Making an growing Pinocchio nose for Shrek Jr the Musical...Help

[Matthew Dillon]

Our Lower School is doing the musical Shrek Jr and I have been asked to try and make a growing Pinocchio nose...any ideas? I do have NinjaFlex filament that I can laser print but I am not sure how to get it to grow. Thanks.

[Donna Mandosa]

Best post to the list this year! :)

(and no, I have no idea how to do it, but I wait with bated breath to learn from the community wisdom)

-Donna

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On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 3:16 PM, Matthew Dillon <pmdi...@iolani.org> wrote:

Our Lower School is doing the musical Shrek Jr and I have been asked to try and make a growing Pinocchio nose...any ideas? I do have NinjaFlex filament that I can laser print but I am not sure how to get it to grow. Thanks.

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[Joseph Chiu]

Just to throw an idea out there, perhaps something based on a paper telescoping chinese yo-yo?

Ninjaflex (and other TPU's like the ones we sell at toybuilderlabs) is flexible and a bit elastic, but it'd be hard to get it to grow primarily in one axis by blowing it up like a balloon.  If you tried to make an "accordion", the folds would be too obvious, I'd think.

This would be a great costume for halloween!

On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 3:16 PM, Matthew Dillon <pmdi...@iolani.org> wrote:

Our Lower School is doing the musical Shrek Jr and I have been asked to try and make a growing Pinocchio nose...any ideas? I do have NinjaFlex filament that I can laser print but I am not sure how to get it to grow. Thanks.

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[Zoe Banchieri]

The one I saw in Shrek the Musical was like a party horn that unrolled.

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[David Held]

Bless the Interweb- http://theatreprojects.blogspot.com/2010/08/pinocchios-nose-part-2.html

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[Adam Singer]

Is it on a mask somebody has to wear, or is Pinocchio a prop where you can just have a long nose that gets protruded out through a hole in the face?

On Mar 16, 2015, at 3:16 PM, "Matthew Dillon" <pmdi...@iolani.org> wrote:

Our Lower School is doing the musical Shrek Jr and I have been asked to try and make a growing Pinocchio nose...any ideas? I do have NinjaFlex filament that I can laser print but I am not sure how to get it to grow. Thanks.

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[David Held]

Or maybe you could make a paper telescoping nose with a tube running from the actors mouth into the nose. The action of blowing or sucking air could make it grow/shrink perhaps.

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[Andrew]

Let's also listen to the cautionary tale in that wonderful post:

"I think my biggest mistake though this project was taking my policy of "saying Okay" too far. I don't want to be the props master who always says "no we can't," but in this situation there should have come a point where I insisted that we work with the current nose to trouble shoot. Instead I kept reinventing the mechanism in an attempt to fulfill every request I was given, and as a result, none of the dozen noses I made ever got to the trouble shooting phase. "

--andrew

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[Matthew Dillon]

Thanks to everyone...tons of ideas. We are on break next week so I'll get back to work when we get back. I am playing with the idea of making the "Chinese yo-yo" idea in NinjaFlex. I'll post how things go. Much Aloha!