Wicked Beernut Home - Halloween Home
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I witnessed Distortions Unlimited's Shake 'n Bake at the TransWorld's Halloween Show in Chicago on March 8 - 12, 2002. It was one of the most amazing animatronics that I've ever seen. I knew right then and there that an electric chair would be one of my next projects.
I started out by researching the history of the electric chair. The original plan was to build a replica of an authentic electric chair,
However, in the end, I concluded that an authentic electric chair just looked too much like something that you'd have in your living room. I decided to base my design on the Shake 'n Bake,