The hardest part was trying to plan out how big make the costume. I seen too many costume where the child could barely walk. Their costume looke more like a transforming dwarf robot. Then some cosutmes were too small and the person looked like a turtle. Luckily I found some perfect boxes at work and here we go.

Stage 1: Cutup up boxes and create car cover.

This part was the slowest part of the whole process. It was scary deciding how big or small to make the costume. I had to make sure that the wearer was big enough to fit. I found some great handles that came in some monitor boxes from work. I just reversed them so that the handles are seen on the inside. That way the gauntlets will be easy to put on and take off. The feet still aren’t worked out completely. I was still having a difficult time figuring out how it can be worn without wearing out the bottom cardboard. So I thought to cut out some wooden panels at the exact height and width of the rear panels and attached with glue. I took some cardboard scraps and layed them on the inside, then stapling with heavy duty staples to the board. That way the original cardboard isn’t supporting the weight of the costume.

Stage 2: Primer and base yellow paint.

This is self explanatory.

Stage 3: Test wearability and design decals.

This was the fun part. I spent many hours on Google Images and researched the BumbleBee transformed mode. The Camaro is an awesome car by the way. I enjoyed studying it. First I measured every dimension of this costume, sides, tops and bottoms. I took that info and created a vector template with Adobe Illustraor. Using my previous photos I manipulated the decals onto the photo. That way I was sure of the design before it went to print.

The decals were printed and then with some time and effort, I was able to get the decals on perfectly.

Stage 4: TRICK OR TREAT!

It is done. With a weeks time we can finally show the finished costume. We gave the suit it’s first real test run and it passed with flying colors.The main goal was to get the car mode to look slick like in the movie. The robot mode had to blend with the store bought outfit underneath. Choosing to use the actual hands and feet for the bottom of the boxes worked perfectly.

It’s early Halloween morning and we are ready for the big night! My son was good enough to let me post these images and video online. He is also brave enough to enter into a costume contest this year. We hope to win! That would be icing on the cake.

Final Video:

BUMBLEBEE! Transform and ROLL OUT!

First of all, you’ll need to log into your ProStores Store Administraor. Click on the Product link located on the left column. Browse through your catalog and open up the product that you want to edit. Once you find the product you can click the UPDATE button.

Edit Images Section

After you click on the UPDATE button you will notice that each of the product sections are editable. Open up the images section.

Remove the current Search Result Image.  One you can see that it is gone, click on the ADD NEW IMAGE button for the Search Results Image section.

Browsing Your Computer

A small pop window will appear. Hear you are going to click on the BROWSE button that is available.

Find Your Image

Simply find the image that you want to use for your product thumbnail. Click on the image that you want and then click on the OPEN button.

Upload Your New Image

After you click on the open button, you will notice that the browse bar will show some text indicating that you have successfully chosen an image to upload. After this is done, click on the SAVE button.

Product Detail Image

We are not going to use the Product Detail Image section. If you see an image here, click the REMOVE THIS IMAGE link located below the image preview.

Detail Image Cleared

Once it is cleared you will notice the thumbnail is now gone and the field is also empty. When you’re done with this step, go ahead and save all your edits. It’s always good practice to save your work once in awhile. You are not done with editing the product yet. So do not close this window.

Getting Ready To FTP

First thing we are going to do is to make sure that we have our images ready for our Details page and the image that will zoom out.

I made two images:

1. art_gal_des_lrg.jpg    (Zoom Image: This image can be as large as you want. Just make sure the filesize is not over 500mb. )
2. art_gal_des_med.jpg      (Details Page Image: The maximum width should not go over 300 px. The height can fluctuate if needed. )

The image being used in this example is a vertical rectangle. If you were using something that was more of a horizontal rectangle, the DETAILS PAGE image width still cannot go over 300 px. Try not to leave any spaces in your filenames. Use _ underscores or – hyphens if you want to visually seperate words.

Open Fire FTP

In your firefox browser, go to the TOOLS menu and open Fire FTP. Log into your FTP account.

The left side of Fire FTP shows your computer. Find your two new images that we just discussed above on your computer.

The right side shows your server.Click on the “Store” folder and then click on the “Catalog” folder. PLEASE DO NOT NAVIGATE ANYWHERE ELSE. Be very careful when you are on your server.

Transfer Your Files

There are two ways to transfer your files.

1. Select the two files. Then click on the arrow circled in red. Notice that the arrow points to your server meaning that the files will be transfered to the right side.
2. Or, you can click and drag the files over to the server side. The green arrow illustrates you dragging your mouse to the server side then releasing your mouse to start the transfer.

I suggest using the first method. It’s easier. The bottom of your Fire FTP program will let you know when the transfer is complete.

Edit the Long Description

Go back into your product editor and copy and past this code into your Long Description section.

<a href=”http://www.enhancingyourhabitat.com/catalog/filename_lrg.jpg”><img alt=”" src=”http://www.enhancingyourhabitat.com/catalog/filename_med.jpg” /></a><br /><br />Description:<br />
<ul>
<li>Bullet 1</li>
<li>Bullet 2</li>
</ul>
Another paragraph can continue here.

All you need to do is change the filename_med.jpg and filename_lrg.jpg text to your actual filenames that were uploaded. In this tutorial I changed them to art_gal_des_lrg.jpg   &  art_gal_des_med.jpg  .

Edit Your Description Text

I have started your description text with generic info. You can edit this text however you want using the basic tools in Prostores.

View Your Product

And we are done. View your info and make sure that are appearing properly.

Test the Zoom Feature

Click on your image to text your zoom feature. That is it, your are done. The first time is the worst but it will get easier.

SUGGESTIONS AND TIPS:

I would create all my medium and large images first

Then I would ftp all my images to the website server.

When I edit my products all I need to do now is make new thumbnails and paste the generic text above into my Long Description field.

• The cardboard is for a FIRESTORM figure from the WAVE 2 series.
• The plastic case is for an AQUAMAN variant
• The Gorilla Grodd right leg was not included
• This character has the hammer that belongs to STEEL
• The figure in question has rings on his fingers which look like a womans hand.
• The finger nails are painted pink.
• Each of the rings sport a different color.
• He wears a green mask with long hair.
• And he has a black body with long sleeves.

This will not be a continuation from the earlier Arnold Schwarzenegger films. This movie is suppose to us the stories from the Conan comic books. I personally think that is the way to go. The comics were much darker and they were the only first comic books that were bearable in black and white. The old books were printed on Magazine stock and were always BW except for the cover. Every book had naked chicks, decapitated heads and scary monsters.

So get ready to see our Dark and Silent type hero come back to the big screen to fight off wizards, barbarians and make off with the hot wench.

“CROM!” This is going to be a good movie!

The fight between A-BOMB and Red create seismic level 10.0 earthquakes that begin to destroy everything from the surface to the depths of the military base. That means Banners Holding cell which is deep below the surface. Banners Cell is finally destroyed, and Green Hulk is unleashed.

The main thing and only important thing to me was th intelligence of Green Hulk. Was he still going to be the Intelligence/Strongest Warbound Hulk we have seen? Or was he going to be the weak Green version compared to his WWH state.

Well, the answer is given when Green Hulk spits out, “HULK IS NOT RICK. HULK IS HULK!”. SIGH!!! It can already be guessed that Red Hulk is going to be a condender to Green Hulk because he’s going to be weaker now than he was before. I don’t want to read a weaker Hulk. I’m stuck on the Warbound Hulk and wish that he would of continued his reign in the Marvel Universe.

 

One board the S.H.I.E.L.D Hellicarrier, we find out that the gun that was used to kill the ABOMINATION was made by shield. It’s a huge gun made for somebody with really large hands. Weird huh? Commander Hill, Tony Stark and She Hulk are discussing why a gun like that was made and how “HULK” got a hold of it.

Then out of nowhere She Hulk is snatched into the iron walls and begins the tussle of her life. Red Hulk and She Hulk fight for a very short amount of time. Lets say She Hulk trys to fight but can’t. Red Hulk basically lets her know that he can kill her anytime he likes and puts fear into her soul after she believes him.

Then Iron takes a shot at Red Hulk. “RED” takes everything the Iron Man suit can give. Red Hulk easily hurts the Hellicarrier and now Tony’s main concern is to save it from falling onto New York City. He almost seems more preoccupied by the amount of money it costed to construct the Hellicarrier.

The Hellicarrier is about it meet it’s certain doom. Iron Man calls his other suits to help try to push it back up into the skies of New York. They fail and down goes the carrier.

In the end of the book Rick Jones is met by “RED” and then we find that Rick is now the new AMOBINATION. But he calls himself A-BOMB.

I’m still not impressed so far by this story. I read alot about Iron Man and Rick Jones and got to see Red Hulk is some action. But of course we are not getting answers. Who is the Red Hulk? We is he so intelligent. What makes him Red? Does he have the same Hulk smell that Green Hulk has?

 

That is a very good question. When I first saw the advertisements about this new book, I have to admit that I wasn’t very excited. Afterall, I just finished reading World War Hulk which is in my opinion the best Hulk story ever.

In WWH, Hulk was the strongest and smartest that he has ever been at the same time. His wife and child was murdered. He defeated Iron Man, FF4, Hercules, Black Bolt, Dr. Strange and even the Sentry.

So this Red Hulk story in my eyes was going to have a tough time beating Hulk last major event.

In Issue #1 the first thing we find out is that the ABOMINATION is dead. She Hulk and Doc Sampson are on the case. And Bruce Banner is safely locked away under hundreds of feet of dirt and metal. Oh yeah, and we find out that something is seriously up with Rick Jones cause he finds himself nearly naked in a mountain and in the distance he can see some destruction that only someone big could make.

So far I have to say that this story isn’t starting off to well because it’s kinda slow. I’m really hopeful for the future story entries. I’m really hoping that the Green Hulk will still be the same WWH version that we just finished reading before this.

 

A very long time ago, before I discovered pre-made Superman shield icons from the internet, I made my own shild icons to customized my folders. I don’t use these anymore.

But anyone who wants, can now download these for their own personal use.

Click the image to the right to download.