Automated Prop Question

Hello all.

I'm a Auditorium Technician for my local school district. The Drama Club is doing "Seussical" this year.

I have been tasked to build and deploy an egg, that at the end of the Act, will hatch on it's own.

The egg is to be at least 12" tall, and then opened (cracked) in a barndoor style manner facing the audience, that will then reveal the 'elephant-bird' inside.

Making the egg isn't the problem... paper mache' style perhaps. It's the function of opening the egg that gets me. Sure, I can take apart a R/C car and reinvent the gears... but wondering if there are other alternatives.

Thanks.

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Permalink Reply by Jerry Zalewski on February 1, 2016 at 2:01pm

I'd suggest heading to a toy store and looking thru the motorized construction sets.

We once used what I believe was "Construx" (no longer manufactured) to "magically" open "The Book " in a production of The Princess and the Pea. It was simply a low speed, D battery-powered, motor package with an arm that swung thru a <180 degree arc, pushing the cover open in the process.

The fact that the parts were all pre-packaged made it easy, and comparatively cheap.

Good luck.

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