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This year for Halloween my brother and I are building the set up that we've always wanted- a mad scientist laboratory. We already have a lot of things planned and have some things built- but we are looking for more ideas!

Currently we plan on making our porch into the laboratory by building walls all around the open areas. We also plan on turning our pool into a swamp and making 2 graveyards. In the laboratory we are going to have cages and shelves to display "experiments", a hospital gurney on which we will have a re-animated corpse, and of course a workstation with switches and dials. We would really like the laboratory to look very 50's futuristic with a lot of lighting bulbs and power towers. In one of the graveyards I really want to build a skeleton of a giant cyclops... its going to be some sort of failed experiment.

Anyone have ideas for what we should add? I really want to have a lot of stuff!

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Welcome to the forum Doppleganger.

It's customary to give you the link to the Monster List of Halloween Projects.

Also, you can do a search on this forum. A few people here have done some sweet laboratory stuff, toxic waste dumps, and someone (I can't remember) is even trying to build a swamp from scratch with plastic sheeting. He was going to build a bridge over the swamp as part of the walkthrough. So I will step down now and let someone with a clue try to give some ideas. And again, welcome to the forum.

Here is some good ideas My Mad Lab items for sale You might contact the guy with the organ that posted last week if he guts it there might be some neat electronic stuff you could use.

best of luck

Here is one I did a couple years ago:

bradbaum’s Gallery » mad scientists lab1 » HauntSpace.Com

bradbaum’s Gallery » mad scientists lab2 » HauntSpace.Com


I just bought the mad scientist from wall-mart and just let him do his thing. I also bought the mad lab kit:

Mad Lab Kit < Halloween Props < Fright Catalog, Inc.

I was working on modifying the Bunsen burner to have a flicker bulb in it, but didn't quite finish it. Also we added a fish tank air pump and line to the beaker above the Bunsen burner, this made it look like the liquid was boiling.

My wife made the xray display and bought the xrays somewhere. I made the shelf with the specimens in it a few years ago, each shelf is lite from underneath to illuminate the jars. I either use small florescent fixtures or blacklight florescent fixtures in the shelf, one year we filled the jars with tonic water so that they glowed under blacklight. The specimen jars were bought here and there over the years, several from Little Spider that has since quit making props.

Other stuff in the lab is mostly junk, and old mac computer, an old shortwave radio setup and other stuff.

My wife really wanted to do something like this:

Allen's Halloween Page: Frankenhand Table

but we ran out of time.

Try American Science and Surplus. I bought a flu suit, surgeons gown, respirator masks and metal specimen pan from them for our haunt. They have all sorts and sizes of beakers and test tubes, etc.

American Science & Surplus : Lab Supplies and Equipment

Did you delete the other thread or something? I gave an idea, but I can't find it. Whatevs.

I too, was going to suggest the Mad Scientist kit from Fright Catalog. And my favorite laboratory suggestion is that you can use the guts from a highliter marker to make liquids that glow in blacklight. Just wear gloves when you cut them open, because the dye will stain your hands. Actually the ends of the ones that I had popped right off (OK, not right off, it took a little prying ) and I just tinted water with the little cotton thingy that's inside. Looked really cool under the blacklight.

I have a bunch of lab glass items that I would sell you for a few bucks if you cover the shipping. Stuff from real labs. Rounded glass bottles with glass stoppers, flask looking things, etc.

I will take some pictures and post them this week.

Once you see them, tell me what you're willing to spend on them. I'm not looking for a lot here. I think the shipping will be the most expensive part because of all the extra packing to be sure it doesn't break.

I'll see what other mad scientist lab type things I can find lying around.

I'll post pics of everything.

I built big gears from foam board (the pink stuff) and mounted them to the wall. One was turned by a wiper motor from behind, and so turned the others. Looked really great - they were all 18" wide or more, streaked with UV paint - they took up some good wall space and helped with the Frankenstein/mad scientist feel.