Need Help Designing a "Skeleton" for Large Plush Mr. Meeseeks from "Rick and Morty"

[Gimpdiggity]

Hello everyone.

I'm looking into trying to build a lifesized Mr. Meeseeks from "Rick and Morty."

I'm pretty familiar with fleece and a sewing machine, so making the body, head, arms, and legs won't be too much of an issue.

What I'm struggling to come up with is a way to create a "skeleton" of sorts to go inside the thing. I would, ideally, like to make it so that it can stand on it's own. Even if I have to adjust it's legs to be a bit wider and one forward and one slightly back in order for it to balance.

I had originally thought pool noodles with some sort of support inside of them, but the problem with this is the legs and arms are so much skinnier than the body that I'm not sure it would end up working out.

In a perfect world, I'd like to be able to make Mr Meeseeks both stand AND sit down, and have his arms be pose-able...but I don't know if I'm going to be able to accomplish that.

I'm going to be filling the thing with both foam and polyfill...foam for the more "inside" of him, and polyfill for the parts that would be closest to his skin. The foam should help cut down on weight quite a bit, and the polyfill will allow him to be stuffed so that he is nice and smooth once finished.

Any thoughts or input would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.
Jeff

 

[Contec]

Re: Need Help Designing a "Skeleton" for Large Plush Mr. Meeseeks from "Rick and Mort

some people use PVC pipes to build dummys for their costumes... Google for"pvc costume dummy"

 

[Aztek Dummy]

Re: Need Help Designing a "Skeleton" for Large Plush Mr. Meeseeks from "Rick and Mort

I used PVC for both the Spike gremlin and Yoda. It's easy to cut and glue and pose. balance will be near impossible without making the feet a hard, solid material, so I would mount him on a rod in the center of his back.

 

[Gimpdiggity]

Re: Need Help Designing a "Skeleton" for Large Plush Mr. Meeseeks from "Rick and Mort

Okay, thanks guys.

PVC will probably be what I start with.


Is there ANY way that anyone can think of that would allow the arms to be posed? I haven't spent a TON of time looking around Home Depot yet, but I can't think of any kind of ratcheting or moving pipes that would accomplish it.

 

[Contec]

Re: Need Help Designing a "Skeleton" for Large Plush Mr. Meeseeks from "Rick and Mort

http://www.hauntforum.com/showthread.php?t=17073

 

[Gimpdiggity]

Re: Need Help Designing a "Skeleton" for Large Plush Mr. Meeseeks from "Rick and Mort

http://www.hauntforum.com/showthread.php?t=17073

Awesome.

Thank you!

 

[Gimpdiggity]

Re: Need Help Designing a "Skeleton" for Large Plush Mr. Meeseeks from "Rick and Mort

Thanks for the help everyone.

I'm going to be trying to put together about a 24" size plush with no skeleton, just to see how the "rough draft" will come out. If it comes out good, I'll get some better materials (prototype will be made out of standard polar fleece, the "real" one would be made from antron fleece).

If the first one comes out good, I'll start working on making a skeleton or stand type structure to hold a large one upright.