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As our first year entering the our city parade, I think we did a pretty good job. We were towards the back of the parade (there were close to 70 floats) and still pulled off a 2nd place finish in the originality category.
The idea behind the float was lovingly dubbed "Frosty's revenge", using white-painted poof balls as snowballs and dressing up our 2006 robot as Frosty the snowman.
The small robot on the left was cobbled together from spare parts and a Fisher-Price car. We mounted our mascot to the unsteady top of the robot, wobbling crazily whenever we switched directions (made it a crowd favorite). We had 46 different versions of the classic frosty song jamming out of a speaker set up front, as to not drive everyone crazy, and everything worked out very well.
Build & marching photos on our team site: http://marsbot.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=11743
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13-12-2006 12:58
Mr MOE
Re: pic: MARS in Jupiter Parade
Very creative! In fact, one of the best alternate uses of a FIRST robot I have seen. Kudos, guys!
Now, where are the Heat Miser and Grinch robots? 
13-12-2006 22:44
Tim Arnold
Re: pic: MARS in Jupiter Parade
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Originally Posted by Mr MOE
Very creative! In fact, one of the best alternate uses of a FIRST robot I have seen. Kudos, guys!
Now, where are the Heat Miser and Grinch robots? |
. Here's our Grinch (we mounted our mascot on a programming test bot the day before):
We hope he won't steal christmas, but his building costs stole our award winnings
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14-12-2006 10:49
Kim Masi
Re: pic: MARS in Jupiter Parade
Wow you guys, that is a really creative idea.
I love the combination of shorts and tee-shirts with the snowman
I'm dreaming of a white Christmas...
17-12-2006 12:50
Adare180
Re: pic: MARS in Jupiter Parade
that is really cool... and it seems like a good way for the community to know who you are. congrats on second place! i love the painted snow ball idea! 
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