BAK55
Well-Known Member
While checking out a few thrift stores looking for nerf guns to hack into something kinda cool, I came across this nifty Buzz Lightyear toy. I picked it up, looked at it, it seemed to say to me, "Take me home and make me the classic raygun I am meant to be. Because, as you can see, I am incomplete." So I held onto it and continued looking around, then found another Buzz Lightyear raygun that was the same, but a tad different in the grip and translusence of the white domes. So I bought them both.
Back at home I had a set of plastic Margarita glasses with removeable bases I had bought at a different thrift store and had started to use for a similar project, but had shelved it until I could find the right object to finish it.
After swapping out the domes to the toy I wanted to use (Great sound effect and lights) and digging up the plastic parts of the margarita glass I had previously worked on and fastened it to the dome with a small screw, added a new paint job, and I came up with this classic little beauty-
I think it kinda has a "Forbidden Planet" vibe going for it.
Edit: I had forgotten to mention that the parabola dish and globe at the end are the largest and smallest fishing bobbers I could find at a sporting goods store.
Back at home I had a set of plastic Margarita glasses with removeable bases I had bought at a different thrift store and had started to use for a similar project, but had shelved it until I could find the right object to finish it.
After swapping out the domes to the toy I wanted to use (Great sound effect and lights) and digging up the plastic parts of the margarita glass I had previously worked on and fastened it to the dome with a small screw, added a new paint job, and I came up with this classic little beauty-
I think it kinda has a "Forbidden Planet" vibe going for it.
Edit: I had forgotten to mention that the parabola dish and globe at the end are the largest and smallest fishing bobbers I could find at a sporting goods store.
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on my face.
