Face yourfears.
We design and build prop bodies, masks, special effects make-up and themed sets for theme parks, festivals, film and television. Every piece is sculpted, cast and painted by hand in our own workshop.
- Europa-Park
- Traumatica
- Rulantica
- Movie Park Germany
- Bellewaerde
- Attractiepark Slagharen
- World Club Dome
- Attractiepark De Waarbeek
- IMA-Motion
- BNNVARA
- IDTV
- The Horror Zone
From sketch to severed head.
Concept design, sculpting, moulding, casting, painting and on-site installation, all under one roof.
Prop design & production
Prop bodies, body parts and gore props in every state of decay.
Theming & decor
Rockwork, statues, walls and full set dressing for rides and attractions.
Festivals & events
Showpieces and themed areas, including design and technical drawings.
Masks
Custom latex and silicone masks, from single hero pieces to full sets.
Special effects make-up
Wounds and prosthetics that look real and survive years of handling.
Character & make-up design
Characters built from the story up, including life casts of your actors.
Restorations & re-theming
New life for tired attractions, from fresh paint to a new storyline.
Now showing.
Recent work for Movie Park Germany, Europa-Park, Traumatica, Rulantica, Slagharen and more. Tap any photo to see it full size.
Tusenfryd Ghost Statues
- Client
- P&P Projects
- Park
- Tusenfryd
- Scope
- Statues
- Year
- 2024
Hooded ghost statues for Tusenfryd in Norway, made for P&P Projects. Every figure got its own custom-sculpted head to fit the park's Scandinavian theme, and they are made from a special material that can stay outside through the Nordic winter. Shaped, coated and painted by hand in our workshop.
Jason Universe
- Client
- Movie Park DE
- Year
- 2026
- Scope
- Prop bodies
- FX
- Water spray
Every prop body for Jason Universe, the new maze at Movie Park Germany. Each figure is modelled on an actor from the Friday the 13th films: 3D printed, then sculpted, painted and finished by hand in our workshop. The bodies were built with room for a water-spray effect, so the scares hit guests for real.
Funerarium
- Client
- Bellewaerde
- Year
- 2022
- Scope
- Haunted house
- Theme
- Mortuary
A haunted mortuary where every body is in a different stage of decay. The highlight is a hallway packed with bodies in body bags. Together with Mexican Massacre we produced over 60 custom bodies, severed limbs and heads for Bellewaerde's two haunted houses.
Mexican Massacre
- Client
- Bellewaerde
- Year
- 2022
- Scope
- Haunted house
- Props
- 60+ total
A maze themed to a Mexican serial killer. Every prop was made as a realistic victim, put on display by the killer throughout the house, from the torture wheel to the pillory and the meat hooks.
Eden Manor Entrance
- Client
- Europa-Park
- Event
- Traumatica
- Year
- 2024
- Scope
- Entrance area
The full themed entrance to Eden Manor, a secret club. The concept is a greenhouse built around the Garden of Eden, filled with foliage and plants. The centrepiece is a giant tree reaching up to the stairs that lead into the club, next to a custom goddess statue we built from scratch.
Cinema Macabre
- Client
- Europa-Park
- Event
- Traumatica
- Year
- 2024
- Scope
- Full re-theme
The haunted house formerly known as "Wax Museum" got a new route and a new story: a cinema where every screen room is themed to a past maze from the event. Each room received its own theme, built from repurposed props out of earlier mazes or from completely new scenes and props.
Eleanor Actor-matronic
- Year
- 2024
- Height
- 160 cm
A 160 cm actor-matronic of Eleanor, the main character of Cinema Macabre. The head runs on a rail so an actor can push it out towards guests, cued with light and sound for the biggest possible scare. We kept a mould of the head, so the piece can be reproduced or cast as a static skull.
Rotter Room
- Year
- 2024
- Scope
- Re-theme
An older room in the haunted house, re-themed around the Rotters, the zombie characters the event is known for. We gave the existing animatronics new sculpts and paint jobs and pushed the room towards a post-apocalyptic look with new set dressing.
Hillbilly Party Room
- Year
- 2024
- Scope
- Re-theme
A complete re-theme of this room, mixing recognisable props from a past maze with new, fully custom gory dinner props. The dinner tables are strong enough for actors to walk on, and several boo holes let them scare from different positions.
Skin Deep Scene
- Year
- 2024
The Skin Deep scene inside Cinema Macabre: a Frankenstein-style laboratory with weathered blue walls, workbenches full of gauges, tools, jars and a skull in a glass dome. The whole room is hand-painted with lightning bolts in black-light paint. When a triggered UV light switches on, the lightning lights up and the entire room seems to be covered in it.
Unknown
- Client
- Europa-Park
- Event
- Traumatica
- Year
- 2024
- Type
- Space maze
Thematic upgrades throughout Unknown, a space-themed haunted house that uses escape-room mechanics to move guests from room to room. We added levers, buttons and moving objects for guests to unlock the next room, plus a custom activation set piece with a hidden actor space, police mirrors to watch guests walk past, reach-through holes, and lights that tie into the puzzles.
Alien Tentacle Arms
- Year
- 2024
- Scope
- Puppet arms
Tentacle arms that actors slip their hands into to reach through the boo holes in the house. They are made from a safe, durable flexible foam, so an accidental hit does no harm and the tentacle moves in a lifelike way. Actors can pull them off in seconds and reappear as a completely different character.
Tarot House
- Client
- Europa-Park
- Event
- Traumatica
- Year
- 2025
- Scope
- Figures
Cloaked demonic figures with hand-sculpted, painted faces for Tarot House, one of the haunted houses at Traumatica. They stand in the dark corners of the house, half hidden between books, drapes and candlelight.
Lee Cronin's The Mummy Promotion
- Client
- Production Pirates
- Scope
- Film replica
- Character
- Katie
- Type
- Promotion
A figure of Katie for the promotion of Lee Cronin's The Mummy, commissioned by Production Pirates. We recreated her exactly as she appears in the film.
Resident Evil Promotion
- Client
- Production Pirates
- Scope
- Arms & legs
- Region
- NL & BE
- Type
- Promotion
For the promotion of Resident Evil in the Netherlands and Belgium, Production Pirates asked us to deliver the arms and legs that reach out of the doors.
Ice Sales Counter
- Client
- Rulantica
- Scope
- Sales counter
- Style
- Ice
- Type
- Water park
A point-of-sale counter for Rulantica, built and painted to look like a block of glacier ice, with translucent blue layers and a frosted top.
3D Map of Monaco
- Client
- Europa-Park
- For
- Monaco preview
- Scope
- 3D model
- Display
- Showcase
A detailed 3D-printed map of Monaco for the Monaco 2026 preview centre at Europa-Park, presented in an acrylic showcase.
Geisterschloss Ornament
- Client
- Europa-Park
- Year
- 2025
- Ride
- Geisterschloss
- Method
- 3D print, clay
A fully custom wall ornament for Geisterschloss, Europa-Park's year-round dark ride. We 3D printed it in sections, then added detail in oil-based clay for an authentic hand-sculpted look. Every piece was moulded in silicone so it can be reproduced when needed.
Austrian Goat Scene
- Client
- Europa-Park
- Year
- 2024
- Area
- Austria
- Scope
- Prop dressing
An array of new props for the Austrian area of Europa-Park, built to dress the scene around two existing goat figures.
Snorri Saga Lazy River
- Client
- Rulantica
- Year
- 2024
- Scope
- Re-theme
- Props
- 80+
A thematic upgrade for Rulantica's lazy river. We removed the old theming and replaced it with more than 80 colourful sea props, including seashells, starfish and Viking shields.
Kelpie Café Icon
- Client
- Rulantica
- Year
- 2025
- Scope
- 3D icon
- Location
- Kelpie Café
A sculpted 3D Kelpie, the water creature from Rulantica's story, mounted on the sign of the Kelpie Café.
Operation Game Prop
- Client
- Europa-Park
- Event
- Traumatica
- Year
- 2025
- Scope
- Game prop
For Traumatica we gave an existing prop body from the 1990s a second life as a giant game of Operation. Players have to remove its bones without setting off the buzzer.
Red Bandit Adventure
- Client
- Slagharen
- Year
- 2024
- Scope
- Dark ride
- Pieces
- 53
Brought on board by IMA-Motion for the update of Slagharen's dark ride. We made around 50 rough diamonds to carry the storyline through the ride, plus two custom magpies and a skunk character.
Hollywood Christmas
- Client
- Movie Park DE
- Year
- 2023
- Scope
- Re-theme
- Sets
- 2
For Movie Park Germany's first Hollywood Christmas we re-themed the London street set in Studio 7 for "A Magical Christmas Tale with Christian Farla", including the North Pole Express station, and built the big showpiece for the Christmas Tree Celebration show at the entrance.
Murder Museum
- Client
- Movie Park DE
- Year
- 2023
- Scope
- Maze props
- Event
- HHF 25th
For the 25th edition of the award-winning Halloween Horror Festival we built a custom prop body for the Ed Gein room of the maze, along with his face mask, a nipple belt, a Leatherface-style apron and an assortment of body parts.
World Club Dome: Atlantis
- Client
- BigCityBeats
- Year
- 2023
- Scope
- Fountain
- Incl.
- Tech drawings
For the Atlantis edition of World Club Dome in Frankfurt we designed and built the food court's centrepiece fountain: props, statues, rockwork and themed elements, along with the design and technical drawings.
Lost at the Park
- Client
- De Waarbeek
- Year
- 2023
- Scope
- Halloween
- FX
- Water spit
Bodies, custom props, masks and body parts for all of the park's Halloween experiences. The showstopper is a prop body modelled on one of the park's own characters, with a mechanism in its mouth that spits water at guests as they walk past.
From the vault.
- 2022Huyze PelleDe WaarbeekLife cast of the lead actor, skulls, severed heads and a full-size skeleton, installed on site.
- 2022De VerradersIDTVTwenty masks on mannequins for a scare challenge in the Halloween special.
- 2021NachtdierenBNNVARAThe TV programme filmed a night in the workshop.
- 2021Jungle Themed WallAdventure gameConcept art, construction and paint for a themed wall.
- 2020Killer Clown CostumesPrivate client, DESeven complete costumes, designed and made in-house.
- 2020First Aid WoundsCollege34 durable training wounds built into existing mannequin pieces.
Made by hand.
Masks, prop bodies, severed heads and sets, straight from the bench.
Made by hand, built to last a season of screams.
Scare Designz is a prop and effects workshop in Ettenheim, Germany, a few minutes from Europa-Park. We work for theme parks, scare events, festivals and TV productions across Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium.
Everything is made in-house: concept art, sculpting, moulds, casting, paint and finishing. That keeps the quality in our hands and every piece one of a kind. We build for daily use in a park, not just for the photo.
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