The Backwoods Maze 2018 Halloween Home Haunt - Daytime Behind The Scenes Tour & Night Walk Thru
A visit to Burbank California for The Backwoods Maze . A free home haunt set up in the backyard of a house. Nothing beats the creativity of a some good Halloween theming and scares in a neighborhood . This was a lot of fun !
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welcome everyone Adam the Wu here about
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to make the trek to Burbank California
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to a hot known as the backwoods maze but
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do not be deceived this is not in the
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forest nor a theme park it's a DIY
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do-it-yourself home hot in the
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neighborhood I'm inviting you to join me
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shall you as I make my way through the
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community I'm noticing everyone's in on
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the act
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sign designates field of screams very
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close to the airport I think they're
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safe up there from the terror that lies
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just down the road and across the street
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this is it this is it with a yard full
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of headstones including Michael Myers
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the creeper Chucky
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Leatherface who just so happens to be
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standing behind his oh there's Krueger
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up on the roof line a 2003 is the first
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time we ever build a full-blown maze
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where people were able to walk through
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it all right well speaking of
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walkthroughs you guys want to show me
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show me around people stop as they go
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down the street and say wow what's going
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on here that's kind of our art grabber
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it's you know full scale I guess killer
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Klown Jeep patterned after you know some
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videogame that's all plywood we cut out
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everything is basically pretty much cut
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out of wood um there's some metal in
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there the clown I have a good friend
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Michael and Vitry he you'll see in the
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back - he does a lot of foam work it's
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that simple
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EPS foam and what he'll do is you'll
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just start from a block and just start
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carving away sanding it down
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then he'll hand it over to me and then
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all hard coke paint airbrush and detail
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about that looks cool at night this kind
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of reminds me of a a demented gremlin
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yeah he's tall not the beginning of the
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maze but being in the front we needed
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something to kind of show that you
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aren't coming into something so as you
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go through here almost you would enter
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through these gates and then eventually
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you twist and turn through our backyard
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and then eventually you'll be exiting
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out this thing so this would be the XO
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it's like a full circle yes you know
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each room there's so many different
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things an actor can do built into it and
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it's kind of up to them they could go up
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there there's just so many options so
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you kind of give them free rein whether
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to be in here right up here really kind
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of like this is your room and you can do
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whatever you want within this room like
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traditional mazes you go down and you
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just basically have a hallway and you
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know you either have maybe a drop panel
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or a curtain scare we found going to
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these different events that neatest
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rooms were the ones you could probably
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see from a room to a room and that
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allows this scares to like we said we
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can somebody could scare here somebody
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could scare through that window somebody
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could scare around the corner through
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this open fence through another room
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somebody could come through here which
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they usually do and unfortunately part
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neighbor oh yeah that's always a good
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startling mechanism is slamming and yet
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especially Loras here so we like to
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bombard you at all angles different
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angles even up from above wait here we
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crammed up our smallest scare in this
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little space and he could stick his head
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out here basically is no it was just
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like laying up in there laying in there
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and then maybe a hand kind of coming out
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this is the drunken clam ya know those
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of you that watch TV and TV sitcom
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cartoons might recognize that around
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every corner is like a little hidden
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easter eggs yeah pay attention to a lot
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of the signs I mean if you're into video
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games television movies there's a lot of
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references going on is that a police
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officer you know security guard oh he's
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the security guard the theme is pretty I
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think it could be a lot of different
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things you
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depending on you know what people's uh
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how they view things but because it's so
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bizarre but I think that it's kind of
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the I'd say it's a junkyard that's um
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whatever's living inside of it has kind
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of gone out and collected scraps and
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brought them back and built this strange
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bizarre society with it it kind of loses
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and cheats to allow us to do so many
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different cool visual things instead of
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you know we are a gothic haunted house
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and let it be just that it gives us all
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these different outlets to
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post-apocalyptic I mean this looks like
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a toon town from Disney oh yeah it's
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like you're stepping into like a bunch
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of different worlds
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it is it is apocalyptic could be the
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future a little bit of sci-fi kind of
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cartoony just everything kind of mixed
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in and this is a rhinoceros here he was
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kind of our I guess mascot at one point
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yeah Rhino gets silicone mask and he was
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kind of this area is kind of like the
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mob boss CEO of the cortex power zone
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then again this is all plywood and hours
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of cutting jigsaw sanding patching
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texturing painting airbrushing dirtying
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it down but there are various forms of
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pain it's funny you say toontown because
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this reminds me a lot of the Roger
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Rabbit rod yes when you're going through
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here the fairness the deterioration yeah
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I love that right ratio this whole room
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is pulled from that really so it's foam
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and then what are you what are you put
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over the top of it to harden it it's a
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hard coat there's there various forms of
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that it's a water-based being in
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California now they're very conscious of
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fumes and stuff so there was other ones
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before but it's a water-based almost you
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would say like not quite a plaster but
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it was of a water base with a hardener
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you would paint that several coats then
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sand it down and then you go ahead and
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put like a layer of like a good house
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paint and then you can airbrush it do
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some detailing you're getting colors
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like pink and baby blue and they asked
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us what are you painting a baby's room
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in it believe it or not no we're doing a
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home haunt any place called sewage falls
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cannot cannot end well it's like a
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mutant over here carrots have it
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for life years ago and then we came into
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this room and so usually build
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everything new for the new rooms but
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there's some that sometimes fit me we
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can make it work that will they'll be
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someone sticking their head out of here
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no that is just kind of we have another
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soundtrack with the engine I mean you
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got some slabs of something neat over
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here in the corner it's like a meat
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locker this whole area is toxic pull the
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flaps back and go in just kind of spooky
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even in the daytime this is probably one
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of more of our scary rooms just because
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it is narrow it is closed in and as you
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can see even in the daytime it is thirty
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dark and there's a little cutaways or
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chapters can pop in and out of and again
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the direction you never know where
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they're coming from that you come from
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this window they could come from this
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corner or this cutout behind this are
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these supposed to be eggs down here they
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are they are there giant company it's
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kind of reminds me of alien and then
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when we hit the lights though the little
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red and some of them dim with a dimmer
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don't like some a heartbeat it is
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pulsing this is kind of an upside down
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Hidden Mickey yeah how did you know that
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one from this angle if you turn it
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upside down a bit you flip the camera
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around yeah yeah this is the way we
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walked in then you circle through this
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way and then again you could have an
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actor from this room
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this room you just exited or you can
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have the actor come out in the region
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here to always coming at you in many
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different ways and then this is how
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color these walls to attend these are
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ten yes yeah we got over ambitious one
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year and ten foot walls we we almost
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needed to go there because you could see
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when you round this corner so he's nine
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feet tall yeah nine feet tall head and
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we screwed ourselves and had to make ten
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feet walls yeah so you put him in here
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first and then built it around him like
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we were like alright let's just make
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these scenes gigantic and then after we
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did that on cable we can use eight-foot
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walls for these there way to talk so the
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robots came first and then we had to
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figure out what size walls to use we had
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our buddy sculpt out all of the the
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chests and Taylor he sculpted many the
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mask in her maze and he sculpted this
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head he would smelt that in clay I would
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make plaster molds we have cast it in
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foam again airbrushing detailing so yeah
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we literally almost all the props that
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we have are pretty much completely
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scratching it has a very transformers
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feel to it this guy yeah I think we had
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a lot of the body and then we're missing
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the heads so he again sculpted the head
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in
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and then again plaster molds and foam
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injecting that's awesome and then I went
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detailed it out painted it and then
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dirtied it down with some oils and some
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greasy looking kind of paint stain
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central panel like this one right here
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would specifically made to look like an
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actor he would be up here this lights up
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and he'll be doing this and then coming
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at you staring back and forth cailli may
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be programming him or making him come to
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life EPS styrofoam
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that's just start hacking from packing
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that wipes cheap-looking styrofoam then
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he takes his rake and he carves it hot
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wire and same with the legs chest arms
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and then I get all these pieces and then
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I made a speed speed rail fake basic
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skeleton and then put them together all
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the pieces this way the thing about home
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Hoffs you just basically just look on
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the horizon you can see see houses
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everybody dogs barking yeah is it a
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really cool ambiance what kind of
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testing is going on in this section this
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is the entering kind of an older field
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at the building we had so we kind of
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morphed it out put new signs up
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repurpose different line there's a mouth
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right there there's an eye in the
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flowery house and then you're kind of an
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arena there's some goo stability you
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have someone up there in that little
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room again yes they can be they could be
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in a second-story this whole lot catwalk
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- somebody can be up here reaching down
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yeah there's fly plenty of plenty of
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places to jump out yeah corners behind
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that's on how fast you go is usually
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from like eight - nine - ten minutes
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it's pretty decent links yeah - some
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others yeah I kind of people exit the
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maze in there just sometimes amazed it's
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just like how big is your backyard it's
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like well no it's just a normal sized
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backyard it's just how we have the paths
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and how they intertwine
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and white back and forth feels a little
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almost feels a little cooler in here I
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think that's just the natural breeze
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because this is one of the rooms that
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like the the roof is open and there's
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not really a whole lot of sights to it
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so the breeze kind of naturally does
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flow in here unlike the other ones a
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little more closed off maybe because I'm
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looking at the icicles yeah we just like
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giving me that full Meister calls foam
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ice block this is our alien and then you
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got your that stuff you flock your
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Christmas tree with we spray it on the
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walls to give it kind of snowy effects
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our service that was a service elevator
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is this the elevator operator
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mercy just could say that Chris was
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hanging about that it yes of little
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control there and
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like a speed limit sign in case anyone
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tries to run through here quicker than
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25 miles an hour they know to slow down
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just a little bit when he was first made
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he was kind of like a Humpty Dumpty egg
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type guy we couldn't really use that in
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our future theme so we took him and made
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him into just this weird junkyard mutant
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we got to make him fit in our new theme
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so we did basically you know cut a hole
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in his stomach put a TV there all these
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little to electrical tubes you could buy
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at the hardware store got plywood no
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fake bullets and you know made him like
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a monocle exposed brain flashing lights
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so that he would fit in our our new
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theme there's a flower or a pod of some
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sort yeah it's uh what is it a cocoon I
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guess we call it the artichoke the
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artichoke your artichoke yeah
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the leaves the coloring I think it does
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kind of it does kind of look like a
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cocoon yeah I forget all of our little
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nicknames and stuff yeah and then
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there's some more alien eggs there's our
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little homage to the thing oh there's
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nice so yeah it's basically every animal
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creature all into one coming out that's
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awesome that was originally just that
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one face was on our entrance at one
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point and again we started with the new
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room and then we had all these other
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little just a severed head it was a
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Boar's Head I believe there was a lamb's
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head a person's head and I kind of we
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kind of just all foamed them on there
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and then one input detailed foam and
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then airbrushed it painted it up and
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then we have the new prop there's
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nothing more horrifying than an
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ice-cream truck I should never know
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what's inside of it again it has this
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little ray gun on the side and then as
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you step in it you realize you're not
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just in a regular ice cream truck you're
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in a spaceship a spaceship ice cream
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truck yes
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okay and you have the menu here on the
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all the good snacks alright I'll go home
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on so on the outside its traditional and
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then you go oh yeah all these paddles
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will light up kind of Star Trek ish you
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know you're at your control panel here
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these light up and you have a scare
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actor in here so many be hiding down
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here they're in there and you exited out
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you began they are open on the weekends
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from 7:00 to 10:00 p.m. it is a free
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attraction however they do take
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donations if you are so inclined
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now I must be patient the strobe lights
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have been turned on but it's still gonna
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be a little while before the Sun
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completely sets you see the moon in the
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sky and must be patient but soon it will
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begin soon it will begin
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this will give me a chance to walk along
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and look at some of the other neighbors
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decor there's a creepy doll hanging from
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that limb
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some free-floating ghosts and
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jack-o'-lantern smiles on the side of
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that wall and as I shift just a little
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to the left there is a banshee I think
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that's what that is
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a banshee against the wall and a half a
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dozen skulls just kind of meandering
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around the side of that side of that
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truck
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a garage door with a back story perhaps
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no telling what happened in there some
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spooky trees whichis on their brooms
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circling the moon or at least a half
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moon
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the crescent moon is that what that's
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called in this graveyard it looks as if
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it has begun seems to be quite the
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congregation of people already in line
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and to the darkness
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doing some cleaning over there gentle
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scrubbing Oh
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check
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hello in there are you point I don't
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like the looks of this through the fence
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waiting on me are you waiting on me
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pretty scary I can't quite a racket over
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there
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the Red Cross Society casualty morgue
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look at that
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you were waiting on me earlier and you
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got me
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yes think about think about
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I'm not a fan of clowns oh please I
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don't want to go into the ice cream
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clowns
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you're scare you're scaring me