[Pablo0714]

And still more...

 

[TosaTerror]

I should have posted my setup here, rather than creating a separate thread for it. Anyway, rather than reposting the pictures here's just the link to them.

This Year's Outside Haunt

Took an idea from a poster on here who created some pumpkin sentinels a few years back. Loved it so much I created two of my own for this year. I added a few sentinel minions from a previous year's haunt and incorporated them with a scared little girl with some strobe lights. As you can see...

www.halloweenforum.com

 

[greatwhite70]

Holy crap those Alien eggs turned out fan-freaking-tastic! I remember seeing your posts about making them awhile back. You could easily sell those Excellent work all around!

thanks

 

[Jeremy7]

So far all I have is the pallet fence, Ocean Man's body, and some lights. The oranges are beautiful this year, though:

 

[ZahnFamilySpooks]

Wow you all have such great displays. Thanks for sharing. I don't have video or a million pics to share but here is one that came out ok on the old iphone. I got the pumpkin stalker in the mail so he's proudly displayed! 11 more days, pray the weather works out! Still have one more animatronic to get out, the life sized coffin, a spooky tree and some tombstones. 💀 😁

 

[Jenn&MattFromPA]

I've been slow with pictures, and this year I might make my own thread once we put all the animatronics out, because this is definitely our biggest & best display yet! We have a corner lot and when facing our house, we have our driveway on the left, then the part of the yard we do as a cornfield, then a tree in the middle, then a large cemetery area on the right. In the picture below, you can see my witch silhouette on the side of the house even though it's just getting dark.

Above & below are the right side of our yard - the cemetery. We ran out of dimmer lights and ordered more so we'll be replacing the bright white on the cemetery sign before Halloween, but DH wanted something on there now.

One area of spiderwebs, behind the cornfield area & where TOTers will get candy - jump up spider and lots more spiders will be attached, some with glowing eyes.

Front tree -

Larry the Zombie & his skelly friend hanging out in our Jeep -

Blurry pic of the cobra, who is at the far left of our front yard before the driveway. He gets a LOT of compliments and the kids love him! He definitely looks good in an area that's got lots of fluffy plants rather than just flat ground, IMHO.

There's a ton more - I didn't add any of our cornfield area, and you can't really get an idea of the whole layout or what's in the cemetery. I'll keep taking pictures as we put more stuff out!

 

[MT_Grave]

Grave yard is mostly done so playing with some lighting. Now onto my hearse, witch and cauldron creep and haunted pumpkin patch. Going to be down to the wire for me this year.

 

[Michael__Myers]

I've been slow with pictures, and this year I might make my own thread once we put all the animatronics out, because this is definitely our biggest & best display yet! We have a corner lot and when facing our house, we have our driveway on the left, then the part of the yard we do as a cornfield, then a tree in the middle, then a large cemetery area on the right. In the picture below, you can see my witch silhouette on the side of the house even though it's just getting dark.

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Above & below are the right side of our yard - the cemetery. We ran out of dimmer lights and ordered more so we'll be replacing the bright white on the cemetery sign before Halloween, but DH wanted something on there now.

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One area of spiderwebs, behind the cornfield area & where TOTers will get candy - jump up spider and lots more spiders will be attached, some with glowing eyes.

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Front tree -

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Larry the Zombie & his skelly friend hanging out in our Jeep -

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Blurry pic of the cobra, who is at the far left of our front yard before the driveway. He gets a LOT of compliments and the kids love him! He definitely looks good in an area that's got lots of fluffy plants rather than just flat ground, IMHO.

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There's a ton more - I didn't add any of our cornfield area, and you can't really get an idea of the whole layout or what's in the cemetery. I'll keep taking pictures as we put more stuff out!

It all looks great! Excellent work on the webbing!

 

[Jenn&MattFromPA]

It all looks great! Excellent work on the webbing!

Thank you! This is my first year using the beef netting and I LOVE IT!!!!! I absolutely took a lot of advice from this forum and learned about the look that I liked from a lot of members' photos. Seriously - I want to cover the entire YARD in this stuff!! LOVE IT!!

 

[Michael__Myers]

Thank you! This is my first year using the beef netting and I LOVE IT!!!!! I absolutely took a lot of advice from this forum and learned about the look that I liked from a lot of members' photos. Seriously - I want to cover the entire YARD in this stuff!! LOVE IT!!

Why stop at the entire yard? Might as well cover the entire house too One of the best things about it is the reuse you'll get out of it next year too, minus having to do all that cutting.

 

[Jenn&MattFromPA]

@Michael__Myers - don't tempt me!
Also yes, I'm going to bag the webs based on section of house I take them from, so even if they don't get put up in the exact same spot next year, they'll cover the same area (or at least that's what I'm counting on!).

 

[Michael__Myers]

@Michael__Myers - don't tempt me!
Also yes, I'm going to bag the webs based on section of house I take them from, so even if they don't get put up in the exact same spot next year, they'll cover the same area (or at least that's what I'm counting on!).

Good thinking and I basically stored them from last year in that way as far as separating, although mine was separating into 2 sections. One section was the outdoor webs and the other section was the webs used in the garage. That way I didn't just have a big pile of webs to figure out what went where because the outdoor webs and garage webs were cut in different lengths.

 

[Ladyfrog]

Wow! So many great displays! We're just getting started on ours but this is what we have so far. This is the Great Pumpkin - he will be holding Linus in one hand when we're done. (My husband has spent hours building Linus from scratch.) For now, he's standing on Snoopy and has yellow feathers sticking out of his mouth (RIP Woodstock).

Still to come is the spider's lair featuring giant spiders. There will be a no-scares option for the littles on the driveway side of the house.

 

[Ghostephen]

Thank you! This is my first year using the beef netting and I LOVE IT!!!!! I absolutely took a lot of advice from this forum and learned about the look that I liked from a lot of members' photos. Seriously - I want to cover the entire YARD in this stuff!! LOVE IT!!

A good source on the beef netting? Thanks

 

[HalloweenJokes]

My favorite place on the forum. Looking at the hard work people put in to make Halloween Fangtastic!

 

[Jenn&MattFromPA]

A good source on the beef netting? Thanks

I got mine from Trenton Mills in Tennessee, USA. That's pretty much the main supplier and definitely the #1 recommended place I've seen on this Forum. I ordered mine back in June, and it might be too late to get some this year, but I highly recommend them. They come in rolls based on weight - I got a 5lb roll, and I will have PLENTY for years to come even though the webs (once you cut them) are actually reusable. There's a video on the Trenton Mills website as well as plenty of tutorials here on the Forum for how to cut them as well as the variety of ways you can display them.

Halloween Decorations - Trenton Mills

Manufacturer of the World's Best Dish Cloth and the gold standard in Halloween Haunt decorations!

www.trentonmills.com

 

[Edmund K]

This thread is so inspiring! I just completed my pirate yard display a few days ago. I have already been rewarded with several families coming by to tell me how much they look forward to our Halloween haunt.
I've noticed that many more homes in our usually staid and conservative neighborhood have done some kind of decorating for the season!

 

[Tasty Brains]

Here's this year's haunt, daytime version. Haven't even started playing around with the lighting, yet. Terribly disappointed in that regard, as a streetlight that was out for all of this year and much of last was recently fixed, pouring near daylight brightness into the yard at night.

 

[Ghostephen]

This thread is so inspiring! I just completed my pirate yard display a few days ago. I have already been rewarded with several families coming by to tell me how much they look forward to our Halloween haunt.
I've noticed that many more homes in our usually staid and conservative neighborhood have done some kind of decorating for the season!

Everything looks awesome everyone! My first year setting up my yard was wondering about suggestions on light fixtures that gives the options of switching colors?

 

[Engineerchic]

Everything looks awesome everyone! My first year setting up my yard was wondering about suggestions on light fixtures that gives the options of switching colors?

I like Novostella brand on Amazon. We have a few types with remktes but losing the remotes is very real issue for us. So we get the ones with WiFi now and that lets us change colors pretty easily. "Blaze" have WiFi, "Blink" are bluetooth only. Which isn't horrible but we have everything on a Google controller so we can turn it all on or off from a voice command.

For lights that do not change colors, like my beloved solar spotlights, I just use lighting gels. I got a 20 pc set from Selens on Amzon and I cut a piece to fit my light, then fit it into the bezel (or use double sided tape when I am in a hurry). Cool white transforms into purple, burnt sienna, etc.

The OTHER thing to think of is how to hide your lights. I like to hide them so they aren't as visible during the day, but make them more visible at the same time. This year I made fake rocks with gallon milk jugs, spray foam, and dried moss. And stuck crows on them. There are more impressive things like this using 5 gallon buckets made to look like stumps, but I was in a hurry and these were quick.