[Artemisia] Wallmart longboat

[Freydis the Good]

I went in and looked at the boat.  For a creative person with time on their
hands, this should not be too much of a task.  I found this site:
http://www.instructables.com/id/Make-A-Cardboard-Dragon/   someone obviously
is good with cardboard and had plenty of time on their hands to make even
more details.  WOW was what I had to say...

This is also a good reference photo for making your own, AND the kids are
actually using it on the water:
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HBxEuAoz6uI/SN8BRNea4tI/AAAAAAAAC2s/r1FHMzFlj4A/s1600-h/blog092708-4.jpg

And the Cardboard boat races of Crystal Lake, Illinois:
*http://www.zuko.com/generation/Festival_Cardboard_Cup_Regatta.asp*<http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.zuko.com/generation/Festival_Images/Cardboard_Cup_Dragon_%2520Boat.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.zuko.com/generation/Festival_Cardboard_Cup_Regatta.asp&usg=__W9E-gG0-DGhLQfFQJU9d1kcWC0A=&h=183&w=220&sz=15&hl=en&start=33&sig2=EwwotstZV3-Xr-1ER0sEZQ&um=1&itbs=1&tbnid=r62rCtq_yVsWQM:&tbnh=89&tbnw=107&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dcardboard%2Bdragon%2Bdesigns%26start%3D18%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN%26ndsp%3D18%26tbs%3Disch:1&ei=uAu6S-OKGYLmtgO0sdjpDA>

And George and the Dragon in cardboard:
http://www.kormondy.com/tag/slash-paper-exhibit/

And a picture of a shield that seems easy you could cover the sides with:
http://www.hyperborea.org/journal/2007/11/beowulf-in-3d/


And though my kids are 17 & 18 and would just dig making one of these, I've
got enough projects of my own right now... just helping is all!


Ok...  I had too much fun looking for these things.
Freydis




On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 8:22 AM, Kristine Alvarez <kristinela at yahoo.com>wrote:

> Posibly someone could get permission to trace some of the pieces before the
> manager detroys it?
>
>
> --- On Sat, 4/3/10, Dawn Tavares <dtavares1 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> From: Dawn Tavares <dtavares1 at hotmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Artemisia] Wallmart longboat
> To: "Kingdom list" <artemisia at lists.gallowglass.org>
> Date: Saturday, April 3, 2010, 3:06 PM
>
>
>
> Papa Smurf Padruig suggested:
> >>apparently they're not allowed to give it away or sell it and
> >> dumpster diving for it is illegal (and likely to be enforced).
> >
> > For a non-profit, educational group, I'll bet management can be convinced
> to make an exception...
>
> Unfortunately not. Lady Bethoc was kind enough to do some further research
> on this (the creative grandma in her brain runs the same way that the evil
> hamster in mine does).  She discovered that Walmart signs a contract with
> the movie tie-in marketer that requires the managers at every store to
> destroy and recycle the support materials whenever merchandise  sales drop
> to a certain point. Donating that cool cardboard dragonboat to any
> non-profit organization could cost a manager his/her job. In this economy I
> doubt few managers would take that risk.
>
> Personally I think Pixar/Disney/ABC Ent. really dropped the ball on this ad
> campaign. They may think they're protecting their brand image from being
> "tarnished" by potential misuse of one marketing element, but they could
> have created a wealth of consumer goodwill by applying a bit more thought.
> I'd think lots of schools and children's musueums would be just thrilled to
> receive a display model so intricate -- especially given the budget cuts
> most are facing. The ship may not be perfectly authentic, but grade
> schoolers would love it.
>
>
> The gracious Lady Danielle noted:
> >...he did mention that it took 5 guys 5 hours to put the thing together.
>
> That's because they weren't SCAdians. Any Norse crew that can put up a
> Vidar-sized geteld in an hour could knock together that ship in
> minutes.   :D
>
> Maybe, if I snuck lots of phone photos, I could entice some kingdom
> woodworkers to construct one in time for Uprising...?
>
>
> Aurora
>
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