"Animated" Caches?

[+Nitro Blast]

Hello all,

 

I'm a caching newcomer, but have really gotten into making caches.

Recently, and idea came to my head for a cache, and I placed

Pill-Popping Painkiller Package GC29PRK out.

 

The reviews were good, I received nice emails about the cache. Comments about it being "fun" and a "surprise" were exactly what I was hoping for.

 

So, with that motivation, I placed a few more 'animated' caches out. Caches that 'do something' when you open them. A sound, a boing, a surprise.

 

My wife asked me last night if I had ever seen a cache like that before, or did I think of it myself. Well, I had not seen anything like this before (remember, I only have 100+ caches under my belt) so in that sense, I did think of it on my own.

 

My question is, has anyone else found type of 'action' when they opened a cache? What would it be called?? Animated? Booby-Trapped?

 

My 'animated caches' to date are:

 

Pill-Popping Painkiller Package GC29PRK

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...68-f7f807cfef6d

 

Cammo Del Rio South GC2A0YE

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...77-1ff5811fa20b

 

Time for a cache. GC2AAME

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...a7-4c8d80fe8972

 

Hip Hip Hooray! Nitro Blast's 50th Hide! GC2APMT

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...24-110259715b90

 

Each of those has a different something something in it for the finder. Much more than just a trinket, a pencil and logsheet.

 

I'm interested if there are more ideas than the few I have come up with.

I'd be happy to share details if anyone wants to know.

 

I did recently see the youtube video of the voice activated cache, that is SERIOUS! Mine are far simpler than that!

[+roziecakes]

Wow! That's fun! I found a cache that was full of film cans with those plastic snakes that jump out at you, and one of the film cans had the log. It was HILARIOUS.

[ashnikes]

http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php...&hl=trapped

[+NYPaddleCacher]

One of the cleverest caches that I've seen was a multi that used an old gumball machine at the first stage. The CO provided some pennies that when put into the coin slot the machine would deliver a large marble "gum ball" that the the coordinates for the final written on it. The gum ball machine also played a song as the gum ball came out. I guess I was a bit distracted by the container as I neglected to read a combination there that was necessary for opening the container at the finale. I was there in winter when there was a foot or so of snow on the ground and in between the first and final stages of the cache I came upon some very large bear tracks.