Once again we had the great fortune to work on the “Frozen” display at the Disney Store in Times Square. This was a lot of fun as usual and my daughter Mary got to meet Olaf in person!
The client gave us sketches of the Frozen Castle and our challenge was to make a display out of acrylic.
We came up with a few concepts and started building it half scale to work out the kinks.
Once we had the design down it was time to build it full size which was about 8′ tall. Here is the main structure made out of gator foam. We cut grooves in the gator foam to allow us to glue the acrylic in place.
Stop everything! Olaf has arrived. He’ll be part of the display so we need to get accurate measurements before we finalize everything.
Back to the display. The 4″ gator gets wrapped with printed graphics. Here Rad is installing the vinyl but he may need a little help.
So we put Olaf to work installing the some of the vinyl.
Now we’re ready to connect the acrylic panels. First we cut the acrylic then apply printed translucent vinyl to the back side. Then using UV curable glue we attach the returns to the side of each acrylic tower for depth.
Brian works out the mechanics of the ornament spinners – these have to be lightweight and last throughout the season. The first prototype is perfect and we’re ready to start building them.
Meanwhile the whole crew Rad, Mark, Greg Holin and Eddie are super busy – printing, cutting and inserting the motors into the hanging signs. There are a lot of these! There are giant marquee signs and other cool accents all over the shop!
We had Olaf cut some of the boards to make things go a little quicker. Luckily he’s wearing sneakers – he’s doing a lot of running around today.
We’re almost there – time to clean up – Olaf is pretty good at this too.
Olaf had a long day and needs a nap before we ship everything out.
Here it is – after our client did there wonderful staging, accents and magic! Great job everyone! Another fun project!
