Fun With LOST Megos: Santa Rosa Hurley

I thought it only fitting that I create a Santa Rosa "diorama"

for Mego Hurley since he came dressed in his bathrobe and 

slippers. And I knew I wanted a Connect Four game

to be included in the scene.

I created the backdrop from cardboard. I got the 

inspiration  to use foam alphabet blocks from a screencap 

of the game room at Santa Rosa. 

The table and folding chairs are wrestling props from the

Jakks Pacific wrestling figures. The wrestling accessories

are a gold mine but also come with some unique problems....

The table is a "breakaway" table for staging wrestling scenes.

I certainly didn't want it collapsing during a rousing game

of Connect Four, so I super-glued along the "break" and then 

covered the top with black craft foam and trimmed to size.

The Connect Four game presented another issue.

I played around with a couple of ideas that yielded

less than desirable results. I finally settled on 

constructing it of craft foam: cheap and easy to work 

with. I printed out graph paper I customized to

5 grids per inch at

http://incompetech.com/graphpaper/plain/

The next step was to adhere it to the foam piece.

I used a double-sided roll-on tape that is intended for

 scrapbooking.  I was assured it was quite strong and

 that I could also use it to assemble the Connect Four game.

I then trimmed the foam along grid lines, allowing a one 

square border around 7 squares wide and 6 squares tall.

I purchased a 1/8" hole punch to make the holes, 

one in  each square.

 I filled the holes with discs in red and black foam.

I repeated for the reverse side of the game, since the craft 

foam is thin and one sheet wasn't stable enough.

The reverse side was made using the mirror image of the 

front of the game. I trimmed it out with blue foam.

I had to use a thick black foam for the stand since that 

particular thickness wasn't available in blue.

I was fairly satisfied with the result, though now that I

have a better mastery of the process, I will probably

make another Connect Four.