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How To Make a Green Lantern Ring

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the halloween-is-coming dept.

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?

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  1. nostalgic .... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    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!

    1. Re:nostalgic .... by kfg · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Beware my power, Green Lantern's light!

      Of which we have none. The article is about how to make an investment casting. The web is full of them. The library has shelves of books on the subject. I've shown grade school kids how to do it.

      This is Slashdot; I was really expecting (hope springs infernal) an article, however shoddy and silly, about how somebody put an LED and lens into a ring to make it give off Green Lantern's light.

      Slashdot, reporting on copper age technology; today!

      KFG

    2. Re:nostalgic .... by biglig2 · · Score: 5, Interesting

      In loudest din or hush profound,
      My ears catch evil's slightest sound.
      Let those who toll out evil's knell,
      Beware my power: The F-Sharp Bell!

      --
      ~~~~~ BigLig2? You mean there's another one of me?
    3. Re:nostalgic .... by jmoriarty · · Score: 5, Informative

      In loudest din or hush profound

      This isn't just a cute parody. This is from an Alan Moore Green Lantern story where they tried to recruit someone to the Corps who lived in a lightless world. The inhabitants had no word for "light" or "lantern", so they translated the concept to that of sound... which these inhabitants were intimiately more familiar with.

      The story appears in the collection DC Universe: The Stories of Alan Moore. Highly recommended.

  2. Where's the LED? by Legendre · · Score: 5, Insightful

    At least add a LUXON UltraBrite green LED in there in order to qualify for a ./ frontpage...

  3. Re:Green lantern ring? by Steve001 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Anonymous Coward wrote:

    I don't get it. Why would you want a lantern hanging from your ring? And a green one on top of that..

    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.