Bill and Ted’s Excellent Phone Booth Tree Topper

Bill and Ted’s Excellent Phone Booth Tree Topper

“Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure” custom phone booth:

Bill and Ted phone booth Christmas Tree Topper

“Be excellent to each other” should probably replace the golden rule at this point, and around the holidays there is no better phrase to live by — so much so, we wanted Bill S. Preston, Esquire, and Ted “Theodore” Logan to be our Christmas tree toppers for a few years.

While the most excellent set of Bill and Ted collectible figures exists on the market, the phone booth in the box is made of cardboard and is definitely not bodacious, and wouldn’t be good enough to grace our tree.

Bill and Ted with their cardboard phone booth

Using reference photos from the movies, prop makers who have built their own replica, full- size booths, and the cardboard version, I designed a phone booth to be made from acrylic.

Design was made in Adobe Illustrator.

The acrylic was purchased from Delvie’s Plastics, and it was cut on the laser cutters at Nova Labs, a makerspace in Reston, VA. Weldon SCIGRIP 4 was used as the solvent to assemble the box.

Ring of LED lights for the top of the phone booth

An additional 3D printed component was designed in OnShape, made to hold small “Lilypad” LEDs (these are great as they have a resistor already in the circuit and run on up to 5v making USB power bricks usable).

Inside the phone booth are shadows of Abe Lincoln, Napoleon, and Socrates. These were printed on a Prusa i3 mk3s with a 2 color print in PLA.

Abe Lincoln, Napoleon, and Socrates

STL models for the figures were adapted from the following people, and were combined in Blender:

Links to some of the items used

Here’s a list of the products used that I purchased from Amazon (affiliate links below):

An acrylic phone booth depicting Bill and Ted and their time traveling machine.

And just so I have it handy, here’s the post on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/B6YOSB5FSm1/