Police Show Contest

As most of you know, I am entering the animation contest hosted by NNN. But all is not going well. Why? Well, here are some reasons:

1) I didn't have anything close to the characters from police show.
2) I'm not a very good voice actor, so the characters won't sound exactly the same. (Although I did get somebody very special to play Snaps Harvey. But I'm going to let it be a surprise.)
3) The camera that I use needs fixed/cleaned. So that is delaying the animation.

The first problem is being fixed though. I decided to buy some of the pieces necessary to build Snaps Harvey and Chuck Malarkey. Mostly because they are the main characters. But like I said, I didn't have anything that looks like them. Example:

Before going on eBay:

 After going on eBay:

I know what some of you are thinking. "Why didn't you go on BrickLink?"
Well, to be honest, I don't like Bricklink. The setup of the website is just not user friendly, and a lot of the sellers have a store minimum.  Meaning that you have to spend a certain amount to place an order. And for what I needed, it would cost about $5, but one of the sellers minimums was $20! So, I went on eBay and found the pieces I needed for $15. I know, it is a lot more expensive, but I'm use to eBay and I've got some pretty good deals on it before.

So I did spend more, but it shipped in 5 days! I ordered it on Thursday, and the pieces came on Monday (today). So it only took only 3 business days. I am waiting on the last piece, which is Malarkey's torso. That is also the reason why the eBay order cost more; Malarkey's body came with two firefighter minifigures from the 90's. And that was the only torso that I could find on eBay that was exactly like Malarkey's.

The second problem isn't that bad, because I got someone who is a good voice actor, but he is only playing one character. So me and some family members/friends are doing the other voices. But you will just have to wait until a later post to find out who the "special" person is... muhahahaha!

The third problem is being fixed, and I still have to wait until Malarkey's torso comes anyways, so it's all good.



P.S. Sorry for no blog post last week. I had one written, and it was ready for upload when I realized I rambled in it WAY too much. (But maybe I rambled in this one, too. Did I?) And then it was Sunday, the start of the new week, so sorry.

Also, I will be posting updates like this very frequently while making this video.