Time Running Out to Get Your Space for the Halloween Costume and Party Show

Even though the Haunt Season is just now approaching and finally here, we are already thinking of you vendors and the upcoming Transworld Halloween and Attractions Show coming to America’s Center in St. Louis once again during March 10-13, 2011.

This annual trek is a must show at for any haunt vendor wanting to make a splash and get those early sales for the 2011 Haunt Season. Once again Rotting Flesh Radio will be vending there and will have something very special to debut. But time is running out to secure your space and a good discount on it if you wish to vend in the upcoming show.

We look forward to seeing all of our friends and haunt family there so on with the details for those wanting to vend.

RELEASE:
THE HALLOWEEN & ATTRACTIONS SHOW featuring THE HAUNT SHOW

March 10-13, 2011 at the America’s Center in St. Louis, MO.

A record number of booths have already been reserved for the 2011 show – and we still not have heard from you! Take advantage of the Early Bird Discount that ends on September 15th and sign up today!! Booth price is only $1,200 per 10×10 booth, plus $100 per corner. After September 15th, booth prices increase to $1,400 per booth – NO EXCEPTIONS!

The HAAShow will be co-located with the Halloween, Costume & Party Show featuring Holiday & Special Occasion Merchandise this year. Both shows are finally back together, co-located in adjacent halls. Buyers will have free flowing access from one event to the other. This gives you, the exhibitor, multiple opportunities to cross-market your products to both the attractions/haunt industry as well as the retail market. This is a WIN-WIN situation for both shows. And you get to take advantage.

Visit our website at: www.haashow.com and see the combined floor plan. Contact your TransWorld Account Executive today to find out what booths are still available. Up until September 15th, we are requiring only $250 per booth deposit. After then, it will be 50% deposit due. There are more events, more seminars, more things to do and see at the 2011 show than ever before.

You can’t afford to miss out.

Poison Props Let’s Loose Two New Creations

Poison Props has been dishing out some pretty nasty horrific haunt props for a while now. From last year’s leaping Rat, to all the animatronic pieces they create, you can find them in a variety of haunts each season.

Well new for 2010 are two new additions to their catalog. The furious DEMON DOG and DEMON DOG SHUTTERS.

These two new additions will enhance any haunt, scare your patrons or just terrify your trick or treaters coming to your home. The detail on the animals are well done and the animation makes for a great startle scare. You can check out more at their official website at: www.PoisonProps.com

Sinister Controls to Represent Lights Alive!

Lights Alive welcomes Sinister Controls LLC of Oxford, Connecticut as an authorized distributor of Lights Alive brand products, including FireFly lightning simulators, MANTIS controllers and sensors, MonsterEyes, miniFLICKER, CHAMELEON and more.

“We are very careful about who we allow to represent our products”, commented Ron Musgrave, President of Lights Alive. “We pride ourselves in being a solution provider, not just a box dropper‚ a philosophy clearly shared by Sinister Controls”, Musgrave said.

In expressing why they chose Lights Alive products, Kathryn Ames, President of Sinister Controls LLC remarked, “With all the competition in this market one supplier stood out from the rest, Lights Alive. Lights Alive has listened to the end users and instead of parroting what was already on the market, introduced both new innovative designs as well as making major improvements on existing technology. Not content to rest on their laurels, they continue to innovate and expand their product offering”.

Sinister Controls engineer Scott Ames said “I take great pride in the quality and workmanship of the custom products we design and build ourselves. When selecting a supplier to partner with, I would not want to present a line of products to my customers that were not to our standards. With Lights Alive I have no concerns for quality, reliability, functionality, or ease of use. The Lights Alive product line has far exceeded my expectations and has now raised the bar for our own custom product line. I am truly excited about the opportunity to represent this product line”.

Sinister Controls will launch their new Lights Alive product line
offering at the National Haunters Convention in King of Prussia, PA, on April 29 – May 2, 2010, in booths 2001 & 2101. Sinister Controls LLC services the Dark Amusement Industry (haunted houses, dark rides, amusement parks, etc.) with industrial quality controls, pneumatic props, air cannons, animatronics, and design services.

Lights Alive designs and manufacturers specialty electronic products for professional haunted attractions, home haunts and other entertainment industries. For further information, contact sales@lights-alive.com.

For more on both companies visit: www.Lights-Alive.com and www.SinisterControls.com

Transworld Haunt Show 2010 Floor Video

The Transworld Haunt Show has just wrapped and it has been a blast. Vendors newest products, encitement for the 2010 Haunt Season and more.

Well, directly from the Dent Schoolhouse comes a Transworld Haunt Show 2010 Floor Video. So if you couldn’t be there here is some fun until we bring you RFR coverage.

Gore Galore’s 2010 Offering at Transworld Next Weekend

Gore Galore has been a friend of ours for quite some time and Kevin and his team never cease to amaze me with everything they offer.

A few weeks ago, Kevin was a guest on RFR Show #197 1-15-2010. And their new product line for 2010 will debut at the upcoming Transworld Haunt Show in St. Louis. Well, enough from us let’s let Gore Galore tell you themselves.

Release: We have been busier this past R&D season than ever here is a proof of the catalog that will be handed out at the Hauntshow next week. And we will also have one product at the show that is not finished yet. But you will love it. It is a “Scare Box” It is a queue-line actor scare. It is a puppet built into an illusion that looks like the actor is just carrying this distressed box but really it is a puppet monster in the box ready to jump our at your customers.

We added:
5 new oversized costumes.

1 is the Rock Golem which happens to be the single biggest costume we ever built for this industry.

We also developed a track system that can support from 400 to 900 lbs for any of our costumes or huge oversized Actor operated animations we now have the capability to build to use with this system. Another costume is Cletis Slackjaw a 9′ inbred freak. Gas Mask Maniac. a 9′ techno terror, a 7′ bloody bull, and the Hollowman a form fitting latex suit made possible by Headless Horseman hayrides.

6 new my Pet zombies. We are also able to take any zombie head prop or mask from any company and make a zombie out of it for you.

Tons of new wall decor items. and bringing back some old ones.

Lost of new gory details that can all be used together as a COMPLETE SCENIC PACKAGE called the “House of Gore”

Zombie head plaques with hands to hold the weapon the zombie was killed with, or without hands. And tons of zombie heads to choose from. Plus a zombie face plaque. Again, many faces to choose from.

Barrel toppers. We developed a new product called a barrel topper that allows you to throw this panel on top of a closed drum and it makes it look like the drum is full of gore. 2 models to choose from. and several finishes to choose from to fit most any theme.

Gore pile is similar as above except you just toss it on the floor for a super easy detail.

Gore Trays. Zombie food packaged in food service trays.

Several new severed heads

Actor props: several new small actor props hatchet, wrench, mini sledge, and femur bone. We did these for a movie so it was easy to bring them to market. But the best of all these is our ability to take any one of our severed heads, zombie heads etc… and mount on a rope handle so your actors can shake in the face of your customers. We have been doing this for years but now with over 50 heads to choose from you can get several to use without them looking the same.

5 neck biters. We added 3 new neck biters to our line. Neck biters are also actor props that allow you to interact and distract your customers. Clown biter, baboon biter, and a gargoyle biter.

And a new flat backed corpse called Gnarly Natalie. It is a very detailed blank corpse we can do tons of “custom gorification”. We can detail this corpse out so many different ways you can get several and they will all look completely different. Makes a great autopsy corpse. We can even add a head.

For all the information and updates from Gore Galore visit them at the upcoming Transworld Haunt Show and always at: www.Gore-Galore.com

All-New Twisted Toybox Burn Logos

Hey Deadites, a friend of ours over at Twisted Toybox let us in on his newest creation for you Haunt Owners, Vendors and more.

TwistedToybox.net is now offering a new service in 2010, LATEX LOGOS. We all have seen the shirts with latex parts glued into them over the years, but NOW YOUR HAUNT can have PERSONALIZED LATEX LOGOS to add to your shirts!

Imagine an ” I survived” shirt with a hole torn and your name cut into the skin of the person wearing the shirt! He can not only replicate your LOGO in latex, but is also able to add knife
handles, cuts, faces, bullet holes, whatever you wish…the possibilities are endless.

Just check out these samples so far:

This service starts at $175 which includes: sculpting your basic pre designed logo, mold making, and two finished sample castings. Extra castings are $4 each with a min order of only one dozen pieces. Now that is a steal!

This service is NOT yet on the TwistedTOybox.net website. Although he is offering this service now as a SPECIAL OFFER BEFORE details are posted on the TwistedToybox.net website next month. Just tell him Rotting Flesh Radio sent you.

To submit your logo or T- shirt insert idea email Chris Russell with an image of desired logo design to: flugmi@comcast.net and for more on Twisted Toy Box visit: TwistedToybox.net

MHC Offers 18 Haunted Attractions in 2010 Haunt Tours!

Release: The Midwest Haunters Convention has been offering pre-convention bus tours of haunted attractions for six years. This year the tours have been expanded to include 7 haunts with 18 total attractions. Tours include a two day overnight bus trip to Northern Ohio and a Friday evening shuttle bus excursion to haunts in the Columbus area. This will be the best year yet for MHC Haunt Tours!

Wednesday afternoon, June 2 buses will depart from the Hyatt Regency Columbus for the Cleveland area. We’ll tour attractions throughout the evening, spending the night in Hudson, Ohio. The next morning we’ll tour haunts in Northern Ohio; including returning to attractions toured the previous night for Lights-on tours. The Lights-on tours will give attendees an opportunity to see all the scene details and what goes on behind the scenes. The evening wraps up with additional haunt tours and a return trip to Columbus on Thursday late night.

Ticket prices for the two day tour start at $199 which includes all attractions, bus transportation, meals, snacks and hotel room. There will be five haunts with 14 total attractions.

Friday night the tours resume with shuttle buses transporting attendees to two haunts with four total haunted attractions in the Columbus area. Buses will start departing from the Hyatt Regency Columbus at 6:45 pm. Dinner stops are planned with special discounted meal options starting at just $3.99 and the haunt tours with a shuttle bus package for just $49. Buses return to the Hyatt for a Scary-Oke show starting at 11:30 pm.

The Midwest Haunters Convention offers fantastic haunt tours, outstanding educational seminars, exciting contests and an amazing costume party. The free weekend Halloween industry trade show is one of the largest in the country.

To Register and to Learn More Visit: www.MidwestHaunters.com or call Kelly at 614-203-4626.

Looking For Haunters for All-New Segments on Rotting Flesh Radio

Are you a Haunter? Want to get involved in the Haunt Industry’s First and Original Weekly Show? Have something to Share with fellow Haunters or Vendors?

We are looking to expand more content in rotation on Rotting Flesh Radio.

We are looking for a person or team to do any of the topics below for a segment on Rotting Flesh Radio. Or if you have any ideas in mind, let me know as well.

How-To, Props, Tips and Tricks, Make Up, Technique, Horror News, etc.

Interested email us at: rfrcasketcrew@rfrpodcast.com

Trick or Treat Studios Debuts and with One of Three Toxic Toons Masks

This past weekend was the annual Transworld Halloween Costume and Party Show in Rosemont, IL. And among the many vendors we usually see there, there were some new ones hitting the scene.

Trick or Treat Studios debuted at the show with a great response and something fun and fresh to the scene including an All- New Eric Pigors of Toxic Toons Mask that is Number One of a Series of Three.

Trick or Treat Studios has face masks designed Erich Lubatti, creator of the masks for the street performers at Knott’s Scary Farm’s Halloween Haunt. In fact these ARE the same masks worn by the street performers! Available exclusively through Trick or Treat Studios. Also in their collection are some beautifully detailed full head masks inspired by the classics and sculpted by Justin Mabry exclusively for Trick or Treat Studios.

In addition to these masks, Eric Pigor of Toxic Toons is designing some masks for the studio and right now you can get the First in the Series of Three.

GRUESOME is only 59.99 and Sculpted by Justin Mabry / Designed by Eric Pigors. Gruesome is the first mask in Trick or Treat Studios exclusive Eric Pigors Toxic Toons Collection. “What is a Toxic Toon you ask? Let me quote Eric, “It’s a cartoon character described as a nutty scabbed chicken poxed lilly livered stiched up bone poppin goofball! With some sort of diabolical disturbing dilemma in store.”

Gruesome is the embodiment of this description. This amazing likeness, sculpted by our own Justin Mabry, has all the characteristics that make Gruesome the character we all know and love. Put on your maggot filled overcoat, slip on your mask and prepare all your friends for Gruesome.

Trick or Treat Studios should be on the look out for some great low-cost products with details that can add to any haunt, party or Halloween Store. Stay Tuned to RFR for them to be guests soon.

For more information on Trick or Treat Studios Visit: www.TrickorTreatStudios.com

VOTE for Rotting Flesh Radio in the 8th Annual Rondo Awards

That time of the year has come again. And although we were nominated, we did not win in the National Podcast Awards, we are however Nominated once again in the 8th Annual Rondo Awards.

Rotting Flesh Radio is once again nominated in this annual award process in Category 20: Best Horror Audio or Video Podcast. Please take a moment, spread the word and THANK YOU DEADITES for all you have done to support us over the years and to help us get nominated for these awards.

To Vote Go To: www.RondoAward.com and follow the directions to get your votes in.

ABOUT THE RONDOS:
The Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards were created by David Colton and Kerry Gammill at the Classic Horror Film Boards in 2002. The awards are fan-based, and have no connection to any commercial sponsor. Anyone in fandom can vote or propose nominees.

The ‘Rondo’ award itself, shown at right, features a bust sculpted by illustrator Kerry Gammill, and cast by modeler Tim Lindsey.

The statuette is a miniature version of the bust of Hatton seen in the Universal film, HOUSE OF HORRORS (1946). The Rondos have been praised by recipients for their quiet beauty and evocation of classic horror.