Thread: Moving halloween props

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I am doing our third annual halloween party this year and we want to up the ante. Each year we do a garage haunt before you go into the house and then we do two scenes in the house as well. This year we are doing a funhouse, morgue, car scene where the sensor triggers the horn and lights to go on in a dark hallway, haunted forest with jason friday 13th and 6 ft rubber python snake that we want to jump out at the people. We also are doing a saw trap and scene in the laundry room which is a big old adding on room that used to be a garage We also are doing a texas chainsaw masacre room as well. All of our props are made out of pvc piping but none have moved in the past. We have been reading up that some people were using a motor such as a vent or wiper and a motion sensor that triggers the prop to move. Any help would be greatful as we got around a month with the party being on oct 28 fri so we wanted to get started on our props way in adavance. My number is
Eric Smith 5132935896 and email is bengals041@yahoo.com

thanks and look forwarding into your input in making this work however we have a budget so we need to do this as cheap as possible for the materials such as sensors and transformers ect.

May not be a good idea to post your phone number. There are a LOT of wackos on this forum... lol j/k If you start getting collect, obscene phone calls then you'll know it's from here. lol j/k

Anyway, good luck to ya! Sounds awesome so far.

I agree, personal info probably shouldnt be shared too openly, lol. Just keep doing what youve been doing by reading the forums for the how tos to make your props get the movement you want. Some props can have floor mats to trigger them and some have used plugs with remotes to manually start an animation. Theres also useing motion sensors from walmart and rigging it with plugs and putting your animated props into that. (what Im doing). I also bought some cheap props from goodwill and will be using those mechanisms to create movement and new props.