With none available for rent, and purchase prices being anywhere from $90,000 to $250,000, we decided to make one. The price tag for making one from scratch would have been well over $15,000 and would have taken much longer than the 9 days I had so I bought a WW2 US teletype machine and with the help of our FX Department, Sign Shop and Construction Department made our own version with working lights and a paper feed (an old adding machine from Best Buy).