Whats in your haunt? Errr Wallet?

[Ken Spriggs]

HA

Scar my dear...they still cost $$$ even if you do them at home!!

Larry I like he who dies with the most toys...dies broke!!!!

JT (My Partner) called and complained about the credit card bill this month.
Oooooppps MHC put a dent in the budget.

But one of the items is from NECA (toy company).
The question to me "What kind of F..ing toys are you buying for $400?"

$400???? what the hell did I order?

When I got home there were these HUGE boxes in the area the wifes car goes.....the boxes were 4x3x3 ....

The Balrog from LOTR is a really HUGE piece

Damn things need to be assembled 2-3 foot wingspan the figure itself is almost 3 feet tall
Now i know why the bill was so much......

YES TOYS ARE FUN....

[Jim Warfield]

How old were most of us when we realised that being "Good" and waiting for Santa to bring us the toys we wanted doesn't work?
It doesn't work because...none of us are very "good"!
How "good" can we be when we like to scare other people so much?
(Insert VERY evil laugh here~)
"Want to see my very scary collection of coal-lumps? They were once dinosaurs, goes the rumor anyway".....

Never Before Seen In This Country!
Jimmie's Dinosaur Parts Collection!
"Looks like coal to me, kid!"
"Step into this dark room and allow me to explain all of this to you before you make up your mind about these items."
A loud growling followed by a man's screams is heard, a man comes running out, face blackened!
"I told you they were dinosaurs!"

[cooderbrown]

Hey Larry,

Just wanted to say hey. I'm up in Edwardsville and when I saw your post - I figured I should pay some homage.

I'm doing a small yard thing for the neighborhood kids this year and popped in to ask some questions in the other forums.

BUT - I do have a question for you. Speaking as a relative outsider of the industry...

Is it just me or is St. Louis a hotbed of Halloween Haunts? Or is it pretty much the norm around the country? Every halloween a dozen haunts pop up that are relatively extensive. (Of course your being the best)

What do you guys do the rest of the year - AND - are these regional houses or is there an entity that stages these nationwide in multiple cities??

I just ask out of curiosity as I've always wondered about it. Of course - I should probably wonder about my honey-do list - but this is much more fun!

Thanks!
Cb

[mindtumor]

There is an absolute ton around the metro detroit area in michigan as well, so it may be the norm for some areas.

[SpFXChic]

Denver & the surrounding cities generally have quite a few, as well.

[drfrightner]

St. Louis is NOT a hotbed for haunting beacuse there are no locations left due to loft apartements or land being developed.

Very few haunts open each year, and few survive to the next year. There are many other cities with many more haunts than St. Louis.

As for being in our area...we hired a home haunter from the area to work on our haunts. Very talented guy!

Home haunters have a lot of experience of doing it themselves, they've been a big help to our operation. Usually those home haunter guys that work here usually don't know what to do with themselves, due to all the toys laying around. LOL.

If you want to help out let us know.

Larry

[cooderbrown]

I guess I should have clarified... I used to work in St. Louis and always noticed them.

Yeah - I guess the resurgence of downtown would put the screws on alot of operations.

Give me a year under my belt - and I may take you up on the offer.

There is a makeup artist that moved back here from LA. His name is Jeff Lewis - and if you google his name + makeup artist - you'll find his site. Very accomplished - he might want to play. You could contact him from his site.

cb

[Xeverity]

Sheesh great list.....

Off the top of my head

About 12 foggers mix of ground (big boys) and small effect ones - coming out mouths, boxes etc.

Strobe, laser lighting, colour flood light, out door solar,

Candleabras Skull
Flaming tall 12 ft pillars
Mummies
Crank ghosts x3
Talking spitting pirate
talking heads
Bone curtain - animated
tombstone jumper -zombie
haunted pipe organ
8ft demon
demon pillars
tombstones (too numerous) and monoliths (Big over sized)
haunted crates - vibrate - creature eyes peeking out
haunted latex wall
ghost flier
severed head flyer
opening coffin with Mr Vickers
cellar dwellar
spider tunnel (fear)
wasp hive (fear)
'bottomless pit' effect and rickety bridge
medical lab
Evil Toad corpse
5 corpsed skeletons
skeleton
pile of skulls
lots of severed limbs and gore
blood bath
blood fountain
pond (real pond) with bog creature
Grimrot and Closet creep
so many severed heads - some are hang from mirror ball motors
haunted potraits
horror art and UV reactive art
talking mirror
haunted wardrobe with gruesome
crystal ball - haunted with gypsy woman
medical lab stuff - kicker zombie
kicking legs
ground risers
rising coffin
bats
shaking and knocking ghost
plaques,signs
household stuff for realism and general sets
huanted dolls house
haunted dolls
possesed doll
haunted mobile
haunted lights - tudor style
vine leaf lights
pop up barrel with gruesome
blinking eyes in bushes
ravens
animated owl
zombie cat
crawling zombie
prisoner skeleton

I am sure there is tons more. I was setting up last year and a friend asked if I had any spiders she could use for detail and I replied - yes in the spider box and pointed to a massive crate. Just don't use any of the animated or really big ones - they go in the tunnel with all the vines and jungle horror stuff. She was shocked that anyone would have a box dedicated for spiders especially that huge.

Yeah all normal people do? Where do you keep yours?


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