Bob – Page 3 – An Unorthodox Halloween

Crunch Time!

Well, some unexpected news in the last week.

First, the lab has been pushed up. WAY UP. It needs to be prepped and ready for a show in mid September!

So, as you can imagine, I’ve been a wee bit busy attempting to get that all accomplished.

We have some work yet to be done on Bob, and I REALLY want my tribute to the Brain that Wouldn’t Die prepped as well before the thing goes live.

Otherwise, most other items just need a coating of paint to be ready, fortunately. I’ll be catching up on the pictures and blogging on all that when I get the chance, in the mean time, though, know I’m just very hard at work prepping my lab.

I do want to give a special plug for a new show on the History channel.

Clash of the Gods.

In reality, there is no earth shattering information being spewed out from the show to anyone with even a cursory study of Greek Mythology. What really bears mention, however, is the art direction.

Absolutely fabulous. VERY unique takes on most things mentioned. Behold Hades and Carrion.

Refreshing, unique representations. Greek voodoo dolls and zombies in that particular episode as well.

DVR it for some interesting viewing.

Coping with tedium…

If you’ve been watching here, you’ve noticed we’ve been doing a LOT of paper mache this year.

Frankly, this is a tedious, boring task for the large part.

One needs things to keep them focused, and in the mood, to finish building whatever.

I, personally, love movies in the background.

Who wouldn’t love working on props whilst singing along with “you’ll be a dentist!”

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Or even “Feed Me”.

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An added bonus to this is Talia (3 years old) has come to LOVE watching “the monsters scary” movie. AKA Little Shop of Horrors. Outside of Kyle (who got a huge crash course in horror…), this has been the first ‘horror’ movie I’ve introduced any NUMBER of kids to. Beware anyone who drops off their kids for me to watch, they may come home afraid of plants…

Other favorites include Shrek and Shrek 2.

Talia, in fact, got to see Shrek 2 for the first time last night, and was rather upset the dragon was not in it. Oh, how the time flies whilst watching one of these and building yet another Bob…

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What’s especially odd is I tend to lean towards comedies and musicals whilst building.

Ive spoken before about Clash of the Titans as well. This one is great for when I’m just not ‘feeling’ the whole concept of the yard. It puts me right back in the mood.

Others I’m currently lacking, but would love to have include Beastmaster, Krull, Legend, and Dragonslayer. Oh, crappy movies of the 80s….

Announcing Project B.Y.O.B.

Build Your Own Bob, of course.

I’ve begun putting together a (hopefully) simple to follow process to building a Bob skeleton. I’ll put the full thing up HERE once I’m done with it, but if you are anxious to follow along as it goes, you can do so over here.

I’ve decided it was more important to work on this project, due to the number of requests I’ve received, instead of some of the other things I had planned. There’s always time for that stuff in future years.

Anyhow. Floor lamps for the lab.

Part of my push to make this thing more modular, and therefore more easily transported included dealing with the lighting. I think these will work MUCH better than the 10’x10′ massive framing system we had last year.

Simple and effective being the order of the day. I’ll slap some black lights on these as well for when that first switch is thrown.

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Just PVC and PVC connectors on top of a planter urn base…

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I love the style of the light socket for the lab, but I’m thinking I may etch the glass to hide the lightbulbs…

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A rough idea…

Been a WEE bit busy around here….

Here’s a rough idea how it’s all coming together.

I’ll be making a list of improvements needed later…

Yarr, prep the lab, me mateys!

Tharr be treasure.

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This truly WAS a treasure chest for most of my childhood. For, it held Christmas. It always seemed impossibly huge, and heavy. Holding all the Christmas ornaments, it was always good to see the treasure chest.

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My parents were tossing it out, after it had gotten caught in a flood. I just couldn’t allow that. I even had the initial thought of actually using it as a pirate chest….(Pirate lovers may wish to turn away now)

However, I also realized it will make a GREAT control panel for the Lab.

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Couple knife switches, some gizmos and doodads from a TV repair shop (that will all light up), I need a couple more gadgets to add to the thing, and a stand, but, it’s going to be a fine control panel.

Compared to last year, we actually had 1 switch. 1. This year, with 3, it’s adding to the show. The first will kill the lights and turn on the control panel and the blacklight. The second will turn on the Jacob’s ladder, and maybe some other doodads. The third will turn on Bob, THEN there’s the footswitch to make Bob sit up. MUCH more going on in the lab…

Speaking of, my Jacob’s Ladder:

The actual ladder is 3 ft tall, with base, the whole thing is 4 ft. Needs a stand, maybe a dial or something on the base.

And…Bob needs a new dentist.

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