{"id":395,"date":"2006-10-05T16:35:53","date_gmt":"2006-10-06T00:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/?p=395"},"modified":"2008-06-22T09:38:45","modified_gmt":"2008-06-22T16:38:45","slug":"meet-our-new-bundle-of-joy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/?p=395","title":{"rendered":"Meet Our New Bundle Of Joy!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today the Stork wore a uniform of scudgy industrial greenish-brown! Around eleven this morning the UPS guy delivered our bouncing baby <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gore-galore.com\/mypetzombies.html\">My Pet Zombie<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gore-galore.com\/\">Gore Galore<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"popeye.jpg\" id=\"image397\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/pics\/popeye.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">This is a full-sized, studio-quality prop. This particular model is called the Popeye, for reasons that will become apparent below. The body is a closed-cell foam, cast from a real person&#8217;s body (living, presumably) and reinforced with a welded armature of 5\/8 inch spring steel. It&#8217;s bendable\u2014just barely, this stuff&#8217;s quite strong\u2014which makes this guy poseable, though getting him into a sitting position might require a bit of effort.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"popeye-1.jpg\" id=\"image396\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/pics\/popeye-1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">The head is a separate foam-filled latex mask, full head and neck, wtih a flap of &#8220;skin&#8221; front and back that you tuck into the shirt to make the head-body transition seamless. The hands are made from the same foam and are detatchable. The fingers aren&#8217;t poseable, which is a tiny bummer, but hardly a deal-killer. He comes complete with a set of clothes that have been antiqued for that fresh-from-the-grave look.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"popeye-hand-1.jpg\" id=\"image399\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/pics\/popeye-hand-1.jpg\" \/>   <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"popeye-3.jpg\" id=\"image398\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/pics\/popeye-3.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">The attention to detail in this thing is just wonderful. I&#8217;ve been wanting a high-quality prop for some time, and this one fits the bill just about perfectly. Many of you know I built a life-sized articulated figure out of wood a few years back that I&#8217;ve used for many Halloweens, but My Pet Zombie makes the old one look, well, like a pile of lumber by comparison.  I figure it can accessorize him six was from Sunday and turn him into a new Halloween prop every couple of years, making him versatile as well as alluring. And if I run out of ideas, there&#8217;s always Gore Galore&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gore-galore.com\/corpses.htm\">Cadaverama<\/a> line to avail myself of.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">So if you&#8217;re in the neighborhood this All Hallow&#8217;s Eve, be sure to come over and check out My Pet Zombie. He&#8217;ll be easy to find; just backtrack along the line of fleeing, shrieking children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today the Stork wore a uniform of scudgy industrial greenish-brown! Around eleven this morning the UPS guy delivered our bouncing baby My Pet Zombie from Gore Galore. This is a full-sized, studio-quality prop. This particular model is called the Popeye, for reasons that will become apparent below. The body is a closed-cell foam, cast from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-roominations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}