Something has gone horribly wrong at the headquarters of Toxicorp. The building has been overrun by horrible, mutated creatures! Are they what has become of the hapless employees!? Industry insiders point to strange experiments the company has been doing with highly toxic waste materials. No one has been inside since the explosion in the research lab until now. Will you be one of the lucky ones to escape... or will you join the poor unfortunate souls trapped inside the Toxic Terror! For 2001, we took what we learned from the first year and pushed the envelope a bit more! This is the front of the haunt before opening. The front facade was kind of an afterthought. The desk with Marge and the computer looked fine, but the front didn't look like an office building. Again, most of these shots are daylight shots, so you've got to use your imagination a bit. Marge was our official greeter. She sat outside at her desk along with the actor who started people through. Her monitor was just a shell and she was lit by a red light inside it. She is a "Bucky" skull that has been corpsed and mounted to the torso of a cheap plastic skeleton. She's got "Bucky" arms and legs though! We got smart and used pallets for walls for this haunt! Pallets are the ultimate walls. Cheap (free most of the time), sturdy, paintable and just cool looking. We put plastic inside them so you couldn't see through them. At the end of the first hallway, you come to the cafeteria. We had an actor behind the buffet bar who would torment people as they came through. The highlight of this room was Ralph. He's the one leaning over the barrel. Ralph was our first foray into complicated electronics for an animatronic. He stands over the barrel and about every 10 seconds vomits into it along with an appropriate sound effect being triggered. We custom built a digital delay and tied it in with a digital sound board. Add a sump pump and some a chicken wire and 2x4 body and you've got Ralph. He is a great looking prop that got a lot of laughs. I had several people come up and ask who the guy was that was vomiting into the barrel. Lots of people thought he was real. Mike is one of our older props. He was originally made for our first haunt where he performed admirably. Actually he just stood there, but he still looked good. He was my first monster mud prop. For this year, I re-did his torso and head and gave him some better airbrushing. Unfortunately during the course of Halloween night this year, we were having so much fun with him, making him walk toward people and hiding behind him, that we managed to break his base that he stands on and his head came off! Look for another incarnation of Mike for next year. The executioner is a new prop for this year. He is another monster mud prop. He stands about 7 feet tall and is pretty imposing. His is the head of In-Human Relations for Toxicorp. He throws the switch on Split-In-Half guy below. Split-In-Half guy is an animatronic with a custom-built PVC ram in his spine. When he is triggered, his torso rips off from his legs exposing all his internal guts along with an sound effect. He has a digital sound board wired in with him and speakers mounted under his chair. This is NAM. Otherwise known as No-Ass-Man. He's a monster mud character that is very cool looking from the front, but from the back and side, you can see that he has no ass. For whatever reason, he just came out that way. He's a cool prop that is just begging to be mounted on a wall somewhere next year. Finally, this is USDMG, Unnecessarily Slow Dipping Mechanism Guy. He's another quickie prop, but effective. We hung him right at face level right around a blind turn. People would enter the room and suddenly see him right next to them. He's only an upper torso made out of chicken wire with a mask and hung by his hands on heavy rope.