Attn: Halloween lovers and home haunters!

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One thing I will miss from the OG is my Halloween/animatronic thread.

Looking to restart it here for those that are interested.

This is one of the decorations I’m most likely bringing back this year. It’s an 18 foot tall wooden evil clown archway I built.

I don’t trust my craftsmanship, as well as the high winds we get around here, so I moved it to behind the fence so it’s peeking over:

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Will add the videos of the new animatronic offerings from Home Depot, Spirit Halloween etc in a few but wanted to get the ball rolling.

So, OG, who else is psyched for Halloween?!?!?

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All the new animatronics for Spirit this year:

All the animatronics for HD this year:

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A few pics from Spirit Halloweens Flagship location on opening day:

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We’ve started putting our decorations out but it’s in it’s early stage. Going to do a witch and cauldron set up, a cemetery with some fence I built, and we grabbed about 12 skeletons, a horse for a headless horseman, a skeleton dog and dog house, an 8 foot tall bastard and a couple of those big ass skeletons crawling out of the ground.

I’ll update with pictures as we get it set up.

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In my house, it’s always one day before Halloween.

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Tomorrow it’s gonna be gorgeous out so I have to do some repairs on some of my animatronics tomorrow and then will probably get the ball rolling with decorating.

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So, some of the repairs I have to do is the control box went on this animatronic.

I got a new box but the wires don’t match up as it’s an old model, so have to splice some shit tomorrow to see if I can get it to work.

Great prop, and jarring as fuck if you’re not expecting it.

Another repair I know I have to do is on my pumpkin stack. Bought it second hand and got a fuck ton of rain while it was out last year to the point it stopped working. Gotta trace the short.

Another repair that I have to do is on this guy. One of his springs got deformed somehow so he’s not popping up.

Also have to see if I can get this dude to stand up as I don’t have his base. Might use rebar to see if that will work

There were a few other minor repairs I have to do, but I think those were the big ticket items.

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Somehow my wife’s scream ended up being used in this animatronic.

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Not sure if you’re being serious but I’ve been trying to get my hands on a Peekaboo Penny for years!

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Line out the door I see.

I enjoyed your old thread. I will enjoy this one too

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This was about 7pm that night.

When they opened at 11am they had close to 3500 people waiting to get in.

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Serious. It was the scream from a video I made a long time ago which happens to be my wife’s (with a lot of reverb, pitch shift added).

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That’s badass. Did you get royalties from it?

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LOL no. I think I uploaded to my website with some other sound FX I made. They probably got it off there.

I about 15 years I’m listening to di.fm. A song comes on and I start hearing some of my SFX. Then I hear my voice. Funny seeing where stuff I uploaded decades ago ends up.

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I’m constantly amazed at some of the home builds people do.

Someone recently took a posable skeleton from Home Depot and made “Tarman” from Return of the Living Dead.

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It begins.

Have a small display up on my enclosed porch with a scrolling sign counting down the days to Halloween.

Normally add a little something every few days or so to the display and the big guys start going out on the lawn the first or second week in September.

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Also, the Home Depot closest to me has most of their shit out. The Chucky is very disappointing in person but that Plague Doctor is fucking sick. Probably will purchase the Plague Doctor and maybe one other thing this weekend.

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Gonna grab that Plague Doctor from HD today and maybe set up someone new in the display.

Anyone else prepping for Halloween?

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I just got my costume today.
Buzz Lightyear, lol. Wanted to do something scary, but the kids aren’t old enough for that, yet :pensive:

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Several years ago the fam did a group costume as the emotions from inside out. I went as Anger LOL.

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