I've been doing the Merlin / Castle theme for several years now.
That means most of my October is just putting up / putting away
all the stuff I keep accumulating.
Usually, only leaves me time to do a few "NEW" things each season.
This year, my favorite was the Witch tv / picture:
Last Summer, we were getting ready to take the big old boxy tv set
to recycling, but I wouldn't let it go.
My main room - Wizards Keep: the walls are the plastic rolls of stone scene-setters.
I set the BIG tv on my workbench behind the plastic sheet. Cut out a place for the screen,
framed it in with some fluroescent painted foamboard, and popped in the AtmosFear
witch video = success ! ! !
Where I stood handing out the candy ( fast as I could ! ) the tv was behind me, and
every TOT stopped to watch a minute or two of the video.
Here in a bit, I will post my walk-thru video: and the picture / tv really shows up !
For many, many years I've been holding my foil wrapped pvc pipe with the flashlight / Christmas globe on top.
This year: wanted something thicker / more "carved-wood" - like.
Started with another pvc pipe ( so I can drop a mini-flashlight inside ).
Covered with duct tape - so the can of expanding foam would have
something to grab to.
Smoothed / rounded it off all around with the elec. triangle chipper tool.
Painted the whole thing with a base coat of black spray paint.
The spray paint ate crackly channels all over the staff
Painted down in the cracks with fluorescent red, and covered the
outer with white.
Put a blue LED flashlight in the top - and it shot a light beam up out of the staff.
Ran out of time before I could put a globe and "finger-limbs" on the top,
but this one will finish up pretty quickly for 2016.
My Monster-in-Box ran great all night: thanks to new motor from
Monster Guts !
Got two of my Nephews helping me now. They sat in the jail-cell right around the
blind-corner. Scared some of the TOT's ( and their parents ! ) pretty good.
Nephew Howling Demon Reagan, and Little Creeper Holden
Started adding more and more of the Fire&Ice swirling lights:
they really make the maze through the Castle - quite a trip !
One last one for now: one of the Wizard's tables in the Keep: