It's a safe bet to say someone is enjoying Blizzard's World of Warcraft when they make an eight and a half foot tall statue of a creature found within the game. Being my first attempt at such a project I would have to say that on the whole I was please with it. He is supposed to have fencing on his back, however, which I left out for a couple of reasons: 1) I was running out of time (he was being used in a Halloween haunted house) and 2) his skeleton was far more frail than I thought. I used and assortment of PVC piping and chicken wire (I still have the cuts on my hands) which worked great. Once I started to add arms and head, though, his spine began to...bend. Halloween night the creature was actually leaning over (which looked great, though certainly unintended). Needless to say any additional weight would have snapped the poor guy's back. I had the balance and stance pretty well set up...I just never even thought about the weight on his spine being an issue. Ah, live and learn. Anyhow, I ended up putting the fence on the ground which turned out to be a very slick prop.