, so when we did Creepy Carnival I attached a travel hairdryer to the underneath of our popcorn machine and it blew it about which had a quite a good effect when it was it was lit up on the night. I also had a small wax melt lit in Popcorn fragrance, that was hidden behind the garden wall and the smell was just great as people came up the drive, really added to the atmosphere could be an idea to go with yours
a hairdryer would work great, i hope the heat setting was off! I am trying to keep the sound down, it might be too loud. I was going to try a fan hidden down below that would blow the popcorn around.Looks good, great idea. I am not as technical as that
Yes, we get a lot, I think i went thru 700 pieces of candy last year in 3 hours. I am in South Philly in a row home. I only have my porch to fit everything in, it's about 5x14 feet. I usually do a window display for a month before Halloween, then the weekend before decorate the porch. On Halloween i decorate the sidewalk. This machine will be going out on the sidewalk. I am planning a number of things, including a palm reader/tarot/fortune teller/crystal ball thing, a Ouija board, a bunch of clowns, a sword swallower, an organ grinding clown with a monkey, and if I have time and space, a sideshow with oddities.
With it been a travel hairdryer the sound wasn't too bad and having it on the low setting was enough to blow it around so not so loud. I did stop it once in a while as I was conscious of it been on for too long and my popcorn machine really going with a bang!. I also on purposely put it near the player with the carnival music playing as well. A fan would work well too though, look forward to seeing it. The rats are brilliant...I so wish I lived near you and I would book in with you for a course on animatronics....you make things look so easy my Hubby cringes every time he sees me with a plug or wire or my hand! I was thinking as well, to go along with your machine, I did a creepy food box (like the ones they used to carry in cinemas with ice-creams in on a strap) I carried it around for a bit when the party was on as I was a kind of a creepy refreshment seller, but then put it on the buffet table among the normal food. People really liked it, the hot dogs were just those plastic squeaky dog toys,the toffee apples were just plastic apples on sticks, the candy floss was just spider webbing wrapped around stick painted pink and the ice-cream just cotton wool in tubs. ,Thought you could maybe include something similar with your moving rats. I had a sign with alternative names on as well: They were called 'Refleshments' and I had Rot Dogs, Finger Fries, Eye Scream, Candy Moss, Lollyslops, Stodgy Apples and for drinks we had Pesty Cola
