Thread: crazy over the top

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I have a compition to deal with just found out somone is competing with me and this year has been more repaire than new so to show tem who the king is in this area I need some help can I get some ideas of somthing over the top crazily insane that can be built in a week and a half if it comes down to it I will dump $200 to do it but would prefere not to
thank you in advance

Maybe build some GIANT pvc creatures,At night with good lighting it can be a great effect.You can build MIB,POPUP quickly.But cost becomes an issue.Here are some of my big guys.New ones coming this year.

What is you theme?

My theme is graveyard

Well, you can score a couple neck messagers and do grave grabbers, thunder and lightning, good lighting, fencing, pillars, friends dressed up wandering the graveyard, coffin chiller. Sorry if you have already done my suggestions.

i say give this neigbor 200$ and tell him to go buy chrismas stuff instead just joking but ad a little bit at a time and suprise him at the end with all your nice props ! then He wont have time to compete with u !!1 good luck

Really! Competition! I joke about it because there is no other yard haunt that I have found in my entire county. I can't believe that people really give any thought to competition. I do it for my own self gratification. I love to see what I can think up, engineer and build. I look at myself as an artist. I express my art at Halloween. I thank my lucky star for an arena that I can be taken seriously in. Competition is not for me. I do need the outside stimulation and inspiration, though. Oh, by the way, mine is better than yours!

have you seen some of the haunts displayed on this forum?

on a shoe string buget of $200, well lets just say i wont be calling you "his majastey" anytime in the near future.

over the top usually requires an over the top budget.
that being said, what about doing a giant spider climbing up onto your house. (i mean giant!)

16, ten foot sections of black pvc pipe, 45* fittings and a role of 10' wide black plastic (for the body) should keep you under your $200 budget. not to mention a huge spider going over the top (of your house. )

good luck!

Alot of the props made on this board are from stuff laying around.
Search the boards I am sure you can find something in your budget.

I drilled out the regulator ball from a propane tank valve and sent i thru a solenoid. It is timed by a hacked fog timer. For my party I have it mounted 20 feet off the ground and the flame shoots out of the mouth of a large image of a devil head. For TOTs I mount it to a torch and have a skeleton sitting on a fence holding the torch - the flame shoots upward and is far from anyone but still dramatic. This needs to be monitored fro obvious reasons. Very over the top and cheap.