PowerWheels 2014 Aesthetics/Skit
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To do
- Clean car
- Round up performers for the skit
- Acquire help to get the lights, radio/walkie-talkie, etc working.
- Figure out how the smoke and sound is going to work for the skit.
- Define budget
- Shop
- Decorate car and helmet
- Make Moxie board label and Team Flag
- Practice Skit
Vehicle Aesthetics Ideas
- Sound/music
- Parachute (Chassis/brake/steering group?)
- Pyrotechnics
- Working lights or reflectors
- Something pops out of the hood
- Stickers/decals
- 3D printed keeper (hood ornament?)
- Working buttons, levers, and doodads
- Example: CB Radio talks to the pit crew
- Cushion for the seat and seat back
- Plug or cap-off gas tank for extra name space
- Native American theme
- Sticks, feathers, and other pieces of nature
- Leather and beads
- Tomahawk
- Animal horns and/or bones on the hood
- Driver w/ a head dress or mohawk, maybe dressed in native garb
- Animal print
Skit
- "Power" dance or "Race" dance (instead of a rain dance)
- People dance around the car, then the hood pops and some sort of spirit comes out (with smoke)
- Maybe the spirit should talk?
- Then the car revs and the lights flash
Supplies
- Small piece of clear plexiglass
- Lights
- Beads
- Faux leather sheets (felt?) and strips
- Faux fur
- Spray paint for body
- Stickers or paint for letters/numbers (316 = Our number!!)
- "Smoke" for skit
- Feathers
- radio/walkie talkies
- Horns/Bones