Our Dr. Who experiences
included:
*The two of us met at Who
Party 9 (1987) and quickly became inseparable.
*1987 Christina went to
Brantford (Martin's home town at the time) for Hallowe'en and was greeted
by a Dalek in the driveway.
*Christina's tracer (Gift
from Martin to go with her costume), the first Tardis Console, the cybermat,
Ace's Tapedeck (added in time for Ad Astra 9) and various little gadgets
for 'The Doctor' came after Martin moved to Toronto.
*Worked along side Ed Charpentier
(K-9's replicator) to form 'The Not The BBC Props Dept.' and traveled from
convention to convention with a 'Dr. Who' replica museum.
*The Kandyman and the 'Fun
Gun' for Colleen's Daisy K and Rani wrist controller were eventually added
to the NTBBCPD collections.
*Christina helped Martin
rebuild the Dalek before the group got to it and under Martin's guidance
rebuilt him again.
*The group also took to
Martin's instruction well in order to rebuild the Tardis console.
*Due to commitments in life
they are no longer part of NTBBCPD
*The dalek... Well... Poor
boy had a wall drop on him. Sheered his balls right off. OUCH!!
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Babylon
5
*When
Babylon 5 hit television we fell in love with the tall silent type.... Kosh
as well as the mysterious Delenn.
*At Visions'
masquerade we did a skit where the truth of Kosh is revealed as being Pinky
and The Brain and at Toronto Trek we used Wakko and Yakko.
*Toronto
Trek 10 had a huge B5 presence. The picture shows you 50% of the Bab 5 entries
there.
* AT Costumecon
we did a skit that ended with Kosh wearing a sign saying "If This Encounter
Suit's A Rockin' Don't Come A Knockin"
*No Bab 5Fan is
complete without wearing a Psi Cop outfit at least once. ^_~
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Addams
Family
*When we were
asked to face paint for the Bat exhibit at the Science Centre on Hallowe'en
we felt appropriate characters were needed. Morticia and Gomez were just the
thing. We used the movie as a basis.
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Elves
and Fairy
Elves: Hallowe'en quick fix.
*We completed our effect by carrying only coinage.
Fairy: Custom done character for the Promotion of a children's
book at a Toy Fair.
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Darwin
*This foam dolphin was made
for Toronto Trek when the convention thought Darwin should be on the guestlist.
*He was quite the hit.The
only guest that was charity auctioned off at Toronto Trek.
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Cricket
*This one
was made for a fan of the movie. It brags a superbright LED at the end of its
tiny needle tip, a high pitched laser sound, and little watch batteries hidden
in the handle. The needle had to be carefully custom lathed as one wrong move
and it would snap.
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Space
1999
*A friend of ours
was doing a Space 1999 parody play so he asked us to whip up some plain casted
(he wanted to paint them) props. We never painted our two masters, completely
but here they are.
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Star Trek
*We started taking
part in the Toronto Trek parody plays and found that this was a good outlet
for our creative juices.
*We
wanted more. Before we knew it TT was asking us to take care of their bridge
(including a complete
redesign and rebuild), eventually asking us to build them a shuttle.
*To top it off, Paramount
Home Video contacted us and offered us jobs as characters for promos, video
release parties and the like. Birthday parties and barmitzvas followed.
*It
was a successful time for our steps from hobby to career and we can thank the
wonderful Ken Magerman from Paramount Home Video for giving us that little shove.
*Larning how
to use a Klingon Bat'leth helped in life as well as career. Never mess with
a woman with a weapon.
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Star Wars
*Star Wars. The
beginning of a saga. If you've never seen one of the movies you at least
are familiar with the key characters. That's half the reason why it is so
much fun to do them.
*Star
Wars Characters (Boba Fett, Leia, Jedi, pun contest, Padme/Amidala &
Qui-Gon) pictures.
*Note on Boba Fett: This
costume was passed
down to Martin by Yvonne Penney. The only original pieces of the costume
that are left are the jumpsuit and the helmet (made by John D'Eall). Martin
replaced the scope on the helmet with an operational one, the vambraces,
the backpack, the chest armour and other armour pieces, as well as making
a rifle.
*Star
Wars Props (Pistols, sabers, close up on Padme's belt) pictures.
*Our R2D2 operational
droid.
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