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Yes, Disco Feepit. In the online world of Neopets, you can adopt a virtual pet of some bizarre imaginary species (including shoyru). Then you feed your pet and create a home for your pet and make your pet fight monsters in the battledome. Your pet can also have a pet of its own. These creatures are known as petpets. A feepit is a type of petpet. Pets and petpets can also be "painted" into different versions of the species. A disco feepit is a kind of painted feepit. Notice that the design is not so much "Disco" as it is 1960's Flower Power. What a difference a decade makes. |
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The feepit piñata was made from two punch balls stacked on top of each other. The walls of the piñata have to be made thick enough to keep the piñata from collapsing in on itself, but if the walls are too thick, the kids can't break the piñata. I've faced the same problem on all my larger piñatas, including Hello Kitty, the Green Shoyru, and both Rainbow Zebras. The solution is to make thick walls and then punch holes in them with a knife. This way the piñata still has the structural strength to hold itself up, but the perforations provide weaknesses that the kids can tear into. You can see photos of this process on the Make a Zebra page. |
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| The blue color in this photo was purple in real life, but came out looking blue on film. |
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| The feepit's hair tufts and tail were made from pillow stuffing that you buy at a fabric store. I pulled it apart to fluff it out more, and lightly spray painted it orange and green. | |||||||||||||||
| The feepit's eyes were styrofoam eggs cut in half and painted black, and the mouth and eyebrows were black pipe cleaners. The eyes and pipe cleaners were hot glued onto the piñata. I made the eyes crooked on purpose to try and give the feepit some personality. The nose is a black puff ball, also hot glued on. | |||||||||||||||
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| A second-place finisher in the battledome. | |||||||||||||||
| For another Neopets piñata, see the Green Shoyru page. That one posed a unique engineering problem that was finally solved by wandering the aisles at Home Depot looking for a solution. | |||||||||||||||
