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How To Make a Green Lantern Ring
Malfourmed writes "Step by step instructions for making the ultimate comic book geek jewelery — Green Lantern's power ring. Hal Jordan, Kyle Rayner and Alan Scott variations all included. Now someone find me a Katma Tui or Arisia to go with it, and we might just have ourselves a proposal!" The bigger problem of course is that there's no battery available to charge it, so it's just costume jewelry. Anyone have other good costume ideas?
Is it because he's black? Also, these rings seem to be lacking in actual power, so I'm rather disappointed.
In brightest day, in blackest night
No evil shall escape my sight
Let those who worship evil's might
Beware my power, Green Lantern's light!
At least add a LUXON UltraBrite green LED in there in order to qualify for a ./ frontpage...
The bigger problem of course is that there's no battery available to charge it, so it's just costume jewelry.
Attached a wire to the ring, stick the wire into the wall outlet, and get the charge of your life!
DC will sell you one for $25. The Planet Krypton set of 5 was only $100 and had Hal, Kyle, Alan, Sinestro and Power Ring versions.
It would be cool if we could cast rings from a material that was entirely a battery, then enamel it with an insulator, and mount LEDs on the surface, connected thru the insulator to the battery. Maybe two halves, separated by an inside insulator, and bridged by the LED. Maybe with a small airgap in the insulator, so squeezing the ring closed the circuit.
And how about some chips in there, too? A socketed LED, swapped out for a recharger? Swapped out for a photoreceptor for recharging under bright lights (or Sun + magnifying glass)? Dual-use LED/photoreceptor? Frickin' lasers?
Maybe this is how the Green Lantern's alien outfitters came up with the tech: reading Slashdot. Something about that color scheme looks familiar...
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This guy wanted to dress up as the Thing (from the Fantastic Four); But the endresult somehow reminds me of a Cheeto in spandex. Still great effort though. :)
ebay has them for under $10. Some even with an LED.
Of course they gouge you on the shipping.
-- Boycott Shell
when you can go to garage sales and buy up 1,000 old watches. Just scrape off the radioactive materials and cement them on your power ring.
Anonymous Coward wrote:
I think the lantern on the Alan Scott ring is a replica of the lantern that was used to charge his ring. It is green because that was the color of the metal used to form the ring, and Scott was guided to give the ring that form when he created it. The form of the ring's charger, in turn, was based on a old railroad lantern. Scott wears a logo on his chest of the same type of lantern.
The rings that Jordan and Stewart wear (and Rayner used to wear) are based on the Green Lantern icon worn on the uniform, and reflects the central power battery on Oa. The reason Rayner's ring looks different is that his ring was an improved version with no yellow weakness and no 24 hour time limit on its charge. He is the only Lantern that comes to mind that has a ring of that design, the other Lanterns wear a ring of the Jordan/Stewart design.
Rayner recently evolved as a Green Lantern, becoming The Ion. His ring and power has been internalized and he is much more powerful than the other Green Lanterns. He is the next step in the evolution of the Green Lantern Corps.
On the ring mentioned at the beginning of post, I like the design and think that it is how a green lantern ring would look in real life.
After how badly I got ripped off on my "one ring". Geez, for 300 USD you expect for it to at least work. That was so embarrassing.
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No actally, he uses it to transform and become Superjohn!
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Given the lack of connections to the Oa battery, can't you possibly get its green energy from kryptonite? At least that stuff is found on THIS planet. An added bonus is that it can help you ensure that you are the only superhero guarding sector 2814.
Where were you when the voynix came?
It sure made $39.95 disappear from your sight, didn't it?
Where were you when the voynix came?
...you've got yourself a nice miniature marijuana pipe on a ring. Gives the name "Green Lantern" entirely new meaning.
The neutrality of this sig is disputed.
At last i can put that green Ferris jeweler's wax, A furnace , a centrifugal caster a bunch of spare silver to good use.. And to think, i was just about to throw it all out.
God Be Gone
From the article:
First you need to carve a wax model of the ring. I use green Ferris jeweler's wax- it's available from jeweler tool supply shops
OK. Without using Google, how many people know of any jeweler tool supply shops? I must have missed this one....
Tubby or not tubby. Fat is the question
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That's what you get when you play a recording of Rush Limbaugh's insightful and biting humor directed at right-wing targets.
Where were you when the voynix came?
When I first read "Now someone find me . . . Arisia to go with it", my first thought was that I'd really like to have a Lens of Arisia, as described in E. E. "Doc" Smith's Lensman novels. The Lensmen are almost certainly the predecessors of the Green Lanterns, if not in actuality, then in philosophy and form.
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I want step-by-step instructions on how to make a glowing piece of the radical rock..... THE AGGRO CRAG.
-William Brendel
Slash dot has really slid into uselessness for the most part, and this kind of article is a great example of the crap I have been seeing of late here. Slashdot, clean up your moderation, your quality of articles.
Actually Rayner's ring along with Stewart's were just the same old tried-and-true ring technology as the Corps had already had for 10 billion years, but the reason it had no yellow weakness is because the yellow impurity was actually the immortal yellow alien being named Parallax who corrupted Hal Jordan and took over his mind. Parallax was living fear itself in some sense and so the Green Lantern power was corrupted over that spectrum of visible light. So you see in the graphic novel, Green Lantern : Rebirth, that the yellow weakness 'has a name' and that name is Parallax. Jordan/Spectre managed to purge Parallax from Jordan and then Jordan (resurrected), Rayner, Gardner, Stewart and Kilowog with the help of the Guardians cast Parallax back into the Green Lantern battery 'prison cell'.
So the end result is all the power rings (excluding of course Alan Scott's magic-based ring) are once again susceptible to a yellow weakness, but it caused by fear generated by the Parallax Fear Anomoly. So any powerful Green Lantern can overcome the yellow weakness now, but it is considered a mark of a novice Lantern to still have their constructs blocked by yellow.
Phew!
For all I know, the backstory now in place might be incompatible with explicit statements from 30 yrs ago. The whole Crisis on Infinte Worlds / Zero Hour / Infinite Crisis mega-story arcs retconned (altered the history of the DC universe) each time.
The current spin is that Parallax was a super-villain destroying planet after planet with fear, feeding off it, and the Guardians imprisoned him in the Battery and stripped him of his sentience billions of years ago. Since then the Guardians hid the fact that they did this because they didn't want any crazies to try to release Parallax. But recently, they imprisoned the renegade GL turn villain Sinestro inside the Battery, and while in there with his yellow power ring, he awoke Parallax. Then Parallax and Sinestro worked to take over Hal Jordan, and briefly turned Hal Jordan (to the outrage of nearly everyone) into a super-villain who single-handedly killed almost every single active Green Lantern in the universe and then destroyed the Battery, releasing the Fear Anamoly in full-force. He (that is, Parallax, which is how Hal Jordan became known) then tried to recreate the universe in his own image and started the Zero Hour story arc where Parallax kicked hte Justice League's butts time and again. But then Jordan's good side won over at the last minute and he saved the Earth from destruction by restarting the sun which had been "put out" by a Sun Eater intergallactic weapon.
Only two years ago or so, did it emerge that Jordan was possessed by Parallax. To the outrage of everyone, when the story arc was being played out, no mention was made of possession and it appeared that it was Hal Jordan himself of his own free will murdering Green Lanterns left and right.
Why in heck cast something out of silver that you are going to paint?
On which note, perhaps one should make a power battery to go with the ring, and make it into a bong...
Real Daleks don't climb stairs - they level the building.
But I thought that all tech men carried batteries?
Firehed - Unfortunately, thanks to medical breakthroughs, common sense is not as common as it once was.
What the hell? I thought the whole 'Street Cred' thing was total crap. Now there's Geek Cred?
If someone really feels this need to prove their self to some sort of community through 'cred', they need to get a life...
If someone is putting presure on them to do things for 'cred', that person needs to realize that those people are not their friends and are just using them...
DEAD DEAD DEAD DELETE ME
Just call him on his cellphone, duh!
The Sun Eater wasn't an intergalactic weapon. It was a space-living organism so large and so powerful that it could wipe out entire civilizations simply by going about its everyday life activities. It wasn't clear that the Sun Eater was aware of any beings less powerful than say, the Guardians, or Parallax. There was the food (the Sun), and a bunch of uninteresting rocks (like Earth) in orbit around it. The lifeforms on the rocks were beneath the Sun Eater's notice.
In this sense, it was like the Giant Space Ameoba in the original Star Trek TV series; or to a lesser extent, like Galactus in the Marvel Universe. Galactus IS aware that he destroys intelligent life on a massive scale; but claims (however honestly or dishonestly) that he must consume the life force on living worlds in order to survive.
Now consider that where there is one Sun Eater, there are likely to be more