Getin our fun-on with some butt-ons

So Red came up with this idea to create a button set, themed as Villains. It showcases the evil Professor Villain along with his mechanical creations, KillBot, DeathBot, DieBot, and EnzoBot. Above is what we came up with! We were trying to get these ready for Katsucon (which is this weekend!) but due to all this snow business that mother nature's been ejaculating on our area, it may have to wait, aw shucks.

After much shoveling, i present Red and our buddy Paul; a RegrblGothic:

green, out~

Team Conan

Tonight we all say farewell conan and fuck you nbc. I mean both Leno and O'Brien are good night time talk show hosts, but i prefer Conan. Why didn't they just fire Jimmy Fallon and given the Late show to Leno? After all this talk about the late night screw up, i came up with this image - cuz it just makes sense. As Teela from Masters of the Universe put it, "Don't say goodbye. Say Good Journey."

Good journey, Conan...good journey.

green, out~

Busch Gardens

Welcome to the new year, and another year of REGRBL! So, so sorry. But still, a new year means it's a time for resolutions! And your local blue hero has one of his own: keep the blog nice and updated. So we've got some old events to catch up on:

'Twas a hot summer day, long ago, in August 2009. The RGBoys, Cup and Purple are off to meet Wings, HorseCookies and Lilac at Busch Gardens! We agreed to meet at the bumper cars so we can drink and drive in a contained atmosphere. You know Busch Gardens belongs to Anheuseur Busch, right? Because Red sure didn't.

I used to love the swing ride when I was a kid. Turns out it's still pretty awesome.

So we meet and decide to start off with an awesome rollercoaster.

But who can resist a retarded 3D ride at THE CURSE OF DARKASTLE!?

We spend a lot of our day waiting in sweltering hot lines (thank god for beer)

So we go cool off at the Roman Rapids. Alliteration makes me wet.

And here are pictures of us waiting in line for the most... awesome... ride... ever.

THE GRIFFON!

It's so awesome that we come back and ride it 'til dark.

Ok, so it was mostly a picture post. But it was half a year ago! I did what I could. Expect an AUSA post soon!

Connecticon '09

So... here's a one month old post, back from when we went to Connecticon. Since it took place so long ago, so many shots ago, this is going to be primarily a picture post (not that anyone reads this for the writing). Maybe it was a bad idea to put me in charge of these con updates D:

Connecticon on Friday was rough. Red, Green, Purple and I pretty much left Virginia at midnight and arrived in time to set up our table in the morning. My first priority was to find the bathroom while they found the table and started setting up. Whilst paying my alms to the porcelain god, I received a phone call:

"Uhhh, Blue, you need to hurry up..."
"What? Why?"
"We just realized... none of us know how to set the pvc up."
*silent laughter*

Work, monkies, work!

Finished product!


Purple, sleeping under the table. We do this a lot...

Of course, there were a bunch of fun cosplays
Connecticon is big on steampunk <3

One of the coolest parts of Connecticon is the artists' party. Inyx, the artist who organizes the whole dealy invited us to a party for "networking". We were hesitant, but we were told there would be pizza and drinks. Sold. Good marketing; artists tend to be starving.
She's blurry, but that's inky-tea in the middle of that first picture! *waves*

Inyx set up some posters for all the artists to draw on.
When the pizza arrived, Red and Green opted to draw on the boxes :D

We were also pleasantly surprised that "pizza and drinks" really meant "pizza and drinks"

Me with Inyx, the organizer of this awesome party

As we stumble back from the party, we bump into Sandeep Parikh (better known as Zaboo, from the webseries "The Guild"), Rahiru (who posted a video of RGB acting... not so heroic... on the forum), and Kilika (longtime friend of RGB. I was told I accidentally punched him in the face. Sorry!)

And believe it or not, we actually did manage to get some work done while we were there:

By "we" I obviously mean Red and Green. This is also the first con we started selling buttons!


Sadly, we lost our portfolio (and all contained prints) in Connecticut...
but... Connecticut didn't arrest us for drunk in public (even though we gave it three REALLY good chances to)...
So I guess we're even.

Otakon '09

Hey guys, Blue here. Sorry about the long delay in getting this post up! Forgot to bring my camera this year, so we had to get pictures from our friends. Then Green had to superimpose our heads to ensure our secret identities remained secret. Then add in the fact that I am one of the world's top procrastinators, and well... you get a week-old update!

Friday was a pretty simple day for us. Red and I set up the table while waiting for the rest of the group to arrive to check in to our hotel. During which time, we got to meet several of our lovely forumites, and Red and Green got to pump out some pretty cool commissions:

(Left to Right: An ecchi draft by Green [that's the source image on top], Gattsu by Red, and Alice's commission by Green)

Really do wish we got more pictures of the commissions - honestly, it feels like the guys spent the entire con drawing. Purple explored the con and caught some fun cosplayers, though:

After all their hard work, and Friday con events coming to an end, we realized we failed to set up dinner. What can you really expect from poorly organized otaku, though? Deciding to postpone it for tomorrow night, we go to Hooters for beer and shots. Maybe some food, but it was mostly for the beer and shots.

We couldn't take the skybridge on our way back to the hotel. It was closed like I'm the god BAC (that's short for Bacchus for the educated, Blood Alcohol Content for the rest of us) had intended it. This caused us to pass the fountain on our detour. The conversation went thusly:

RGB: Man, remember that year we jumped into the fountain?
Mutual friend: You guys should do it again!
RGB: Haha, yea we should. (jokingly)
Voice of Alcohol: YOU REALLY SHOULD, PUSSIES!
Mutual friends: *chanting* Jump in, Jump in!
Red: I'll do it if Green does it
Blue/Green: I'll do it if Blue/Green does it. (I was drunk, so I don't remember which of us idiots thought that this would bring this dare to a dry end).
Red: *jumps in*

...So yea, here are some pictures:Please notice the "No Swimming" sign.
Yes guys, this seems like a bad idea

Why yes, yes it is a bad idea

Oh well, who cares. I convinced a random stranger to jump in with us!

And it just wouldn't be us if things didn't get a little gay at some point >_>

So a couple dives and fountain climbs later, we head back towards the hotel, soaking wet. We had no trouble getting in, since we just looked like the sweaty otaku returning from the rave. We hit the hay after a thorough shower.

Saturday we woke up with the intent to go to the One Piece photoshoot, but failed to find it. So much fail for Team RGB this Ota :(

Red and Green continued to draw commissions. They drew so many, in fact, that we ran out of Bristol board! Wow! Let's attribute this a combination of amazing artistic talent and high demand! Not to being ill-prepared *cough*

At least we managed to eat dinner with the forumites! The food court was packed (I don't know why we were expecting anything different), so we decided to go somewhere we could get [relatively] cheap beer and shots! Yes, good ol' Hooters again. Our dearest little Wings turned 21 recently, so how could we not imbibe a few?!

It was awesome meeting you all (a few for the second time)! Hopefully we can turn this into a tradition, with even more of the forumites coming!

With too much never being enough, we head out to go barhopping with a friend of ours who lives in Baltimore. No pictures from those events, but there are a few from the aftermath I like to call "Some drunks, 1 Cup"

Sunday, Red is the only one with the willpower to wake up and set up the table. Almost telepathically, Alice and Wings show up like coffee fairies. I woke up still drunk from last night (pretty awesome, but the hangover hit me in the middle of the day), and the rest of us attempt to check out of the hotel. Green is hungover, and of no help:

Yea, that's the hotel lobby floor.

All in all, it was the sleep-deprived, mostly drunk, crazy social event we have come to know and love. Yay, Otakon!

JACON

Con season seems to have kicked off, and last weekend (Memorial weekend) I spent down in Florida at JACON 09 endgame. I was once again given the opportunity to work for an Anime Dealer hauling merchandise. At first, a 12 or so hour drive wasn’t appealing, but that immediately changed when Cup told me who would be attending…

Stan Bush

This brings me to the real point of this entry… I MET STAN BUSH! For those who are unaware of this man’s greatness, he is a rocker who is responsible for the legendary song The Touch from the Transformers 86 movie. Also, for those Sailor Moon fans out there (looks at Green) he did She’s got the Power for the English soundtrack. The song originally debuted in episode 61… I think. Aside from animation, he’s been on the soundtracks for both Kickboxer and Bloodsport to name a couple. Pretty cool for any of you Jean-Claude Van Damme fans. (Once again looks at Green)

Also managed to get Mr. Stan Bush to sign Green's copy of Bloodsport. Sadly though, during his preformance, Stan Bush didn't play any music from this movie... But who cares!? I got to see him preform all his other hits!!

Geekin’ out aside, the Con on a whole was pretty small. It was your standard hotel con with nothing really new. A couple of funny things happened though. The Hentai panel was closed early as Con staff found 12-year-olds who happened to sneak in. Way to go security. Also, the dance/masquerade was delayed. Then later it was brought to the attention to the people in line that it would bleed into the Rave… so the line was soon mixed with people dolled up and glow sticks. I’m sure people were a bit annoyed... until a couple showed up and started pepper spraying people. At that point I’m sure people were pissed. This closed the dance/rave prematurely. It was the last JACON, something crazy was bound to happen.


hmmm... what seems to be out of place?...

Anywho, that’s pretty much the convention high points for me. Of course there are those crazy drinking stories after the con, but do we really want to know about that.

Till next time,
Red

Road Trip... concluded

Ok so it’s been a while since cup and I arrived from our little excursion. I guess I should do this now or I’ll just keep putting it off. I wish I had actual pictures to post though…however, I lost cups camera… sorry cup.

Speaking of Cup, I had to catch myself every time I tried to get his attention. For those who don’t know, but Cup is only one out of like a bagillion names. Aside from the other coworkers at the booth, there were also the friends we managed to visit on our little trip. Depending on who we were around I had to use the right name. He has a different name for every group of people he hangs with. Which one is his real name? The world may never know.

So yea, aside from Con/ing it up, our ulterior motive was a lil friend tour. We managed to pit stop at Dallas on our way to Anime Matsuri. We had entered Texas and Cup calls his friend up at like 4a.m. to see if we could drop by and say what’s up. (Oh yea, so great being our friends). At this moment we had managed to sell enough stuff at MTAC to make a little bed in the back of the van. So when we arrived at her place, she came to greet us. Asked where cup was, at which point I opened the back of the van…




So this little detour was spent meeting/hanging out with 4 of our friends (two couples). Another night of staying up late, drinking, and laughing… followed by a 4 hour drive the next day. T’was worth every minute.

As we hit Houston, Cup already had a destination set: Visit another friend! This time it was a bit more epic. So here’s the set up: Green told our friend “Hey Red and Cup are going to Visit you in Houston.” Don (let’s call him don to make things easier.) then replies “OMG I love those guys, I can’t wait. I’m going to cry tears of Joy.” To which Green replied “April Fool’s Sucka!” (And yes this is verbatim... kinda) With that in mind, when we roll up to his office and get one of his coworkers to grab him into the hall... he was pretty shocked... it was pretty awesome.

Don let us crash at his place that evening after he showed us a good time. Cup did some laundry the next day and once again we were off. The Con was only 30min from Don’s place, so that allowed a lot more chill time with him. We also managed to get him a Dealer’s Room badge to help worth the booth. Of course that was just an excuse to just keep hanging out. It was also nice to show him his first Anime Con.

Not really much to say about working Matsuri though. A couple of things, I saw Miyavi perform. Secondly, Jason David Frank (The Green Ranger and/or the Greatest Red Ranger) was supposed to show, but didn’t due to scheduling conflicts. I hope Angel Grove was under attack and not some other lame bullshit like the Con was too small for his giant ego.

Side note about MTAC: I saw Applegeeks. Totally forgot they were like the guests of honor there. I wanted to buy something of theirs, but they wouldn’t take my money. Said something along the lines of “we don’t accept your monopoly money,” as they scoffed and kicked dirt in my face. Seriously though, cool guys, check it:



I really should wrap this up as this has gotten a bit too long. This entire trip was amazing. In a nut shell, it was a road trip with a friend to hit up anime conventions and to visit more friends. What more could I ask for?

Red