Now that we are done with Halloween and just clean up remains I thought I would post links to additional photos and video from our Harry Potter Halloween.
This link is to our photos at flickr:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/7420144@N07/

This link is to a sometimes dark video walk through posted on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtKG7O_DrDc

The Crazineness Ends, For Now At Least

We had an extremely busy few days completing our outside preparations for Halloween. The feature on the local CBS channel 9&10 News went really well. Kailee and Corey (the reporter and cameraman) were great, very friendly and very professional. The result was a lot more people attending, at times we had people lined up down our driveway and down the block to the school. Exhausting but fun. With the exception of a few angst ridden teenagers, we had a pretty happy crowd. We owe big thanks to Amanda, Eva, Wendy, Ken, Danielle, Mike, Sam, Travis, and Christine for playing characters and doing such a great job. And of course to Amanda for all her hard work on this project!!!
Danielle helped frequently too. Pics are final of the train, and characters as they finished getting into costume. Also young Mr. Potter gets sorted by Professor McGonagall and Professor Snape prepares to hand out potions.

The train is about done now. We have 6 wheels painted and ready to attach in the morning.
It will have steam coming out of the stack, it's own light, and train sound effects.

Later today all the parts were on the train but we need to router the wheels and the front and paint them before attaching them in final form.

We are in the middle of making the train. The fog machine and pvc have already been mounted inside. We are going to add routered foam to the front and foam wheels to the bottom sides and then plastic tarping on the tank and everything left to paint black will get painted black. Then we have to hang the dementor in the cemetery, paint the back of the caboose and finishing hanging curtains in all the doorways...that's it folks. Almost ready.

Amanda is working on a stack of teacups for Professor Trelawney's classroom. She started making these from styrofoam coffee cups last night.