I built this guy with a PVC frame and chickenwire body. I bought a cheap kids costume on sale at K-Mart. I used a wig head under the mask. The hands were clothes hangers, duct tape and garden gloves. The entire proip cost only about $20, since I got the car for $3 at a yard sale.



I built this tight rope walker with a $10 ground breaking skeleton from Walmart. The body is PVC frame with bubble wrap for the filling. I got the gymnastics costume at Goodwill for $3. I built a 2x4 frame with a piece of metal conduit for the "rope", painted white. The umbrella is PVC, clothes hangers and creepy cloth. Under normal haunt lighting it was pretty cool. This shot shows the gory details under artificial lighting, including support wires for reference.



Here's the last suggestion. I used my FCG rig to make a marionette theater with a fresh corpse on strings. Again, PVC, chicken wire, a fake head ( kinda' looks like Reba Mackentire). Just keep the joints loose, using rope or wire. I attached the knees to the wrista with fishing line, so the feet moved up and down in tune with the Alfred Hitchcock Theme: 'Dance of the Marionettes.'



There are more ideas in my photo album here.

Eric

Wow, I too am planning a Carnival theme this year and I hadn't even thought about Wolfbeard's ideas. I will definately include all three of them.

I am planning to include a fortune teller or magician type scene and of course a freakshow with things like the wolfman, a human torso, crocodile lady,and......the invisible man! (lol, talk about getting lazy)

every good carnival has to have a horse carousel. perhaps a twist with the Headless horseman on a carousel pony?

The room / tent of oddities.

wow these are awesome ideas, thanks for the pics Wolfbeard, that clown in the car actually looks like a person, so well done! I saw on boney island a blucking putting a sword down his throat, thought that was pretty unique, that could go in your freakshow Conman! And the carousel is such an awesome idea, I just need to get an image in my mind of how to do that