I built 2 of these this week. Kinda a last minute idea.
This is a shot of the framework.
I pounded a long piece of rebar into the ground and slid the PVC over it. The cloth is just some cheap stuff I picked up at Walmart for $2 per yard. It took almost 8 yards of fabric. I just hot glued the fabric on the framework after I bulked it up with some scrap bubble wrap and duct tape. The skulls were some old blow mold ones from a lawn stake set. I sprayed the tiki torches gold to stand out a little more.
I sometimes need to attach things to foam. In one instance it was a foam tombstone that I needed to attach to a thin plywood base, so it would stand up on a stage. Many years ago, I recall seeing someone use what I thought were drywall screws. But, that didn't hold at all on the polystyrene...
So. After a few decades of home haunted, nearly dying on the Operating Table, & living in a small house on a Postage Stamp Lot here in Winter Garden, FL (#Orlando area): a 15 min drive to the Haunted Mansion @ the MK: well, to the TTC. We live so close that every so often the wife & I will take...
Have you created any photo ops and incorporated scare props?
we had folks taking pictures with some of our static props (crypts, Corpses, mausoleum), so I wanted to build something specifically for photo ops.
I’ve seen the electric chairs that vibrate/flash when unsuspecting ToTs sit down...
Does anyone own a Horror Dome Vampire Bat Puppet and, if so, does it look similar to the photo? I've heard a few less-than-stellar things about that site and I'd very much like to know.
