Holiday Cars Idea

[Dr.Fu-Manchu]

The [}:)] Doctor is in !!! You do know that Lionel makes or made a "haunted house" for
layouts? My wife(a witch) bought one for my basement pike. We plan to put a swamp and a barren area with a graveyard and fog. also proper sound effects. I tried a G Gauge
train in the graveyard we put in our front yard every year. I had a child size skeleton at the
control of the transformer. He was wearing a engineer's cap. But we got rain halloween
night and hardly anyone saw it. I found some bendable halloween figures to ride the train, it looked good. Till My Next Missive, I Remain The Humble, Yet Strangly [}:)] Doctor !!!

[daan]

The Frankenstein train would be a mix from a GG1 electric sewed to the wheels of a bigboy, with a nucleair plutonium carrier behind it to fuel the biest. It's towing a havyweight tanker with green soup containing bones, a gondola with dragonsteeth and a huge cage with a tarantula in it (a real one). Behind all this a pitch black caboose with purple lights and smoking from everywhere. It's driving at high speed and the enginedriver has been dead for nearly a century..
Something for Thomas the tank engine??

[Anonymous]

We have a Lionel demo layout in the Hobbytown USA store where I work. Yesteday, for the third year in a row, we changed the layout into its "Halloween" mode. A couple of Lemax haunted houses, Woodland Scenic tree armatures without foliage, and a myriad of other details, and the layout looks great. We run a standard Lionel 4-4-2 out of a Pennsy Flyer set. Next weekend, I will drape orange and black pipe cleraners on the engine and toss on a coulpe of figures to decorate the engine. We run 2 Rio Grande gons (filled with candy corn), and Pumpkin car and a Witch Car with a Rio Grande Caboose.
This layout attacts a lot of attention any way, but when we have it decorated for the vaious seasons, it really generates a lot of interest. I would like to see Lionel come out with an engine decorated with Halloween graphics or colors. I'm sure the artists at Lionel could design a great looking loco that would be really eye catching!

[Anonymous]

Looks like we are going to have some cool pictures!!

[dougdagrump]

Overall, If you have Jason on the car you have got to have a sound car to go with it.
How about a "Dawn of the Dead" gondola, corpses rising from their plots. [:O]
How about a "Frankenstein" bunk car, the monster on his table with the good doctor by his side and a small strobe light flashing.

[overall]

Jason car; Figure with a hocky face mask confronting the street gang that wanted to rob him ( remember that ?) He simply flipped the mask up for a second and the gang ran away.

Freddy Gruger vs Jason Car; both figures confronting each other.

Chain saw car; carries load of chain saws for Leatherface.

George

[spankybird]

you guys know that HirailJon and I will have fun with this one.

[cnw1995]

What a clever idea. I am reminded of a past post by brianel which mentioned all sorts of uses for small plastic figures - we've had all sorts of riders in 'theme trains' - depending on the 'Happy Meal' figures involved.

[Anonymous]

After reading Halloween setup I had an Idea instead of having unrealistic cars like bobing pumpkins and dracula why not something that can be believeable?
Haloween
Pumkin car:Flat car painted black carrying pumkins, maybe a ghost or two moving around it.
Tombstone car: Flat car painted black with sometomb stones, maybe some scary people walikng around .
Three headed dog carrier: Flat car painted black with some crates chained down on it loaded with some angry dogs.

Does anyone have any other Ideas? What do you think of these?