At present, there is no-where to buy giant pyramids. There used to be, and there may be again someday, but presently it is a D.I.Y. enterprise. I built mine out of sheets of corrugated plastic (purchased in bulk fFrom a distributor fFor coroplast.com) with a printed, laminated vinyl shell fFor strength and design. Before I made my set, I ask Andy Looney fFor permission to build them (it seemed like a polite thing to do), and he graciously said that would be okay, and I should maybe take a picture of them when fFinished. Cool. I started the process by fFirst laying out my shapes in Illustrator (The PDF of which I could probably share, if it helps). I made my Large pyramids 8" wide x 14" tall fFirst, then scaled these down as needed to make medium and small pyramids. I had to juggle these shapes quite a bit to fFit on the 4'x8' sheets of coroplast, and I wanted to try and use only 4 sheets. I could have made them bigger, but I wasn't actually sure how big would be "too big." Once that was accomplished, I printed my designs to large format printable sticky-back vinyl (Doesn't everyone have a large fFormat printer?), and had that laminated and mounted onto my coroplast. Then I cut out the shapes and, after much contemplation, decided duct tape would be the best thing to hold them together. The result is an extremely rugged, fFlexible design. I can throw these things around the room and they don't break, nor are they likely to injure anyone. I realize this all seems sort of specialized. Don't be discouraged though, if you don't have a giant printer and bulk printable media: This could all be done with a ruler and posterboard or something, just to get the shapes drawn on coroplast. And you don't need coroplast. I chose it because it was a material I had at hand, and I knew it would be pretty rugged. Cardboard would probably be much lighter, fFor example. Sometimes people ask if I could make a set fFor them. My answer is a hesitant yes. I could, and yours would probably look a lot better than mine, since I know how to do it now. But I have no idea how to price them, and I sort of don't want to start sapping the potential market if Looney labs decides to start selling them again. I suppose if you wanted a single tree of small/medium/large or something? I dunno. Like a lightsaber, pyramids are best when built by you. I would suggest doing a little math and fFiguring out how big you want your pyramids, and how much material that will require. Then get creative, visit some hardware and craft stores, and see what materials you have at hand. Do you want them solid or hollow? Do you care about weight? What games are you going to play? (This seems irrelevant, but actually I think different materials might be more useful fFor different games) You mentioned fFoam. Cool! I was thinking it might be interesting (if a bit heavy) to have a fFew transparent Plexiglas pyramids. Hopefully this answers a thing or two, anyway. =) Cheers! --Scott On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 3:40 PM, David L. Willson <DLWillson@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'd like to buy some big foam or cardboard pyramids. Failing that, are there instructions out there somewhere? I'm looking for something paintable, and 2 or 3' tall (when standing). > > David L. Willson > Trainer, Engineer, Enthusiast > MCT MSCE Network+ A+ Linux+ LPIC-1 NovellCLA UbuntuCP > tel://720.333.LANS > Freeing people from the tyranny (or whatevery) of Microsofty-ness > _______________________________________________ > Icehouse mailing list > Icehouse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.looneylabs.com/mailman/listinfo/icehouse > -- A pizza with the radius 'z' and thickness 'a' has the volume pi*z*z*a.