Forget spooky decorations on front lawns. For Halloween 2024, the real magic is happening in the air. From drone light shows to spooky, goofy pranks involving individual drones, here are some of the best ways people are using drones for Halloween 2024:
1. A spooky drone light show west of Dallas
About an hour west of Dallas in the town of Weatherford, Texas, residents were treated to a spooky drone light show that even included pyro drones.
Sky Elements, the U.S. leader in drone shows, put 1,200 drones in the skies of Weatherford. They flew in spooky shapes including skeletons and spiders, in what was an 11-minute drone show.
And these weren’t just any drones. 60 of them were pyro drones, which are capable of launching fireworks directly from the drone. Sky Elements uses drones from UVify, including its model called the UVify IFO-P. The IFO-P is capable of carrying up to 12 pyrotechnics devices. Watch a condensed version of the show here:
Sky Elements actually holds the Guinness World Records title for the most remote-operated multi-rotor drones launching fireworks simultaneously. It earned that award in September 2024 as part of a free drone show in Mansfield, Texas, which is also in the Dallas area.
2. A DIY ghost drone with the DJI Air 3
The folks over at Nova Lux Studios, which is primarily a tutorial-oriented YouTube channel used their DJI Air 3 for a fun, Halloween prank. In it, they turned their DJI Air 3 into a DIY ghost — and they share how to make your own.
You’ll need a DJI Air 3 (plus a trip to the craft store for supplies including spray paint) to make it happen. But you could make your own using most other cheap, DJI drones too. Watch the Nova Lux Studios ghost prank (and tutorial) below:
3. Spraying a corn maze
Halloween and corn mazes go together like peanut butter and chocolate. But you know what else goes with corn mazes? Drones!
Given their vast size and consistency of crop, drones are an ideal tool to spray corn maze to give it pesticides or fertilizers. Over at Vesperman Farms in Lancaster, Wisconsin, a particularly-rainy season has oversaturated the corn crops, throwing off its nutrient balance. With that, the team at How Farms Work took a DJI Agras T50 drone, which is a spraying drone, to give the corn a dusting of nutrients including nitrogen, sulfur and potassium from overhead.
The DJI Agras T50 drone costs about $25,000 in its ready-to-fly kit form, or $18,000 as the drone only. The drone was designed for spraying, with a coaxial twin-rotor propulsion system and a split-type torque resistant structure. It can carry up to 40 kg spraying or 50 kg spreading payloads.
Buy the DJI Agras T50 now from Drone Nerds as a ready-to-fly kit now.
Watch a detailed study of exactly how they did it below:
4. A Halloween drone show at Disneyland Paris
Disneyland Paris typically runs its drone show, called Disney Electrical Sky Parade, nightly. You definitely have to check it out for yourself, just like I did.
But if you’re there now (or through Nov. 3), the drone show gets a seasonal redo. Its a mostly similar show to the usual version, but with a bonus twist, which Disney says is “chilling.” After all, the show incorporates Disney villains who “take it in turns to hijack the hijinks with their own thrilling
projections and drone displays.”
The Disneyland Paris drone show is actually the opening act of the traditional nighttime fireworks spectacular, Disney Illuminations. But, it’s arguably better (whether or not you see the Halloween version).
Dronisos, which is one of the best drone show companies in the world, puts on the nightly show.
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