Halloween Haunted House Design and Equipment

Spooky F/X

ScareWare Manufacturing

Scary products without the Scary prices!

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A DUAL action pneumatic animatronic. This innocent trashcan blends into the Home Haunters front yard or walkway. It is also great for the waiting lines of customers in front of a Haunted House. The trash can creates a physiological camouflage and a false sense of security. Then suddenly the Zombie crashes up out of the can and reaches for its victims.

The unit is approximately 20 inches in diameter x 30 inches tall.

Adapted from the Trash Can Trauma concept by Carl Chetta

This is Email sent to us by our first TRASH CAN TERROR customer.

Subj: TCT
Date: 10/5/1998 6:34:00 AM Pacific Standard Time
From: TammyDREWDAG57

I just received the TCT. when I got home from work yesterday I saw the package on the porch, my wife was on the porch to. Before I realized it I found my self almost running to the porch. I was like a kid on Christmas, ripping the package open. My wife was shaking her head and said to me I WISH YOU WERE INTO ME AS MUCH AS YOUR INTO HALLOWEEN. Probably because she got no kiss and no hi honey Im home. I wasted no time getting batteries, then setting the two next door neighbor kids up for the scare. Innocently asking for their help cleaning my garage. I hit the remote on the TCT and the girl ran home mad at me, the boy was scared but was just as fascinated with TCT as I was when it was over.

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Email 2006

Subject TCT

I received the TCT today. WOW it works great, just wanted to say thanks.

MARC LA MORTE

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model #TCT610:

Manually operated unit with an electric switch. This switch is connected to the unit with a 50 ft low profile cable. This version includes a debris clatter /bottle breaking sound effect with a zombie scream on a voice chip that plays out of an internal projection speaker when the animatronic is activated.

Price is only $730 plus S&H

model #TCT-121601:

Triggered by a Electro-field motion detector and a preset event controller. This version includes a debris clatter /bottle breaking sound effect with a zombie scream on a voice chip that plays out of an internal projection speaker when the animatronic is activated.

Price is only $870 plus S&H

SPINAL GAP

The air cylinder is self contained inside of the animatronic, this design allows the animatronic to sit on a chair, platform or on the ground with NO hidden space underneath the body of the unit.

Adapted from a concept by Steve Hickman: http://TerrorSyndicate.com

Spinal Gap model #SGM-121601:

Electro-field motion detector activates the controller. The controller activates the gory, rip, splash and moaning mono sound effect which is played to your boom box or stereo system for that BIG sound. This is NOT a loop tape. It is a digital sound chip system with a cassette player adapter. This sound system is a Spooky F/X innovated design and exclusive at this time. The "brain" includes a built in preset event controller.

It is powered by a shop air compressor and a reservoir air tank (not included).

$820 plus shipping and handling.

Spinal Gap model #SG-081602:

Manually operated unit with an electric switch. This switch is connected to the controller with a 50 ft low profile cable. The controller activates the gory, rip, splash and moaning mono sound effect which is played to your boom box or stereo system for that BIG sound.

Price is only $680 plus S&H

In a message dated 11/4/2001 8:11:44 AM Pacific Standard Time, howard-stern2@home.com writes:

I hope you remember me. you built SPINAL GAP for me. I show cased spinal gap this year at the end of a tee corridor. It was a huge success! All 6 air props I bought from you worked and fired flawlessly. You guys do great work. Since I found your company I have not bought Animatronics from ANY other company. I had 300 plus TOTS not bad for a HOME HAUNTER.

Im looking forward to doing business with you this new year.
I did not think it was possible but this years haunt was better than last years
Thanks for my best Halloween ever.

thanks again
~~SCOTT~~

We are sorry, but no orders can be sent outside of the united states.

To return to the first page of the Spooky F/X (which also has our ordering information and the link to send us Email) go to:

http://www.spookyfx.com/boo1.html

If you are going to do a Haunted House, don't wait until July to start making plans. For a QUALITY production (no mater how big or small) you need to start the first steps of the haunted house at least 5 or 6 months before October. IT IS TOO LATE if you wait until the season rolls around.