Thread: Boo to you!

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Hey all. Name is Jamie (male version). I was extremely big into Halloween years ago . Once we started having kids things slowed quite a bit. I am the proud father of 3 little girls (2, 4 and 6). It was hard to get back into this as they are afraid of their own shadows. Couple that with one of my other hobbies ... rebuidling a 1987 Camaro Iroc Z and time was extremely limited. On top of that, I used to decorate my garage and threw up a plexi wall to keep the local riff-raff out of my display. There were a lot of push button and motion sensored props. Had more and more people show up every year. One year, I parked the Camaro out front (after the paint job) and some little heathen got shaving cream on it. End of decorating the garage.

Fast forward to April of this year. I moved into a new house. Much bigger but no garage. That will not stop me from jumping back in. Plenty of room to build some enclosures and get to haunting again.

The house I moved into is my dad's old house (I built him a new one right next door). I helped him with a lot of his static creations. He gets a good deal of people every year. His crowd will now be taken to the next level as I introduce them to animated props.

The house is in the middle of Historic Richmond Town on Staten Island. So, for this year, I am planning a dead civil war soldier. He'll have the 3-axis head and a cannon. I'm hoping to have the cannon fire some fog and make a little noise. I'm actually thinking of placing a barrel in the line of sight and having a pirate duck into the barrel in fire of the cannon (using a reverse grave jumper). I have to find a place for my old FCG as well. This will be the start of a whole new era at this old haunt!

So, I just wanted to say Hi and formally thank the Captain for turning me on to this place. I'm addicted already. If I get all this stuff working I'll throw together a how to.

Wish me luck!

Welcome to the forum.

Hey Jay, glad you found the forum...welome!!

Hello and Welcome

Your gonna like it here. Welcome

Welcome Skeleton Jay! Can't wait to see some of your work.

Yep Skeleton Jay, you sound like you belong here! looking forward to seeing your goodies
( oh.... I don't mean those goodies) I mean prop goodies! Sounds like you have alot to offer in upcoming tutorials ! There is alot of great ideas, and wonderful people. You'll love it here!
Have fun and see you around !

Welcome.

I just recently got back into Halloween myself after having twins. Kids kind of change your priorities, don't they. Plus we bought a foreclosure home and had a tone of work to do on it. But now it is back to haunting!!!