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

[Robo Al]

I'll be more than happy to do help a build out today, 
tomorrow or Tuesday.

Alberto

On Sat, 2006-09-30 at 11:27 -0500, Vern Graner 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