Movies & TV Updates July 1, 2019

The updates this week are a bit less intense, so i must be catching up. More of these changes are due to announcements this week rather than my discovering an entry that just hadn’t been made yet.

Added to TV & Online Under Development

• Myst

• Final Fantasy

• Sandman

• The Lost Boys

Added to TV & Online 2017

• Legion

• The Expanse Season 2

• Preacher Season 2

Added to TV & Online 2018

• Legion Season 2

• The Expanse Season 3

• Westworld Season 2

• Preacher Season 3

• The Outpost

Added to TV & Online 2019

• Legion Season 3

• Pandora

• Penny Dreadful: City of Angels

• The Expanse Season 4

• The Order

• His Dark Materials

• Preacher Season 4

• The Outpost Season 2

Added to TV & Online 2020

• The Order Season 2

• Westworld Season 3

Added to Movies Under Development

• Myst

• The Little Mermaid

Added to Movies 2017

• Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle

Added to Movies 2018

• Freaks

Added to Movies 2019

• Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle Sequel

• Spies in Disguise

Added to Movies 2020

• Enola Holmes

• Mulan

Movies & TV Updates June 24, 2019

Here are the updates since my big catch-up post last week.

I closed out the TV & Online 2016, TV & Online 2017, and TV & Online 2018 pages, basically just changing the header note. Same with the Movies 2016, Movies 2017, and Movies 2018 pages

Moved from Upcoming to Released in TV & Online 2019

• Dark Season 2

Moved from Upcoming to Released in Movies 2019

• Toy Story 4

Added to TV & Online Under Development

• Star Trek: Lower Decks

• Game of Thrones Prequel

• What We Do In The Shadows Season 2

Added to TV & Online 2019

• The Mandalorian

• Infinity Train

• Pennyworth

• A Discovery of Witches

• Motherland: Fort Salem

• What We Do In The Shadows

• The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance

• Penny Dreadful: City of Angels

Added to TV & Online 2020

• Falcon & Winter Soldier

• WandaVision

• Loki

Added to Movies Under Development

• Red Sonja

• Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse 2

• The Trench

• Black Cat

• The Flash

• Flash Gordon

Added to Movies 2015

• What We Do In The Shadows

Added to Movies 2019

• Joker

• Men in Black: International

• Terminator: Dark Fate

• The Angry Birds Movie 2

• The Lion King

Added to Movies 2020

• The King’s Man

• Onward

• Soul

• Bill & Ted Face the Music

• Bond 25

• The Witches

• Venom 2

• Morbius

Added to Movies 2021

• The Batman

Added to Movies 2022

• Aquaman 2

Ithorian: Neck Mechanism

Four years, four months, and two weeks later I have an update to my Ithorian costume!

After working on the eyes (my last entry), I started skinning the mechanism and ran into a problem. Really, it was more dissatisfaction with how things looked. The neck mechanism - the push rods and levers that extended the neck movements from my head out to the Ithorian eye stalks - was so far above the neck extension supports, that it forced the neck extension to be way too thick.

Push rod mechanism for extending my neck movements to the eye stalk - original design

But you can see in this image, the Ithorian neck extension, when it gets to the eye stalk, is meant to be fairly flat.

Ithorian Galactic Senators of the Republic

So, time for a redesign. Which is what I was working on four years ago when I got distracted and then didn’t get back to it.

Until now. I’d had a plan for changing the mechanism and started working on some parts. After a couple of false starts I finally got to the following design

New push rod design with lever arms

Adding the lever arms allows the push rods to run much closer to the extension supports, making the whole extension much flatter at the point where neck becomes the eye stalk.. Also, because of the angles on these lever arms, any neck movement I make will get amplified at the eye stalk.

I made the lever arms from 1/8” x 3/4” aluminum stock. My first attempt was a failure, but it gave me enough information to design the new arms:

Dimensions calculated to provide clearances

All positions scribed onto the aluminum

I use a nail as a center punch

Creating a divot to accurately guide the drill

I prefer using cutting oil and making a pilot hole

Then open up all the holes to their target sizes

The first piece was adjusted to work properly

I copied the fork of the first piece to the second

And then beveled and removed rough edges

The bends were added by brute force

Until it matched the angles on the calculated template

The push rod attachment point is tapped for 4-40 threads

Model airplane ball joints used on the push rods

And the lever arms are complete

By rotating my neck, the eye stalk rotates. Also, I can move my head forward and backward, and the eye stalk also goes forward and back. i can control the eye stalk as an extension of my own neck movements.

To clarify, this is how the headband connects my neck movements to the eye stalk