What is a modern Halloween with out some sort of moving Animatronics? If you are not sure what I am speaking about, well animatronics are the use of electronics and robotics in mechanized puppets to simulate life. Do you remember the "Its A Small World After All" ride at Disney World? That is where many of us were first introduced to animatronics at the many Disney theme parks and in their motion pictures. In many movies such as Jurassic Park you will note that most of the dinosaurs were really animatronics that had green screens or digital enhanced backgrounds added.Over the years you are finding more and more of these popping up, literally, as Halloween yard displays for those folks that are truely dedicated to having some fun on Halloween evening. These moving, shaking and shreaking decorations can be used to achieve some great special effects. Think about some Trick or Treaters faces as they are met by the witch on your front porch as she comes to life and stirs her smoking cauldron while chanting her spell. You can get any variety of goblins and Ghosts that can can hang and fly around your porch and scare guests when their eyes light up and move. You can use Halloween animatronics both outdoors as well as indoors. You can purchase Magic spell books that flip their own pages or mirrors that have changing images or vampires rising from their coffins are just some of the more common animatronics.
The best part is that Animatronics are no longer that expensive. For an example you should be able to buy most Halloween Animatronics online for under $50 and some of the more fun or comlicated ones top out at under $200. So really that is not too expensive when you consider what the effect will be on Halloween nights visitors.
The fun does not end at Halloween as animatronics are available for other holidays such as lifelike Santas. Consider investigating animatronics for this Halloween. Your guests will be talking about your displays for years to come.
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Live in another country and you’ll start to experience serious cultural differences. This is particularly true as I discovered with Halloween in Siberia.

Russian Holidays

I loved living in Russia and the primary reason was people. Russians love to celebrate and they are big into holidays. In Chita, Siberia, practically everyday was a holiday. During communism, Russia celebrated the worker with holidays such as bus driver day, teacher day and so on. When the fun loving Russians dropped communism from the menu, they decided to keep the holidays and add new ones for the new political bent. While Oligarchs’ Day isn’t yet a holiday, practically everything else is. With the approach of Halloween, I was ready to go nuts and show them a little of the American spirit.

At the time, I was teaching roughly 12 classes a week on law and business at Chita State Technical University. This gave me the opportunity to put together a wing dinger of a Halloween party since the students would generally follow directions without question. Accordingly, I announced to each class that we would be building a haunted house at my place and with roughly 150 students, it was going to be the haunted house of all houses. No student had any questions, but I should have noticed the blank stares.

The morning after making my announcements, the Dean of the University approached me. She had some rather pointed questions about Halloween. Nobody had ever heard of Halloween and no, children didn’t trick or treat. After all, what kind of person would trick a child? Americans do this? Every year? And they try to scare the children? Why?

The more we went back and forth, the more I started to wonder about Halloween. When I made the fatal mistake of bringing up the headless horseman, the gig was up. The Dean gave me that furrowed brow perfected by all administrators. There would be no haunted house on October 31st.

After all, October 31st was the guy who makes duplicate keys day!