While everyone else was waiting for the S7 RxH lottery emails, Pete and I (along with Chris Kohler’s lady Amanda) were lining up outside Johnson Motors and the Bispop Gallery in Pasadena. When we arrived we were shocked to find we were first in line – fuuuccccccck – first in line! But as it turned out, two other liner-uppers were hidden around the corner, lining up for the Mixi-Bang Circus Punks show that was going off simultaneously. As a result of a line merge we then became 3rd , 4th and 5th respectively. We ended up waiting 7.5 hours, but for the most part the day passed pretty quickly. Pete brought along a skateboard, so I entertained myself with forays down the alley, and pathetic attempts to pose tricks I could once do. Many hours were spent drooling over the Pollard handpaints, and working out who would get which one. As it turned out, my two first choices were also the same two choices of the guys in front of me – arrrghh! But hey, they got there first, so all good. The line stayed close to about 10 or 12 people for most of the day, but swelled by twilight. Various Skullbrainers showed up through out the day, and it’s always rad to meet people in person.
The only real downer was some Drama BS, which resulted in my being pulled aside by one guy when Amanda returned to the line with a friend – despite my assurances that her friend wasn’t buying a toy, I was told the line was pissed. After confronting the issue I found that no one was pissed, apart from the one guy who had pulled me aside. It is kind of annoying being accused of shit like that though, especially given certain other circumstances going on.
I guess the other downer was that the stuff was so cool, that each of the three of us bought a hand-painted, which meant we couldn’t score one for Glenn. Sorry Glenn – but after such a long wait, and all the line hassle, a toy reward was most definitely in order.
Anyway, all was well when we all scored a cool handpaint, and had a beer and a circus punk browse next door at Mixi-Bang. Man, the Circus Punk show was super crowded , and packed with toy celebs – these guys LOVE their punks! I’m not a huge fan – but there were some pretty rad custom punks in there. A large bunch of us also won (or were given) a CP gift pack, comprising vinyl pouch with mini-punk plus stickers. Nice!
By days end we were wiped though. So I’m flagging as I write this. So, instead I’ll let the pics below do the talking (all photos courtesy of TurtleGod - Cheers!):
The line began here:
RFSO:
WARNING: Line boredom causes simulated toy sex, and also causes skate assisted suicide attempts:
Night Falls, and Tim appears with Steveo:
while the excitement builds:
So, WTF did the Pollards look like?
And look what we spied? The latest Tim created Kaiju-for-Grow-Ups protos, and they look like the best of the series so far:
