Here is my next question, as I am starting accumulate some parts for my slime blower for Halloween '06…
It almost appears as though the straps for the slime blower are from an ALICE pack, but they are pulled over some old football pads. Can anyone verify this? If so, does any one know where I could find those same style football pads. My first choice would be, to be as screen accurate as possible. But other suggestions are always welcome. Thanks. 
Yes, they are ALICE straps. The reason they were used, is they’re attached to an ALICE frame.
You can see the frame pretty distinctly.
As for the pads, I’ve never really looked. But if the real ones aren’t available, you could always make your own.
Chris
i would venture to think that the football pads are there for two reasons, first is the obvious and that is for padding. second, i wouldnt dout that they are attached some how to the alice frame so that it can evenly dispurse the weight of that beast, i cant imagine that thing was light. as for accuracy, i think thats going to be really difficult to find exacts, you’re going to have to do mods to it for sure. my advice would be to hit up ebay or even some local high schools and see if you cant get your hands on an old pair of pads.
I haven’t looked at the movie stills with a magnifying glass, but I don’t think the pads are football pads. At least, they don’t look like any kind of football pads I’ve ever seen. The pads on the blowers resemble an old fashioned life jacket with the straps cut off, if anything.
The fact that they’re olive drab seems to indicate that they’re army surplus, whatever the padding is. An army surplus store might have an old life jacket that would fit the part.
very very interesting
I need to update this. A month or so ago, I was looking online through almost every site that even mentioned ALICE packs, and I stumbled across the same pads they used on the slime blower. Stupid me, I realized what they were but figured someone else had already discovered it, so I didn’t bookmark it.
I’ll try to find them again, but they ARE real…they were on some military surplus link I believe.
hmmm interesting! I remember someone said somewhere the straps are Alice frame Super straps. Hopefully the “vest” support part can be tracked down again! 
I’m trying to look at different chest webbing and rigs and tactical vests? I dunno. :whatever: Maybe something will turn up. There are a few forums out there I found, I wonder if someone might be able to identify it who knows about that kind of thing.
Great pic there!
The ALICE straps for the slime blower are the older Vietnam era straps. Same kind used on the packs in the first film.
The blower straps are grey/gray…“athletic” pads. I was watching GB II last night and they’re either football or maybe hockey pads :-? But I’m willing to bet that they’re grey/gray.
EDIT: Upon further viewing of the pictures/screen grabs, they could very well be taken from a life vest.
The vest portion is definitely custom made.
I really wish I still had my pattern. The pads are not hard to make, all you really have to do is sew the wrong sides together with your batting on one, leave an opening so you can then flip the whole thing inside out. I should have taken pics of how I made mine three years ago. I made the chest plates out of 1/4" plywood. There should be plenty of photos in my files to use as reference.
They are custom made and seem like they have pieces from several things
As a quick solution you could just add some padding to a tactical vest
I will be going the football pad route in an attempt to cobble something together quickly. One of the perks of my job is having access to costumes and cool things that would just be thrown away :lol:
the original, before it was modified for the show it was used in…
working on it with foam.
PS Phone pics suck.I’ve got gray fabric too, some black straps/buckles and my dad with some ideas :lol:
