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Looks like the start of a Taito base to me ...
Steve
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Lovin' the comments, this is better than posting it all at once!
Found a source for cheap plexi, since Home Depot was pricey.
Its a "time out" cage for when the kids misbehave.
It better be another star wars chair, dammit!
It was going to be a Star Wars Chair, then I realized that I could just buy that on ebay so I didnt have to make one.
Now we get down to details!
I decided I wanted to make something for my son's 5 year old birthday. I wanted him to have something that he can play on so that he doesn't feel left out when I'm playing one of my arcade machines.
Since I don't have a PacMan or something more suitable for him yet, and he loves Buzz Lightyear, I decided it would have to be scratch built just for him.
I saw in target that they had those Jakks 5 in 1 Pixar/Disney games that plug into the TV. 2 of the games are from Toy Story. I checked out the games and they were completely nonviolent so we could go with that. (I originally wanted to do the Jakks PacMan box, but some of the games on it might not fly past the PC school he goes to). With the Jakks selected, I would only need the wood, TV, and artwork. I found a $10 Sony Trinitron tv from a yard sale, so that took care of the TV.
I knew most of the work would be in making a cabinet, but that wasn't the concern for me as much as the artwork. I wanted something that would look alot like something that would be in an arcade, kind of like the way Atari did it, with large artwork on the sides and front. I knew that I would have to make some of the artwork from scratch, which would be tough with my bad graphic artist skills.
From my kid's height, I knew that a cab 48 inches tall would be a good height, so that meant I could use precut sheets of MDF from Home Depot that were 24x48. Some trimming and the sides would be done.
So I started looking all over the net for pictures/posters/jpegs of Buzz.
What I found right off was a great 24x36 poster of him standing up all by himself. I cut that down to just Buzz with no background.
Before I started cutting the MDF, I cut a big piece of cardboard to the same size, and then started positioning the Buzz cut out on to it, so I could see how it would 'fit' best on the side.