The Vinyl Arena

Rievv, Rhea, and I were inspired  by project called "Vinyl Rally" by Lucas Abela. Lucas made race track out of record vinyls and used a toy car with a needle underneath it to scratch along the surface of the vinyls as it races across the track. Movement and sound were the biggest factors, but we also wanted to incorporate the viewers as participants to create the movement and sound. We decided to play with the idea of using toys as Lucas Abela did and came up with the idea of using a popular kids toy from our childhood called Beyblades. We thought it would be fun to use the idea of play with these iconic toys. Like how Lucas attached a needle underneath the toy race car in his project, we put a needle on the tip of the tops so when we "let them rip," the beyblades would scratch along the surface of the vinyls as the spin and battle around the arena. The arena itself was made by cutting up triangles to form a hexagon which we thought would be a unique shape to form the arena aside from using a circle. Since we were working with stuff from the past, we decided to incorporate the vinyl covers from the vinyl records we used to decorate the arena and give it a childhood memory look.