Trader Sam's Enchanted Tiki Bar In-A-Box - Other Crafts

T TheLuckyParrot Tiki Centralite Orange County, CA. Joined: Feb 18, 2020 Posts: 66	T TheLuckyParrot Posted posted on Fri, Feb 21, 2020 8:47 AM TRADER SAM FEATURE #1: With the cabinet well in hand, it was time to start on the first of my three planned major "features". Within Trader Sam's ETB, if a patron requests a beer the skipper will grab a glass and grab the draw handle of the requested beverage and pull to fill the glass. When that happens the bar is filled with the sounds of jungle drums. People order beer at a Tiki bar? This is rare enough, but I have heard that if the even MORE rare thing happens - more than one beer is being drawn at a time (!?) - the drums will speed up. Ok. Let's do that. But just doing the audio track is not enough. Nowhere near enough, ha ha! It occurred to me that I could truly embrace the whole Trader Sam alliance by bringing Trader Sam himself into the picture. So, for my bar, should a guest order a beer (which does happen more frequently as not all my neighbors are tiki-philes) I want to not only play the drum audio, but introduce our namesake in physical form. Maybe not all of my neighbors visit ETB, but they all certainly have ridden The Jungle Cruise enough in their lifetimes! At the time, I thought that this was going to be the hardest feature to construct. It was hard, but the shipwreck feature turned out to be much harder. So as complex as all this appears, know that something more complex is coming later. Also, I am aware that there are two versions of Trader Sam. The Disneyland version is a tall, stoic, warrior type whereas the Disney World version is more portly and comical. I am not an accomplished sculptor and I know that the intermediate sculpting stages can be cringe worthy, but I do think I pulled off a blending of these two different characters. Please bear with me... [ Edited by: TheLuckyParrot 2020-02-21 18:24 ]

TRADER SAM FEATURE #1:
With the cabinet well in hand, it was time to start on the first of my three planned major "features".

Within Trader Sam's ETB, if a patron requests a beer the skipper will grab a glass and grab the draw handle of the requested beverage and pull to fill the glass. When that happens the bar is filled with the sounds of jungle drums. People order beer at a Tiki bar? This is rare enough, but I have heard that if the even MORE rare thing happens - more than one beer is being drawn at a time (!?) - the drums will speed up.

Ok. Let's do that. But just doing the audio track is not enough. Nowhere near enough, ha ha! It occurred to me that I could truly embrace the whole Trader Sam alliance by bringing Trader Sam himself into the picture. So, for my bar, should a guest order a beer (which does happen more frequently as not all my neighbors are tiki-philes) I want to not only play the drum audio, but introduce our namesake in physical form. Maybe not all of my neighbors visit ETB, but they all certainly have ridden The Jungle Cruise enough in their lifetimes!

At the time, I thought that this was going to be the hardest feature to construct. It was hard, but the shipwreck feature turned out to be much harder. So as complex as all this appears, know that something more complex is coming later. Also, I am aware that there are two versions of Trader Sam. The Disneyland version is a tall, stoic, warrior type whereas the Disney World version is more portly and comical. I am not an accomplished sculptor and I know that the intermediate sculpting stages can be cringe worthy, but I do think I pulled off a blending of these two different characters. Please bear with me...

[ Edited by: TheLuckyParrot 2020-02-21 18:24 ]

Post #800850 by TheLuckyParrot on Fri, Feb 21, 2020 8:47 AM