WANT (Picture: Simon Higby) Giving a new meaning to the idea of helmet hair, we bring you the Playmobil hair bicycle helmet. You suddenly really want to ride a bike to work, don’t you? The picture of the helmet was shared on Imgur this weekend by user and everyone was in agreement – it’s awesome. People wanted to know if it came in different shades and styles. There were quite a few requests for The Trump. But, mostly, people just wanted to know who they should give all their money to. Sadly, however, the helmet has turned out to be only a prototype at this stage. It was the brainchild of two DDB colleagues – Simon Higby from the Stockholm office and Clara Prior from Copenhagen – and formed part of their MBA thesis. To get more kids to wear bike helmets voluntarily, they came up with the novel idea of designing a helmet children would actually want to wear. They enlisted Danish design company MOEF to make a model for them last year.
They took the head off one of their Playmobil figures, put it through a 3D scanner, played with the dimensions, did some colour-matching and, after all that, they had themselves a perfect plastic replica of Troy Bolton’s hair in High School Musical. Or Justin Bieber circa 2007. But, sadly, Simon and Clara didn’t get further than a prototype. Asked if they were tempted to get someone to produce them, following the reaction online, Simon told Metro.co.uk: ‘I would love to do that. ‘We just don’t know who right now.’ MORE: Wearing a bike helmet reduces risk of serious head injury by almost 70%, says study MORE: Custom-made bike helmets are designed to look like shaved human heads Recently I made a LEGO race car with a driver who wore a helmet. Unfortunately, after the race, I tried to take off his helmet and his head came off inside the helmet. Any suggestions about getting it out so he can see again? You can use some sugar liquid to use as temporary glue to make the head stuck to the torso.
Then wait till the sugar is sticky and then try to remove the helmet. Once the helmet is loose you can put the head and torso in warm water to loosen the sugar glue and take it off. Then wash thoroughly to remove remaining sugar. A trick that's worked for me in the past, is to use a 1x1 cone with a Technic axle in it (it needs to be the cone without the top groove, unlike the example below) - this will allow you to force the tapered end of the cone into the hole on the bottom of the head, and by fastening a Technic gearwheel, brick or larger cylinder to the Technic axle, you'll be able to ply a fair amount of force to increase the clutch of the cone piece in the head and twist to loosen it from the helmet with a push-twist-pull movement. Your problem is that the clutch (what holds bricks together) between the helmet and the head is too high, and in any case higher than the clutch between head and torso. This means the solution is to increase the clutch between the head and another part you'll use to remove it.
I would first recommend trying other torsos, maybe one has enough clutch to easily take the head with it and beat the helm. Twisting the parts while trying to separate them should also help. If that fails, other LEGO parts might help, but I'm not sure which ones - torsos have a longer stud probably for that very reason. Maybe a Technic pin with friction? You could also try slipping some paper around a torso stud, but be careful not to just push the paper alone inside the head. A quick and easy way to remove a helmet stuck onto the head...I tried something similar to the toilet tissue paper idea above. I used a piece of Bounty kitchen roll, approximately 3cm x 3cm, (which is actually thicker then a single ply toilet tissue) and placed this over the stub of the body then pushed the head onto this. The head will not go all the way down, but far enough for it to remain firmly in place. Then I was able to remove the helmet very easily. You need to get something into the head-hole to grip the head whilst you remove the helmet.
You could try a pair of snap-ring pliers or needle nose pliers. Insert both jaws into the hole and pull them apart as much as possible whilst you remove the head from the helmet. You might need a helper - someone to remove the helmet whilst you grip the head with the tool. You may not be able to avoid scratching the inside of the head-hole slightly - but a scratch where it won't be seen is probably better than throwing two parts away. Worst case, you write-off the head completely, but at least you've still got a useful helmet. If you do get to the point where you can't remove the helmet without damaging it, you could resort to super-gluing something to the inside of the head and pull it out. Take some scotch tape and wrap it round the neck thing. Then you just put the head on and pull the helmet off. If that doesn't work, use more tape, it will make the head stay on the neck a little better. You can also try to use soapy water. You know how people use soap to remove a stuck ring from their finger?
The same works for stuck LEGO helmets. Just immerse the helmet/head in some water with lots of soap, then do as Joubarc mentioned; attach them back to a torso, and now wiggle off the helmet... You should try to use a torso that is really, really gripping. The newer, the better. Do you have any Exo-Force minifigures? I found those torsos really, really tight. Whenever I got something stuck, I always plonk them on Hikaru's torso. Works most of the time. Helps if you twist it around. Once the helmet turns but the head doesn't, you're gold. Dude it's super easy. Put the head and helmet on the lego body.Then squeeze the helmet, and pull up at the same time I know this is going to sound weird, but wrap a piece of single-ply toilet paper over the neck of the body piece. Jam that in the head's hole and twist until the face starts to move. The head should come out of the helmet no problem! You can put a little bit of 2 sided tape on the neck of the torso and stick it in the head and pull and it works
I just removed a non-LEGO crown which was very very tight top on Nadakhan's head. It was so tight, it seemed that only destroying it could help. But my son loved the crown and especially head, so here is my solution: I put some olive oil between crown and head I took a paper napkin and put it over a LEGO torso's neck I put head on neck over paper, so head was pretty hard on torso I boiled some water, put it to cup, then holding the minifigure's legs, put the crown in boiling water. Please, note - not head, just helmet! (crown in my case) After about 2 minutes held in very hot water, I've completely removed stupid crown from from head with pliers. Good look to everyone with the same problem :) Take a household screw slightly wider than the hole inside the head. Screw it in until the threads feel a bit tight. Then pull it out with a pliers. If you have a screw but it's not wide enough inside the neck, wrap it in a paper towel and screw it in till it's tight and will make the head turn inside the helmet, and then pull it out.
Just, let the time goes by, that happenned to me with a dwarf beard, I had to wait 2 months, and after that, it came off easily. In your case, I need that Anakin's hair just gets stuck in it's head. You could always use a tight torso and put it inside the head. I actually used mega block brand legs to take out the head of my minfig. Sometimes it doesn't work but most of the time it does. Put the head (with the helmet stuck on) on a torso. As you take the helmet off, bend the helmet a little. As long as there is more friction between the torso and head than the head and helmet it should come of with some effort. U can put some duct tape on top of an axle lego and push it into the head hole and twist until it comes out! Take a piece of tape, Put it around a torso neck cut it until about half of a centimeter is still above the top of stud. Now force the head with stuck helmet on it. Pull on the helmet and it will come off! To get the tape off the torso use pliers or your fingers to grab the bottom and pull upward until it comes off.