Thread: Halloween 2010 DONE!!! Videos inside

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Well, I'm glad it's over for this year...not really but I keep telling "her" that. It was a crazy couple days leading up to the 31st. Very stressful and frantic. Mind you every single piece was put up at 8:00am and torn down at 9:00pm.

It went really smooth and everything worked great. One groundbreaker ripped his shoulder out but no big deal the bolt loosened up I forgot the glue it in place. Easy fix. The vortex tunnel turned out amazing everyone loved it. I will use black plastic instead of clear(the black light from the FCG was seen a little bit)next year. Never even crossed my mind when I put it up.

The air system worked without a hiccup. 2 compressors(7gal, 30gal) The 7 gallon ran the chained girl on the board(which also had a spitter in her mouth) and the air cannon. The 30 gallon had (8) 5 gallon aux tanks which ran to the spider(which had a spitter), reaper creaper, barrel, 3 groundbreakers, 2 coffins. All had regulators to dial in to different pressure.

All props were on PIR, beam sensors so it worked without people manually doing anything. The only thing I had on a push trigger was the air cannon. It was inside the cage, didn't want to scare the really small ones.

The reactions were top notch, traffic jams, videos, cameras, someone even said they were calling the news, but no show. It was a great night and I think I had more adults then tots. The parents were going nuts.

Next year I already have the 5 props that I'm adding in my head. I'm still surprised I can jam all this stuff in a 10x10 room with room to spare.

(Girl Chained up)I couldn't get a good daytime video of her moving(forgot) or a good nighttime video of what she looked like(lack of light). So I added another video of the daytime to show you what she looked like.

Thanks for listening now the fun part:

YouTube - Girlchained

YouTube - HalloweenHD2010.avi

Very cool. I like the movement on your props.

the video was awesome whats the name of the guys that was shaking in the ground what kinda prop was that

They are ground breaker zombies. Pneumatic cylinders in each arm to simulate movement.

Nice job! Glad everything turned out great for you. I had a crazy last couple days too. Only got a couple hours sleep since I was up all night programming my routines. I think I put to much thought into my whole setup and really just didn't come out as I wanted. But I'm being super anal about it and all the ToTs and parents seemed to just love everything. I think this next year I'm gonna hold off on building any props and really just concentrate on getting all the routines working perfectly. I had some problems with VSA and my 3-axis skull. Every time my routine would start the skull would go to some extreme values and the servos would bind even though I had defaults all correctly setup. Never really figured it out. I couldn't get my DMXorcist to work the way I wanted(again my fault on waiting til the day before Halloween to mess with it). I switched everything to DMX this year, did pneumatics for the first time, and threw in DMX lighting, and a new 3-axis skull into the mix. Just really threw in a ton of variables so I definitely need to work on understanding better on how everything will work together.

What do you use for running each of your props in terms of electronics / routines? Since you used PIR sensors did you have any issues with your props just constantly going off? I had some PIRs but I was afraid the props would just go non-stop since I get consistent flows of 20 or so kids non-stop for about 3 hours.

Nicely done! For a what is supposed to be a final 'resting' place....your graveyard sure was unrestful!

What do you use for running each of your props in terms of electronics / routines? Since you used PIR sensors did you have any issues with your props just constantly going off? I had some PIRs but I was afraid the props would just go non-stop since I get consistent flows of 20 or so kids non-stop for about 3 hours.

Mostly keybangers. Pico105, but next year I'm going for booboxflexes with a scaremaster controller. I just put electrical tape over the sensor to make a hole about the size of a quarter on a lot of the sensors. Gives them more control. I also have beam sensors which work great although a little harder to set up. I have heard you can see the beam with plexiglass but never got around to trying it.

If you have a constant flow then everything is goling to set off everything unless you maze it off or something similar. I had a flow and most people saw everything but the air cannon which scared them.