Thread: Plum Creek Cemetery..we had some problems...

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Well Halloween went fairly well..but we did havesome major problems that we never had before....
It first started out with the wind..gusting to 50MPH..we couldnt even think about setting anything up until after noon....

Second, both 750watt strobes...burned out...damnit....

Master Blaster Fogger...my work horse...took a crap....double damnit..

Third, I had an electrician wire some new circuits in the front of my home..he assured me that it would be plenty of power for our needs...couldnt run half the lights or animated props....kept blowing the ground fault...

Well even without all the lights or the props, it still went fairly well... here is some video for your enjoyment...

YouTube - Halloween FINAL 09 DAY

YouTube - Halloween FINAL 09 NIGHT

Nice! Like the big eyeball in the window. Also liked the little ones looking on in the daytime video.

Nice Rocker. The Rocking Chair prop is hands down the creepiest thing I have seen.

Plum Creek caught my eye to... I have a friend thats a Viticulturist for Plum Creek Cellars.

Dang Melty! You have an awesome set-up. some reallty nice animation and some gruesome looking props too! Just makes me want to revert back to a front yard display even more and do away with the walk through haunt. Love the rocker guy and the hallowindow eye is just great! Nice vids and good effect in spite of the technical glitches. The wind was a killer this year for a lot of us too.

Looks amazing and I feel your pain, our 700 watt fogger failed us this year and a brand new portable 30 gallon Sanborn compressor I bought got away from me when it rolled down a little mound of extension cords and fell hard to the ground. It was only about a week old and I totally crushed the controls. I have to call the company and purchase the piece to replace it which meant no Webcasting this year. I'm a pretty proud guy but I'll admit i almost cried...Almost!

Nicely done. Looks great.

Thank all for the kind words! Dont cha just hate it when things go wrong?? It only 1 day out of the year! And for 3 hours at most! Why do these things go bad at the worst moment!!

Well there's always next year... thanks again for the replies!!

Hallow and I really love the rocking chair guy! and a grand idea to help hold down the large headstones - to place a ghoul standing behind and hugging them! You could really hide some rebar inside the cloak I think! This is such a great set-up. Nobody ever knows what goes wrong like we do. I bet your visitors never suspected a thing! Great job! BOO!

Amazing!!!How did you make the zombies stand so well?Can you tell me how you did it.

Seriously, that rocking chair needs a tutorial.

When I was really little, I used to have a recurring nightmare of this old, abandoned house, and out on the front porch was just this empty old rocking chair, rocking with no one in it....so your prop brought all that back. Tutorial!