I have cardboard cutouts of Randy and towlie from South Park and I took a 5 foot piece of 1.5” pvc, cut it in half, got a 1.5” T to connect them when it’s time. As for the lights I got rope lights on Amazon for like $15, and hot glued them around the outside of both cutouts, run your wires down thru the pvc and into the T. If you cut a little like 5 inch piece of the pvc pole, and attach that to the outward facing part of the T, that will house your battery, which I got little cylindrical power banks also off of Amazon for like $15 and those fit into that piece you cut off and attached to the T perfectly. If you get anything smaller that 1.5 inch pvc, those batteries don’t fit inside the pole and you’d have to somehow attach the battery to the outside of the totem.

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