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So, the other day, we took the kid to see Boney Island. My wife had somehow found out about it (I’m guessing from LAist), and boy did she pick a winner. It’s a private home that has been converted over to be a mini-Coney Island…. run by skeletons. It’s all outdoors, and includes all the key elements of Coney Island, including a ferris wheel, bands, a ticket vendor, fortune teller, etc. It seemed to be just the right balance of scary and not scary for our three year-old. He found the crowds (and they were legion… enough that a firetruck was parked outside to keep an eye on things… and yes, the kid loved that too) more intimidating than the house itself. It was a good family experience, got rave reviews from the kid, and generally not a bad way to spend fifteen minutes, maybe half an hour, on a Halloween night. Our biggest problem is that now the kid thinks every house he sees on Halloween should be comparably equipped.