Snakenator9
Jr Member
Hey guys, me again! So you may have heard that my school's homecoming theme is Marvel, and our class has chosen (drum roll please) X-Men!!! X-Men is pretty much my favorite group of super heroes, so I was obviously psyched out.
But, as you probably know, it seems like kids these days are being ripped away from he realm of comics and superhero goodness, so I immediately got nervous about how it would turn out. So, I went straight to my class president and explained that to her, and she agreed. In fact, only 2 other people out of the group working on the float have ever read or seen X-Men, and about half of the others have never heard of the name! So, I was out in charge of the float, along with the two others to help me out with ideas and opinions. So, here's what we have after one day of work:
Here is our make shift support system for screwing on the walls.
Here is the front after a little work. Notice the first building being built up on the side.
The painting on the right is done, or at least on the walls it is. The building is getting more complete.
Here is the plan. We are having the present day academy on the left, and a torn down, messed up future academy on the right. There will be a "portal" in the center to go to and from each side. There are initials and shortened names to show where everyone will be going. We will be having tons of various mutants in front of the float to perform a dance/fight sort of thing during it. Gambit will be down there and instead of throwing cards, he will be throwing candy into the audience. We will be having a battle on the float.
Here are all the characters we plan to have. The circled are "mandatory", uncircled are "would like to have, starred are "would like to, but doesn't really matter". We also have the chart of who is fighting who.
More progress. The first building is done except for details and painting. Center portal will have a curtain with changing lights pointed at them to create a cool effect. We started on the second building too.
I am also in charge of all the props and special parts of the costumes, ie. helmets, armor, etc. here is the magneto helmet base.
I didn't feel like we could have an X-Men float without a centinel, or at least part of one. So here is the base for that, completely free handed. I am really proud of it, not to boast.
So here is a little about what is going to be happening. We have 1 minute to do this, so it should be perfect. Calmer X-Men music will be playing, and then will transition into the TV series theme and the "good guys" will walk out of the first academy. The group in front of the house will begin the dance/fight thingie. The guys on the float will head over, Blink will open the portal, and the "bad guys" will come out of the second academy. They will begin fighting until about 40 seconds. Then the music will intensify to something like "Xavier's Theme" from DoFP. That is when Prof. X and Magneto will come out from the two academies. Then, at about 50 seconds everyone will start walking towards the edge of the float except Wolverine and Phoenix. At the end of the minute, music will be at its peak, and Wolverine will stab Phoenix like in the movie, and lights will go out and music will stop. And that is the end of the float. BUT, my favorite part: before the music starts Deadpool will be sitting on the center of the float on the edge, trying to eat a chimichanga through his mask. He will be doing this the whole thing, not really paying attention to anyone. When everyone else starts to back away he will get up and walk away too so as not to draw attention from Wolverine and Phoenix.
so, any questions, ideas, feedback? I would LOVE to hear what you think of the whole thing.
thanks, Dawson
But, as you probably know, it seems like kids these days are being ripped away from he realm of comics and superhero goodness, so I immediately got nervous about how it would turn out. So, I went straight to my class president and explained that to her, and she agreed. In fact, only 2 other people out of the group working on the float have ever read or seen X-Men, and about half of the others have never heard of the name! So, I was out in charge of the float, along with the two others to help me out with ideas and opinions. So, here's what we have after one day of work:
Here is our make shift support system for screwing on the walls.
Here is the front after a little work. Notice the first building being built up on the side.
The painting on the right is done, or at least on the walls it is. The building is getting more complete.
Here is the plan. We are having the present day academy on the left, and a torn down, messed up future academy on the right. There will be a "portal" in the center to go to and from each side. There are initials and shortened names to show where everyone will be going. We will be having tons of various mutants in front of the float to perform a dance/fight sort of thing during it. Gambit will be down there and instead of throwing cards, he will be throwing candy into the audience. We will be having a battle on the float.
Here are all the characters we plan to have. The circled are "mandatory", uncircled are "would like to have, starred are "would like to, but doesn't really matter". We also have the chart of who is fighting who.
More progress. The first building is done except for details and painting. Center portal will have a curtain with changing lights pointed at them to create a cool effect. We started on the second building too.
I am also in charge of all the props and special parts of the costumes, ie. helmets, armor, etc. here is the magneto helmet base.
I didn't feel like we could have an X-Men float without a centinel, or at least part of one. So here is the base for that, completely free handed. I am really proud of it, not to boast.
So here is a little about what is going to be happening. We have 1 minute to do this, so it should be perfect. Calmer X-Men music will be playing, and then will transition into the TV series theme and the "good guys" will walk out of the first academy. The group in front of the house will begin the dance/fight thingie. The guys on the float will head over, Blink will open the portal, and the "bad guys" will come out of the second academy. They will begin fighting until about 40 seconds. Then the music will intensify to something like "Xavier's Theme" from DoFP. That is when Prof. X and Magneto will come out from the two academies. Then, at about 50 seconds everyone will start walking towards the edge of the float except Wolverine and Phoenix. At the end of the minute, music will be at its peak, and Wolverine will stab Phoenix like in the movie, and lights will go out and music will stop. And that is the end of the float. BUT, my favorite part: before the music starts Deadpool will be sitting on the center of the float on the edge, trying to eat a chimichanga through his mask. He will be doing this the whole thing, not really paying attention to anyone. When everyone else starts to back away he will get up and walk away too so as not to draw attention from Wolverine and Phoenix.
so, any questions, ideas, feedback? I would LOVE to hear what you think of the whole thing.
thanks, Dawson