Thread: Never owned a Bucky...help

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OK...this year I am looking to buy a bunch of skellys and have them look like they are crawling the exterior of the house. What is the best type for this? I was gonna go with Buckys, however they are expensive...but I like props that will last. Can you leave Buckys outdoors for a month? Do they hold their pose, or do you have to find a way to fix the pose (if not, which skellys DO hold their pose). Also what do you think would be a good way to attach them....we rent and can't nail into the roof or anything, but I was thinking maybe xmas light clips and then anchor the skellys to that with twine or fishing line.....but are Buckys so heavy that they would pull the clips off?
Thanks for the help....I am panicking, only about 4 months left! Aggghhh!

Not sure if this will be much help but I'll try anyway. Buckys are way to exspenive for my budget so I use those really cheap made immation ones that Big Lots put's out each year. I have not done anything real extream with mine yet so I'm not sure if they would last outside for a month. (i think they would since there plastic)

I'v herd of people using PVC PIPE to make them hold there pose. So you could probably find an old thread or google search it telling you where and how to do it.

Not sure that the christmas light hooks will hold very good but it would be worth it to try. Maybe get some fine fishing wire. That stuff works pretty well for larger objects.

Hopefully someone else will be able to add on to this. Good luck!

A friend of our up in Santa Barbara area used this method from Brewster Yard Haunt on some rubber skellys & posed them crawling around on his porch.
Looked amazing:

http://www.fulcrumsites.com/haunt/ht..._skeleton.html

The 1st year the 3' poseable skellys from Oriental Trading Co. came out we got ten & posed 'em all over inside our house for the Halloween party.
They pose every which way you like & are sturdy, fairly light plastic- perhaps a "swarm" of those outside?

Why there are not yet 5' or 6' ready-made poseables available always puzzles me. If anybody knows of any ready-mades out there, please clue me in!

I used the cheap plastic skeletons using these directions and a lot of hot glue.
http://www.halloweenpropmaster.com/c..._skeletons.htm

I started staining the skeletons but didn't ever finish

True Bucky's are pretty darn heavy but they are very durable. They do not hold thier pose unless you have a way of supporting them, i put mine in a chair.Then you have the Blucky, the very cheap blow mold skele. With a little creativity you can paint or corpse these guys up and they look pretty good. They need to come out with a nice foam skeleton sometimes.

Here is one on ebay:

http://cgi.ebay.com/Bucky-Skeleton-F...item3f002c1052

Here is another source. They have a few sizes to save some money:

http://www.hauntedprops.com/SearchRe...earch=skeleton

More:

http://www.skeleton-factory.com/Prop...aign=skeletons

And of course MinionsWeb:

http://www.minionsweb.com/osStore/de...es-c-2_27.html

Originally Posted by Spider Rider

I used the cheap plastic skeletons using these directions and a lot of hot glue.
http://www.halloweenpropmaster.com/c..._skeletons.htm

I started staining the skeletons but didn't ever finish

I use these also but another good example is TK421's yard haunt. He has these things everywhere! Here's the link:
http://www.halloweenforum.com/album....id=1216&page=3

(TK hope you don't mind)

They are expensive, they are heavy, but they seem to be impervious to sunshine, heat, weather here in Northwestern Illinois. I have Bucky skulls on the outsode of my house and they have been there for years.
If you could saw skeletons from 1/4inch plywood , the weather-proof plywood, would be durable, light.
I cut a small skelton from steel, it looked good.
To pose a Bucky you would have to attach steel rods to the bones (underside) and that would add even more weight to him.
You can drill the bones and they sedem to be strong enough, dense enough plastic to hold up .