Mr. Tikistitch's Wild Night, Part the First

[tikistitch]

Our last night at Star Wars Celebration, and Mr. Tikistitch is proffering a roll of silver tape. "QUICK!! You must help me wrap my legs in silver tape!"

But, but, whatever for, Mr. Tikistitch?





Mr. Tikistitch has decided to cosplay as BLUE SNAGGLETOOTH. For the non-collectors amongst ya, this is an action figure that was only available in the Cantina playset offered by the Sears catalog (remember them?). For whatever demented reason, Kenner toy designers had taken a dwarf-sized denizen of the Star Wars cantina, grown him up to full size, and added splashy silver disco boots to his outfit! Once angry fans protested this travesty, the original Blue Snaggletooth was discontinued, and replaced by the more movie-accurate Red Snaggletooth. The action figure, though fairly loopy, is now highly prized by collectors, of which Mr. Tikistitch is one.

Our pal Boneboy (he of the awesome General Grievous costume) kindly fashioned Mr. Tikistitch a helmet, and the remainder of the costume was blue scrubs, and hastily applied silver tape.

So, what would be the reaction?



Hysterical laughter.



Philip: "'Oly sheet!"



For the first time in his life, chris georgoulias is speechless.



Nichols: "OMG! OMG! KEEP him here 'til I get my camera!!"



Nichols gets his picture.

Then it's off to the Celebration at Celebration party.



The obligatory "Weird character walking through the shopping mall" shot.

To be continued.....

Comments

[hooverdam.livejournal.com]

As seen in an Antiques Roadshow episode!

[tikistitch.livejournal.com]

Really? They had a blue snaggletooth?

[hooverdam.livejournal.com]

Yup. I forget which season it was, but they had a kid with a set of Star Wars figures. The appraiser explained that most of them were pretty common and so therefore of sentimental/completist value only, but that the Blue Snaggletooth was something special (appraised for $100, I believe). I mentioned that Star Wars stuff showed up on AR to a couple friends, and both, before I could say what it was, said "the Blue Snaggletooth, right?"

[tikistitch.livejournal.com]

I was shocked at how many people recognized the costume, and not just collector friends.

[jeepersjournal.livejournal.com]

Blue Snaggletooth is an Icon of Geekdom, so he's pretty well known. I only have a Red one. Though I do have Takara's WindUp R2D2! It's only missing the sticker.

FYI- the 80's POTF Yakface serves as a major plotpoint in Shaenon Garrity's Narbonic http://www.narbonic.com , the best evil science webcomic ever.

[tikistitch.livejournal.com]

Wind-up R2 is the coolest! Gus had one, though I think it's since been traded off for other cool swag.

Here's our sad Blue Snag story: a long time ago, Gus and his friends looked over some guy's action figure collection, with the intent to buy. He didn't have much of anything, EXCEPT a blue snag. They explained that it was rare, however, the silver paint on the boots had worn off in several places, thus decreasing the value.

The next day, the collectors returned to make a purchase. The blue snag owner proudly showed off his figure: overnight, he had *touched up* the worn places with silver paint!! *facepalm*

[kujachan.livejournal.com]

Bwahaha! Was there any loss of leg circulation, or was the silvery tape over some boots? XD

An original cosplaying idea! I luff eeet! Seeing as Part the Second will hopefully be popping up soon, I hope to see many more reactions to Mr. Tikistitch's cosplay.

[tikistitch.livejournal.com]

No, but he spent an additional half hour before we went to dinner frantically picking off all the tape!

[bgsu98.livejournal.com]

Hey Pam... I didn't realize you had a LiveJournal too. Thanks for posting pictures from the Celebration; I'm sorry I couldn't make it this year.

I hope you and Gus and everyone else had fun! :)

[tikistitch.livejournal.com]

Heyas, Chris! We missed ya. If you've no objection, I'm gonna friend ya, though 99% of this journal is about my stitch toys....