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This should be a straight forward prop, but every time I encounter trays and glasses I get scared just a but. I normally encounter them as items that must separate but in my next production they must be attached and never move. I want to use a standard restaurant serving tray and put two water...

Yes, for the inhaler you had one of my first thoughts. As for the retainer I was looking for a wire retainer.Thanks again for the guidance!!!

The oversized ones make me laugh and since the poles are given to audience members could be even funnier. But good call on getting a cheap fake banana and trying to cut and glue back together.A lot of useful ideas floating around.Now back to the other two ideas...the retainer and the...

So going with the battery powered string lights and attaching a banana idea...what about this. I imagine they are not translucent but what if I drilled pin holes into the fake fruit to let the light out. Could that be a good effect or just be silly...

Funny, first thing I looked at on Amazon had a person asking if the bananas were hollow. No, as predicted.

I did miss the full extent to which you were getting at but got there in a round about way. Still trying to find or figure out how to make big bananas that are translucent enough to let light through.

Going off the key chain idea I thought about mini battery powered string lights. http://www.amazon.com/dp/B005X9UZ76/?tag=controlbooth-20 http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00AIA200K/?tag=controlbooth-20 I could attach fake bananas at each light point.Is this a good idea??? Do you think the effect...

I like this idea but the item seems a bit small. I need something a bit more realistic in size or oversized. I was hoping there were novelty patio lights or something. The closest I found were solar powered banana lights...

A long time coming, but the final look was using the fake switchblade with fake blood preset in a wash basin. While one actor talked the other actor, by slight of hand, got the tip and a small bit of the edge covered in blood and then slid this along the actor's skin as if cutting them and it...

I will be doing props for the musical Forever Plaid this summer and had a few props I was wondering how to find and/ or make:1. ASTHMA INHALER 2. ORTHODONTIC RETAINER 3. LIGHT UP BANANAS for the bamboo banana poles in the calypso numberThanks in advance for any and all suggestions!!!

Awesome suggestions guys. What would I use to have blood squirt if not a pressurized cannon? I found a cool idea of taking off the flower of a squirting clown flower and extending the tubing and loading with blood. I wanted to try that for our neck chomp. Could maybe a device be rigged in a...

I am starting techs on one show and planning props/ sfx for the next. We are doing a newer play, Zombie Town. One of the characters turns into a zombie so the prop axe is used to sever the actor's brain stem. I was wondering good ideas for faking this realistically. This is also in a thrust...

Thanks, but we have both a real clay pipe and a back-up if that breaks and a fake one made of wood if all else fails. We would like to use what we have. I was thinking maybe baby powder but if you could see it actually smoke that'd be good enough for the director although we both like it to be...

I saw a similar post but needed a bit more direct information. The director and I would like our clay pipe to actually smoke and seem to be working. The two actors who share the pipe only take one puff each and we have a bowl on a desk to put the pipe out in after they are done with it.We...

I know things have been talked about before but I was not exactly finding the info I needed. Sorry if anything posted become a repeat. I found this Make a Switchblade | Prop Agenda I know I can achive this easily and cheaply but I just talked with my director and he was thinking Sweeney Todd...