requesting halloween help

Posted by davidb from cache-ntc-aa01.proxy.aol.com (198.81.26.6) on Monday, June 17, 2002 at 11:00am :

This is not a "I need help with my costume" request. Every year at work, we turn our parts counter at our Honda dealership into something really neat. One year a tropical beach, complete with sand, a western bar, a pirate ship, etc. Our plan is every year to get an extreme WOW reaction, and it has worked very well for about six years. We've decided to do Indy this year, and we're having a problem coming up with the WOW. I really think something a bit interactive regarding our customers (and the visitors who now show up every year just to see what we've done) is desireable. Something along the lines of a vine hanging down in our temple-looking set that says "Don't pull this" and when you do something jumps up and scares you type of thing. (I actually have better ideas than that but I don't want to influence anybody into thinking like me.)
To help you visualize what we've got to work with, is a typical 40 inch high counter, three feet wide and eleven feet long, with essentially a five foot deep area behind it and a wall on three sides behind the counter. Above the counter has about a foot of wall hanging down for our roll-down door, and the ceiling is about nine feet. We plan on making fake stone temple walls and hanging a lot of vines and things (snakes, skulls, etc.) for atmosphere.
Any and all ideas are welcome.

David

Follow Ups: What about that statue from TOD? - The Graduate 3:00pm 06/18/2002 Post a Followup Name: E-Mail: ( default ) Subject: Message: : This is not a "I need help with my costume" request. Every year at work, we turn our parts counter at our Honda dealership into something really neat. One year a tropical beach, complete with sand, a western bar, a pirate ship, etc. Our plan is every year to get an extreme WOW reaction, and it has worked very well for about six years. We've decided to do Indy this year, and we're having a problem coming up with the WOW. I really think something a bit interactive regarding our customers (and the visitors who now show up every year just to see what we've done) is desireable. Something along the lines of a vine hanging down in our temple-looking set that says "Don't pull this" and when you do something jumps up and scares you type of thing. (I actually have better ideas than that but I don't want to influence anybody into thinking like me.) : To help you visualize what we've got to work with, is a typical 40 inch high counter, three feet wide and eleven feet long, with essentially a five foot deep area behind it and a wall on three sides behind the counter. Above the counter has about a foot of wall hanging down for our roll-down door, and the ceiling is about nine feet. We plan on making fake stone temple walls and hanging a lot of vines and things (snakes, skulls, etc.) for atmosphere. : Any and all ideas are welcome. : David Optional Link ( default ) URL: Title: Optional Image Link ( default ) URL: This board is powered by the Mr. Fong Device from Cyberarmy.com