The march of time makes waste of many things, even toys once loved by children. With the permission of his grown up son, David offered us such a toy, a skeleton dinosaur from the ‘He-Man’ cartoon universe. Its repairer, John Semmens, is a professional prosthetics designer with a side gig making masks, costumes, guitars and art. He channelled his own childhood memories and applied his technical skills to to transform the toy into an entirely new character, a character with a back story that’s fully fleshed out (though lacking actual flesh).

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Funded by the University of New South Wales Faculty of Art & Design and the Australian National University College of Arts & Social Sciences School of Art & Design. Facilitated with the support of the Australian Design Centre, Noosa Regional Gallery and Design Tasmania.

Chief Investigator: Guy Keulemans
Co-Investigator: Niklavs Rubenis
Filming, Editing & Photography: Kit Baker
Music: Oli Chang
Additional transcript editing: Tammy Brennan