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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.
frozendragon you can do a search on the Internet and probably identify a lot of these. I sold some old Breyer horses on eBay a while back and found a good site that I can try to track down again for you. I started all of mine that were in good condotion at $1 and let them go from there. The one that had a broken leg I started at $.01 and I think it ended up selling for more than most of the others.
SPark wrote:I think the pastel colored ones are Fashion Star Fillies.
I could be wrong, but I had one once, and it looked a LOT like those.
I was going to say that or maybe they went with the Lady Lovely Locks dolls because I think I remember horses for them.
Strider wrote:The first dragon with be colored to look like a bright green dragonfly. A bit like this fella >> http://www.samford.edu/schools/artsci/biology/invert04f/photos/Green-darner-dragonfly–Ana.jpg
Oh pretty dragonfly!
dragonessjade wrote:Wow, those are cool. You look a lot like one of my friends.
Yep they are. My hair is shoulder length now with what is left from a perm in February. The pictures are from May/June 2004 when I just was pregnant with our now 2-year-old son.
Greater Basilisk wrote:I was thinking of all the work that has to go into making one. They sound like a lot of fun!
They are a blast and it’s neat to watch him. I’d imagine it would be like watching Melody work. I’m not sure what they are made out of, but I think each one is individualy sculpted.
You mean to make them? Or to take care of/play with them?
The artist sits in his little house at the faire and sculpts away when he isn’t talking with customers. Oh, and he’s done some work on a lot of movie creatures: Gizmo and some of the Gremlins, Bartok from Anastasia, Dobby from Harry Potter, some of the Orcs in LoTR to name a few.
To care for them is simple: avoid extremes (heat and moisture), keep away from animals, avoid harsh chemicals, don’t monkey with the mechanics, et cetera.
To play with you set it on your shoulder and run the cable under your shirt and down your arm. You then twist the nob to move the head left and right and pull it in and out to move up and down. If you have a second control nob that’s for the tail and to imitate breathing.
