Giant Robot Store and GR2 News
Here’s an excerpt of an email about Uglycon. Of course, I’m keeping this positive, since there was some collector backlash involved as well. I may add more to this later. Maybe not… not sure yet. But here it goes. I am Griffin’s mom- remember the Secret Mission Babo nutty eight year old? I wanted to comment on the event, that has now become a memory burned into our cerebral banks- I am sure he and I will talk about it for years to come. We found out about the event on the Ugly Dolls website, when I was looking to adopt some more dolls for Griffin for Christmas. It has been a love at first sight for Griffin when my sister bought him Jeero when he was in kindergarten. I had no idea that the dolls had such a cult following; we came because we thought it would be fun, Griffy wanted to be in the costume contest and he really wanted to meet David and Sun Min. He knows all the stories of each doll; he considers them his buddies, he reads to them, we take them in the car and sleep with the entire family, which has grown to 15 after UglyCon. He loves Big Toe, which you all awarded to him at the contest- he was thrilled! That night he kept thanking me for bringing him and telling me it was the best night of his life, which warmed this mom’s heart and made the journey from the OC well worth it. Griffin loved hamming it up in the parking lot and goofing with Ox and Wedgehead, as you will see in the pictures… All of these pics are courtesy of Griff’s mom. I like how the Ox on the left has a Muppets like mouth. I think that’s where the person looks out of! Griff got 2nd place in the costume contest. It’s not the size of the costume, it’s the personality of the character. Griff passed out cookies like Babo. Martin got one too! Griff is a tiny dude! Anyone who reads GR is a friend of mine. Look at Griff’s T! Whoa, that’s Big Toe. That’s what Griff got for 2nd place. I wish Uglydoll was around when I was little. They would have my friends then like they are now. I hope Griff never outgrows Uglydolls. -lastly, thanks to Griff’s mom. Imagine if she was too tired or too busy to make it down to Sawtelle? Taking a short trip and checking out something new can have it’s high points. Coming to Uglycon II in SF next year?
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Brian Ralph is one of the greatest from the Ft Thunder “collective”. A lot of you might not know him but he’s been doing the Reggie 12 on the back page of GR for the last while. It’s been a good run. So here’s an interview with Brian. He draws like none other and if he spent all of him time on it, he’d be a household name. Right now, he’s helping kids achieve their dreams. Brian’s the man.
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Sawtelle Time Random musings. Those are Ultraman in the window display of Curry House. They do this every year, but why Ultraman? This is the weird cool stuff I like. Saewon does shipping for us during the holidays. Oh sister #2 learned shipping quick. Today was the big deadline for packages with USPS. It was on every news station across the nation. So we went for it and packed a ton even though our deadline was last week. That’s what it sort of feels like to be Santa Claus. This car was amazing. Parked in gr/eats, it said, Don’t you Wish your Girlfriend was this dirty? Yeah! And it had a pics of dicks, pussies, and on the other side was a small nekkid lady.
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Shari Sakahara Our friend and intern Shari passed away December 21, 2005. It’s been nearly a year. I thought I’d post about her for a bit. I was doing some cleaning, and realized that I have one of her hoodies. I only wore it for the first time today and it’s timing is right. She cut the letters out by hand, one by one, and with those across my chest, I feel like she’s around and close to me. I looked at some of the text about Shari that’s online and many of them link her with us at Giant Robot. It’s always be an honor. Pour some out for her this holiday. I will for sure.
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GR holiday – no holds barred. Some of these blog posts recently are sort of family album type stuff, hope you don’t mind them. Holidays are family time, maybe some of these will remind you of some of yours. This was all at gr/eats. Wendy and Martin started the food fest. That dish with the pineapples is vegan enchiladas! What are you lookin’ at, Pryor? Beer swiggin in the kitchen. That’s organizer Keenan in the background. gr/eats has a grade A. Keenan made this trailer man, shepard’s pie. Burger, bacon, eggs, fries, chili? cheese… this might lower things a grade. Weird. Now, lower it one more grade. We’re now at a C. A sample of the fare. Raise it back up a grade. B. Michelle is wearing the Goner records sweatshirt. Know about them? It’s a Memphis label who put out the first Guitar Wolf albums in America. Legendary. Still a B. David took home pounds of ham. That’s how they do it in China.Thanks Keenan and Mike for washing the dishes and taking care of everything. Back to the A.
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