A Log for a Frog
One of the iconic images when one thinks of the Muppets is of Kermit sitting on a log, playing a banjo and singing Rainbow Connection….
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One Frog’s Banjo
Once we decided to have an area of the set be Kermit’s swamp, we needed Kermit to have a banjo to play in that swamp….
How to Build Wall-E
I love the movie Wall-E and challenged myself this year to build a slightly larger than life-sized Wall-E to be part of the Halloween house…
Making Eve
For the Wall-E portion of the display, I wanted to have not only a Wall-E, but also Eve. This was a big challenge, as Eve’s…
Come Paint Pixar!
Every year we have Community Painting Days where folks can come and help paint props or set pieces for the Halloween House. This year is…
Hearts and Stars
We wanted to include the heart and star Lego characters from the Lego Movie 2 (“Hello!”) into the design. I envisioned them being up on…
“The Studmaker”
When I decided to build the large Legos out of foam, one design challenge was how I was going to create all of the studs…
Building Legos
In order to create larger than life sized Legos, I decided to use Styrofoam to build them, utilizing some of the things I learned last…
Structures and Styrofoam
Progress has been made on the set pieces for this year’s Nightmare Before Christmas Halloween house! The current phase involves carving the overall shapes of…
It Begins…
After doing some Photoshop work to determine sizes of the set pieces, it was time to get to work! This year, in contrast to previous…
The Final Community Painting Day of 2018
On Saturday, October 20th, we had our last community painting day of 2018. A dedicated crew tackled a variety of projects, from prepping the Donkey…
Building Donkey Kong—Part 1
Donkey Kong was one of my favorite video games growing up and so when we decided that this year’s theme would be Video Games, I…
Painting Pixels
For our second painting day, we focused on painting some classic video game elements. First, to achieve the latticed look of the girders for Donkey…
Additional Designs
In addition to the overall sketch that we have shown, there are a few other areas of the scene that we are excited about. First,…