Another good week of work on the House of Horrors at Potters. As Cam mentioned the control boards finally showed up and I was on them like flies on a rotting corpse!I We finished up the ”Hounds from Hell” and then moved “The Pumpkin King” into place! This giant, for lack of a better word is “Phenomenal”. [...]
Not quite sure how these 2 vicious wolves got the name Tom and Jerry, likely they ate the cat and mouse? The control boards finally arrived for the 2 beasts (only 2 months late) but Rob got to wiring them up right away. We use animatronics every year but these 2 are by far the most [...]
No really! I was working in a hallway and noticed something out of the corner of my eye. Upon further investigation I found a couple of our guys bowling with decapitated heads from our prop department!! They were on a break of course, but you just had to see this to believe it. It was too funny. [...]
The ad I placed on Craigslist for monsters wanted – surprisingly my ad is having great response! Interviews will start next week or shortly after. Cant wait to meet some of these people.
Today I traded a soft and fluffy flower cart with Brian from Unique Events for sick and twisted torture device we nicknamed “Cut- You -Later” (Ouch) I drove from Abbottsford to the Potters Haunted House in Surrey and you should have seen the looks I got with torture device in the back of my pick [...]
Wow it’s been less than a week and we have 1/2 of the walls up for our Surrey Haunted House! We have a great haunted house roughed out so far. Every square inch of the floor at our Potters Surrey Garden Centre has been used and we have added 8 new pop outs for our [...]
Well, it was my first week of work on this year’s House of Horrors at Potters. We had a good start, over half of this year’s labyrinth is already up and I also was able to set up and test two of our newest additions to the haunt. These are just two of the crazy new additions [...]
Potters House of Horrors 2008 Poster just released! Jim Martin at Country Creative did his magic again and came up with this frightening poster for Potters 2008 Haunted House. Like It? I love it. Every year he seems to out do himself. Check out the new poster here: hoh-pstr-11×17-08draft2small-formatt
The Potters staff started unloading 1 of 6, 40ft containers full of props and panels to get the haunted house construction really moving. At this rate, we think all of the walls should be roughed in by the end of next week. Our crazy Aussie helper is here this year to help with the House [...]
Let the fun begin! Finally Potters Garden Centre (located on 72nd Ave in Surrey) is empty of all the plants and tables from spring and summe Now we can begin building our famous haunted house. Our first task is to build the Vortex. The Vortex tunnel is a new prop purchased at the 2008 Haunted [...]
