Our son wanted to be an Imagination Mover for Halloween.  He actually wanted to be all of them, but we chose “Mover Scott“.  To re-create mover Scott, we need his famous “Wobble Goggles”.  They are $20 from Disney, AND they don’t have lights and music.   Crazy talk.  I decided to make my own. Additionally, we needed a costume.  Finding a “decent” one was tough.  So my wife decided to make her own.

First off, run “wobble goggles” through your favorite search engine.  Pretty much zero information.

With no one to copy off of, I needed 3 things.

1. Goggles.

I bought 2 pair. This set from eBay and this pair from Amazon. I needed to get have a test set, and a good set.  Plus, I wanted to find the style that was the closest match.  The Amazon pair are the “production” pair.  Props to Tammy for picking them out.

2. Something small that would play Music.

I Decided a recordable greeting card would work. I picked up a Superman Card, but the module was just too big.  A quick google search revealed that there were many options to choose from.  Then I found it!  A recordable device from a picture frame.  It was already enclosed and made a nice “click” when the button was pushed.  Not only that, but I could just Velcro it into the band of the goggles.

3. Lights.

I picked up a set of  blue mini led Christmas lights ( I wanted the module to create the flashing effect), and wired 8 into the conveniently pre-drilled holes. I test fit the lights, to see if i could get away with surface mounting, but it looked terrible. Therefore,  I had to expand the holes to accommodate the lights, but not by much.

I created two of these setups, mashed the lights back into the holes, hot glued everything in place and added tape and other protection measures.

You may be asking yourself at this point, what kind of juice is this going to take.

A single 2032 “Coin” battery.

Time to sew Velcro into the headband to conceal the wires,  hold the battery and cradle the recording device.

Thats it, now to activate, you can re-create the movement just like Mover Scott.

Now on to the costume.

As always, contact me with any questions.

A neighbor gave us a Harley Cruiser power wheels.  The only thing wrong with it? Battery fail.  Well, technically that was the only thing wrong with it.   In my opinion it was missing a few things.  Time to mod this hog.

What are you going to do?

I decided to keep it very simple at first and just add a working headlight and tail lights. That’s right, all show and no go. This is for my Son and he DOES want to actually ride it.   Since he is the boss, I’d better get him on the road as quickly as possible. We’ll give him some power a little later on.  I headed to Walmart (urp) to look for the following.

Taillights    x2    @ 1.75″
Headlight    x1    @ 4.75″

I decided the best thing to use would be flashlights. For the headlight,  I picked up a Brinkmann 6 Volt Krypton Lantern.  It had the size and the power source I needed.  Plus it was $5.00. Score.

For the tails, I chose a 2 pack of Rayovac Brilliant Solutions LED Flashlights.  The top cover was a pretty close match to the style of the bike.

I added a small row of LED’s on the rear fender for some sweet “blue flame” action.

I wired it up,  and was able to cram both the 12V battery and the 6V battery under the seat by flipping the 12V battery so the connection was on the other side.

Is that it?

Next up? Working sounds, a paint job and maybe some sweet handlebars.  Stay tuned.

@hevnsnt from I-Hacked.com told me about http://www.modifiedpowerwheels.com… the possibilities for this are endless.(and scary). Just check out the videos.

Questions?

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