CalHaunts Norcal #1

I spent my Saturday learning how to make some awesome Special Effects Teeth at my first CalHaunts Norcal meeting.  Cory and his minions from Nightmare Playgrounds did a superb job organizing and teaching the mysteries of acrylic teeth.  Everyone walked away with molds and castings of their real teeth, as well as a set of monster chompers, and the know-how to do it again and again.  Jealous?  You should be.

The Big Haunt Video

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Storage...ugh.

I took advantage of the 3-day weekend to finally put everything (and everybody--get it? every body?  bodies? corpses? ha ha ha....yeah, okay) where it belongs for the rest of the off season.  We put everything in the driveway and put it properly away one by one.

If you recall, this is what my backyard looked like on November 1, and that's pretty much how it stayed for the next couple of months while other things took priority.  Now...



My Dad built these 3 cabinets in the garage that house almost everything

All the lights, fixtures, extension cords, foggers, and miscellaneous small props on the right.

All my full size characters in the middle

And all Three Laboratory animatronics (plus some extra foam and my bucky) on the far left.

But what about the Giant Rusty Gear of Doom?

It was just too cool to put away for the rest of the year  ;)

An Experiment

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-Mr. Chicken

EDIT: Thank you to all who have suggested various tracking programs.  I have been using Google Analytics to track the site, but statistics only mean so much, you know?

EDIT 2: At the request of Devils Chariot and Phil Merrill, a picture: