WhileI worked as Grounds Manager at Bingemans one of the task for my department wasto set up the park's annual haunted attraction known as 'Scream Park'. I wasinvolved in this project for '07 and '08 but in '09 we really turned up theproduction value. I was able to invest more time and creativity into thisproject. The year prior we experimented with creating out own motion activatedpneumatic props. It was a miserable fail. We had purchased a similar prop froman online store. We dismantled it and figure it how it worked. We applied thosefindings to 5 of our own, custom made, motion triggered pneumatic props andthey worked beautifully.
I call this prop 'Drop Jaw'
I made a bunch of hand sculpted body parts for the 'Medical Ward' The were fabricated using styrofoam, paper-mache, and epoxy resin with mesh. They were then hand painted using acrylic and spray paint.
I made a bunch of hand sculpted body parts for the 'Medical Ward' The were fabricated using styrofoam, paper-mache, and epoxy resin with mesh. They were then hand painted using acrylic and spray paint.
Another angle
The prop seen below is one I considered to be the flagship of them all. It started off as adonated hospital bed (one of 4 that were given to use from a local hospital).We propped the bed upright using its built in rigging. We cut out the upperportion to house the props frame and actuator. I then built a body frame usingwood and wire. The head is hand sculpted using styrofoam, paper-mache and epoxyresin with mesh. The hands came from an older prop and were painted to matchthe rest of the design.
The propsits in the bed as if he were resting. When patrons hit a motion sensor ittriggered the pneumatic actuator that sent the character flying to the end ofthe bed. A sound system was also wired into to the controls. As the characterflew to the end of the bed it screamed at you. It laughed as it retractedslowly back to its resting position
The propsits in the bed as if he were resting. When patrons hit a motion sensor ittriggered the pneumatic actuator that sent the character flying to the end ofthe bed. A sound system was also wired into to the controls. As the characterflew to the end of the bed it screamed at you. It laughed as it retractedslowly back to its resting position
This piece I made for Scream Park 2008. It was aptly named"The Bloody Beefcake Buffet." I converted a male mannequin andcreated the illusion of severed limbs. I used expansion foam, paper-mache, andfiberglass and epoxy resin. It was used spray paint and hand painted detailwith acrylic.
This is a detail shot of the front entrance to Scream Park2008 - Hell's Gate. I figured that for this attraction we needed some kind ofgate, no? When I came up with the concept I wanted something huge and bulky.The look I was going for was the front entrance to an abandon factory from theindustrial revolution – boarded up, huge cast iron structure, bent and misshapen. The letters was hand drawn on plywoodand cut out with a jig saw. The gate itself was made with 1-inch rebar. We bentthe pieces to fit and welded and tied them together with rebar ties. The paintchipped boards were pulled from out waste material dump and affixed to theexisting gates.
