Michigan Prop Party
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trekkieb47
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I have to say thank you to everyone who brought props and organized this event. It was my girlfriend's and little brother's first prop party. I know my brother got a KICK out of the R2-D2... in fact, he couldn't stop talking about it on our trip back home.
Sorry I didn't introduce myself more to people. I'm just still getting into this whole hobby, but the level of talent some people have is truly inspiring.
Also thanks to Lonnie for chatting with me for a bit.
I'll post some pics later this week.
Berry
Sorry I didn't introduce myself more to people. I'm just still getting into this whole hobby, but the level of talent some people have is truly inspiring.
Also thanks to Lonnie for chatting with me for a bit.
I'll post some pics later this week.
Berry
Mxlplx
Sr Member
I'll see if i can get some pics up tonight. I had fun as always, it's nice to meet new folks. I'd like to personally thank a few members.
Outlander, for putting on a great show/event, for digging into his pocket to provide a great hall and refreshments. He and Vito (Hicks on the board, who couldn't make it) footed a huge bill, for which those who paid the $5.00 donation, doesn't even start to cover it. And the great "Golden Ticket" that they had printed up for everyone to take home. Oh, and those damned nasty jelly beans. That sradine flavor is still hanging with me.
Tripoli, for letting all of the children play with about $1000.00 worth of MR sabers, his mock battles, and the safety and twirling tutorial that he gave them. My daughter and nephew loved it.
Juno, for being quite patient with Logan and Kainn, for giving them attention, coins, personalized letters to Hogwarts, and there favorite's, the sorcerers stone. Logan doesn't go anywhere without it and her coin.
I was having a heart attack every so often, the kids would run around, near prop display's, wanting to play with everything. It was crazy. I apologize to anyone who's props they fondled without permission, but thank you for your patients.
And congratulations to Lonnie on his new addition to the family.
Outlander, for putting on a great show/event, for digging into his pocket to provide a great hall and refreshments. He and Vito (Hicks on the board, who couldn't make it) footed a huge bill, for which those who paid the $5.00 donation, doesn't even start to cover it. And the great "Golden Ticket" that they had printed up for everyone to take home. Oh, and those damned nasty jelly beans. That sradine flavor is still hanging with me.
Tripoli, for letting all of the children play with about $1000.00 worth of MR sabers, his mock battles, and the safety and twirling tutorial that he gave them. My daughter and nephew loved it.
Juno, for being quite patient with Logan and Kainn, for giving them attention, coins, personalized letters to Hogwarts, and there favorite's, the sorcerers stone. Logan doesn't go anywhere without it and her coin.
I was having a heart attack every so often, the kids would run around, near prop display's, wanting to play with everything. It was crazy. I apologize to anyone who's props they fondled without permission, but thank you for your patients.
And congratulations to Lonnie on his new addition to the family.
It was a nice party. People kept coming in in the afternoon and we had quite a crowd there. Michael enjoyed the show as well. He handed out the Gringotts coins from his own collection in trade for dads screen used ones. Kids had a ball on the lightsabers, only on LED got damaged in the battles, not bad considering how many went swinging out there. Handed out plenty of Lex Luthor campaign buttons, sponsored by outlander. Be tween Outlanders display and whats going on in Cleveland, made me want to look for those pumpkin bombs again. Miker loved the HP display Mr Simon had as well, not only are the props great, people are getting more creative with the displays as well.
The different tables of porps were great. Loved the remote R2 unit, heard several times many collectors saying thats what they wished to add to their collection. Static costume displays were incredible, great mix of different franchises out there. Michael loved the Juno HP table, have to order a few more items from her soon. Got to spend a bit of time talking to several members and it was nice to catch up and enjoy talking about props. Have quite a few pictures but they are a bit large in memory, if someone want to host em, just pm me with a e-mail and I will flood your box with them.
Kids had a ball on the lightsabers, only on LED got damaged in the battles, not bad considering how many went swinging out there. Handed out plenty of Lex Luthor campaign buttons, sponsored by outlander. Be tween Outlanders display and whats going on in Cleveland, made me want to look for those pumpkin bombs again. Miker loved the HP display Mr Simon had as well, not only are the props great, people are getting more creative with the displays as well. The different tables of porps were great. Loved the remote R2 unit, heard several times many collectors saying thats what they wished to add to their collection. Static costume displays were incredible, great mix of different franchises out there. Michael loved the Juno HP table, have to order a few more items from her soon. Got to spend a bit of time talking to several members and it was nice to catch up and enjoy talking about props. Have quite a few pictures but they are a bit large in memory, if someone want to host em, just pm me with a e-mail and I will flood your box with them.
I showed up a little late, but still had a good time. There were some realy nice props and the company was great as always. A big thank you to Outlander and any others for putting on a great event.
I also wanted to pass along a Thank You, from Michael (Ripcode on TDH), for the good time that he and his wife had. Here is link to his thead on TDH, which has his thank you in his own words and some pictures that he took.
http://forums.thedentedhelmet.com/s...ead.php?t=12805
I'm already looking forward to next years party.
Gator
I also wanted to pass along a Thank You, from Michael (Ripcode on TDH), for the good time that he and his wife had. Here is link to his thead on TDH, which has his thank you in his own words and some pictures that he took.
http://forums.thedentedhelmet.com/s...ead.php?t=12805
I'm already looking forward to next years party.
Gator
rocketeer25
Sr Member
Jeff, I usually use Pilot's pic hosting. It's easy to use, and pics can be up to 2MB.
http://www.hooverae.com/upload/uploader.php
Tripoli entertaining the padawans
A small portion of Tripoli's table
Nice helmet... bad pic
One of Jay's fullsize displays
A table full of Constantine.
Greg's screen-used stunt hilt
Gator Fett with his awesome Boba Jetpack
A closer pic.
Greg's original Omni magazine cover
Greg looking like a hood ornament
First time I saw one of these up close. Very Nice.
Heath's fully remote R2 is always a big hit
One of Outlander's Hellboy props. It was Huge.
Juno had an awesome collection of Harry Potter props. This is just a portion of what she brought.
Bad pic of my new Indy stuff. Just got the Federation Deluxe.
A couple of Jason's things, including a custom blaster.
Kango.
Mark brought some of his awesome Predator collection. Next year, you've got to bring the Borg again.
Andy's famous Seatrooper
Jay's Screen-used V costume.
Oops, how did this pic get in here?
Thanks to Pilot for the pic hosting..
http://www.hooverae.com/upload/uploader.php
Tripoli entertaining the padawans
A small portion of Tripoli's table
Nice helmet... bad pic
One of Jay's fullsize displays
A table full of Constantine.
Greg's screen-used stunt hilt
Gator Fett with his awesome Boba Jetpack
A closer pic.
Greg's original Omni magazine cover
Greg looking like a hood ornament
First time I saw one of these up close. Very Nice.
Heath's fully remote R2 is always a big hit
One of Outlander's Hellboy props. It was Huge.
Juno had an awesome collection of Harry Potter props. This is just a portion of what she brought.
Bad pic of my new Indy stuff. Just got the Federation Deluxe.
A couple of Jason's things, including a custom blaster.
Kango.
Mark brought some of his awesome Predator collection. Next year, you've got to bring the Borg again.
Andy's famous Seatrooper
Jay's Screen-used V costume.
Oops, how did this pic get in here?
Thanks to Pilot for the pic hosting..
Mr Fett
Sr Member
Even though this was the smallest turnout we've had out of the 4 years we've done these, it was still a lot of fun, and great to meet even more people who had never been to one of the previous ones. I just felt bad for the guys who came from Maryland and Kansas, since it wasn't as big as the last few years have been.
Moffeaton, great meeting you. Heard many great words about you from Jordan in the past.
Here's some of my pics. I tried to post some that maybe hadn't been shown yet....starting off with some Tusken masks I've built:
The lovely Tusken ladies from Michigan.
Female Tusken pouches
Kimmy's Illyria costume
I found out Tripoli worked as a propster on the Smallville TV show a while back, and some of the props he brought were replicas of the ones made for the show. He said sometimes the actors would request copies of the pieces to use for charity events and the like. Coolness.
Besides the drill / Aliens tracker in another post, these are some more of the real same parts that some of the Colonial Marine armor parts were based off of.
Absolutely killer various Clone helmets brought from the Ohio guys.
The truly awesome 1977 Kenner stormtrooper blaster, brought to life out of wood by motman241.
(a couple more props made by motman241)
Yep, I found out I am skinny enough to fit on a full C-3PO helmet and have it close in the back.
The awesome cantina bar part / IG-88 head.
There was quite a large amount of Harry Potter props this year, including these:
That Goblin banker head is screen-used in the first movie. Silicone, hand-punched hair, the works.
Prrrreeecccciiiioooouuuusssss. Oops, aren't they the same guy?
The interior of the Riddel TIE helmet. One of 6 in existance. Met a guy who was there with lonepigeon who worked on the design of all the Riddel mini-helmets. Nice guy, with a couple photo albums of pictures he took himself of various helmets inside the Lucasfilm Archieves. Stuff you'll never see anywhere. It was an honor just to see the photos. :thumbsup
Looking forward to next year's already.....
Moffeaton, great meeting you. Heard many great words about you from Jordan in the past.
Here's some of my pics. I tried to post some that maybe hadn't been shown yet....starting off with some Tusken masks I've built:
The lovely Tusken ladies from Michigan.
Female Tusken pouches
Kimmy's Illyria costume
I found out Tripoli worked as a propster on the Smallville TV show a while back, and some of the props he brought were replicas of the ones made for the show. He said sometimes the actors would request copies of the pieces to use for charity events and the like. Coolness.
Besides the drill / Aliens tracker in another post, these are some more of the real same parts that some of the Colonial Marine armor parts were based off of.
Absolutely killer various Clone helmets brought from the Ohio guys.
The truly awesome 1977 Kenner stormtrooper blaster, brought to life out of wood by motman241.
(a couple more props made by motman241)
Yep, I found out I am skinny enough to fit on a full C-3PO helmet and have it close in the back.
The awesome cantina bar part / IG-88 head.
There was quite a large amount of Harry Potter props this year, including these:
That Goblin banker head is screen-used in the first movie. Silicone, hand-punched hair, the works.
Prrrreeecccciiiioooouuuusssss. Oops, aren't they the same guy?
The interior of the Riddel TIE helmet. One of 6 in existance. Met a guy who was there with lonepigeon who worked on the design of all the Riddel mini-helmets. Nice guy, with a couple photo albums of pictures he took himself of various helmets inside the Lucasfilm Archieves. Stuff you'll never see anywhere. It was an honor just to see the photos. :thumbsup
Looking forward to next year's already.....
outlander
Sr Member
Mr. Fett:
It was great seeing you again, and thanks for posting the great photos that you took. Maybe the wonderful weather outside had something to do with the reduced turnout. I was disappointed after the great turnout we had last year and I was hoping that we would get even bigger this year. Ah well, at least I got to meet a lot of new people who hadn't come before.
JAS
It was great seeing you again, and thanks for posting the great photos that you took. Maybe the wonderful weather outside had something to do with the reduced turnout. I was disappointed after the great turnout we had last year and I was hoping that we would get even bigger this year. Ah well, at least I got to meet a lot of new people who hadn't come before.
JAS
paulcarson
Well-Known Member
Cool. I don't suppose you have more shots of the mini helmets? I would also like to see the small vader and 3po heads.
It sucks living in the UK, we don't have anything like this.
Paul
It sucks living in the UK, we don't have anything like this.
Paul
Cutest_Sandgirl
Well-Known Member
It was great seeing everyone... new faces and familier ones alike. I still need to get my photos off my camera.
Okay... who was that I talked to that said they could get me screen shots of the Fifth Element stones? :$
Okay... who was that I talked to that said they could get me screen shots of the Fifth Element stones? :$
lonepigeon
Master Member
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(paulcarson @ May 4 2006, 06:11 PM) [snapback]1238344[/snapback]</div>
The one with the mini helmets was Chris Reiff (seen behind IG-88 head in photo). He's also the cofounder of Parts of Star Wars.
The Vader and 3PO heads were 1/4 scale versions of the Riddell mini helmets. They were an experiment for expanding the product line.
Cool. I don't suppose you have more shots of the mini helmets? I would also like to see the small vader and 3po heads.
It sucks living in the UK, we don't have anything like this.
Paul
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The one with the mini helmets was Chris Reiff (seen behind IG-88 head in photo). He's also the cofounder of Parts of Star Wars.
The Vader and 3PO heads were 1/4 scale versions of the Riddell mini helmets. They were an experiment for expanding the product line.
paulcarson
Well-Known Member
Hi Chris, thanks for that info. You wouldn't have any photos of the 1/4 scale heads / helmets by any chance?
Darth Kahnt
Sr Member
Very nice pics, thanks for sharing. I hope I too can make it to one of these someday.
slightlyagitatedwookie
Well-Known Member
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(KevVader @ May 4 2006, 08:49 PM) [snapback]1238447[/snapback]</div>
I was there from Windsor with my R2. Not sure if there were any others.
Heath
I was there from Windsor with my R2. Not sure if there were any others.
Heath
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