Fog Machines For Halloween
Every year it's a test with my self to see what new ways I can use fog machines in my Halloween haunt. Ten years ago it was making my first fog chiller using the Halloween Online step by step instructions on how to make the chiller that they built. Now you can find fog machines with chillers built in!
We tried using it with PVC leach tube under leaves to make the fog seep up through in our graveyard one year and it looked great! Very creepy to see this misty fog rising up from the leaves and ground around the tombstones on Halloween night!
That brings us to Halloween 2009! We now have about 15 fog machines of all sizes and shapes. So, what do you do with so many? You fog the heck out of your property is what!! We'll be putting some in the grave yard, we'll be putting a couple by the road entrance to our house, we'll stick one on the porch behind some props.
I found this new web site, Fog Machine Store, and they have info on the newest and latest in fog machines including a great place to buy them! Don't forget when doing the lay out for your fog machines to add in your lighting. Lighting can be key to giving the fog an eerie effect that really adds a lot to your fog machine set up for Halloween! And don't forget to get timers for each machine as well! You don't want to be running around checking machines all night. Except to refill them, that is! Labels: Latest Fog Machine Ideas for Halloween 2009
I know I've said it before but using fog machines for Halloween just makes the night seem scarier, more sinister and just plain cooler! Every year new ones come out that do different things. We always incorporate them into our grave yard and what ever else we can think of.
This year, we are thinking about putting some up by our gates using a fog chiller, so the fog is roiling across and down the dirt road we live on. That should make it easy for people to find us! While there are fog machines that have chillers built in, we'll probably use old fashion chillers there since we can load them with dry ice and they'll last most of the night with one fill. Of course, we'll have to have someone check the fluid reservoirs once in a while.
You'll find the instructions for making your own fog chiller at GotFog.com, a great web site dedicated to fog machines and their usage. You won't find a better site! Labels: Fog Machines for May 2009
We are planning on adding some new fog machines this year. There have been some innovations in fog machines that have a fog chiller built right in which are actually pretty handy! We've always gone to Got Fog? - Fog Machine Information because it seems to be the Internets most complete fog machine resource site and is filled with a bunch of in-depth articles on using fog machines for Halloween. They also keep up with the new ones that come out every year.
You can find fog machines in about every store that sells Halloween items now. A few years ago they were hard to even find outside of party stores. You'll find low cost ones at mass retailers like Wal-mart, they had a good selection this year with mini foggers and some new ones that were built into yard props. Another good site for fog machine ideas is The Yard Haunter. The site is dedicated to people that love to go all out haunting their yards for Halloween and there's a section there on fog machines.
We are going to expand our grave yard this year, we have new fencing and a bunch more tombstones. I'd like to try using PVC drip pipe that has small holes all over it and bury that under leaves. Then you hook it up to a fog machine with chiller and get the coolest low ground fog rolling over your cemetery! We did this years ago with great success and I think we'll try it again this year!
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Been checking out new fog machines for this Halloween and pulling out the old ones to make sure that they still work. Having about 15 fog machines, this takes some time and a bit of work to do! We have a very nice MDG fog machine, the type that's used in films, it puts out a huge amount of dense fog but it's gunked up or something, not working at all. We'll have to clean it all over again, soak the nozzle in fog machine cleaning fluid and see if we can figure out what's wrong.
In the mean time, the others appear to be working well and we picked up a couple new ones to try. This web site, Got Fog?, has been very helpful! We picked up stuff to make a couple of the fog chillers that have plans for on the site and also bought a machine with a chiller built in to compare them. We'll have to see how that goes. We are also going to try out the suggestions for low laying fog in a graveyard, using PVC leech pipe under leaves for that "coming up out of the ground" effect. Labels: Latest Finds
I found something great to use if you want a low lying fog effect for your Halloween festivities but don't have the time to build a home-made fog chiller. American DJ has come out with a very cool item! The Mister Kool Low-Laying Fog Machine is just what we needed for our Halloween cemetery this year!
The Mister Kool fog machine creates a great looking "dry ice" style fog effect that will be perfect for our yard haunt and graveyard this year. It's simple and inexpensive to operate, because all you need is just regular ice cubes and fog juice. It unit even comes with a Remote Timer Controller with a built in timer/volume control which means we won't have to have someone sit and man the fog machine this year! You just set it and let it go.
They even developed a special fog fluid for producing the low-lying fog effect. It's called Kool Fog and it makes a nice white cloud of low laying fog when used with this machine. It stays low to the ground longer than standard fog machine fluid, too, which is cool. The fogger cost me about $200.00 and the fluid comes in gallon jugs. Find out more about this extremely cool fogger at Got Fog!
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There's nothing like a layer of fog floating ominously through the night air to really add a scare to your Halloween festivities! Fog has that foreboding look to it, things could be slithering around in the fog unseen, adding the element of the unknown for your trick or treaters.
We've found that using a fog machine really adds to the ambiance of Halloween night, be it in our graveyard or just rolling across the ground in other areas of our yard haunt. Adding a fog chiller will keep the fog rolling across the ground as opposed to floating in the air. You'll find great instruction for making a fog chiller at Got Fog?.
You can even include a fog machine at your Halloween Party to add to the festivities. Just be careful if you have wood or tile floors as the fog juice can make it slippery. Look for fog juice that isn't glycol based. You also need to clean your carpet afterward. Fog juice has glycerin in it and it leaves a sticky residue when used indoors.
The Got Fog web site contains more information on the subject of fog machines and their use for Halloween than any other source on or off the Internet. It's part of the Halloween Online Family of Websites. They have like 30 different sites all pertaining to different aspects of Halloween. You can find info on just about anything there. My wife lives at those sites starting around August 1st through Halloween. Labels: Fog Machines Are Just So Cool
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