[Robotgroup] Hauntlights Update: Victims of our own success!

[Def Egge]

I've got the LEDs and resistors ... and I can have them ready on fairly
short notice.

Let me know where and when the design / build / torture, er, testing begins.


All the best....

Mike





At 11:27 2006/09/30 -0500, you wrote:
>Received a call from Norm this morning... :)
>
>The Mansion of Terror had their grand opening to the public last night. 
>Their "normal" first night run is usually about 50-70 people due to a) 
>it being early in the season and b) they haven't begun their advertising 
>campaign.
>
>Last night, they had over 250 people go through the haunt! They had 
>turned off the fluorescent lights in the front line area (where the ice 
>cream was) so they would not "pollute" the haunt area with ambient 
>light. So, now when the Hauntlights are "killed" by the actors, it goes 
>PITCH DARK in there and the screaming begins! :D
>
>He is TOTALLY JAZZED about the lights, says the actors LOVE them, he had 
>NO light failures and (here's the fun part) he NEEDS TWELVE MORE ASAP!!!
>
>The lack of lights actually became a choke point and slowed the line 
>down. The fact that he didn't just go buy some flashlights at HEB and 
>paint the lenses green means that the lights had become an integral part 
>of the haunt! YAY!
>
>:D
>
>Whats more, he anticipates he may need *another* twelve by the end of 
>the run this year to accommodate crowds and/or deal with any failures or 
>thefts.
>
>He also mentioned that the patrons that handed in the flashlights said 
>things like "this flashlight didn't work! it kept going out and it would 
>happen right when the monsters were coming!" one lady handed in the 
>flashlight and said "Can we go through again? Our flashlight didn't 
>work!" Bwahahahah!! Love it!! :)
>
>So, in summary, we delivered twelve Hauntlights and got an order for 24 
>more!! YARG!! Victims of our own success!! So, we have some work to do!!
>
>Vern
>
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