Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 15:37:50 +0100
From: Jan Lissens W 51737 <lissensj@access.bel.alcatel.be>
To: Balloon Twister`s List <balloon@balloonhq.com>
Subject: Planet of the Apes, or just a monkey....

I guess this will not be new, since I`m sure somebody before me must
have come up with this one. But anyway, here it is.

A while ago, Ralph Dewey showed me how to make a cat`s head out of a
Geo-blossom turned inside out.  By squeezing this head, it becomes a
kind of ape head, which I used to make a General Urko figure for a big
Planet of the Apes fan. (For those who now have the audacity to say
`General WHO`, you really should review your classics, what with the new
milennium and all...)

Anyway, here goes.

Take a 6 inch geo blossom. Turn it inside out. You now a sort of Y-form.
Inflate just a bit. You now have a lottle oblong ball with two pointed
ears on top (this is the cat`s head)
Squeeze one side of the cat`s head. The other `ear` will be forced
outward, and its shape will change. Release it. You now have a ball with
a nose-and-mouth shape protruding from it. If you pluck at it, it will
become larger and form an actual ape-like snout. For the
planet-of-the-apes figure, give it a standard human body. For General
Urko, I put the figure on a 360 horse, and made another human figure. I
made a net by tying together uninflated 160s in a crisscross pattern.
the human figure goes in the net and is attached to the horse with a
uninflated 160. (The horseman...sorry...horsemonkey...is dragging the
captive human behind him)

You can use the head for a regular monkey, or even a very ugly person, I
suppose...

Jan The Trekkie Twister