Those are some amazing props! this is my favorite right now, it's my first animatronic prop and isn't quite done yet. I chopped the head off of a $5 parrot, put a servo in, and attached it to a Scary Terry board and CD player. I recorded myself making squawks and such and then mixed things a little with Audacity. So the head jerks around to the sounds on the CD--the bird squeaks and caws in a sort of manical sick zombie sort of way. Pretty funny. The "stand" is pink foam board painted and scored to look like burned wood.
Personally, though, I'm quite fond of the totems. Probably because they were the first thing I designed from the ground up, not following any tutorials.