SoCal Prop Party -- The Recap

Well, we wrapped about two hours ago, some us walking out under our own power, some of us being carried out on stretchers.

All right, well -- I'm joking here, but we all had a great time.

The turn out was fantastic, and the prop displays were great. Just about everyone showed up, and I think virtually all of us saw both old friends as well as new faces.

I was very pleased that some folks traveled great distances to make it -- bbabich made it safely in from Arizona, Animetronic came down from Bakersfield, Kim&Cris traveled from one end of the greater LA area to the other, cenobyte made it up from San Diego, and MM (nomad as he is) made it for a brief respite before traveling on.

Food was great, and we were served by none other than Chewbacca (well -- he could have PLAYED Chewbacca, as our waiter was 7'1" tall.).

The room was a tad tight, but hey -- that's because we had such a great turn out. I threw out some trivia questions which I never really followed up on, so I'll post the answers in a later post on this thread.

The props were fantastic, but I'll let the photos do the talking in this area. A favorite though was R2D2 Guys R2, which served as a magnet drawing in curious onlookers (and as one or two of us noted, some hot moms.) into our little soiree.

For all of you that attend, post up your thoughts and comments, and your PICS.





From the left:
QuartZ, Darth Brass, BBabich, ArmyScout, Acerocket, MattMunson, Darth Tyran, Cenobyte, PHArchivist (rear), R2D2 Guy (front), The Disturbance, CorrellianExports, SG-RB, RS, ez022341, Kim&Cris, Animetronic (kneeling).

In attendance, but not pictured -- d48thronin, Garybarth

Did I get it all right.?

Pics.


ArmyScout getting the laptop rigged; didn't get onto the RPF but used it to see some cool stuff.




ArmyScout


Our TALL waiter, The Disturbance, QuartZ, Acerocket, and MM


Cenobyte and Animetronic discuss a Vader dome


QuartZ and his lovely lady.


Munson midstream.






MM chats with Acerocket and QuartZ












Matt and Spinner44 discussing the "finer points" of the RAC BR gun


Matt's stunt castings compared to an RAC


Spinner44's awesome BR gun






R2 and Darth Tyran scoping the buffet


MM and Kim

Damn, I wish I could have attended. A show (theater play) opened today and there was no way I could do it. Glad to see such a great turn out.

Oops. Sorry for the double post.~

I had a blast everyone. I don't have many pics (too busy trying to deflect my drool off of everyone's stuff), but here's me with my new pal/crush. I think we're cute together.


I hope my wife (or R2D2 Guy) doesn't mind.

Looks like a great time. You should plan one just before C4 next year because I hope to be in the area at that time.

Contrary to what the pics might have you believe, I was actually there - sorry I had to cut out early, but I had to go meet Steve Wang about an emergency build of an item for a TV pilot he's shooting... prop duty called (and I barely made it, thanks to frikkin' SoCal traffic... now I remember why I usually just stay at home).

At any rate it was great to see/meet everyone - hopefully next time I can stay longer...

Yup, had a blast. Good to see everyone again. I forgot how nice "Most" of you guys and gals are.

The sad part about this whole thing... I now have to build an R2. On the way out as Mike was diving R2 to his car. This little girl saw him and just lost her mind.

So it off to get me a working R2. Thanks Mike. No Ill be broke for another year.

Chris

Fun time. The people, props and food were excellent.

Here is my pic with the Chewie sized waiter.


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we had a great time as well,

it was fun to talk props again


here's some pics from our perpsective

Rob our organizer and hero




The ever charming Mr Munson



I never realized just how short Brandon is.


This made us very happy. In fact I think we nailed the colors and materials when we made Kim's costume.


Dalek vs R2.





It was a blast hangin with everyone again.

-cris

The party was a blast. I am so glad that I was able to attend. Some pictures with my camera came out blurry due to low lighting, so here are the highlights.

-Josh

Thanks for sharing these pics.

Looks like fun.

Animetronic looks like he's about to shoot his load in the group pic

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Yeah, holding cameras at crotch height when the photo comes out low contrast is a surefire way to look pornographic. I do have a big lens though.

Too bad it wasnt intentional, I'd have been showing it off all over the internet.

Who took the picture of me with the pair of guns?

Can whoever it was PM me the picture?

Brass, how quickly you forget.. Oh well, our brief moment in the sun was memorable to ME.

here's the pics, along with customary munson commentary:

PHArchivists stuff, including his "Wife Beater" deluxe set. Composed of a half drunk jug o' beer, and a big war club for the actual hittin'. NICE.



The Bryan Babbich Table O' Goodness ™ featuring some really awesome paper props, and a handful of Indy goodies.


More Babbich stuff, including new Minorty Report stuff.



Kim And Chris goodies. There's the multipass. WOOHOO. Chris and I got in an argument over who inspired who to make which multipass. I still say it was he that inspired me, but he claims otherwise. i think we can simply agree to disagree.



A truly spectacular array of custom machined and hardware sabers. Mind blowin stuff.



Darth Brass: At least twice as handsome as he is intimidating. Even with 2 guns.



Ceno with his killer Ghostbusters pack. Randy in the background with indigestion.



SMOKIN' HOT moms, pose for a photo with R2. When I told them it was going "on the website", they got a little nervous. But who cares. They were hot. R2 knows how to pull them in.


D43rdRonin, or whateverthehell his name is, is the dude on the right wearing grey. Chattin' up a storm with PHArchivist. Cute couple. To Tim's right is Quartz's girlfriend, downing a martini in a failed effort to dull the pain of being dragged to yet ANOTHER one of these beastly events. Kim and ArmyScout in the BG hitting up the buffet.


Speaking of cute couples, here's Quartz and his special lady friend. One word: DAYUM.



Somehow Kim (and chris) mostly eluded my camera's ever capturing eye, and I'm sad to say she is not featured in any of my photos. Sorry boys. Maybe next time.


All in all though, a really great event. Some really stellar stuff on display, and a great bunch of folks. Great to see all the familiar faces again, and wondeful to meet some new folks. I hope I didn't leave a bad impression.

Actually, I take that back. it wouldn't really bother me As long as I left an impression.

See some of you in a few weeks at the NorCal get together.

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I should know this, but I don't.. what jacket is this? Anyone have any info on it? If there's anything
close resembling out there that I could buy myself, send me a pm.

What, pray tell, is this mysterious brassy LeMat on the right? I've never seen it before.

That brassy firearm is a custom build by Darth Tyran that he calls "Rosey". He said he had a different inspiration for it but it also looked like it could fit into Firefly. He said that the base gun was the same as one of Jaynes guns from Firefly.

Josh

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That brassy firearm is a custom build by Darth Tyran that he calls "Rosey". He said he had a different inspiration for it but it also looked like it could fit into Firefly. He said that the base gun was the same as one of Jaynes guns from Firefly.

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Yeah, the LeMat was the base for Jayne's main sidearm in the series, and I had never seen the gun used for any other "inspiration," so I was curious. It's quite a nice custom.