I need to show you guys this awesome prop Paul built for the Halloween party we're sort of co-hosting. It's a guy in an electric chair - full size! My oldest daughter and I built the dummy together. She even made a heart out of play-doh and stuck it in his chest, just like Build A Bear. Hehe!

It turned out so cool!! We have an orange jumpsuit to dress it in - and Paul's going to stencil numbers on it - and I think the dummy's going to wear my old ratty Doc boots. And we have a white drawstring bag thing we're going to put over the dummy's head like a hood. The plan is to have the thing just sitting there at the party. Nobody will realize that it actually DOES anything - they'll just think it's a prop. Paul mixed a whole little track of spooky Halloween sounds with an electrocution and screaming and everything, and he's got the timing down just right so he knows when to hit the switch on the dummy. I think it's going to scare the CRAP out of people the first time he does it!!

Here's the dude:





You can sort of see the springs here that bounce his head around:



And I took this picture underneath the chair - it's an old drill! Pretty clever, huh?



Check it out in action:



Is that crazy cool or what? I need to come up with something that will hold fake blood under the hood - like a little cup or something - so that when it starts moving, the blood will ooze down the head a little. Any ideas?