Thread: Here is my 2008 Haunt Daylight photos

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So here is a daylight walkthrough of my 2008 Haunt.

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Just a few of the hightlights.

1. Thunder and lightning playing all around yard using IZombie with blue lights and speakers hanging high in the trees

2. Background music all around with large speaker of fron and rock speakers all around the path

3. 1930 Model A has a peppers ghost effect of a floating head….extremely cool…I get a lot of comments like “how did you do that”

4. Clown room has flashing colored lights and Virgil clown soundtrack playing. It has a Drop panel and an actor standing on a platform like a mannequin

5. Freddy Kruger room has a spark grid and Theme music playing. Freddy is behind curtain and comes out when patrons get to where they can see themselves in the mirror with Freddy coming up behind them.

6. Skeleton has pressure mat, when activated it sprays air and fine mist on them like it is peeing on them.

7. Ring room has the ring painted on wall with a water effect projected on it…it looks awesome. Ring girls in corner come out after the patrons.

8. Hospital has flickering lights, eerie sounds and music, fog in the experiment tank and two actors

9. Funeral room has coffin…lid is on a push switch for the actor to slowly raise the lid and then slam in down…there is also a following bust and an air cannon in the wall.

10. Toxic dump has monster that is activated by PIR sensor and pops up and sprays water all over, two different sounds

11. Hanging man is PIR activated and kicks violently and gags when activated

12. Creature crate has monster snoring and when activated by PIR the lids opens and closes, red light inside goes off and monster starts screaming, there is also an actor in the cage that jumps out after the patrons.

13. Very large air cannon that is pressure mat activated and scares the &*^% out of them every time

14. Spider is PIR activated and springs up and hisses at the patrons

15. Electric chair control panel has large Jacobs ladder, strobe lights under the chair and two actors.

That’s the basics, there are a lot of little things that I didn’t mention. I am very pleased with how it all came out this year.

Thats Great!! i can see you have spent a lot of time to create such a great haunt,

-By the way, i see all of your pneumatics have air reservoir and i just wanted to ask where did you get them?, Thanks

I built the air reserves.......I have one large compressor, two small ones and one tiny one. I need another large one really bad......

Thanks for the comments... I did every bit of it myself...even though my wife loves it, she travels alot for work and none of my friends could care less. Needless to say it has taken nearly three solid weeks to get it all setup and working. It takes a long time to get all of the sensors in the right place, adjust the lighting and timings so that it all works the way I want.

The only thing I can't take credit for is the clown painting...my sister in law did that in about 10 minutes...I wish I had that kind of talent.

Suh-weet!

Make sure you take some video of it all running!

I plan to once I have all of the actors in place....I did one last night, but it needs the actors to make sense.....I will post as soon as I have it done.

love to see this all in the works. Bet its fun to run.

It is fun...except for the actor parts like sparking the spark grid and stuff like that...it is completly automated. Once I get it all started, it runs itself. All the sound tracke are either on looping CD playes, gilderfluke SD's or Fright Ideas Boo Boxes. Lighting is all DMX, and the controllers for the pnuematics are the boo boxes. All I do is fill the fog machines, the chiller with ice, and the Tiki Torches with fuel, power it up and sit back and enjoy. I stopped acting, because I want to sneak around and watch all of it unfold as patrons go thru.

I don't know if it will show on video when I do it...but it is definately very cool. I can't believe how well it works....I know what it is and I cannot convince my brain to see it as inverted....very very cool

That is one LARGE Jacobs ladder in the Electric chair control box. I have three, Two are set up and one in the basement. I have never been able to get a real wide gap at the top. I'm using neon sign transformers. May I ask how big of a gap do you have at the top and how are you running it?

Pictures look great!

I have about 2.5 to 3 inches at the top. I am using a 25000 volt neon transformer. I started using copper pipe because it is perfectly straight and produces a great arc. When I covered it with plexiglass I had to drill some small air holes at the bottom to get it to work well. Don't know why but it made the difference