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>> Ben: Welcome to another episode of Homemade How-to,
where we show you guys how to make props and
costumes with just stuff from around your house.
>> Bianca: Ben and I are huge, huge fans of Jurassic Park.
And so, we're really, really excited about Jurassic World.
>> Ben: I even have my official Jurassic World t-shirt, right there, it's official.
>> Bianca: Today we're gonna show you how to make a homemade raptor suit.
All right, Ben, what do we need to make a dinosaur?
>> Ben: Dino DNA.
>> Bianca: [LAUGH] >> Ben: Let's go.
>> Bianca: Let's go.
One of the first things that we actually need to do is, we need to prep
the steering mechanism, which is going to be on the inside of the raptor suit.
We need some PVC pipe.
>> Ben: That's a half-inch diameter.
This is gonna run from the body, inside the body, and it's gonna be the neck, and
then the head's gonna be attached to the end of that.
>> [NOISE] >> Bianca: Very satisfying.
We're gonna drill holes at each end of the pole.
And make sure that the holes are both drilled in through the same sides.
>> [NOISE] >> Ben: And
you're gonna wanna drill another hole going the other way.
Do that to the other end so each end has four holes.
The next element of this mechanism is gonna be what we're calling the head
plate and then the neck plate, and we're using bucket lids.
>> Bianca: So this is gonna be the base of the neck and
this is gonna be the base of the head.
We're gonna need to put some holes in the lid so
that we can run ropes from the head plate down to the neck plate.
>> Ben: Okay, so we're gonna start with the head plate.
The first one is gonna be a center hole,
and then we're gonna do holes on each side of that.
Then we're gonna do a hole on the top.
We're gonna cut the bottom of the lid off,
and then we're gonna put four holes, kind of on each corner.
>> Bianca: And then we need couple little holes along the top of this.
We've got our drill here with a quarter-inch drill bit on the end.
My dad would be so proud of me right now.
>> [SOUND] >> Ben: So
now we're gonna need to cut the neck hole and the mouth hole.
We're also gonna cut the bottom of the head plate.
>> Bianca: Got to put some hinges here, and there's gonna be a mouthpiece that's
gonna attach to this, and needs to be able to swing freely.
>> [NOISE] >> Bianca: Okay, and so next,
we're gonna do the neck plate.
Make a little hole for where the neck pole is gonna go through.
>> Ben: You want this to be slightly off-center.
>> Bianca: And then another hole for the mouth, and
then we need four holes around on each corner.
>> Ben: Okay, so now we need to attach the neck pole to the head plates.
>> Bianca: We're actually gonna use these zip ties here, and
I am gonna run a zip tie through the back.
>> Bianca: Up through that top part there, and
then right back through the back again.
So, let's do that.
And then we're gonna need to put those on each of these sides.
>> [NOISE] >> Ben: And
it can rotate all the way around.
So now we're gonna feed the pole through the neck plates.
And we're not gonna attach this to anything right now, so
we're just gonna leave that there.
I'm gonna show you guys how to make a handle which goes on the other end.
So let's go to the overhead.
For the handle we're gonna need some of our extra PVC, three Ts, two elbows.
We're also gonna need PVC glue, and of course, our PVC cutters.
And we're gonna need our drill.
Okay, so just to show you the shape we're going for.
So we're gonna fill in all of these gaps.
First piece is gonna be six inches.
And we're just gonna do what's called a dry assembly right now.
And these two side pieces, three inches each.
Okay, little pieces in there about two inches each.
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>> Ben: We're gonna need a little peg in the middle,
and we're gonna need two pieces right here.
And then we're gonna need a trigger switch, right here,
which is gonna operate the mouth piece.
So now we have to add holes to everything.
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>> Ben: And again, this is a quarter-inch drill bit.
Okay, so now we're gonna glue this whole thing together with PVC glue.
Now it's time for the trigger.
And we're gonna attach that using a zip tie.
And there you go, that is the handle.
So here's our handle.
And we're going to attach this to the end of the neck pole.
So now we have this joint created here.
>> Bianca: Our next step is we need to grab our rope,
and I'm gonna run a piece of rope through those little holes on that handle.
>> Ben: This is the four holes that we made on the plate
are gonna correspond to the square on the handle.
The top left goes to the top left hole.
We're gonna attach the ropes to the head plate.
And you wanna make sure to give yourself a lot of slack on the handle end.
>> Bianca: We've got four lines of rope running through those four
points on the head plate, the neck plate, and then onto the handle bar.
And then we need another rope that's gonna run through that mouth hole right there.
Gonna run through there.
And this piece is actually gonna run into this little trigger that we have here.
>> Ben: Eventually, these ropes are all gonna be really tight.
For now, you just wanna loosely attach them to the handle.
I think we're ready to move on to the body.
>> Bianca: Yes.
>> Ben: Let's do it. >> Bianca: So for
the body, we have this lightweight stucco wire.
And then, we've got a hula hoop, which is gonna be the base.
>> Ben: So we're going to take one end of the wire, and
we're gonna zip tie it to the hula hoop.
>> Bianca: Wrap it around to the other side, and then we're gonna zip tie that.
Mold this and bend this, so that it has more of the body shape of the raptor.
>> Ben: We definitely want to get this shape closed in here on the front, but
we wanna make sure we can fit the neck plate into this.
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>> Bianca: You wanna put some support on the inside so
that it can attach to your body.
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>> Ben: We are ready to put the neck piece on.
>> Bianca: So, boom, okay, we're gonna run zip ties through the plastic onto
the wires so that that all fits into place.
It's kinda moving around quite a bit and we need to prevent that from happening.
>> Ben: And we're gonna use bungee cords.
Okay, so next step is to make a head for this guy.
We're gonna draw a reference on cardboard.
Now we're gonna use the mesh wire to complete the form.
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>> Bianca: We've got a hinge at the very bottom of the head plate, and
we've got this wooden peg here that we're actually going to affix to that hinge.
>> Ben: So now we're going to form the bottom jaw with the wire,
same sort of technique we did for the top.
I should have done this before and I forgot, but
we're gonna drill holes on each side of this peg.
Okay, and now, we're gonna zip tie the bottom jaw.
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>> Ben: Sorry, okay.
>> Bianca: [LAUGH] >> Ben: And now,
what we're gonna do is we're gonna attach the,
what we've been calling the mouth rope.
And it's going to attach to the bottom jaw, so that when we pull the rope,
it closes the mouth, pretty sweet.
>> Bianca: Aah!
Next step.
>> Ben: The next step is to tighten all of these ropes.
>> Bianca: Still in surgery.
[LAUGH] >> Ben: It's gonna be okay.
>> Bianca: It's gonna be okay.
So- >> Ben: Leg time.
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>> Ben: What do we have?
>> Bianca: We got legs.
>> Ben: We got legs.
We're going to make some tabs.
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>> Ben: And you're really just kind of playing around with it,
and just like we did the body and the head, just start forming it.
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>> Bianca: Your foot model.
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>> Bianca: Time to give the raptor some arms.
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>> Ben: All right, so there's our tail,
we're going to use foam to give it a little bit of shape.
>> Bianca: We've got our tail, and we've got our arms, and we've got our legs, and
we've got the head and the body, and so I think it's time to skin him.
Let's put some skin on them.
>> Ben: Put some skin on it.
>> Bianca: Instead of fabric for the body we're going to use this awesome tarp.
We're gonna start with the neck.
>> Ben: We're gonna need to wrap the neck with someone inside.
We need to make sure that the neck can move freely while it's still wrapped.
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>> Ben: So we have everything wrapped but the head.
Let's do the top part first.
>> Bianca: Okay. >> [MUSIC]
>> Ben: Now, the bottom jaw.
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>> Ben: All right, we have a mouth.
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>> Ben: And we actually left some piece in the back so
that we can fold that over the leg, it's two claw, big six-inch retractable claw.
We're actually gonna use the brown side of the tarp.
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>> Ben: Now you can slice it here- >> Bianca: No slicing.
>> Ben: For the eyes, we're gonna need two ping pong balls.
I just so happen to have some orange ones.
Make a base, we're gonna hot glue the ping pong balls right onto the base.
And we're gonna take some of our extra tarp.
Hot glue, right, on cardboard.
And then give ourselves a little bit of slack.
Fold the piece over, creating the eyelid.
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>> Ben: And then do the exact same thing for the other side.
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>> Ben: Now of course we're gonna do the pupils, just draw those on there.
Put some of the red details on it.
And there you go, do the same thing for the other one.
Okay, so for the mouth, we're gonna need some fabric.
We found this really cool pattern fabric, and we're gonna need forks,
lots of plastic forks.
I already spray painted these.
And we're gonna need our dinosaur head.
So what we're gonna do first is make the bottom piece.
So I'll do the same thing with the top jaw.
So now we're gonna take our fabric,
so now we're gonna glue the fabric.
>> [MUSIC] >> Ben: So now we're gonna
take our top piece.
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>> Ben: Now, we have kind of a Kermit the frog type deal here.
So now, we're gonna get our teeth,
we're going to be gluing these to the edge of the cardboard.
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>> Ben: I'm gonna use some red duct tape.
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>> Ben: And you just do the same thing for the top jaw,
it's no longer Kermit the frog.
>> Bianca: Whoa- >> Ben: Whoa, dinosaur parts, all right,
this is gonna be huge, we gotta- >> Bianca: Yeah pretty big, and
this is just, these are just the parts- >> Ben: I know.
>> Bianca: This isn't even the main body.
>> Ben: This isn't going to fit in the garage.
>> Bianca: Not at all.
>> Ben: Yeah, we gotta take this outside.
>> Bianca: Let's do it.
>> Ben: And we're outside, all right,
and I think it's spray painting time.
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>> Ben: Hold onto your butts.
>> Bianca: [LAUGH]
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>> Ben: It's a dinosaur.
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>> Bianca: Thanks for
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All right man, I think it's feeding time, let's go.
>> Ben: Aah!
>> Bianca: [LAUGH] Don't eat me.
>> Ben: Goats.