Santa's Workshop

The goal of this project was to construct 4-walled, roofed buildings with windows to be set outside and protect animatronic figures from inclement weather. This was a huge project but in the end, a very enjoyable one that visitors truly enjoyed.

Materials:

• 12, 4x8 sheets of translucent coroplast
• 20, 10' lengths of EMT pipe
• Assorted screws, washers, lockwashers, nuts, wing nuts
• Contact cement, silicone glue, paint, colored duct tape, rolls of self-adhesive vinyl
• Clear plastic sheeting, zip ties, garland, strings of LED lights
• Renzilla controller set up to control incandescent and LED strings, LED spotlights, servos.

Assembly: There is no "kit" for this kind of project. Much of it is by the seat-of-one's pants along with a healthy dose of by guess and by golly. It started with the creation of a tabletop concept mock-up out of, appropriately, scraps of coroplast.

Realizing the size of such a structure might become problematic to erect indoors, the idea morphed into three separate structures with Santa's Workshop being two of the three and the third a self-standing Elf House.