Garage of Terror 2007

[GOT]

This was one of my best. My first venture (slightly) into animatronics. This was taken Nov. 1 so the fortune teller is a little beaten up. He has a limp wrist and his spines are not moving (his tendens broke late in the night). You can see the spine action here.

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Here are highlights from the haunt. Sorry for the dark video. I am still working on my photography. The fortune tellers head juts forward 3-4 feet out of his hood at the last moment. That got a lot of screams. The spike room was a big success as well.

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spikes2.jpg picture by jamesb_42 - Photobucket
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I will post some how-to stuff later. I want to thank everyone at Hauntforum for their help!

[Uruk-Hai]

HOLY CRAP!!! Those moving spines are creepy! Great job. I'd love to see a full how-to on your fortune teller - he's fantastic! Love the spike room too - the sound effects really make it.

[NickG]

Wow, that's a couple of fantastic props! The script was excellent.

[widowsbluff]

Super job, I really liked the fortune teller

[skeletonowl]

Man the walls coming down was a great effect!

[Ghoul Friday]

Yup. Would have to say that fortune teller is a bit on the awesome side ;)

[GOT]

I forgot the picture of the head flying forward.

ft24.jpg picture by jamesb_42 - Photobucket

[Haunted Bayou]

Wow!

[Ghostess]

That was wicked cool! The fortune teller looked like something out of a movie. VERY well done!

[dave the dead]

Niiiiice!

[BudMan]

Very Niiiiiiice!

[HalloweenZombie]

Very original and well excecuted. :holds up a card with a 10:

[ScareFX]

Excellent! The crush room rocked.

[GOT]

One problem with the crush room was that, in previous years, I could tone things down if a scared kid was walking through. But this year, when I heard a crying kid walking into the crush room with the group, all I could do is say to myself, "Sorry kid, it just gets worse from here!".

[GOT]

My wife said the fortune teller was too verbose. She thought that his 5 minute seance should have lasted 30 seconds. Any comments?

[heresjohnny]

Two great effects, I really like the use of a crank arm for the fortune teller. Kids did not hang out to long at any one prop for me, so I would say shorter would be better on any dialog.

[Gothic Nightmare]

Wow. Amazing. I would love to be able to do this. Looking forward to those how-to's.

[Empress Nightshade]

Very, VERY sweet, indeed!!

[Empress Nightshade]

My wife said the fortune teller was too verbose. She thought that his 5 minute seance should have lasted 30 seconds. Any comments?
I tend to agree with your wife. Five minutes is quite long and people tend to loose interest. After being the "storyteller" in my haunts, I can tell ya that one to one and a half minutes is recommended.

[spideranne]

That is really impressive.

[slightlymad]

Nice work and here i thought you were just a mad drinking geek

[GOT]

I will have to give you the ??? for that last comment. You are right about the geek part, though.