I don't know if you all checked out my blog today or not, so I thought
I'd repost my ideas for new pieces...maybe d56 will take notice and
make one of them ;-)

Let me know your feedback and any other ideas you may have sparking in
your brains:

* "Smoky Bones Crematorium" (my wife actually came up with this idea -
most likely the best one!): this building would have a few animated
features: smoke coming out of the chimney, and a casket being pulled
into one of the doors. The casket would slide in and out, slowly.

* "Dead Letter Office" - would feature an eerie abandoned post office
with a strangely lit window scene sneaking a peak at piles of unopened
letters. This would be complimented by an accessory called "Skeletal
Delivery" featuring a broken down mail truck and a skeleton postal worker.

* "Haunted Trolley Museum" - this would be a larger scene with 3 or 4
abandoned trolley cars, spooky lighting, ravens, scattered trolley
parts, and tires. The accessory would be a abandoned ticket booth with
the sign "Haunted Trolley Museum - Opens at dusk"

* "Zombie Express" - a working roller coaster complete with shrieking
customers, essentially hands-free zombies. Flashing lights and spooky
sounds definitely make this an essential part of our Halloween
Amusement Park theme vignette. The accessory is a sign that says "Six
Feet Under or more to ride" with a Zombie attendant controlling the
coaster.

* "Barks and Bones Veterinary Clinic" - This building features scary
decoratives and the barking of skeleton dogs. When the dogs bark, the
lights inside the building radiate a creepy green glow. Coordinates
with the accessory "Running from the Dog Catcher" which includes two
dogs running from a skeleton with a big net.

* "Devilish fun at Cabbage Night" - This is an accessory showing three
kids armed with dozens of eggs. Cabbage Night is what we on the east
coast called the night before halloween, which usually brought out the
worst hijinks in the neighborhood. On the west coast, I believe this
was called "Devil's Night".

Rich

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