“A game with fabulous prizes: Like a stale pack of Menthol Kools. A deep-fried Hello Kitty cupcake!! This limited-edition Iron Maiden t-shirt still ripe with the pong of the carnie that wore it.”

— Karnak From Ride The Cyclone

Ride The Cyclone

Working on this show was a dream come true. I had been a fan of the show for a while, so I was thrilled when it was announced we would be doing one of its first college productions. For this show, I was tasked with making the fabulous prizes of the Deep Fried Hello Kitty Cupcake, a box of menthol Kools, and an Iron Maden T-shirt. Rather than keeping them somewhere on the set, the designer decided he wanted to fly them above the set. So we wanted to make these larger-than-life. Below are some of the crafting processes of the prizes.