I met this nice gentleman named Tom, who is closing down his forklift repair shop. I spent an hour and half drooling over all the goodies I saw. He sent me home with 3 new electric dishwasher motors and a bunch of small air cylinders and a solenoid manifold. I am to go back on Monday and load up his truck. While I was there I found a tent canopy frame like at flea markets. He also has a bunch more of the manifolds, tons of air lines, motion detectors, wire out the gazoo, air filters and pressure regulators, pvc pipe, window motors, and soooooooo much more. I am cleaning my garage this weekend to fit it all in.
I also picked up some great electronics from Jessica today. I salvaged a computer power supply misc comp parts and a couple of small motors from an old cd player. She gave me more I just haven't started tearing it apart.
Brandon has offered to bring me all the pallets I could need. (for making coffins)
Last night I went to Tim's and picked up a drill press and a ton of misc. hardware and even a few Christmas items.
I just want to take this opportunity and thank everyone who is helping with this project!
A step by step guide to creating animatronic Nightmare Before Christmas characters: Jack, Sally, Lock, Shock, Barrel, Zero, Mayor and others.
Genisis
THE CONCEPT
As I sit wandering and browsing the infinite universe of the internet looking for ideas for this years' haunt I found some easy to follow DIY instructions for animated skeletons. Being how I just adore The Nightmare Before Christmas I have decided to go with that theme and create some animatronic characters to sing and move in my Halloween / Christmas animated light show. My goal is to create several of the characters in life size scale along with a few of the movie props as well. This blog will be a documentation of this journey to reality.