Slashdot Asks: Notes For Next Hallowe'en?

There are 364 more shopping days until next year's Hallowe'en. But while this year's is still fresh in the memory, I'd like to start gathering ideas for next year in the hopes of actually making my neighborhood worthwhile as a trick-or-treating destination, specifically for fun projects to actually give my yard a haunted-house feel. (For the second time in three years, there were zero candy-seekers, and I'd like to convince my neighbors to make the whole block more decorated and spooky, even if we never get all Alek Komarnitsky.) Did you create an animatronic zombie for your yard? Glowing eyes to appear from behind the bushes? Poltergist-style rising graves to frighten the children? Remote-controlled candy dispensers? If you used any kind of complex haunt technology at home, what things worked and what didn't? (I hear too many stories about fog machines leaking to make them sound like a good idea.)

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Re:You're lucky they let you hand out candy from h

[Deadstick]

What in the holy hell are you doing living there?

Re:Full sized candy

[PopeRatzo]

Absolutely true. I can still point out the house in our neighbourhood that in 1973 (and only for one year) gave out full-size chocolate bars.

I'm the opposite. I can still point out the house in our old neighborhood that gave out miniature Bit-O-Honeys. Or at least I could if I hadn't gone back and burned it down 10 years later.

The investigation didn't turn up any signs of foul play, mostly because the police and firemen are about the same age and probably got Bit-O-Honey pieces, too.

Trust me: when you're in the Wal-Mart buying Halloween candy, back away from the Bit-O-Honey.