Hi friends. We made it home.
East Coast Haunters Convention was last weekend, and I am writing this from my couch with a cup of tea and a voice that still sounds like I gargled gravel. The whole team is wiped out in the best possible way. If you stopped by booth 514 to say hi, ran one of the new controllers through its paces, asked us a hard question, or just gave us a hug after the long quiet; thank you. Truly.
It's happening! We are heading to the East Coast Haunters Convention in Philadelphia on April 25th and 26th, and you can find us at booth 514.
Hi friends. It's been a while.
I know we've been pretty quiet around here for about a year now and I want to thank everyone who has reached out, checked in, and kept the faith with us through the silence. I read every message, even when I haven't always had the bandwidth to respond the way you all deserve. The short version is: we haven't gone anywhere. The longer version is what this post is about.
Back in February I wrote a blog post explaining why we weren't going to make it to Transworld. You can read that here.
I wanted to expand a little on what the plans for IgorBox are in the face of all the uncertainty in the United States manufacturing and trade climate. Like a lot of small electronics businesses, our supply chain reaches overseas, and the recent tariff changes are squeezing us in ways we have to plan around.
I first want to say that the entire team is absolutely gutted we aren't going to make it to the show this year. It was one of the toughest decisions I had to make.
It's been amazing year for us here at Rising Orchards and IgorBox. Last year we made our debut with a preview of what we had in development at the Transworld Halloween and Attraction Show in St. Louis and it was a huge hit. We got some people on our early access program and were very hopeful we would be able to bring our products for general availability to the show this year. That's not what happened...
We went on a company outing - who doesn't love a field trip, right? But this wasn't just any field trip, we went to...drum roll...Halloween Horror Nights' Behind the Screams! So awesome!
I am so excited to go to HHN again this year and elated to go to every house available for the Behind the Screams tours too! I can't fully enjoy myself to the max without a little prep though.
Biggest bit of advice first, download the the universal Orlando app and set it up if you don’t already have it.
Things are getting busy over here in the orchard. We can't start to build the booth yet for the Transworld Halloween Show as we just got our walls from NCV as of June 1st and are waiting on a few other goodies to get going. Plenty else is keeping us busy though.
The name that started our story came from our roots. We began in a dreamy oasis of Silicon Valley over 10 years ago now. The land was an apricot orchard in its last life. When looking for our haunt name, even as super amateurs, I knew there was great power in a name. Especially when you're broke. Not to mention we had huge dreams of becoming local legend.