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Author Topic: Building a cardboard standee Gary Crawford Expert Film Handler Posts: 200 From: Neptune NJ USA Registered: Nov 2003 posted 01-29-2004 02:36 PM                     We just received a monstrous cardboard standee for "Big Fish" and somehow I got talked into helping build it. A disaster at best, nothing lined up, quality control non-existent. It was not made to go together! Even the "screen" sign part didn't line up, the words not matching form one side to the other. It says "Tim BurBurton" across the top LOL. How did you other folks deal with it, and others like it? If it was up to me it would've ended up in my fireplace. It still might.  |  IP: Logged Rachel Craven Madam Moderator Posts: 2190 From: Pensacola, FL Registered: Dec 2000 posted 01-29-2004 02:37 PM                     Be creative. We had to take a whole middle section out of one because there was no ceiling in our lobby high enough for the standee! It actually came out looking - normal!  |  IP: Logged Gary Crawford Expert Film Handler Posts: 200 From: Neptune NJ USA Registered: Nov 2003 posted 01-29-2004 02:53 PM                     We were creative all right! If we weren't it would be in the dumpster. We punched most of the screw holes ourselves just so it would look like something when done. All in all it looks okay but the instructions were pretty much useless, except for helping us to ID the parts. The dark corner we have it in helps too...  |  IP: Logged William Leland III Master Film Handler Posts: 336 From: Charleston, SC, Registered: Aug 2002 posted 01-29-2004 04:38 PM                        funny this topic was posted. today we got a display for "Coral Reef", it came in a monster 2 crates. one was about 8' wide and 4' high the other was not quite as big. they came huge wood crates screwed and stapled and glue together. we had to break down the crate since we will be shipping it to other theatre. the display we got came from and OMNIMAX in orgeon national muesuem. the display has a DVD player, stero unit and a tv screen also 2 towers with water in them and bubbles bubbling and a fan blowing some orange things out of the top. very nice equiment, but the directions didn't help and one section the bottom board wouldn't line up the screws. it took us from 10am until about 3pm to finally have it working and including breaking down the crates, they wouldn't fit in the doors. i give it a few weeks before some kid ruins it or somehow knocks it down and crushes him,  |  IP: Logged Andy Muirhead Master Film Handler Posts: 323 From: Galashiels, Scotland Registered: Dec 2000 posted 01-29-2004 06:49 PM                     Having built many standees over the years, I came to the conclusion many years ago that the guys that design these are high on crack. Seriously. They are so bizarrely designed. I have an image of a bunch of guys sitting around a computer getting wasted and giggling while they plot just how difficult to make the fucker up. I'm semi retired from the standee making business now. Burnt out!  |  IP: Logged Barry Floyd Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1079 From: Lebanon, Tennessee, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 01-30-2004 06:22 PM                        I built the standee for "Cheaper By The Dozen" outside in the breezeway of our concessions stand one last last fall. Took me several hours... and I still had a bag of screws and wingnuts leftover. Worse part was.... we ended up closing for the season before we were able to show the film. Ended up throwing the thing away.  |  IP: Logged Dominic Espinosa Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1172 From: Boulder Creek, CA. Registered: Jan 2004 posted 01-30-2004 08:58 PM                     My favorite standee was the Red Dragon standee with hannibal in it Yeah baby.. Now the worst standee...Daredevil...I helped an usher put it togehter for 3 hours. He started 3 hours before that. It was hillarious because he'd assembled one of the two d's half backwards...funny thing is the instructions said that it went that way...  |  IP: Logged Jesse August Film Handler Posts: 58 From: Vancouver British Columbia Registered: Jul 2003 posted 01-30-2004 09:13 PM                     William We had that Coral Reef display last year. It took me and 3 other staff members about 3 hours to set it up, and it still never went up right (could never remove the wooden support just under the fake coral in the middle) what a pain in the ass. After a week the interactive part of the display stopped working and the music started driving the floor staff mad. It was set up for two months and I was happy to see it leave.  |  IP: Logged Jack Ondracek Film God Posts: 2348 From: Port Orchard, WA, USA Registered: Oct 2002 posted 01-30-2004 11:11 PM                        You think you've been through the wringer... wait'll you do "I-ROBOT"! (hint from my daughter, the Manager)> follow the directions BACKWARDS, and you'll have a better chance of getting it right! We recently took our (42 foot) Peter Pan standee down. The cutout of Peter is attached to a long piece of plexiglass, making it stand out about a foot from the rest of the standee. When we took it apart, I thought about sticking Peter out one of the projection ports. Never did it, but still considering it!  |  IP: Logged Paul G. Thompson The Weenie Man Posts: 4718 From: Mount Vernon WA USA Registered: Nov 2000 posted 01-30-2004 11:20 PM                     I saw the Big Fish standee today in Oak Harbor. My first thought was "Who is gonna haul that thing to the dump??"  |  IP: Logged Gracia L. Babbidge Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 709 From: Bowdoin, Maine Registered: Aug 2000 posted 01-31-2004 01:10 AM                        Dominic - the 'destructions' that came with the DareDevil standee were total crap! I fought with that sucker for longer than I should have, but got it together. Whereas no-one else that took a crack at it made any kind of headway. Anyone who tried to follow the instructions to the letter to put that one together, would not be able to. Most aggravating.  |  IP: Logged Dominic Espinosa Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1172 From: Boulder Creek, CA. Registered: Jan 2004 posted 01-31-2004 11:25 AM                     WORD!  |  IP: Logged Jason Black Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1723 From: Myrtle Beach, SC, USA Registered: Nov 2000 posted 01-31-2004 12:40 PM                        What you all fail to realize it that the instructions are simply a test of your nerve(s). ANyone who has built standees long enough can look at the components of a standee and pretty much determine what goes where and how it fits together. I think Jack mentioned the 'I-Robot" standee. I found that it was interesting to sya the least. I think the 'dimentionalized' look upon completion was way cool. I think that we have close to 15 standees in our lobby/hallways right now. I will agree that the designers are often VERY creative...  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 01-31-2004 01:39 PM                        Anyone remember the old Steve Martin movie "Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid?" We had a standee for that, and it featured a lifesize cutout of Martin pointing a pistol. After we played the movie, I thought the cutout was cool, so I took it upstairs and set it next to the projector facing the booth door. Fast forward a few weeks....when I went home one night, I accidentally left the front door of the theatre unlocked. A few hours later I got a call from the police station asking me to come down and lock up. I was met by an irate cop who told me he had gone into the building to check things out, and when he walked into the booth (in which a night light was on) and saw Steve Martin pointing a gun at him, he had almost shot a hole in the side of the lamphouse! So I moved Steve to the storage room.  |  IP: Logged Travis Hubrig Expert Film Handler Posts: 175 From: Minot ND, USA Registered: May 2003 posted 01-31-2004 05:26 PM                     That's funny Mike, Our mall security staff is made up of off duty officers. They sometimes take old cardboard standees and posters with people on them. They use them at their target range for a fun change from the standard silouette.  |  IP: Logged

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