BLUCKY Jumping Skeleton
Inspired by the funny stage acts where there are people dressed all in black making effects and moving the people on stage with a blacklight on, I decided that it would make a great scare effect. I thought of making a jumping prop costume. I bought a BLUCKY skeleton from Spirit's 1/2 off day after sale and had some left over PVC piping and thought ... hmmm... Costume! The scare will consist of a scare-actor dressed head to toe in black, with the BLUCKY positioned in from of them using the PVC pipe painted black. There are black light fixtures placed on the sides of the BLUCKY to make him stand out. I will add a little glow effect by lightly dusting the BLUCKY with my day-glo paint. When the guests walk by the BLUCKY will LEAP out at them and then jump back. Now that it is finished, I figured out with the weight ratio of the prop the best thing to do is put a rod coming out of the upper part of the back and that's all it took. I have posted a day-time test video. Now I need to post a night-time video.
Test Run
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