Every year for Halloween, Heather Gunn in Long Beach California decorates her front yard for Halloween. In 2024 the theme was inspired by The Time Machine from the 1960 George Pal film. The crowning piece was a full size inflatable head of the Morlock Sphinx at 6 miters high. Also in the display, a full size rendition of the machine, a skeletal Weena with talking rings, a skeletal Eloi with plate of food, the mannequin changing clothes in the front window, and various Morlocks lurking about. Creative lighting and smoke carried off the look very well.

       

The sphinx head being inflated

Morlock climbing out of a well
Weena and the talking rings with a group of Morlocks watching in background. The rings actually were spinning slowly.
View of the yard
Close up of the control console of their time machine.
 

Eloi with plate of fruit and a familiar Morlock standing in background.

  

Does this Morlock look familiar? They used a photo of Dug and had a cardboard standee made of him for their display.
In the side window near the door, they used rear screen projection to project the footage of the mannequin changing fashions.
   
Full size cutout of a group of Morlocks and lit from behind. Really great effect at minimum cost,
       

 

 

 

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