#convention exclusives

[barbielore]

I recently posted about Star Trek Barbies (among other science fiction themed Barbies), but I subsequently became aware of another Star Trek Barbie that I really should have mentioned.

For the 50th anniversary of Star Trek in 2016, Mattel released a Barbie as an Orion Slave Girl. Unlike the other anniversary dolls, she was a San Diego Comic Con exclusive (although she could be pre-ordered and picked up on site at the convention).

I will admit, I know extremely little about Star Trek, but I've picked up bits and pieces from pop culture osmosis, and I had no idea what character this was when I first saw it, so it feels like a bit of a deep cut to me. I don't know if Star Trek fans feel the same way.

But she is cool as hell looking. Look at her.

[aeonmagnus]

BotCon 2011 theme ideas. From "BotCon: Beyond the Convention."

[lapislazulis-oceanroom23]

Issue 1 Baltimore Comic-Con exclusive cover

[roseaesynstylae]

I was reading a post that said the Separatists committed more war crimes than the Republic, and all I could think about was Alpha-17 kicking down the door and bellowing “This is unacceptable!” He made sure his side were ahead in terms of war crimes before he left and he sure as hell isn’t going to let the Separatists exceed his total!

[mlp-pic-a-day]

This is the 2009 MLP Fair Pony.

[sydmarch]

starting a collection of characters who are hannah geists. to me

[the-casbah-way]

everyone’s so bummed about voxval not being “official” that i think we’re forgetting how much potential there is now. slowburn mutual pining? awkward embarrassing attempts at flirting? a CONFESSION SONG???? i think them having a weird messy undefined relationship is WAY more interesting and in character than if they were to be fully dating in the conventional sense of the word

[dunsbar]

tshirt that says

Poppa Poutine

&Small Fry

&Lerman Logan

&Donna Sweett

&Bret Weston Wallis

&Dodger Dickenson

&Barnabus B. Blossom

&Cousin Fester

&Brad Raybury

&Lizzo the Lesbian

&Aunt Cricket and Uncle Bedford

&Baby Teeth

&Gilda Snide

&Bitsy Smith

&Peaches N’ Cream

&Juniper and Dagwood

&Squeaky

&War Baby

&Bingo.

[alphacomicsvol2]

Amazing Spider-Man #3 Cover Art (Dallas Fan Expo Variant by InHyuk Lee)

[gijoe-forever]

[returnerfop]

Hanahaki Disease in FOP (Prompt/Fic idea)

You’d think Timmy’d be in quite a bit of trouble, but the only trouble he has is dealing with unrequited familial love for his parents. Ever since he received his godparents, he got that type of love from them instead, no longer needing his parents to get the unique love that comes from parents. 

With that concern of his no longer so pressing, he now has to address the elephant in the room, the person he has to learn to love because if he doesn’t, she’ll die. She’d been quietly managing the disease by engaging in hatred of her sister. It acts as a retardant for the disease, slowing its inevitable takeover of her body, but it’s still not enough. She can’t live on bandaids forever. She needs the cure. 

And Timmy has to find a way to genuinely fall for someone he has no interest in. Vicky forces him to without explanation and the breaks down when it doesn’t work. She tried so hard to get rid of her sister’s disease by any means necessary but it doesn’t work anymore. And of course since I’m a sap, it all ends fine with Timmy finding something to genuinely love about Tootie. 

She’s afraid the first time he says he loves her because it’s not the words that make it true, but the effect on her condition. She sighs in relief, knowing she doesn’t have to worry about dying anymore. She had a whole character arc up to that point from being so in love that she didn’t care if it killed her, to mostly worrying about her safety, to wishing there was a way of removing the disease by getting rid of her love instead of forcing Timmy to reciprocate. 

But in the end, she’s incredibly grateful, even apologetic, for making him fall in love even though he had every right to say no. 

There’s either a subplot or sequel around Trixie and her worrying about Chad because of his unrequited crush on her. And her suffering symptoms because of a mysterious source that turns out to be unrequited friendship with Chad. They figure something out with Trixie being a wingman to Chad, making his crush fade and also salvaging their friendship and both their lives.

[barbielore]

I've referenced Mattel designer Javier Meabe before; in addition to the fact that he designed the Dia de Muertos Barbies, Mattel sent me into a spiral of confusion by spelling his name wrong on their website.

But Javier Meabe has done more than the Dia de Muertos Barbies. Like many current Mattel designers, he's an alumnus of Otis College. (They have a very prestigious toy design department, hence the connection). He worked briefly with Hasbro on some Wave 5 My Little Pony products, before moving across to work with Mattel - not just on Barbie, but also Monster High and Polly Pocket.

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Within the Barbie canon, he worked on the MyScene collectibles that debuted late last year, as well as the Barbie Rewind series.

One of his more interesting designs - although of course I'm going to say it's interesting, I'm a sucker for these - is an OOAK doll he designed for the 2024 Madrid Fashion Doll Show, The Barbie Spider Empress.

I think she looks incredible. Looks a little Bob Mackie-inspired, which I in no way mean as a criticism.

[heckyeahponyscans]

Check out Fleur, a HQG1C pony produced as an exclusive for the Canadian Pony Collectors Extravaganza! However, anyone can order her by contacting Cory Thomas on Facebook. She is $40 plus shipping.

[tamapalace]

Premium Bandai US Lists 2023 Convention Exclusive Tamagotchi Original Shells

Didn’t’ catch these at the convention last year? They’re actually also on shelves at Bandai Namco stores too. Premium Bandai US has listed both the Mametchi Spaceship and Mimitchi Planet Tamagotchi Original shells that are convention exclusives last year. Listed for $30.00 and already shipping. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to add them to your collection!

[wonder-worker]

"[Elizabeth Woodville's] piety as queen seems to have been broadly conventional for a fifteenth-century royal, encompassing pilgrimages, membership of various fraternities, a particular devotion to her name saint, notable generosity to the Carthusians, and the foundation of a chantry at Westminster after her son was born there. ['On other occasions she supported planned religious foundations in London, […] made generous gifts to Eton College, and petitioned the pope to extend the circumstances in which indulgences could be acquired by observing the feast of the Visitation']. One possible indicator of a more personal, and more sophisticated, thread in her piety is a book of Hours of the Guardian Angel which Sutton and Visser-Fuchs have argued was commissioned for her, very possibly at her request."

-J.L. Laynesmith, "Elizabeth Woodville: The Knight's Widow", Later Plantagenet and Wars of the Roses Consorts: Power, Influence, Dynasty

[rawliverandgoronspice]

regarding common tropes about ganon's writing in fics, I am kind of always taken aback a little anytime ganondorf uses degrading sexist terms in fics and such. Because to me, even his most evil interpretations would probably have no reason to have negative associations with women who have sex a lot, unless he picked it up from elsewhere (like there's some room for it to be interesting psychologically speaking if that's directly addressed, but it never is). I'm not sure why the gerudos would ever cultivate these kind of misogynistic ideas in their own culture, or why Ganondorf would spontaneously decide to form any essentialist ideas he may potentially develop on the basis of promiscuity, of all things. And, if he would pick that up from Hyrule... why would he, why this, and how does that map out with him remaining proudly gerudo in most iterations if he sees any non-married woman getting funky in a negative way?

it's kind of a very small thing, but it does kind of beckons a lot of questions regarding worldbuilding and psychology and it tends to take me out of fics a little, because it's always kind of assumed and never investigated