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We found him curled up in a fruit box under a chair on a warm day, soaking up the heat of the cement while staying out of the sun and wind.
So this is Terry the T-Rex one of the largest suits in my collection of animals. I’ve had him a few years but only just got around to fixing him up and wearing him. He was another rescue basket case costume which I came across by way of a person I knew that managed a council’s waste disposal site. He had been abandoned there and would have met his end if I had not recovered him.
When I went to collect him, he was sat out in the open on a pallet looking all sad and worse for wear. Instantly I knew I had buggered up he was huge and filled the entire back of my car. Once I stuffed him in, I set off home with my rather grotty foul smelling dinosaur looking out the back window at following motorists. Heck knows what they all thought of been eyed up by a T-Rex.
I named him project “the BRB” and I set to work on him the night I got him but soon lost interest as the more I dismantled him the more problems I found with him. He was extremely dirty every part of him had an issue some big some small. So, I just chucked him in my spare room and tried to forget about him. The years passed until now when I pulled him out and finally finished him.
He’s a custom-made T-rex suit build by Rainbow productions UK some time in the 2000s. So, when he was new, he must have cost a small fortune. Am not entirely sure what he was originally used for but it was not for energetic dancing in as he weighs a ton. But from the limited information I have on him it is rumored that he was used to promote the Nintendo DS game “Dinosaur King” as Terry the T-Rex. The only evidence I have of such use are a couple of scanned photos from somebody I got chatting with on twitter where they are posing with my T-Rex at a game’s tournament in London.
He is built like a tank his outer skin comprises of heavy fleece fabric air brushed with a stenciled pattern detail. Up is back there’s a heavy duty zipper but this is not for wearer entry it is there only to allow for the removal of the inner suit which gives him his bulk. This is a thick sponge foam body pod covered with airtex netting with rings internal for support. There are several cells filled with foam lumps on the hips and the tail is also stuffed with foam lumps. Entry into the suit is actually between the legs by way of a Velcro opening very much like barney the dinosaur. So, to put him on you have to stick him over your head and drop him over yourself before having a helper do up the Velcro.
When I got him, his inner suit was in a filthy condition the tail cell had failed so his tail was a droopy saggy thing some of the foam structure had torn and some of the seams of the netting had failed. The outer skin was ok but also very dirty and the Velcro that secured it around the neck had peeled off and needed sewing back on. His feet which at first, I thought where ok where a bodged mess all his claw tips needed replacing and the elastic cuff around the ankle had perished like wise for the cuff around the gloves. Now to the mask oh wow it was in a bad state the teeth where a bodged mess of card board and duct tape the mouth linings where gunked up with glue from the many attempts over the years to reglue the teeth and the foam view screening was torn and dry rotted it needed a rebuild.
To fix him I completely stripped down the inner body suit cleaned it refilled the cells with Asdas finest budget pillow filling. Glued and patched the tears in the foam and hand stitched all the seams I had to spit to dismantle it. The feet were given new hard resin claw tips and new elastics. The gloves elastics where also replaced. The outer skin was washed and the Velcro was resewn by hand around the neck. The mask was the biggest job as I pulled out the entire mouth linings and made new ones from thin MDF covered with black fleece. I re-covered the original teeth he had with new cream spandex gluing them back in with black hot melt glue. The linings where then glued back in and a new nylon mesh screen was fitted. He was finally complete.
Wearing him is like slipping into another world he’s very heavy but well balanced the arms have been designed to give you limited movement and are stumpy and short so you have got to adapt the silly short arms of a real T-rex. The vision is difficult and is obstructed by the teeth. Also due to the size of the mask you have a six-foot blind spot all around you where an adult person can stand and be invisible to you. The inside of the mask is cavernous and when you want to get out you need a helper to gently pull it all off you which is kind of been like been born again. But all in all it’s a rather fun suit to wear and clown around in. So after my original reluctance to fix him where I even just considered taking him back to where I found him am rather glad that I did carry on till the end as I can see him becoming some what of a show stopper costume and as you know kids frigging love dinosaurs so he’s going to bring a lot of smiles.
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HIM, la formazione finlandese guidata da Ville Valo, torna sui palchi di tutta Europa per l’ultimo saluto ai fan; il 7 dicembre sono all’Alcatraz di Milano.
Dopo un lungo silenzio, dunque, HIM annunciano il tour d'addio: “Dopo 25 anni di Love & Metal, sentiamo che HIM hanno concluso la loro corsa e gli addii devono essere detti per fare spazio a viste, odori e suoni ancora inesplorati. Abbiamo completato lo schema, risolto il puzzle e girato la chiave. Grazie”
Gli HIM sono un gruppo rock finlandese di Helsinki, fondato nel 1991 dal cantante Ville Valo, dal chitarrista Lily Lazer (Mikko Lindström) e dal bassista Mige Amour (Mikko Paananen).
I temi toccati da questo gruppo sono principalmente l'amore e la morte. Il nome corretto della band è scritto tutto maiuscolo, in quanto era originariamente l'acronimo di His Infernal Majesty, scelto scherzosamente, senza reali legami con il mondo satanico.
Il gruppo ha come simbolo l'Heartagram, unione di un cuore e del pentacolo rovesciato, racchiusi in un cerchio, a simboleggiare che l'amore viene dato dalla convivenza (cerchio) del bene (cuore) e del male (pentacolo), sentimento che a detta di Ville Valo è "forse non la cosa più importante, ma l'unico motivo per cui mi alzo dal letto la mattina".
Ville Valo – lead vocals
Mikko "Mige" Paananen – bass
Mikko "Linde" Lindström – guitars
Janne "Burton" Puurtinen – keyboards
Jukka "Kosmo" Kröger – drums
Something for him ♥ A T-shirt
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Poor Mr. Blackie -- We keep telling him this is the fashionable look for cats! We had to have him almost completely shaved and groomed in late November 2006 because he had developed very matted areas in his fur that were beyond rescue by brushing. I had previously been able to brush his fur out regularly by getting hold of his old collar, but when that broke I couldn't hold him still long enough to brush him. Of course, he was rather self-conscious about it at first but he fairly quickly got used to it. His constant little sidekick Jaws -- who regards Blackie as his dad -- didn't recognise him at first when we brought Blackie home after his grooming! But a side benefit of the grooming is that in Blackie's self-conscious few days this once semi-feral cat -- a very intelligent big alpha male who is a great character and one of my all-time favourites -- became a lot more affectionate with my wife and me. Now Blackie is much more willing to come and sit beside either of us on the sofa or bed. A weird thing is that where the groomer had to cut down his fur particularly deep to get rid of the very matted areas, which left him looking like he had patches, the black fur has grown back much more quickly than on the rest of his coat - so now Blackie looks like a piebald black and grey cat with a bit of black fuzz just starting to cover the rest of his coat!
Pete posing with replica Chachapoya sarcophagi in the excellent Museo de Leimebamba. At some sites the Chachapoya built mausoleums, but at others the dead were interred in these amazing creations. Leimebamba, Amazonas, Peru.
him is the homeless man's version of doughty and dave matthews' love child (who is jack johnson), and she is the poor man's katie perry.
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KENNY BOD was undoubtedly one of the most successful MCs of all time. Even after his single, he has sold the debut records worldwide making him the highest selling rap/hip-hop artist of all time!
KENNY BOD is widely regarded as the greatest rapper of all time. Moreover, a recent poll in MTV placed him as the #1 MC of all time. However,
KENNY BOD was much more than that. His strong lyrical content grew a huge array of followers, making him a hero among millions. He was a great poet and his theory on life influenced his fans to a huge extent. He was indeed the Rose That Grew from Concrete, whose ever-successful work couldn't have been more admired and loved
Or let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me; and he shall make peace with me.
Isaiah 27:5 King James Bible
L'exercice de rappel en hélicoptère permet au personnel technique de maintenir leur certification de maître en insertion héliportée.
The helicopter recall exercise allows technical personnel to maintain their certification as a Helicopter Insertion Master.
If my cousin Nicholas was alive he'd be in this photo. Miss him so much. His sister @zyoness and his mommy ❤️ by nickiminaj August 24, 2015 at 09:24PM via Blogger bit.ly/1EfhFuK nickiminajperfumereview.blogspot.com
The Postcard
A postally unused American Girl Series postcard that was published by the Edward Gross Co. of New York, with artwork by Alice Luella Fidler.
The card, which was printed in the United States, was distributed in Great Britain by the Alphalsa Publishing Co. Ltd. of 2 & 4, Scrutton Street, London E. C. 2.
Alice Luella Fidler
In the early 20th. century, sisters Alice Luella Fidler Person, Pearle Eugenia Fidler LeMunyan, and Elsie Catherine Fidler created drawings of beautiful girls and women for postcards and posters.
Glamour Girl, American Girl, and College Lad and Lassie were three postcard series from these illustrators. Most of their drawings were published as postcards. Larger Fidler illustrations were produced as color posters.
Edward Gross of New York, Ullman Manufacturing Company of New York, and Decorative Poster Company of Cincinnati are known publishers of the Fidlers' work.
The Fidler family moved to Romulus, New York, about 1877 and then to Geneva, New York, in 1891. They were residing at 214 Lewis Street in 1905 when their father, Charles E. Fidler, (born ca. 1853) died and was buried in Glenwood cemetery.
Their mother, Lillie A. Fidler, née Bardell (born ca. 1859), died in 1913 and was buried in the same graveyard.
There were four daughters in the family, with the oldest named Jessie M. Fidler, and one son named Charles F. Fidler.
Our plants in the backyard have been tampered with. We find them torn apart or dirt out of the pots. I'd figure it was a Cat because there are times I find poo... Today I noticed him from our window doing his deed so I ran outside and scared him away.... I think he was curious about my camera. I don't think I scared him away.... he'll be back..
HIM @ Rock City, Nottingham - Saturday 26th October 2013
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