I shall submit some of those ideas ^_^
But, of course, this stuff is pretty much minimum budget... the buckets probably cost my brother 50-75 cents each and the marker was something like $1.89 (really expensive marker, but all they had at the gas station).
Don't know where I'm going to get my hands on a laboratory, but I have everything I need somewhere around here to make one of these things for effects =D I have all of the stuff left over from when we built a plasma globe ^_^