The Thirteenth Hour Podcast #445 – Making Earrings with Shrinky Dinks and Like a Hood Ornament #56: Disney Heroes and More

Making earrings with homemade shrinky dinks (clear #6 plastic) and a preview of a new Rocketeer carded figure as well as an appearance of the Rocketeer in the mobile game, Disney Heroes.

The Thirteenth Hour Podcast #445 – Making Earrings with Shrinky Dinks and Like a Hood Ornament #56: Disney Heroes and More

https://archive.org/download/podcast-445/Podcast%20445.mp3

This past week, I made a pair of shrinky dink earrings for my wife for Valentine’s Day.  My kids wanted to make earrings using necklace beads, Perler beads, and resin baubles, so while they made the designs, I did the fiddly part of attaching the bits to the metal earring loops (you can buy earring making kits online for not much money).  I’ve made shrinky dinks before using #6 plastic, so I wanted to see if I could make the dangly bits (I’m sure there’s a name for that) as a shrink dink and then attach it to the earring loops.  I decided to use the infinity sign from the inside jacket of The Thirteenth Hour as the design since I knew it would scale down well, and it means “forever” :).  

Here’s my first attempt …

This one turned out to be too dark.  The colors will dark as they shrink.  

These turned out okay, but they were a little bigger than I had intended (and were darker – holding them up to the light, you can see the different colors, but otherwise, they look black).

So I decided to try a few more times.  Here is the #6 plastic again with the design scratched in.

The colors may look very light when you put them on, and that’s fine.  They will darken!

I used Sharpie markers.  They worked well.

In the oven – 350 degrees F x 8-10 min.  The parchment paper is there to keep the shrinky dinks from folding over on themselves and gluing the halves of themselves together.  More about this in Episode 380.

They’ve shrunk down now by about half their original size.

Here they are!

For the Rocketeer part of this episode, I thought I’d share what the GI Joe articulation style figures of the Rocketeer look like now. 

I just need to figure out how to put the accessories inside.

Lastly, I recently found a free mobile game that has the Rocketeer inside – Disney Heroes.    It’s one of the few games out there with the Rocketeer as a playable character – in this case, an arena style rpg battle game with other Disney characters.  I have included a few pictures and videos below in case you wanted to give it a try.  Though the game itself is +/- in my opinion, I really like the animations they did!  I hope they get used for other things in the future.

Found a game with the #Rocketeer – Disney Heroes.

They also included some mini quests in the game that are specific to the movie, which I thought was a nice touch. 

Thanks for listening!

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Check out the growing line of Thirteenth Hour toys and other products on the Thirteenth Hour Studio Etsy store (https://www.etsy.com/shop/ThirteenthHourStudio).  There are a number of custom figures from retro films being sold for charity that available there as well.  For example, the hunter action figure from A Shadow in the Moonlight is now done and available on Etsy!

There is also a growing collection of Thirteenth Hour stickers on The Thirteenth Hour Studio store on Redbubble!

Check out this collaboration with past show guest Jeff Finley on handpan: 

Follow along on Spotify!  There is also a growing extended Thirteenth Hour playlist on Spotify with a growing number of retro 80s songs.

Check it out!

As always, thanks for listening!

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