Prop Trick or Treat Studios Stripe and Evil Gremlin Puppet Props

[Rogerbee]

Superglue and prayers mostly!

 

[Rogerbee]

Took some stills from a video clip I found, just to gauge shape and position:

Never noticed that the back went into a long DA before. Not seen many replicas or toys with that.

 

[Rogerbee]

I did what I could with what I had. Probably needs more futzing, but it will do for now and till I seal him.

 

[gypsycatcha]

That's looking really cool , is that with the help of gandalf lol ?

 

[Rogerbee]

Yep! Added a final piece to the front and I'm happy.

 

[Madball]

I bought an evil gremlin it hasn’t arrived yet but I also went ahead and bought this prop food and drink from eBay even came with the glasses!

 

[gypsycatcha]

Yep! Added a final piece to the front and I'm happy.

Dam that looks way better. So did you leave the existing hair on and add this to it?
gunna have to have a crack at this now.

 

[Rogerbee]

I actually had a bit of an accident with the hair on mine actually. It was floppy and wouldn't stick up, so I trimmed it. That's why it looked odd in the early pics. It was also punched in more on one side than the other. What I did was to even it up and add some body to the top and more to the front. This will vary from puppet to puppet, you may have a better one than I did.

 

[Rogerbee]

I bought an evil gremlin it hasn’t arrived yet but I also went ahead and bought this prop food and drink from eBay even came with the glasses!

The cola and the popcorn are good, but the glasses are off. The best you can do is cut the bottoms of the frames off so they're the same as the arms. I searched all over but just could not find any 3D glasses that look identical to what they used:

 

[Madball]

He’s awesome! Going to try losing him different ways to hold the popcorn and coke

 

[Rogerbee]

I'm afraid that is not going to work. He does have wires in his arms, but, they don't bend enough. He has no posability in his fingers at all. TOTS really designed these as simple hand puppets and not fully articulated ones.

 

[Madball]

He’s got some in his wrists it’ll work good enough! He’s awesome I love it

 

[ebag27]

Make sure to check out my Instagram horror_fiend_collector

 

[bulldog]

Has anybody made good experiences with sealing a Gremlin?
I`m thinking about using Brillux 262 sealer as it's a waterbased PU-acrylic sealer (and it's available in Germany), but I'm hesitating because it's not cheap and I don't want to mess up this absolutely cool piece of my collection...

 

[Rogerbee]

Chris Walas and I messaged on FB about this and he thought that water based polyurethane would work, if that's what the stuff you mention is then it should be ok. The water based polyurethane can be found on eBay. What with one thing and another I never got round to sealing my two, but they are still holding up really well at the moment and there are no signs of deterioration yet. Just like with the real thing, if you keep them out of direct sunlight they should be ok. Definitely seal them when you get chance to.

 

[sirdoctor]

I couldnt find a thread about the flasher version so ill post here.
What can i say? For what is a kind of "budget" prop, its pretty cool. Certainly think i will add a few others to the collection. Heres a couple of pics and a video i made...

 

[Rogerbee]

Nice!

 

[Jase25]

What are you guys using as stands? I saw the Guitar stand which is a great idea.

 

[Rogerbee]

Mine was made by a company called Lindo though you may be able to find a US make. You need one that looks like this:

 

[Rogerbee]

The bottom rest is detachable, you definitely need this feature as the puppet won't stand with one attached.