Autographs

Edmonton Expo Wrap Up

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The weekend before this past was the Edmonton Comic and Entertainment Expo here in, well, Edmonton! This is my third year at the event, and definitely my most successful.

But before all of that, previous to the event I was quoted on The Pulp Press with tips for enjoying the weekend, as well as what I was most excited about for. Of course that involved Sailor Moon. Click on the Pulp Press link for the article, and what my friends and I had to say.

The weekend began for me on Thursday when I (very last minute) went to Home Depot to purchase my new Artist Alley display. This meant PVC pipe, fittings, and clamps as far as I could see. Thankfully I have a wonderful brother to cut the pipe for me, and help me deburr the pipe ends!

ECEE display

Friday morning I got up bright and early to set up my booth. Once I realized I miscalculated some minor things in my display I figured it out, set it up, and got to work on some commissions for the weekend until the event opened at 3pm.

Honestly, sales kind of sucked on Friday, so I done a bit of walking around.  This lead to finding a personal grail of mine… a Sailor Moon backpack I used in the 90’s. The bag is only worth like $5, but I paid $20, because I’ll never see it in front of me again without paying for shipping, so I jumped for it. That bag has been on my list since I got rid of it.

10615405_10152329553456691_1826716174452966145_nSaturday was the big event day. Sales went well, commissioners liked their art, I experimented with new mediums, and dished out a lot of prints! My boyfriend joined me at the table for the first time at a big show. He VERY quickly learned that weekends like this can be EXHAUSTING even if they don’t appear to be much work. The day was LOADED with friends visiting, including my BFF, who surprised me with her husband at their first big con. It was like Christmas seeing her at an event like this… so of course I dragged her to a Doctor Who booth I knew she’d drool over (I’m a wonderful influence). Later we went for dinner and I accidentally left another friend at the event XD. We had a good laugh at it after I picked her up and we went for supper though. Oh man. Did I ever feel stupid. (Though to be fair it was just a miscommunication between both of us).

On Sunday sales went decently, but the main event for me was my Sailor Moon panel!

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Unfortunately this one goes without video. My friend canceled last minute because she was sick, so I didn’t have a camera to film with lol… and I’m still waiting for the official photos to be posted to the event page, because I forgot to take my own >.> *prepared*

The panel went great! It was definitely one of my larger ones to date, and everyone had lots of great questions. As per usual most of the panel was merchandise related. I DID want to cover some Crystal episode stuff, but I was worried about spoilery issues.

Sadly, this time around I didn’t get a whole lot of autographs. Just Chip Zdarsky, of Sex Criminals ( a comic). He misspelled my name and we had a good laugh about it. I missed out on Rino Romano (1st NA Tuxedo Mask) because I didn’t realize he was there! I also missed out on Bruce Timm because the picture I was working on for him to autograph wasn’t finished. He also had to leave the event early, and therefore didn’t show on Sunday =(.

Over all though, the year was a success! Everyone had fun, money was made, friends were visited. Check out my cosplay photos below! I’ll make a new post with pictures if ECEE ever posts their official shots.

Overhaul

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So I’m doing some overhauling!

If you haven’t noticed, I go through a LOT of different templates. Thing is, you might NOT notice because the template is usally laid out the same way. The big difference is normally in the header, menu, and width of the page. Some of these might change size, shape, or font. At this moment, I THINK this template will stick. It’s wide, the menu buttons are accessible and don’t hide at the bottom of your browser anymore.

The overhaul will be more obvious at the main Sailor Moon page, where I’ve included some old collection shots, as well as some info about my collection.

If you look at the Plushies page you’ll see that I’ve begun adding content to the “inbetween pages”. There is something similar on previous pages, but I’m not at all happy with it.

I added a meeting and autograph session with Australian singer Kate Miller-Heidke a couple months ago, but never posted it here.

Added a Sailor Moon PC Engine game tonight. Edited the Classic SM Uncut DVD review, as well as the SM R Uncut DVD review. And probably a lot of plushie stuff that wasn’t there before.

OH, and I’ve seriously updated my Disney DVD list because I’ve been buying them at a stupidly fast rate. Silly Walmart sales…

OH and by the way…

I found these beauties somewhere between the East Meets West Festival in Edmonton, a game shop, HMV, Walmart, Value Village, and a flea market on 111 avenue here in Ed.

Bootleg figures (better paint and need the stands) – $15
Luna Rock CD – $8 ❤
Korean? Puzzle – $2
Video Game (linked above) – $20
Cards – Free from exchange
Jessie doll – $7.50
Mercury transformation pose – $7.50
Puplip – $5
Pokemon 200 – $5
Cinderella 2 – $20
Lilo and Stitch 2 – $10
Tarzan 2 – $10
Astro Boy – $10
Fruits Basket  Complete Collection – $20
Pokemon Legends Movie Collection – $20

I also got 2 more North American puzzles with the Korean one, but I already had them. Oops D= Oh well, they were a dollar each lol.

Animethon 17 Con Haul

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Merch from Athon 17

So Animethon 17 ended a week ago, but due to my incredible ability to be lazy… I’m updating now =D

Regardless of the photograph, Animethon wasn’t packed with Sailor Moon goodness this year. In fact,  I believe I’ve cleaned out their merchandise. Anime Hypercubed had a full set of Japanese manga for sale for $100, but I’m not sure I’d pay that, nor was it any good to me considering I can’t read Japanese.  It was a strange weekend for merch though. No one was carrying the new bootleg plushies that turned up at Otafest, nor were they carrying the cat hats, or cat plushies. I at least expected to find the new Artemis bootleg plush.

Anyways! My haul this year!

-Set of Shugo Chara figurines (2x Utau, 2x Ikuto, 1x Amu, 1x Yaya). Heads are interchangeable, as are arms. Paid $25 😀 That was amazing. These things are stupid expensive.
-Utau key chain as  Seraphic Charm. Paid $5

-Shugo Chara metal key chain $5
-Shugo Chara coin purses. Paid $12 each (Amu, Ran, Miki, Su, Dai)
-Sailor Moon Stickers $1/sheet
-Dark Lady Plush + LunaP Paid: Print trade with Zephyr.
-Sailor Moon plushie, Paid $30 (this is actually from AE last year. A friend of mine FINALLY dropped it off D=)
-Mars plushie came with Moon. Not sure if she’s mine yet lol.
-Rozen Maiden plush – gift from Fiancee ❤
-L33t Str33t boys CD + other autographs are fiancees and I have no idea lol.

The makeup in the picture came from Pomme Minerals. She’s a friend of mine, and a brilliant creator of make-up. In fact, her product is all I’ve worn since she sent me samples.

The Sailor Mercury key chain is from Sidewayslogic, who has also made several of the buttons I purchased in previous years.

And of course, none of this is updated yet because I’m STILL going through Animethon pictures that I promised a week ago.

Otafest, Garage Sales, and Swap Meets, oh my!

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I love my Fiancee. In fact, he’s probably the reason I’m collecting anime and Sailor Moon merchandise the way that I am right now. When we first met and began dating I was still a huge fan of Sailor Moon, but I wasn’t really into spending money on merchandise. Sure, a few key chains here and there at conventions, but NEVER shopping online and purposely searching for it the way I do now.

In the way of Sailor Moon merch. Otafest was a bust. We were expecting to meet up with a friend and buy his collection from him, but it turns out the rest of his collection was back in Edmonton… where the three of us are from anyways. So we’re going to meet up at some point and buy the stuff… if I can afford to even breath after the last 2 weeks.

Let me start this off by telling you that the lack of new updates hasn’t been because I’ve been busy or lazy. Oh no. You see, pre, during, and after Otafest both my fiancee and I were mildly sick with a small cold. He had it worse before, but was getting over it, I was fighting it off quite well with syrup and lots of meds. This didn’t work. Not only did I get REALLY sick when I got back to Edmonton after Otafest, but it turned into what the doctors called an Acute Sinus Infection. Trust me when I say acute is NOT the right word. My face swelled up, I was in so much pain that I began shaking violently. Finally the sinus infection seemed to go away, but the swelling in my face didn’t. A return to the doctors confirmed that it was Shingles.

AVOID SHINGLES. I’m telling you now. There is NOTHING that will take the pain away.

Anyways, here is my Otafest update as well as other events that have happened since.
Sailor Moon-wise, this was all I found. A single bootleg plushie ($20), which also happens to be the newest bootleg. I also got a Sailor Moon World poster ($3)(which is also probably a bootleg) and it’s absolutely beautiful.

Also pictured are 2 Shugo Chara art books (official?)($45 each), Red Shugo Chara Dumpty Key($10), various character Shugo Chara key chain($10), a Humpty Lock watch (front opens)($15), 2 fan buttons($3), Chobits 7 manga($8), entire first half of Magic Knight Rayearth manga($14). There is also a Rozen Maiden pencil board that isn’t pictured (actually it is, it’s just hiding in one of the art books *face palm*)

The Chobits art book isn’t new. I got it autographed by the Michelle Ruff, the english voice actress of Chii.

My fiancee also found Amu, Ran, Miki, and Suu plushies($25 each), as well as 2 Shugo Chara posters($3 each). We won xxholic season 1 autographed by a voice actor, as well as another anime by him that involves a frog lol. There’s also an official Otafest back pack autographed by the same voice actor. This is apparently all my fiancees though </3 No sharing lol. Of course, we also managed to pick up the entire Kare Kano manga series in the charity auction for $35. The autographed stuff in this paragraph was also for the charity auction.

This is some of the stuff I got from a friend of mine. We actually still aren’t done. I purchased a broach off of her as well, but both of us forgot about it when I went to pick up the stuff pictured above lol.

So 3 North American puzzles, and the Web of the Negaverse board game, which is also Canadian. This particular game tends to be rare, but sells for rather cheap. I owned it when Sailor Moon was still rather popular for my generation, but sold it in a garage sale. I got the games for $5 each, the game for $20, and the clock for either $5 or free? lol I’m not sure. I also got a LOAD of North American trading cards for $5.

Does anyone know if the clock is legit? I believe it may be bootleg, but the printing quality is pretty good. It appears to be yellowed, but the plastic cover over the puzzle actually has a yellow tint. I’m going to try and see if it needs cleaning or if it’s just yellow. It appeared to just be yellow though.

Some of the people at Anime-Alberta hosted a swap meet at the University of Alberta this past Saturday. It was rather… sad in terms of the turn out, but there were LOTS of vendors lol. Thank you to Blix @ Anime-Alberta who was amazing and brought lots of Sailor Moon things for me to drool over.

Pictured are the 5 house sets for each of the inner senshi (did they make them for the outers?). She was selling them for $20 for the entire set, but I thought all day that it was $20 each and that I couldn’t afford them. At the end of the day she gave me all 5 for $15 dollars!! That’s a total of $3 dollars each. YES I NEARLY PEED MY PANTS. I was SO happy and I can’t wait to assemble/set up everything so that I can photograph it. Most of the items are already taken apart and sticker’d, but it’ll still be fun.

I also got a Tuxedo Mask pencil board, Pluto key chain (official? $1), Prince Darien figurine ($1), Tuxedo Mask key chain (official? $1), Sailor Neptune pin ($1) and Tuxedo Mask pin ($1). She also sold me the Luna Pen for $3 and said she’ll send me a message if she finds the box! Then there’s also a card board Mercury card which she gave me for free, and 2 sticker sets that I paid $1 each for.

NOT pictured are 2 Card Captor Sakura official figurines that I got for $2 from another vendor.

And so it is once again proven that I can find Sailor Moon anywhere XD My poor, poor fiancee.