Thread: Vortex Tunnel...worth it????

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Ok,

I went through a HH this weekend and I got my 1st VT experience. Was cool and the wife loved it.
I am considering making one for next year, why because I can

My Question: Is this experience worth it for a home haunt?

It is a lot of work but not a difficult project, just VERY large. I have been to many many sites that have shown some very good info. I"m just wondering if it is worth the work?

Share your thoughts.....
-PB

ive been in one there awesome. if i could i would build one. go for it!

If you have the space, the money and time go for it!

Funny...my wife suggested it to me after going through another one this weekend...thats a BIIIIG undertaking, but hey, we're all into Halloween so we should love undertaking, right? I've got a few months of winter to think about how much i want to torture myself next year...we'll see...I say if you think you can, and have the space, then go for it!

It'll give me an excuse to buy one of these: Tube Roller:



I can make this and I have already lined up a motor, FREE to
This should take less room than my Spill Your Guts prop. I just need to make sure I want it.
Hell I can make it and always just sell it.

-PB

hi there we usually do a vortex except for 08 and 07. 2008 we had a freak snowstorm with heavy snow that wrecked our vortex in the building stage, so we just made it into a tunnel. the people loved it tho! in 2007 we tryed using luan but it was too heavy and didn t work at all. in 09 we used conduit for the rings and plasticore (corigated plastic, looks like a cardboard box only made of this plastic) and we had a winner. you get lots and lots of compliments on it and it makes ya feel so proud!!
In the early years we made what I would call a startionary vortex, where only the top bar and the fabric would go around. it was a good effect and did the job of dis-orenting you , especially with the black light and phloresent dots.
09 vortex was made with alot of 2x4's for the frame and some doors to close in the end. we covered the whole thing with a BIG tarp.
I think it is worth it, Its a blast to walk thru!

bantuban (guy from Ft.Collins CO is makeing one. Check out his Laser one. Very awesome and I say go for it. I'v watched a few videos of home haunters on youtube and it looked like it was the hit of the neighboorhood.

I think its worth it !!! We are doing one this year too. I am hoping that our patrons are really surprised by it because ours in inside! Luckily we have 10 ft ceilings at our haunt!

If you have the space, I say it's totally worth it. I really, REALLY want to build one of those, but don't really have room for it. It would have to go out in the yard, and I don't know how, or where I would store it. Someday!!!

Did you know they are called "Yak Tubes"? Because people "Yak!" in them, (vomit)
A 3 yr. old boy was killed in one a few years ago, I guess that he fell under the mechanism?
This was at a pro haunt in a very large city,during 2002?
When Vortex's were coming out Transworld had something I liked better.. I can't recall what it was called, but it was similair to a Vortex except the walls only moved back and forth, the floor platform might have moved some too (or maybe that was an illusion?)
The interior was decorated like a classical tomb with columns, as the right wall tipped out at the top skeletons would fall from their wall hiding places, then as it tipped the other way, they would gravity back, disappearing as the skeletons hiding in the opposite left wall fell out at you.
Then a random ghost or skeleton would cross the path at a 45 degree angle every so often.
Maybe this was called something like:"Gothic Chamber"?