Moving Spider Made With Remote Contolled Car

I don't get to post on this forum very often, too busy, especially from August through the week prior to Halloween , but I visit often to get fresh Ideas. We have a large setup, walking trail, cemetery and haunted barn and it gets harder every year to find new things. One thing I decided to try, just to see if it would work, was a spider attached to a remote control all terrain truck.

When I first put it together no one was too impressed. It didn't seem like anything really scary and you could hear the truck operating so I went back and forth about using it. I placed the spider in an area near our spider web that is a really long tunnel lit with blue fluorescent bulbs, and asked some of the volunteers to try it out on the crowd, but nobody was interested. Once the event started I picked it up and took it to a volunteer that really didn't have a job who just happened to be in the spider web area. We set it up on the edge of the web and waited to see what would happen. It was great, better than the huge spider we drop on their heads. When that little spider ran across the trail, people would turn back and run toward the entrance. You absolutely couldn't tell it was on a truck.. It looked real in that particular situation and the sound of the truck was not an issue at all.

It was super easy to make. I purchased the truck at Wal Mart for $30. We had a soft posable spider that was about 2 feet wide with legs outstretched. I painted the bright colored parts of the truck black with spray paint, took the body off which left a flat surface for the spider to sit on. I used zip ties to attach it to the truck body and it was done.

With all the amazingly creative people on this forum, I'm sure it's by far not a new idea, but I couldn't find a thread about it when searching the forum. I just wanted to share how easy and successful it was for our trail.

I will try to post video of it working if I can get a spare moment to do it tonight.