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So this is the year I started following you because I remember this haunt vividly!
ReplyDeleteThose clown pumpkins are great. I'm not sure I've seen anyone do that before. The whole display has an antique vibe.
ReplyDeleteThat year's haunt theme had some major changes just before Halloween too. That was the year of "scary clown hysteria" in the United States (https://www.vox.com/culture/2016/10/12/13122196/clown-panic-hoax-history), and we had been planning a year in advance to do a scary clown theme, so not wanting to come across as callous, we shelved the scary clown masks and switched the theme over to a "Skeleton Circus" instead. We did the haunt as originally intended in 2020, and think we did a much better job the second time around. And those clown pumpkins with the red noses almost didn't happen back in 2016, they were really difficult to pull off. Our idea seemed simple enough: drill a nose hole into the pumpkins around the same diameter as the transparent "shatter proof" plastic red Christmas ball ornaments we purchased, wedge them in the drilled out holes and voilà!, glowing red clown nosed jack-o-lanterns. But wedging in the ornaments was a lot harder to do than anticipated, and the translucent ornaments were while perhaps "shatter proof" were not unbreakable, and would crack and break easily. We had to manually widen the drill out nose holes and even then the ornaments would break under if placed under too much pressure pushing them into the holes. We barely had enough ornaments to complete all of them.
DeleteThat's right! I completely forgot about the Clown Invasion. I'm glad you were able to pull it off still, it turned out great.
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