HOWTO build a cardboard spaceship

Here's a set of instructions for building a great cardboard rocketship playhouse from out of washer-dryer boxes (there's even some tips for scoring free boxes!). You'll need cardboard rivets -- the site'll sell you them and more formal plans for $25. Plenty of other fun cardboardy stuff there, too. Link (Thanks, Jeff!)

[#1 posted by strider_mt2k , January 23, 2008 10:59 AM]

I used to peg Womp Rats in one of these back home.

They had a size restriction back then of course...

[#2 posted by mightymouse1584 , January 23, 2008 11:06 AM]

is the link broken?

[#3 posted by Cory Doctorow , January 23, 2008 11:14 AM]

I think they just got boingled.

[#4 posted by mmrtnt , January 23, 2008 11:40 AM]

I had a side-by-side refrigerator carton for a spaceship when I was a kid. I drew controls all over the inside with crayons.

[#5 posted by Cpt. Tim , January 23, 2008 11:44 AM]

where can you easily pick up a refrigerator box?

I want to make a collapsible TARDIS and set it up in random places.

[#6 posted by GrooveCommerce , January 23, 2008 11:48 AM]

Ummm... We built that site and are letting the owner know. ;)

[#7 posted by mr_josh , January 23, 2008 11:58 AM]

Where can you pick up a refrigerator box? The back of your favorite appliance store should have more than a couple.

When I was a kid, my dad would always stop and pick up a box or two for me, and eventually I had created a pretty good (for a second grader) recreation of the corridors of the USS Enterprise (the space one, not the ocean one.) Such battles were waged from the decks of my cardboard flagship.

[#8 posted by a random John , January 23, 2008 12:11 PM]

I have already collect sufficient corrugated plastic election signs to build a Darth Vader Tie-Fighter for my son for Halloween this year. It will be big enough to cover him from head to waist and include working LEDs for lasers. I built him a life-sized Thomas the Tank Engine with working wheels out of cardboard for Halloween a few years ago. He enjoyed it so much that I decided to use the more durable plastic for this project. I do need to pick up some rivets though...

[#9 posted by Jeff , January 23, 2008 12:12 PM]

It must be a cardboard kinda day! As a kid I always loved it when a big box was there to make into anything I wanted. Is that why my house looks like the Jupiter II?

[#10 posted by Vorple , January 23, 2008 12:36 PM]

Anyone have plans for a Polaris Nuclear Sub?

[#11 posted by jaysonlorenzen , January 23, 2008 1:24 PM]

WOW now that is a spaceship. We would need a bigger appartment. My son and I have been making the trains of Sodor island out of ... well whatever boxes we have around, check it out:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/19724636@N00/2215309820/

j

[#12 posted by Dustin Driver , January 23, 2008 3:01 PM]

My two favorite toys as a kid: cardboard and masking tape. This is one awesome space ship and I will definitely build one with my son. Creativity is the greatist gift you can give a kid.

[#13 posted by thepez , January 23, 2008 3:06 PM]

Wow. Something else I've been doing just for kicks with my kids that I could be charging money for. Guess I should put all my stuff in Sketchup and put up a For Sale sign.