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frozendragon wrote:
spiders and heights….can’t handle either of em…
Me too. Especially if the height is a suspension bridge over water – not the ones big enough for cars to drive over mind you, the ones that only people can fit on.
Yep, but it can get pricey sometimes and it also depends on if someone is selling their copy and hoping it’s in decent condition.
alibris.com is also good for finding out of print books.
See you just listed off half or what I would have recommeneded. “The Witches of Eileanan” series is by Kate Forsythe and she has started a second series set after the first 6 books. The first one of the new series is “The Tower of Ravens”.
You might like the Dragon Quartet by Marjorie B. Kellogg. The first book by itself is called “The Book of Earth”. It’s also available with the second book (“the book of water”) as “The Dragon Quartet Vol. 1”.
The sad thing is a lot of series and books I could recommend are going out of print now so I don’t know if you would be able to find them.
A good dragon author is Irene Radford and her Stargods, The Dragon Nimbus History, The Dragon Nimbus and Merlin’s Descendants series.
skigod377 wrote:Nope. Im in Germany. I get to come home next year, though, and after 6 years over here, that seems like a cake walk!
Where are you in Germany? My husband was stationed near Frankfurt (Darmstedt) back in 2001-2003 and we have friends heading there way in April.
I’m on the East Coast as well, just down near Savannah, GA.
Wish I could go to anything horse related (the Lippizan Stallions just preformed at the Savannah Civic Center but I couldn’t go) or even a con (been 10 years since I went to Dragon*Con). But considering my husband and I have to pay my parents back for the transmission we had to put in his car this week I don’t expect to be going anywhere for a long time.
SPark wrote:That sucks. (From what I hear, so did their version of it.)
But man…. if you’d asked me to pick somebody to make Earthsea into a movie, I couldn’t have picked anybody better than Miyazaki. Even if it looks like some things got changed a lot, it also looks like the best bits are still there, and done just right.
Oh god’s yes the Sci-Fi Channel version of Earthsea sucked. Even the author was disappointed.
For her point of view on it: http://www.ursulakleguin.com/Index-EarthseaMiniseries.html
I’m not a big fan of the Miyazaki art stlyes but maybe they will do a better job with the movie.
asinnamon wrote:I’m on the hunt for a new fantasy series while I’m waiting on George Martin…Any recommendations?
Well what sort of fantasy do you like? Sword and Sorcery, Sci-Fi, et cetera. What are some authors you have read and enjoyed. I’d hate to recommend something you didn’t like or had already read.
Good luck for sure when it comes to bending the horn back. When I got my black uni male in the mail his horn was bent funny. It wasn’t the horn that got bent but the peg that sticks into the head.
I pulled it out, cleaned all the glue off, used pliers to bend it back into place (praying I didn’t break it off the entire time) and then put it back in the hole. Great thing is the peg and the hole are shaped a certain way and the horn only goes in one way.
I haven’t glued it back into place though because I wasn’t sure what to use, but fortunately it sits very nicely and when I pack him up when we move years from now I can take his horn off and put it in the box he was shipped to me (not an original) with him.
skigod377 wrote:I wish they would. Do you know what they have in there for dragons now??? Dragons with butterfly wings. YUK!!! Cheesy crap.
I haven’t seen those. Now you have my curosity up just to see how bad they are.
skigod377 wrote:Its an arts and crafts shop, so there is no chance of that. Im still trying to figure out how to get AAFES to carry Windstone.
Oh that would be so SWEET if AAFES started carrying Windstonee. Then I could probably talk my husband’s family to get me some ’cause his dad is retired Navy!
And then I could drool over them in the stores as well.
I’ve not seen one in person (just going of web images), but a big give away between rainbow and emerald peacock is that rainbows have red on them and emerald peacocks don’t.
Oh and your links didn’t work right.
SPark wrote:If yours are a different visual style than the ones already out there, there’s always room for more, I’d think. I mean, compared to the potential market, there are not that many of them being made. Otherwise I’d have seen more of them already, given the amount of time I spend hanging around with fantasy types.
The only place I’ve really seen them are at ren faires. The woodbabies Web site has pictures of owners and their “pets” and one is from Dragon*Con, a Sci Fi/Fantasy convention. I don’t remember seeing any there when I went 10 years ago, but I didn’t spend a lot of time in the big crowds so I could have missed them easy.
Nirvanacat13 wrote:We have a guy out here that does them too, they are really neat but the guy is a *%&@#%*&)*(@#)$*#&%)….@(#&%^)(*@)!*@$(&*&…..
Mr. Alfaro is really nice. His whole family helps out at the shop too. His sons are growing up to be quite the salesmen!
enchantments wrote:Wonder who was first?
Well Albert Alfaro Jr. (Imaginarium Galleries) got started making Drabits in the early 1970’s according to a brochure he gave us when we bought some puppets. The Midsummer Knight’s Dream started making Woodbabies in 1983 according to their Web site.
So in the case of Drabits vs. Woodbabies the Drabits win.
SPark wrote:There’s somebody selling a shoulder dragon like that on furbid right now, for $100.
http://www.furbid.ws/cgi-bin/auction/item.pl?item=25068
Is that by the same guy?
Nope that’s made by someone else. At the GA Ren Faire there is another booth (Midsummer Knight’s Dream) that sells puppets more like this one, they are called woodbabies.
