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The recent minor explosion of retro-styled 3 3/4" figures made me need an excuse to keep buying them. I'd been planning to make a party skiff out of one of the newfangled Hasbro Desert Skiffs, but never got around to it, and they just didn't have enough space. What I wanted was a Kenner Creature Cantina, but it wasn't big enough.
So the Cantina started with a booth. Restaurant booths are deeply and fondly engrained in my memory, but that's a story for another post. I didn't know of a booth big enough to seat four action figures (just the right amount to negotiate passage to Alderann), and set out making one.
The design was simple enough, though I had to print in pieces due to my tiny printer, but the concept worked! A little wider and another half, and the booth would be enough room for four figures.
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| Hammerhead is suspicious of Party Palpatine |
But the important thing was the bar. A booth isn't much on it's own, it needs a bar to gather 'round. The bar required a new printer. Once that was dialed in, so was the desing. And once that started, it got elaborate. I couldn't leave the bar without lights, or a glow-in-the-dark bartop. Because that is my way.
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| LEDs in the bar, and tables that glow. |
Add another module for an entrance, and another for small booths (perfect for disposing of pesky bounty-hunters), and the Cantina was done. At least for the first pass. A place for every 3 3/4" action figure to hang out, swap stories, and drown their toy sorrows (and an excuse for me to keep buying Glyos, Super 7 ReAction, Mezco 5 Points, etc.)
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