Thread: 2009 Haunted House Video

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I finally uploaded my HH video.

It's slowly coming down which makes me sad.

Enjoy.

Halloween 2009 :: HauntedHouse2009.flv video by ZacMan527 - Photobucket

Thats great! A couple questions.

How did you make the walls?

Are there certain animatronics you personally built or are these store bought? I noticed a couple static spirit props, but didnt recognize your animated ones. Very cool!

Thanks.

The walls I made over 10 years ago with cardboard and 1x2 furring strips as a frame (glued and stapled). Then everything painted grey and added the black lines for the brick/stone look and smudged with with black/white all over to create the texture effect. In bright light they look pretty crappy but with the mood lighting they work quite well.

My Greeter is a Gemmy skull mounted on a post and his try me button hooked up to a PIR sensor driving a relay.

I built the reaper torso and topped him with a Gemmy skull. He sits on a lazy susan that rocks back and forth with a wiper motor and is run by a Hauntmaster controller. It triggers the Gemmy with a contact relay hooked up to his try me button and I set the HM to run for as long as he speeks. I was quite happy with the effect.

The Fortune teller had been around for the past 6 years and she's just using a spirit ball. It works fine but I would like to hack it some day.

I built the rocker from the tutorial posted here several weeks ago. He is also run from 2 HM controllers with one delayed to pop the door near the end of his show. I recorded the audio way to low and have learned that things must be louder. Audio is another CAP200 player.

The Ghost was started 3 years ago for my FCG but I've never built the machinery. Hopefully by the next part I'll get this done. He just hangs there statically. I tried triggering a fan with a PIR sensor.

The squirming guy was purchased this year from one of the Halloween stores and hooked up to a PIR sensor as a trigger.

The info booth guy is a Talking through Boris hack mounted on a fabricated spinal column (also from a tutorial here). He's driven by a CAP200 audio player. I was quite happy with his effect and the family loved my audio tracks.

The crate jumper is all my idea and it scared the heck out of just about everyone. He's run by a HM and a CAP300 recorder/player.

Dr. Lester and his control machine were also my creation based upon Scary Terry's kicking legs project adapted for upright levers that I glued and screwed to his hands. The motion turned out great.

Frankenstein was also my own creation of a PVC skeleton and a home made PVC piston to makehim sit up.

Dr. Lester and Frank are both run by a picaboo 105 controller.

My daughter told me that I'll never top this year's HH. I told her not to be so sure. I get new ideas all the time.

You did an awesome job!!! I love the walls and the over all spooky feeling!!! Great job!!!

Originally Posted by Spookilicious mama

You did an awesome job!!! I love the walls and the over all spooky feeling!!! Great job!!!

Thanks, I do it for all those who love the day as much as I do.

nice looking haunt.

Very cool set up. You have an eye to make things looks spooky!!!! How long does it take for you to set up?

Originally Posted by Joiseygal

Very cool set up. You have an eye to make things looks spooky!!!! How long does it take for you to set up?

Thanks.

The walls, wiring and air lines all started going in on October 10th. I was about a week late getting started. Most prop projects were started long before that and some completed before and during the HH setup.

This year things really went down to the wire and I wasn't finished until the 30th.

Very nice work with the haunt.

Really - Really great!!!!