Building Legos
In order to create larger than life sized Legos, I decided to use Styrofoam to build them, utilizing some of the things I learned last…
Lego Minifigure Costume Build, Part 1
The vision for this year’s Halloween house is that visitors can feel like they are the size of toys, encountering large Lego spaceships, towers and…
Blocking Out the Scene
For every Halloween house, I create previsualizations to help me plan the layout of the set pieces and props. I do sketches, create Photoshop mockups,…
Theme for 2021 Halloween House: LEGO!
The theme for the 2021 Albertson Halloween House is LEGO! Come on by this Halloween and experience the world from the perspective of a Lego…
This Was Halloween!
Halloween for 2020 was a spooky success! Though things were a little different from previous years, we welcomed scores of visitors who walked or drove…
Come on By!
What’s better than one Halloween night? Four Halloween nights! This year our neighborhood decided to have our Halloween decorations out for an extended amount of…
VIDEO: ABC7’s Report on the Albertson Halloween House!
A week before Halloween, we were contacted by Dustin Dorsey, a reporter from ABC7’s Localish show. He had heard about our house from his parents…
When to Come By
In order to maximize the opportunities to see the Nightmare Before Christmas Halloween House, we will have the display up the following times: Thursday, Oct….
Building Oogie Boogie (Part 2)
With most of Oogie Boogie finished, it now came time to figure out how to add him to the scene. We had thought of several…
Jack Skellington’s Sleigh
In order to replicate Santa Claus, Jack Skellington has a sleigh crafted so that he can deliver the ‘toys’ to families. The sleigh is made…