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Ideas for new D56 Halloween Pieces

Every now and then it's fun to just create new ideas, and with Halloween approaching, I thought it would be fun to come up with a few new buildings and accessories for Snow Village Halloween, so here goes:

* "Smoky Bones Crematorium" (my wife actually came up with this idea - most likely the best one!): this building would have a few animated features: smoke coming out of the chimney, and a casket being pulled into one of the doors. The casket would slide in and out, slowly.

* "Dead Letter Office" - would feature an eerie abandoned post office with a strangely lit window scene sneaking a peak at piles of unopened letters. This would be complimented by an accessory called "Skeletal Delivery" featuring a broken down mail truck and a skeleton postal worker.

* "Haunted Trolley Museum" - this would be a larger scene with 3 or 4 abandoned trolley cars, spooky lighting, ravens, scattered trolley parts, and tires. The accessory would be a abandoned ticket booth with the sign "Haunted Trolley Museum - Opens at dusk"

* "Zombie Express" - a working roller coaster complete with shrieking customers, essentially hands-free zombies. Flashing lights and spooky sounds definitely make this an essential part of our Halloween Amusement Park theme vignette. The accessory is a sign that says "Six Feet Under or more to ride" with a Zombie attendant controlling the coaster.

* "Barks and Bones Veterinary Clinic" - This building features scary decoratives and the barking of skeleton dogs. When the dogs bark, the lights inside the building radiate a creepy green glow. Coordinates with the accessory "Running from the Dog Catcher" which includes two dogs running from a skeleton with a big net.

* "Devilish fun at Cabbage Night" - This is an accessory showing three kids armed with dozens of eggs. Cabbage Night is what we on the east coast called the night before halloween, which usually brought out the worst hijinks in the neighborhood. On the west coast, I believe this was called "Devil's Night".

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