Delivery, Setup & Collection
Delivered in our own vehicles and set up by our own team before guests arrive. Collection at the end of your event — one delivery covers the whole booking.
Halloween Entertainment Hire
A two-player zombie arcade game and a bucking mechanical pumpkin — the two things that pull the biggest queues at a Halloween event, covered by £5 million insurance and a team that's been setting up kit since 1999.
Our Halloween Range
Rodeo Pumpkin
From £395
Whack a Zombie
From £495
What's in the range
We carry two Halloween pieces — a Whack a Zombie from £495 and a Rodeo Pumpkin from £395 — and between them they cover the interactive end of a Halloween event. They're not the only Halloween-looking things we own — carnival stalls can be dressed up for the season, photo cut-out boards get a few cobwebs across them, and a photo booth with Halloween props and backdrops works well — but these two are the ones built for it. You might also see Halloween equipment listed as Halloween party hire or Halloween event entertainment, but underneath the name it's the same stuff.
Whack a Zombie — £495
The Whack a Zombie is the Halloween version of our two-player electronic Whack a Mole — the same bench-top cabinet, fitted out with purple zombie artwork, cartoon graveyard graphics on the backboard and a central digital scoreboard. Two players stand side by side with a foam hammer each and hammer at the targets as they light up at random. The scoreboard tracks both players and a countdown runs each round to zero — normally set around 30 to 45 seconds, but it's adjustable depending on how fast you want the queue to turn over.
It takes up about 1.2 metres by 1.5 metres on the floor, give or take, plus room for two players at the front. Runs from a standard 13A mains socket, no special power needed. Indoors on any surface, or outdoors under a gazebo or marquee — it's a mains-powered electronic unit, so you don't want it sitting in the rain.
You'll also see this sort of game listed as a digital whack-a-mole zombie game or a zombie smash game, but it's the same unit underneath whatever it's badged as. We own the standard Whack a Mole and the Whack a Snowman for Christmas as well — same cabinet, different graphics, so whichever season you're in we'll send it out with the right skin on it.
The panels on the cabinet can be wrapped with your own artwork instead of the standard zombie graphics — printed, fitted and taken off again by our in-house branding team. If you want it tied to a campaign rather than the off-the-shelf Halloween look, send us the brief and we'll come back with options and a price.
Rodeo Pumpkin — £395
The Rodeo Pumpkin is a mechanical bull attachment made by Galaxy Multi Rides, the American and UK firm that's been building mechanical bulls since 1989 and whose design every other multi-ride on the market is a copy of. It's a giant orange jack-o'-lantern with a lit face and an orange strobe inside, bolted onto the same electric motion base as a standard rodeo bull. It bucks, spins and throws riders onto a soft inflatable surround, with dual digital timers tracking the current ride and the session leader so it generates its own competition without anyone having to run a leaderboard by hand. Also searched for as a mechanical rodeo pumpkin, a jack-o'-lantern ride or a bucking pumpkin.
Footprint is about 16 feet by 16 feet — the inflatable surround pushes that out to 20 feet by 20 feet in practice — and it needs 9 feet of overhead clearance. Runs from two standard 13A sockets. Indoors or outdoors, on grass or hard standing. A trained operator comes with the hire as standard, so you don't need to assign anyone to stand with it.
We carry the full set of Galaxy Multi Rides attachments — the standard bull, the surfboard, the reindeer and Christmas pudding for winter — so the base unit is working across events all year, not sitting in the warehouse waiting for October. That means it's properly maintained and we know how it handles in every kind of venue.
Every hire of either piece comes with delivery, setup and collection by our own team in our own vehicles, £5 million public liability insurance with indemnity to principal cover when staff are supplied, and risk assessments and method statements emailed to you or your venue before the event.
The Range
Whack a Zombie cabinet with purple zombie graphics, foam hammers, digital scoreboard and LED lighting strip along the play edge
Whack a Zombie unit showing the two-player score display, control buttons and cartoon zombie artwork on the front and back panels
Rodeo Pumpkin in use indoors with rider gripping the handles, red inflatable safety surround and dual timer display
Rodeo Pumpkin set up outdoors — the jack-o'-lantern sits on a red mechanical base with an inflatable surround in red, white and blue
What's Included
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Trained Operator
The Rodeo Pumpkin comes with a trained operator as standard. For Whack a Zombie, an attendant is optional — or a member of your team can run it after a quick briefing.
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£5M Insurance & Documentation
Full public liability insurance with indemnity to principal cover when staff are supplied. Risk assessments and method statements emailed to your venue before the event.
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Custom Branding
The Whack a Zombie cabinet panels can be wrapped with your own artwork — printed and fitted by our in-house team. Send us the brief and we'll come back with options and a price.
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In-House Ownership
We own and maintain 95% of what we hire out from a 25,000 sq ft warehouse in Rotherham — no third-party supplier between you and the kit when something needs sorting on the day.
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Venue Documentation
Method statements and insurance certificates emailed to you or your venue before the event — what corporate venues and council health and safety teams ask for.
- Years Trading
- 25+
- Halloween Attractions
- 2
- Insurance Cover
- £5M
- In-House Ownership
- 95%
Where they work
The Whack a Zombie fits anywhere with a table and a socket — it's been on exhibition stands at the NEC Birmingham, ExCeL London and Manchester Central as part of wider exhibition game packages, and around the same circuit for corporate Halloween parties, office socials and university Freshers' nights. Because it's a bench-top unit rather than a floor-standing machine, it drops onto a stand without eating into your pitch space, and the foam hammers and short rounds mean it's fine for kids as well as adults who've had a couple of drinks.
The Rodeo Pumpkin needs a bit more real estate — 20 feet square with 9 feet of headroom — but it's worked in nightclub function rooms, university student union halls, exhibition concourses, outdoor fun days and a fair few corporate car parks. The Galaxy Multi Rides base is the same one we use for the standard rodeo bull, the surfboard, the reindeer and the Christmas pudding, so we know how it handles across different surfaces and crowd sizes.
Both pieces work as part of a wider booking — put them on the same delivery as exhibition games, inflatable games or carnival stalls and you're dealing with one supplier, one invoice and one crew on the day rather than ringing round three companies and hoping the timings line up.
Why Halloween equipment from us
We've been hiring out exhibition games and event equipment since 1999 from a 25,000 sq ft warehouse in Rotherham, five minutes from the A1, M1 and M18. South Yorkshire, the East Midlands, Greater Manchester and West Yorkshire are all on our doorstep, and we run deliveries to London, Birmingham, Newcastle and Glasgow most weeks.
Most Halloween hire companies are seasonal operations that fire up in September and shut down in November. We're a year-round business — the Rodeo Pumpkin base goes out as a standard bull or a surf simulator for the other ten months, and the Whack a Zombie cabinet runs as a Whack a Mole or a Whack a Snowman outside of autumn. That means both units are being used, checked and maintained all year, not dragged out of storage once a year after sitting for eleven months.
We own and maintain 95% of what we hire out in-house, so there's no third-party supplier between you and the kit when something needs sorting on the day. Every hire comes with £5 million public liability insurance as standard, with risk assessments and method statements included and emailed over before the event.
For a quote, call us on 0845 468 0590 or get in touch.
Common questions
- What's the difference between Whack a Zombie and the standard Whack a Mole?
Just the graphics and the cabinet wrap. Whack a Zombie is the Halloween version — same bench-top cabinet, same two-player electronic game underneath, with purple zombie artwork, a graveyard backboard, cobwebs and a spooky colour scheme instead of the standard mole graphics. The game plays identically — two foam hammers, lit targets, digital scoreboard, timed rounds. We also do a Whack a Snowman for Christmas on the same cabinet, so whichever season you're booking for we'll send it out in the right theme.
- What's needed to set up the Rodeo Pumpkin?
A level patch of ground about 20 feet by 20 feet, with 9 feet of overhead clearance, and two standard 13A sockets within 25 metres. The unit comes with its own inflatable safety surround, electric inflator, safety matting and power cables up to 50 metres. A trained operator is included as standard — they set it up, run it throughout the hire and pack it away at the end. It works indoors and outdoors, on grass or hard standing. If your site hasn't got power nearby, we can supply a generator as part of the booking.
- Can the Whack a Zombie cabinet be branded with our own artwork?
Yes. The cabinet panels — the front panel, the backboard and the side panels — can all be wrapped with your own design instead of the standard zombie graphics. It's printed, fitted and taken off again by our in-house branding team. If you're putting it on an exhibition stand or tying it to a campaign, a branded cabinet gives you something more relevant than the off-the-shelf Halloween look. Send us the brief and we'll come back with options and a price. There's more about how it works on our branding page.