puppylove

for the love of fangirls

in addition to the awesome toys, comics artists, voice actors, kick ass panels and more, i have to say i took great pride in seeing the fangirls there. when chatting up several of them i learned that most were pretty young, and introduced to transformers through the recent movie, then went back to watch the G1 cartoon or else got hooked in animated. others seem to be die hard comic readers too. for a lot it seemed like this was their first botcon ever, and i hope they keep coming.

certain fanboys can be all sorts of awesome, don't get me wrong! but seeing the base of people supporting transformers grow makes me so happy. i may be older than a lot of them, but i am proud be counted among their ranks. as it shows in the picture above, the voice actors being swamped by the ladies for hugs had to be the cutest thing i have seen so far at the cons.

holy botcon batman!

well, i managed to win the 2-D hand drawn category at botcon! which meant i got to use botcon bucks to buy my big purchase, a MP Grimlock.

also, loads of awesome people held mini-optimus & let me take pictures:

1. David Kaye 2. Nala a.k.a plasticcrack.net 3. weird al yankovic 4. Greg Berger 5. Micheal McConnohie 6. Derrick Wyatt & Ratchet 6. and my super famous (to me) brother.

there are tons more pics at my flickr geek account. my week was insane, i took colin of fairplaythings.com around and we saw lots of sights. we also spent hours in the pasadena convention center. my brother drove in from las vegas, and the panels oh the panels! so many good toys are coming out. the one i am super excited to hear confirmation on a drift toy. *fingers crossed* it makes it to production. the TFA roddy & arcee are also going to make it to retail too, possibly as exclusives. 

it was the best botcon i've been to so far. i think the crew that runs it did a phenomenal job. *thumbs up* from me!

toy collector disease.

finished bluestreak last week. started prime and 2 bumblebees this weekend. i was humming along on them until i started on the body for bumblebee #1. *sigh* it was slow going after that. oh well. i think part of it was sewing the whole weekend long. by sunday afternoon i ran out of juice while figuring out yet another new pattern. maybe it will look different to me once i get home later. who knows.

on saturday, once getting the heads all done, i decided to treat myself with a trip to the toy vault in attleboro. i wound up getting these little guys, because they were just too cute to pass up, and wicked cheap too. its sort of silly considering i will be at botcon soon, but what can i say?

three things..no wait, four things.

one:

i finished an order this weekend when i completed jazz.

he and prowl shall be heading for their new home later this week. next up is bluestreak, already cut out and ready to go.

two:

i am doing my best to not give in my urge to drop $100 on a toy. its a toy i have wanted for a year, and until today i thought wasn't even available. i *should* use that money for things like, oh i don't know, bills, groceries, or at the very least save for botcon... but i want it!! *sigh* i make deals with myself a lot, so the deal i think i will strike is, if i can finish both bluestreak & bb by thursday, i will go ahead and splurge. sound like a good plan? sure, sure it does... go ahead feed my terrible OCD needs in your comments.

three:

i managed to get up to watch the TFA episode saturday, and can i just say it was very awesome. as thrilled as i was to see tracks & hear him speak (yay!), i still don't get why there is no mirage love. tracks gets on but not mirage?? what's up with that? anyway... i also quite enjoyed rattletrap, purple shockwave, and jazz defecting. so much awesome packed in one episode. i am a little nervous to see the end of this show, but i have hope it will be good. *hope!*

four!:

because i like making lists... things i would like to find at botcon:

alternators-
hound,
shockblast,
grimlock or wheeljack,
and maybe a prime if he's not too much.

G1- (for chris)
trailbreaker or hound

comics-
pick up the last 2 spotlight trades i am missing

hm, not too bad. other than the fact the alternators will cost an arm & leg...

did i forget to tell you?

the last thing i posted was mirage?? oh, well here's what i've made since then:

TFA shockwave

made myself Ultra Magnus

finished up TFA elita one

and finished a prowl.

also, i have Jazz started that's going with Prowl:

i've been busy, i guess... busier still since i have orders to finish in time to bring with me to botcon! woo! botcon! i am also participating in the art contest this time around, colin signed me up for both 2-D and 3-D. so i need to make a plush to enter, and honestly i have no idea who. i don't want to be overly ambitious, i want to make one that I can put a lot of time & detail into, but who?? prime seems too obvious. omega seems to ambitous for the amount of time i have and other things i need to make... so who???

he's invisible when he wants to be.

i am slowly making my way through the requests list. here is mirage!

i am happy at how his upper arms and head came out. he is part of a larger order i am working on, so next up for this order is TFA elita. i also hope to get the last one done for this order this weekend, but we'll see. spring has finally arrived, i might need some out & about time, weather permitting.

gone, but not forgotten

well, they are all gone. mailed to new homes! i am a little sad to see them go, but i have already started on the next grouping. mostly TFA ones actually. requests i have to make next are: TFA shockwave, TFA swindle, TFA elita, G1 mirage, and G1 optimus prime.

commissions are still open! let me know if you want one... info here.

it's possible

another one on my list of commissions is done, and without a single explosion. that is unless you count my fleece fabrics piled everywhere as one.

i am currently making my way through the request list by who made down payments, so the next one i am suppose to work on is mirage. he's gonna be tough, weird helm and all... so we'll see how it goes. he may or may not be the next one i post.

as the kitchen sinks

 

well, commission #2 is finished, and i am halfway done with #3. its been a busy few days. i am very happy with how starscream came out, and yeah now i have a pattern to make the other jets, but that will have to wait. right now i have several other requests to work on first.

all right, back to sewing...

plushie blurr! hetalksveryfastyouknow!

my first commissioned transformer plushie is done! yay!

many many more will be born. thanks to everyone who have already requested one! i have a little spread sheet i made up last night to keep track. the next one that looks like it will be finished a starscream...want to see his head?

i do find making the heads just as complicated as making the rest of the body. i want them to look just right, and i am pretty happy with how my seeker head came out. the body is halfway done, so finished pics will be forthcoming. thanks again everyone!