For the park's FrightFest event, I proposed replacing the Main Street flagpole with an animatronic scarecrow. By day it stands perfectly still; as the sun sets, it comes to life with movement and sound effects and hosts the nighttime show.
The previous pixel shows ran about two minutes and lacked a cohesive story. The new show runs ten minutes, twice an hour, with a unified soundtrack, narration from the scarecrow host, and ambient and fun sequences in between.
The figure is built on a welded steel frame bolted to a 6×6 pressure-treated post, allowing adjustment in the field during install, with pneumatic cylinders driving the neck tilt and arm swing. The valve bank, new par lights, and fog machines are all integrated via DMX over Art-Net: thousands of lighting cues across more than 40,000 channels.