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:
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?
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:
Other stuff we had lying around:
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:
For my last post, I had some pics and a video of the POW block sign I made. I didn’t have much time to write about how I built it, so here goes…
I love neon and illuminated signs, and for awhile have been thinking about making some sort of POW block sign inspired by the POW block floating above the middle of the ground floor in Mario Bros:
Well….this certainly looks like a black acrylic ballot box…
or does it?
I’ve been working my ass off since September, trying to get some work done for my day job. I hope to have that work completed by the end of February, and figured it would be cool to take a few days off then and work on a new project. I’ll provide more details as I work on this, but for now – here’s some of the components I just got in the mail from CoolNeon.com:
I got 2 different lengths and colors of El Wire, and have them hooked to a sound activated driver. The driver has a sensitivity setting on it which can be dialed up or down as needed. Stay tuned for more info. 
I just got a great deal on a new (to me) neon sign:
I was checking on an auction on eBay that I bid on late last night, and this came up as a suggestion. I took a quick look at it and noticed it was located in Cranston RI, about 40 mins. from me. I asked the seller if I could pick it up instead of having it shipped, expecting to have to wait until the next day for an answer. He replied right away and we setup a time for me to swing by. It worked out well as I had to be in that area today for something else. It cost me $45, so I couldn’t pass it up. Here it is close up:
I was sitting at the computer, and a mail truck I did hear
When what to my wondering eyes should appear
But a bunch of stuff for the arcade.
First up, my Centipede keychain from Oleszak Creative:
I haven’t decided, but I think I’ll probably put my Centipede keys on this and hang it on the coin door. The packaging for this was very cool, but I forgot to take a pic of it before I opened it. You can see the packaging and more examples of these keychains here.
Next, some DK art from ArcadeShop.com:
The thing stuck to the marquee in that first pic is the instruction card for under the bezel. I’d love to see these with the masking removed, but I’m not going to remove it until I have restored the Popeye cabinet that these are going to go in. I have all the art I need now for this. The only parts I need are a DK PCB, joystick, and buttons.
Finally….a “Tokens” marquee:
The plan for this is to make it into a backlit sign to put over my token machine.
That is all. Go back to watching cat videos on YouTube.
Hello there. Back in February, I got me some Pac-Man skates. Alas, they were missing laces. I figured it would be cool to put some Pac-Man laces in them, and finally found some on eBay:
Behold:
I’m heading out now for my morning skate to Dunkin’ Donuts…wish me luck!
I love surprises. Most people do, unless it’s one like “I’m going to stab you!!!!” or a fortune cookie that reads “food poisoned…you go bye bye”.
Well…this was one of those GOOD surprises:
I forgot that I won this on eBay. It’s an original artwork proof for the Aladdin Pac-Man lunch box made in 1982. I was surprised to see it stored inside an Aladdin envelope. Here’s a description of it from the eBay auction:
Up for bid is an original paper proof sheet for Aladdin Industries 1982 PAC-MAN lunchbox – front, back, and sideband. It is in perfect condition, bright and shiney, unfaded, no rips or tears. It is made of the same type of material that a poster is made of. It measures 22X32. It is dated 3/22/82. It has been folded to fit into a normal size file drawer. I found a bunch of these folded and in a file, I will be listing them over the next few days. This item has probably been in that file for 26years. Please ignore the camera glare in the photos – it looks like there is some fading – there is not. This item would look great framed.
More pics:
I guess this was a proof to get the artwork approved by someone (Namco?) or maybe just to get it approved internally before releasing the final product. I’ve never seen one of these before. The seller also had a Dragon’s Lair one that sold for a little more than this one. If you know more about this, please comment.
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