I went to a Flea Market the Saturday before last. First, the creepy doll:

I didn’t buy the doll (not my thing) but snapped a pic of her because she is sooo creeepy. She looks like she wants to kill kill kill.

I did buy an old neon sign, which worked but needed some attention. Here’s before:

and after:

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Hey There! While I have no idea how I managed to fit these into the house, I picked up 2 driving games this weekend:

They are currently a couple of feet off the back wall. When I have them working we should actually be able to walk by them.

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I was at Walmart today with the wife and grabbed 3 cans of Popeye spinach as a topper for my Popeye. Check it out:

The other non Popeye stuff will be removed soon when I figure out a place to put it.

Hey! CoinOpSpace.com is running a restoration contest this summer. The grand prize is $200 in gift certificates to arcade part/art sites. You can read about it here.

If you are starting a restoration, you should post it on CoinOpSpace.com and take a crack at it.

I’ve decided to enter, and will be restoring my Mappy. Part of the contest rules requires that the restoration information only be posted on CoinOpSpace.com, so I won’t be discussing the actual restoration here. If you are interested in reading along, here’s my entry.

For a couple of years now, I’ve been leaving the keys for our games in the coin doors. Its worked OK for the most part. One night we had some kids over, and an old key that was already pretty bent wound up in 2 pieces by the end of the night.

I decided it would be good to get those keys out of the coin doors. What better place to put them then inside another coin door?

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I was planning on taking pics of everything as I went along but in the excitement I forgot to. Here’s the gist of how this was made…

Parts from Walmart:

• 8″ white styrofoam ball
• Yellow woman’s top made out of spandex (need’s to be stretchy)
• Mickey Mouse (on clearance)
• Pacifier
• Black fabric paint
• Pink cloth
• Baby Sneakers

Other stuff we had lying around:

• Wooden broom handle
• Metal coat hangers
• Pins
• Thread & Needle
• LCD monitor stand
• Cardboard shirt box
• Finish nail
• Staple gun and staples
• Velcro

You can pretty much tell by the components how this went together. I severed the arms off Mickey (see last post). We made some tubes out of the yellow to go over the black dead mouse arms. I cut some wire from the coat hangers and used them to stick the arms into the foam ball. We made the legs the same way, stuffing them in the shoes and sewing them to the body.

The bonnet thing has a piece of cardboard we cut to shape, to make sure it would stick up.

For the nose, I cut the very tip off a broom handle and put a finish nail in the end. I wrapped the yellow cloth around the wood and stapled it to the bottom. Then I pushed it through the cloth and foam ball and it stuck pretty well.

I had an old LCD monitor stand that I never used and was saving for something like this. I used velcro on the back of her head to stick it to the stand. The stand has some velcro on the bottom to keep it in place, as does her sneakers.

Here’s a couple more pics:

Mickey is a victim of our latest mystery project. Anyone have any clues as to what it might be?

I finally finished my Baby Pac-Man!

It took a long time, but it was worth it. Here are a few more pics:

I guess I’m off to work on the next game now. I’ll have to decide between Mappy, Donkey Kong, or Pac-Man. I think I may go with Mappy but I’m not sure yet.