Customzing: Ed is playing the Bolodon Disks game (The Orville)

[dieastra]

My little Ed was bored so I made him the Bolodon disks game. I hope he teaches me the rules so we can play together!
Made with Shrinky Dink, a plastic straw and some small beads.





Click the cut to see all detailed pictures how I made the game!



I started with constructing the layout.





My desk didn't look that tidy for long!





The foil is Shrinky Dink, a foil you can draw on and then bake it in the oven. It will well up a bit and then shrink. For some odd reason not all became flat afterwards, some stayed welled-up.





For some reason it also was not as round afterwards. More like oval.





For the base I used a plastic straw from one of those drinking packs.





I cut holes into the sides. At first I only wanted to do a slit but the Shrinky Dink pieces were so thick, I actually had to cut out a bit. Some more micro-plastic flying around, sorry Mother Earth!
I was wondering what I could use as the foot of the base. Then I remembered this grey thing that I had in my collection since my childhood. Honestly. I have no idea what this originally was but I never threw it away, thinking I can use it one day. In the screenshot you can see that the base should be square not round but otherwise it was perfect so I didn't care.





And the result! I used some small beads from a box that my mother used to play with as a kid and that is now in my stash.







And this is the original (screenshot)

Comments

[vjezkova.livejournal.com]

Oh my! You are so resourceful and inventive! I am impressed!

[dieastra.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much! I was a bit disappointed that the disks did not come out the way I wanted so it was lying around unassembled for a bit, but in the end I am happy with the result.

[shivver13.livejournal.com]

Oh, now that is gorgeous and inventive! Great work!

Edit: My husband walked by as I was typing and he saw what was on the screen. He asked me to explain, so I did, and he scrolled down to the screenshot from the show and asked me what that was. I said, "That's a shot from the show.," and he went, "Oh.... The toy prop looks better than the show."

[dieastra.livejournal.com]

Aw, thank you so much! And what high praise from hubby! I'm blushing!

I'm not sure if we have talked about The Orville before, and seeing that you now are immersed in a new fandom I probably can't get you to watch now if you haven't already, but if you would give it a shot one day I think you should like it! It's so nice to have a positive show again instead of all the darkness and grime. One that is about the characters and their relationships rather than the action. I didn't know how much I missed that until I got it back.

[shivver13.livejournal.com]

The Orville is definitely something I have wanted to watch for a while now. We haven't yet because we don't have any TV service (we never used it so we finally cancelled our satellite service over a decade ago) and so at the time it came out, there was no way to do it. Now, as I see on Amazon, it's available on streaming or DVD, so maybe it's time.

Yes, I am pretty immersed in Good Omens, but that's calming down and we've been doing other stuff, most recently rewatching all of ST:TNG, so obviously we have time to pick up something new. It's nice to hear that the show is not dark and grimy, which is something I'm very tired of. Hm... My husband and I go to a friend's house every couple of weeks to watch 5-8 episodes of Stargate, and after about five years of watching SG-1 and Atlantis, we're almost done. Maybe I'll suggest we watch The Orville next. :)

[dieastra.livejournal.com]

Yes, it's on Amazon, there are also DVDs from the first season, and it is on Hulu. In fact, season 3 will only be on Hulu, not on Fox any longer. But we will have to wait till next year for it. Plenty of time for you to catch up, as they are only short seasons anyway. Start now! That's an order! LOL

I only have seen TOS from all the Star Trek shows so far. Fans of The Orville are commenting all the time how much it is like TNG. The lighting, the camera angles, the stories. I guess I'll have to watch that one day to compare myself. So if you love that, you definitely should love the Orville. And actually it does remind me a lot of Stargate! The way how I love every single character, and their relationships. It's really a proper team show. Often with shows I have my favorite and others I don't like, but here I really love them all.

If you had asked me last year who my favorite was I honestly couldn't have given you an answer. But I have finally settled on Seth/Ed/The Captain now. I am always going for the leader, be it Jack O'Neill or James T. Kirk ;)

They are so relatable, normal people with normal problems, just on a spaceship. And like Stargate they do good drama, Trek-like with meaningful stories and then some humor inserted as well.

Seth said especially how he was tired of all the dystopian stuff and wanted to do an old fashioned show - one where each episode stands for itself, instead of having a whole arc throughout the season. So technically you could start watching any time and still understand it.

I hadn't even known Seth before. When someone said it's by the Family Guy guy I almost didn't watch. I'm so glad I did. Just give it a fair chance, the first couple of episodes are very heavy on the comedy (we assume that's how Seth sold it to Fox) but soon they found their stride and balanced it well. Season 2 is even better than season 1, it has matured well. But you gotta watch in the right order of course to see the characters grow.

Highly recommended from me! Please let me know what you think, I am running around telling everyone about it. We need more fans. This could become a pretty big thing, if we do it right. A whole new universe to explore. Without the baggage of 50 years of canon, you know? A fresh start.

I want action figures!

And of course I fully fell for Seth once I found out that he likes to sing Frank Sinatra songs with a big orchestra... My all time favorite music. He is born just a few days after me in the same October 1973, it was fate ;)

So my new goal is to see him sing live but he is even busier than JB so who knows when that will happen.

[shivver13.livejournal.com]

We just finished Stargate: Atlantis this past weekend. I'm very bummed, as I really enjoyed it, and the ending was a bit anticlimactic. (It felt like they'd written the season finale as a two-parter, and then they found out they were being canceled, so they stuffed it all into one episode.) We plan to watch The Boys first, as it's only 8 episodes, and then The Orville.

I'm starting to get really excited about The Orville from your description. After watching all of Stargate SG-1 and Atlantis, I've realized that I much prefer optimistic episodic shows, rather than the dark angsty stuff with season-long storylines. TNG is probably the best example of this, but for SG-1, I loved the show in the early seasons when it was mostly the team exploring a new planet every week. When it moved into the Ori arc and the show focused on them, I no longer found it fun. And the same with Doctor Who - it was really difficult for me to weather through Eleven's last season and all of Twelve, as it changed from monster-of-the-week to how-is-the-Doctor-obsessing-about-Clara/Bill-and-vice-versa-now.

I hadn't realized that Seth McFarlane had done both The Orville and Family Guy, and yes, Family Guy would have encouraged me to ignore The Orville. I'm glad you've explained that so that I don't have that prejudice going in. :)

[dieastra.livejournal.com]

I should watch The Boys also, I hear good things about it & I am a Karl Urban fan.

I don't even remember the Atlantis finale. A lot of people were very sad when it was cancelled but I was glad I didn't have to bother anymore. I liked the first 3 seasons but then also it got dark. They did not explore planets anymore, only spaceships and never found the light switch. They also got new uniforms instead of the colors. And the stories only involved the same themes. Replicators and Wraith. Boring.

And don't get me started on the last 2 Stargate seasons. That was not my show anymore. They had originally planned it as a new show but the network wanted the longest run sci-fi show & then cancelled it right after the 200th episode.

There was so much hate in the fandom at the time. Old fans against new fans. New fans had come from the Farscape fandom (which got cancelled for more Stargate so they were angry too) for Ben Browder and Claudia Black and did not care about what was before. What had been a good drama show became a comedy. What had been sci-fi became fantasy. No, I didn't like it. For me the show ends with season 8.

And that has nothing to do with RDA leaving. I was willing to give them a fair chance, to introduce new characters and new stories. But they screwed up, and worse, they did not listen to the fan complains. Only then we realized how much work RDA also did behind the scenes that we never knew. Now the writers became their own producers and nobody asked about plotholes anymore.

Then we got Stargate Universe which was even darker and I gave up after a few episodes.

I didn't touch my figures or DVDs for years, I really was burned out. I found new friends in the Doctor Who and Torchwood fandom. Only many years later I watched some earlier Stargate episodes again and realized why I used to love that show so much. When Jack O'Neill was a serious soldier and leader and not a clown.

I still haven't watched the last Doctor Who season with Peter Capaldi. And I had so looked forward to him as I loved his character in "Children of Earth". Moffat screwed that up like he did with Sherlock. Too complicated stories, I simply didn't care anymore.

The fun thing is, that Richard Dean Anderson is both a Simpons and Family Guy fan. I used to not like the Simpsons as well but checked it out thinking if he thinks it's good... and fell in love with it. But I never could see the appeal with Family Guy. Every time I stumbled about it they seemed to vomit...

I have finally caved now and watch it daily. There is still a lot of stuff I don't like but underneath I can see what they are trying to do and some of the earlier stories are actually quite good and meaningful. And I adore whenever Seth is singing, and as he voices several characters, sometimes he sings a duet with himself, and big orchestra, which is exactly the kind of music that I also love.

Honestly, you wouldn't think so from the kind of jokes he does, but Seth is definitely one of the good guys. I see it in the tweets he writes. Smart, thoughtful, caring, heart in the right place. I think he's grown up a little now, he feels this is what he always had wanted to do and I just hope that the public opinion about him might change over time as well. First Orville season the critics tore it apart but with the second season they also finally understood what he is trying to do. We got a 100% on Rotten Tomatoes, which is very rare apparently!

They also got nominated for an Emmy this year for their special effects team. Of course they did not have a chance against Game of Thrones but still were very excited as they do it on a much smaller budget.

He wanted to cancel Family Guy years ago, he is not involved with the writing anymore, just does the voices. Fox wants to keep going and he also says if he cancels now a lot of people will be out of work - writers, drawers, voice actors - and he can't do that.

You will also find some former Star Trek actors in the Orville, as well as former Star Trek writers and Jonathan Frakes as a director behind the scenes. The whole thing is a love letter. I'm looking forward to properly talking about it with you! And hopefully once I have you converted you will spread the word as well. We need to get more people on board.

[shivver13.livejournal.com]

Mmm, yes, Karl Urban. I haven't seen him in a lot of stuff - Star Trek, of course, and Thor Ragnarok, maybe a couple of others - but I have loved him each time. He is an incredibly versatile actor.

The Atlantis finale was entirely forgettable. And I can agree with you that the first three seasons were definitely better than the last two. Though I enjoyed the final season, there was just too much involving the wraiths Michael and Todd. Like you said, the show (and SG-1) shone most when they were exploring planets, not when the season revolved around a specific antagonist.

Ah, I was wondering why both Ben Browder and Claudia Black moved from Farscape to Stargate. I liked Ben Browder's character, though you might notice I don't remember his name. He was fine, but not particularly remarkable. (He did have a tough act to follow though.) I did not like Vala, but that wasn't CB's fault. They set her up as a highly-skilled rogue with different ideas on how things could be accomplished, and then all she ever did was complain that they wouldn't let her do anything. But for me, the character thing that really dragged the last two seasons of SG-1 down for me was Samantha Carter. I never liked her from the beginning - too much of the genius scientist with none of the social drawbacks - but then when O'Neill left, they tried to make her good at everything and it became "The Carter Show".

SG-1 would have fared better if the whole Ori arc had been a different show and they'd returned to the original format.

We're not even bothering with SG Universe. The friend we're watching with advised against it.

I did notice that in the last couple of seasons with O'Neill that most of his appearances on the show consisted of him listening to Carter explain something then making a humorous line about not understanding and not caring about the details. Early Jack was a real character, and you can really see in the later seasons that RDA was no longer deeply involved.

I wouldn't recommend watching Capaldi's run to anyone, which is a depressing statement to this DW fan. I wanted to like it, but it was too dark, and too often the episode stories were interrupted by the bigger "point" that Moffat was trying to make. As an example, Series 8 was about Clara trying to remake the Doctor into the image she had of who he should be, so in one episode (my favorite of the three seasons), when he tells her over the phone to tell the woman who's being hunted by the monster that he'll be there to save her (in order to keep the woman from panicking), Clara starts arguing with him that it's a lie, and how dare he lie to someone to give them hope. It wasn't convincing, and Clara arguing with the Doctor while the monster's bearing down on her completely broke the momentum of the episode.

To be fair, I liked Capaldi - he was fantastic. I just didn't like the writing.

The new season (Jodie Whittaker) is a lot better, focusing on the episodes rather than the TARDIS crew or a season arc, though it was still very rough in places. I'm looking forward to a much better second season for her.

I liked Family Guy to some extent early on, but as it continued, I just found that I was watching a comedy show without actually laughing. The Simpsons, I just never really tried. I've seen some of it, but at this point, there's just too much to try to watch. The thing I really loved was Futurama, though I have not seen the new stuff and haven't heard good things about it.

I will definitely let you know how we like The Orville, though it won't be until probably late November, as The Boys will take two weekends to finish, and we get together around every three weekends. I am very much looking forward to it.

[dieastra.livejournal.com]

So because of this discussion I watched the first "The Boys" episode today and I loved it! I had been reluctant as I have been kinda burned on superheroes after four years of "Arrow" (before I gave up) and also I can't really get into the MCU universe despite many tries. But this one is very realistic and I definitely want to know what happens next. Recommended!

His name is Mitchell ;) Well, that is his last name. He always only was Mitchell for me. First name Cameron which I also tend to forget.
It was an odd choice to make him the leader of SG-1. He had no experience, never having been through the gate before. In early seasons Jack told Daniel he should not touch any buttons. Here now it was Daniel telling Mitchell when he touched a button and all went wrong. That is just - wrong?

I honestly don't remember much of it all to discuss it properly but from the discussions I actually remember that people felt Carter being sidelined with Vala getting all the stuff to do (Amanda Tapping arriving later in the season on set didn't help). They did not have any idea what to do with her character but still had a contract which is why she then was sent to Atlantis.

The other main complaint was - there was a lot of real Air Force personell who used to love the show, as it was so realistic. But then with Vala, there was for example this scene where she sat almost at the lap of the president and everyone was wondering where their official Air Force advisor had ended up. In early SG-1 such a scene would not have happened.

I actually saw Ben Browder at a convention once. While I did not like his character, I then realized that he himself is a very nice and also funny guy and I did regret not taking a picture with him.

I mostly feel sad for Peter Capaldi, as he has been a Doctor Who fan all his life, he was the leader of the fan-club for Jon Pertwee so Sean and he know each other since they were kids. I wonder what he really thinks about the stories he got.

Clara was so annoying. I remember when she repeatedly said "Listen! Listen! Listen!". I absolutely love Jenna as Queen Victoria though so again it shows it is not the actor just the writing!

I only watched the pilot with Jodi, to give it a fair chance. But I wasn't interested in it enough to watch on so for now my Doctor Who days are over. I should do a Nine and Ten rewatch as my figures are getting bored with me having no ideas for them.

Stuff I recently watched and loved are "Chernobyl" and "Bodyguard" now THOSE were great series! Very tense, not daring to breathe. Also loved "Harrow" and "Liar" with Ioan Gruffudd.

Oh, I didn't mean to imply that I have watched ALL of the Simpsons! That would be an impossible task indeed. But a German channel is running it every day and sometimes I watch and after a while you know the whole town and all its characters so it feels like family. Like with every show people say the earlier episodes were better but in general I like the messages they bring over and as a family the characters are more likeable than the Family Guy family. Even when Homer screws up, at the end there is usually an "awww" moment and all is well again.

I don't watch these comedies to laugh every few seconds. I actually hate sit-coms for that reason when there is laughter all the time and I never know why. I don't know if there is a fitting English term but in Germany you say with some stuff that "the laughter is stuck in your throat" meaning you realize how much truth is in there, even though it is played for the laughs. And that's what I like.

Same with the two "Ted" movies by Seth. Have you watched those? I may chuckle here and there but that does not mean I did not enjoy it. I was very fond of the characters and rather have a fond and also melancholic smile on my face. If that makes sense? The one that made me laugh most was Seth's "A Million Ways to die in the West", a Western parody. Maybe I just I got used to his humor by the time I watched this but I always had a love for the Wild West so that made it extra fond for me. And his character in there (sheep farmer) is so sweet and innocent. He doesn't even know how to shoot. It was his first proper acting role actually. Aside from writing the script, directing, producing, etc.

[arashinoookami]

That's awesome!

[dieastra.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I was a bit disappointed that the disks did not come out the way I wanted so it was lying around unassembled for a bit, but in the end I am happy with the result.