This channel features videos of our extensive Halloween and Christmas displays. We are located in the western suburbs of Chicago, Carol Stream.
Canyon Trail Cemetery is the name of our Halloween display. It features more than 2 dozen pneumatic props as well as motorized and static props.
We are setup for the entire month of October and during that time, thousands of people visit our yard. In 2021, we had over 2,000 Trick Or Treaters on Halloween night.
We are also a member of Chicago Haunt builders, a group of Halloween enthusiasts in located throughout the Chicago area.
Candy Cane Canyon Trail is the name of our Christmas Display. re-side our house into a Giant GingerBread House, complete with snowmen and elves decorating the yard and trees. We also sync the lights to Music using Light-O-Rama and have a low power FM transmitter.
Thanks! I run two Campbell Hausfeld compressors. One is an 80 gallon and the other is a 60 gallon. Not sure if you noticed, but you are in our display. The Help Me spider victim and the 3:25 mark.
You should make a behind the scenes video some time showing your air compressor (s) and a walk on the other side of the fence. Great haunt as always looking forward to 2023’s setup
This haunt is absolutely amazing. I love the attention to detail and the creepy atmosphere you manage to create. And knowing that you’ve made all these moving props is mind blowing! Such a great job. I love it! I hope it’s ok, but I often do reaction videos to peoples haunts, and I’ve done one for yours. If you want to check it out I’ve posed the link! Well done guys… epic ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ndVXgZtHV2o.html
Such an insane amount of work. Man my yard is like 1/ 8th of this size and im exhausted after setting it up. So always impressed with your display and amount of work I know this is. Happy Halloween!
Got a question. At 6:59 secs. There's a big pumpkin head that is moving back and forth. Did you make this head and if so would you tell me how. I've made several of the spray foam pumpkins but yours looks almost perfect. I've been watching your videos for years and still think your yard is the most impressive! Thanks in advance and Happy Halloween 🎃! Josh
Thanks! We purchased the pumpkin several years ago at Menards (A big-box home improvement store chain in the Midwest). Unfortunately, I have not seen them since.
It uses a long throw pneumatic cylinder. I think it's a 36" throw. The cylinder pushes the platform on which the Pumpkin Creature is mounted along a rail system.
Can you start making more prop update videos you stop it about three years ago it’s always interesting to see what they look like without the stuff on them so can you please make prop update videos thanks 🙃
Watching this in 2021 and I went to your house in 2021 the improvement in 12 years is crazy you were on the News and had 2,000 trick-or-treaters thousands of people came to see the display so Good job and can you bring back the spinning skeleton wheel 🎃 good job
Amazing display! Like every year! I love it! I live in belgium and i do a night show (more and more less than you lol) for the halloween night...3 days of hard work for installation, only for 4hours of show. This years, a big rain have ruined the show 30 minutes after beginning but we had restart prop after the rain. Less of visitors and less props (video projection) but the show has go on! Your props are crazy and i love it. The day when i will come in USA, i will offer you a belgian beer, for sure. See you my friend!
Sounds awesome! It's about 200 hours of setup between my Wife and I but it is up for most of the month of October. Being in the Chicago area, we never know what weather we will have on Halloween. Can be 60 degrees Fahrenheit or we can have 3 inches of snow. Looking forward to that beer!
@@CanyonTrailCemetery Cool. I started out with just static (i.e., non-animatronic) props but with lights controlled by Light-o-rama. The props are activated as part of the light show (e.g., the crank ghost's eyes might flash to the beat in part of a song, but then the ghost shuts down in another part of the song). I'm starting to integrate props with an Arduino running them so that I have control over the timing of various elements, but I haven't gotten very far in implementing much though.
I've always taken the opposite approach and gone with motors over pneumatics, although obviously there are drawbacks to that, mainly that most motors/mechanisms lack the speed to pull off as effective a jump scare through motion alone. What I'd suggest here is a sturdier scissor mechanism and a strong/fast linear actuator. You usually have to compromise speed for strength, but you can create a mechanical advantage where a short stroke can translate into a long "throw" that will still support a decent-size prop. I've been wanting to do some animatronics with one for a long time. I'm working on a curtain-opener in the window, sort of like the Evil Queen at Disneyland (see ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-YAOxHUN_HjY.html&ab_channel=BigDaddyShin), and it uses a linear actuator to do it with an Arduino to control the timing for opening/closing.
