Thread: SOS Animated Haunt for 2011

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Our fully animated haunt with over 25 home made animated props and 3 projections. We've chosen to not have actors and instead rely totally on animated props that we build ourselves. Most of the props and scenes are controlled by Picaxe micro controllers I've built which allow us great flexibility at a very low cost.
My wife's one restriction is no blood and guts so we go for a blend of Pirate's of the Caribbean and Haunted Mansion.
Thanks to everyone here for all the great ideas and tutorials that helped us put our haunt together and added to the enjoyment of over 400 TOT's this year.

Wow! Fantastic work! Thanks for sharing.

Oh, and thanks for the inspiration. Guess I better get started on next year.

Wow. great work. Love your toe pincher coffin in the beginning that opens. !

Looks great. How much do the picaxe controllers cost when you make them?

The Picaxe controllers for many of my props run between $4 and $10 each. Even the ones I use to run entire scenes are under $20. Here are the links to a couple of my threads showing them -
Dirt Cheap and Tiny Micro Controller
Super Versatile, $10 Complete Prop Controller

It is great to see all your props in action!
Love it all!!!

I so love the fish skelleys!!!

Looks like all of your hard work paid off. A lot of nice animated figures. I sure the kids and adults really enjoyed themselves.

NICE JOB!!
I especially like that you did this with the low budget homemade electronics.

Incredible! There's so much awesome things in the haunt. Bet that spider had some kids dropping their candy! heh.