2008 Kenton Avenue Graveyard

[tds234]

I built a 3 character show for this year's front yard haunt. This is my second year haunting.
If you search for "Kenton Avenue graveyard" on YouTube you'll see last years video for comparison.

A big thank you to all at EFX-TEK for making all this possible for so many people.

I used mostly EFX-TEK boards in the show controller.
The 3rd video has the boards and layout of the whole show controller.

Here's the daytime show (without musical interlude)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2czDZ20sUes

Here's the nighttime show
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nfyXCagi5g

Here's the controller setup.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inp0eWLOaJQ

Almost everything you see here was built custom for this year. I purchased some core items like lifters and tombstones but constructed the columns, toepincher, mummy construction site and the characters themselves. Lot's of custom props and decorations in a 16 by 20 foot front yard.

I wasn't able to get all this done with 3-axis skulls but most of this was designed to be reusable characters and I plan to upgrade at least one of them to a 3-axis design for next Halloween.

Any questions just let me know.

Freshly Doug

[reddragon]

 That is really cool good job on the props...what kind of amp did you use to control you show

[tds234]

The amplification on the audio side is a sonic impact T-amp which runs about 15 watts output.
It's one of the areas I'm going to seriously upgrade this year when I find the right bargain. I love these little amps which were a steal some time ago but are now WAY overpriced and hard to get.

The audio only controls the jaw flapping part. The rest, like the triggering of the tracks on the Rogue player, the triggering/fading of the lights, relays and Pneumatic solenoids are all done through programmatic control by the main show program running on the prop-SX board.

Any more questions don't hesitate to ask.

Freshly Doug