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Tex Critter's Show Restoration
Topic Started: May 16 2016, 10:24 PM (4,091 Views)
Cavity Sam
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I recently bought a Country Critters show and made a 25+ hour journey with my boyfriend to go pick them up. I'll be documenting their restoration through an off-site blog. At the moment I'm only working on Cal due to how massive, heavy and hard to move these characters are.

Link to blog: http://texcritterspizzajamboree.tumblr.com/

We flew from San Diego to Spokane, WA, rented a 16' truck to load them and then drove through WA, OR, and then back to San Diego. The characters are very VERY heavy and took 3-4 people to load them. Their bases are extremely heavy and make them very difficult to move. Unfortunately they are not removable from those bases. Country Cal is 8' tall and his base is 30" wide, to give you an idea of his size.


The truck loaded up.

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Country Cal loaded in the truck

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Me and Foxy Roxy

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Tex Critter loaded in the truck

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Tex's head in my lap.

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Inside Roxy's base.

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Country Cal's tail.

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Roxy without her body shells.

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Country Cal. His face is covered in some type of wet adhesive that's in his hair, on his eyes, and eyelids. It had dripped onto his shirt and guitar at some point and dried. He's going to need a lot of cleaning.

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Inside Tex Critter

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And of course, the maintenance manual. There's TONS of info in here about cleaning, running and repairing them, movement lists, etc. I will be scanning it and putting it into a PDF for everyone.

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These characters have a lot of movements including eyes up, down, left AND right, body turns/leans, head tilts, head turns, wings, tail movements, moving eyebrows. Even the snake has a lot of movements!

Also, since there's some confusion about the puma and snake's names, they are officially Country Cal and Skeeter according to the manual.

They are a lot more complicated than the animatronics I'm used to, so it may take me a while to get them running again. They're overwhelming and confusing, but I've only gotten a few good looks at them and I'm hoping to figure it all out when they're out of the truck.
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TRANSTAR LEXINGTON
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is yours a prototype or just a different model than the others that you mentioned
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Cien
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I really, really love Foxy Roxy so I'm anticipating to see her fixed up most. How on earth do you plan to do her hair? That's gotta be quite a challenge! ;_;
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Cien
May 20 2016, 10:20 PM
I really, really love Foxy Roxy so I'm anticipating to see her fixed up most. How on earth do you plan to do her hair? That's gotta be quite a challenge! ;_;
I have her hair! It's currently just sitting on her head, it's not screwed on yet.
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pttraefan2
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Hair and screwed on.... hmmm.... thats not a good mix of words... lol
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shammah121
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I love Roxy too! Cal is my favorite so far though.
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Cavity Sam
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Here's my boyfriend wearing Roxy's hair, hahaha.

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The fiiiiine specimen in the back is the Klunk-lover herself.
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Cien
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He's so beautiful...
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Mac Tonight
May 16 2016, 10:24 PM
Tex's head in my lap.

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Hush. Little. Texy (BTW nice pyjamas)
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shammah121
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WOAH, ROXY MUST HAVE A HUGE HEAD-------
Besides maybe a few touch ups, do you actually need to clean her hair?
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Cien
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May 21 2016, 01:01 PM
WOAH, ROXY MUST HAVE A HUGE HEAD-------
Besides maybe a few touch ups, do you actually need to clean her hair?
Yeah, this is something I'm wondering as well! It looks like it's frozen into place.
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Cavity Sam
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shammah121
May 21 2016, 01:01 PM
WOAH, ROXY MUST HAVE A HUGE HEAD-------
Besides maybe a few touch ups, do you actually need to clean her hair?


Cien
May 21 2016, 02:03 PM
shammah121
May 21 2016, 01:01 PM
WOAH, ROXY MUST HAVE A HUGE HEAD-------
Besides maybe a few touch ups, do you actually need to clean her hair?
Yeah, this is something I'm wondering as well! It looks like it's frozen into place.


Her hair is made out of a fiberglass shell that screws onto her head shell. The fiberglass has super long fur glued over it. The fur is styled, but was sprayed with something to make it hard so it doesn't move. It also has pink streaks airbrushed in. c:

It is a little dusty, but blowing it off with an air compressor is the ideal way to clean it.
Also, yes, Roxy is huge and very heavy!
I've decided to switch my blog over to Tumblr!

http://texcritterspizzajamboree.tumblr.com/
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80sgirl
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Try Un-Du to remove the adhesive. It doesn't work with all glues but I have had a lot of luck with it getting off price tags and gooey adhesives without damaging the item.

http://www.amazon.com/UnDuProducts-01004-20-Un-Du-Adhesive-Remover-4oz/dp/B003TZQPTS
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sonichacker
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If you can't get new mask from AVG will you make new ones?
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80sgirl
May 22 2016, 04:04 AM
Try Un-Du to remove the adhesive. It doesn't work with all glues but I have had a lot of luck with it getting off price tags and gooey adhesives without damaging the item.

http://www.amazon.com/UnDuProducts-01004-20-Un-Du-Adhesive-Remover-4oz/dp/B003TZQPTS
when i get price tags off i use a hair dryer and a paint scraper
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Cavity Sam
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Here's my plans for Cal!

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Cien
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This looks lovely. Do you plan to work to work on them throughout the summer?
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pttraefan2
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Mac, your art is just too good!
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Mac Tonight
May 18 2016, 08:49 PM
My show was put into storage today. It took three people to get Roxy out of the truck and four people for Tex and Cal. Tex was extremely difficult to get out of the truck and transport and ended up suffering a broken wing. For some reason the wings, ears, and horn on these characters is made from hard FOAM. Foam. Nice going AVG, lol. Oh well, nothing that can't be fixed!
I DONT NEED IT I DONT NEED IT I DONT NEED IT........ I NEED ITTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT
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DA FABULOUS WOLF PACK 5! Cause the wolfman said so, and you don't argue with the wolfman.
Wow, No One Has Replied To This In A While, But I Hope You Can Restore Them! Also Wat Do You Plan To Do When Your Done?
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Cavity Sam
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If anyone is interested in my journey to go pick these guys up three states away, I have uploaded a video! It also documents my attempt at saving PTT bots!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwDOg-Qnj6U
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