 This is a video that I should have made a long time ago, I mean way way back. I've been thinking about it for a long time. Over the years I've been collecting art and photographs from artists and cosplayers that I've met at conventions over the years and I've been intending for some time now to create a video series where I show this stuff off. And as I'm packing and reorganizing everything here I'm pulling out piles and piles of stuff that's just been sitting in corners waiting so I grab a stack of stuff here about half of which is photos of cosplayers and I'm going to show you those now. This is Yahyaan of course. I got this at Megacon or excuse me Metrocon I think in 2011. But this is the first time I met her when she came to town. I had seen this photo online. I remember browsing past it and then a few seconds later going back and looking at it again because I had assumed it was CGI. I thought it was a cartoon I mean look at her. So yeah when I met her I saw it out this photo in particular. Yahyaan is very gracious in person. She takes time to talk to everybody at the conventions. I interviewed her when I went to DragonCon as part of the 50th Street Tour last fall. Go look for that at the 50th Street Channel. This is Kiki Cannon. She's a local cosplayer here in the Tampa area but I've never met her. I've been a fan of her work for some time. She makes very professional props. She specializes in Sailor Moon props. She makes the staffs and the tiaras and the wristbands all the stuff and she does it very professionally. She molds, she sands, she paints and makes them look factory made. Never met her. She's here local but I've never met her. This is another of my favorite cosplayers if not my absolute favorite. This is Steph Van Schuitz. I don't know what she called herself before. She started calling herself Van Schuitz. I think it was Steph. Anyway if you haven't seen Steph online you need to go find her. Her costume work is amazing. She creates these very professional looks. Go look her up. This is some artwork. There's Gypsy from Mystery Science Theater saying thank you. I bought this artwork from Amy Meberson, an artist who became famous, who became internet famous a few years ago for her Pocket Princesses comics. She draws the Disney Princess comics. She draws the Muppets comics. She made these for sale, these MST3K drawings available for sale on Etsy and I happened to see the tweet or the email or whatever at the very moment that she made them available and I went straight there and bought them and as soon as I had finished paying for them I went on to Facebook or whatever to brag about how I had snapped them up and I couldn't find the link to the page again and I asked her what's up and she said Disney had shut her down that quickly. I was lucky enough to get online for the few seconds before Disney had shut her down and I got these great Tom Servo and Crow drawings. I was lucky, lucky, lucky. Yeah, we'll do this one next. This is from another one of my all-time favorite cosplayers, Komodo Queen. Her name is Amanda. Sometimes she calls herself Komodo Queen. Right now she's calling herself Pixel Pie on Tumblr. She changes her name all the time. I first noticed her a few years ago because of her Squirrel Girl cosplay and I'll put a photo up of it here. I liked it so much I became a fan of hers and I didn't have any of her stuff so I ordered these stickers that she made available. She does stuff mostly on Tumblr, Werewolf Press. This comes from an artist named Chelsea Blossom. Actually, I'm not sure how to pronounce her last name. She spells it B-L-O-X-S-O-M, Blossom or maybe just Blossom. I've been a fan of her work for a long time. She does cosplay and she makes plush toys, custom plush toys as well. But this is the first thing I ever bought from her. I thought that was such a funny idea. But I didn't think that was enough because it didn't really represent her work. So she had a sale of some of some mustache monsters. She calls them mustache monsters and I bought this one. She invented these mustache monsters a few years ago. She makes them in all shapes and sizes. She makes them gigantic. Sometimes they'll have three eyes, they'll have teeth, they'll have tentacles. Love in the Sandwich is what she calls herself. How could I forget that? Love in the Sandwich of course. So go look up her stuff. Now I've got some actual unboxings here. This is some stuff from one of my favorite cosplayers, one of my favorite people in the world, Uncanny Megan. She's moved a couple of times recently and done some other projects and I contributed like $5 here, $10 there maybe. And she sends out packs of photos and stickers to people. This was a couple of years ago and I never opened these. So let's see what she sent. These are surprise packages. I truly don't know what's going to be in here. Photos, uh oh. There's one for cards. There is a, wow, a bubble bath photo. Good Lord. One of her Savage Land Rogue photos. These are 8 by 10s. Some 5 by 7s. This is Harley Quinn. It looks like in her nurse costume. There's Kitty Pride. And there's one of the, uh, one of the Frozen girls, Elsa or whichever. I can never tell which. Okay. All right, great. I like this photo. I like this one. I was reading New Mutants comics when I was in junior high when Kitty Pride first appeared. I've always liked Kitty Pride, so I like this picture. Here's the second package. This one's heavier. This has a stack of something in it. Okay. Ah, a drink coaster. A Supergirl drink coaster. This is, this is a heavy drink coaster, big cork drink coaster. And here's a thin coaster, thin paper coaster with Daphne. And here's some prints of Megan's Daphne costume. Megan does the best Scooby-Doo Daphne in the world. Very authentic costume. Here's a photo. I don't know what that is. I don't know what this is either. And, uh, another couple of coasters. Anyway, great. Now, I didn't have any pictures of uncanny Megan before, and now I've got a hundred of them. Now, finally, this is the big unboxing. This is a little mystery envelope that I bought. I think, again, it was at MetroCon in 2011 when I first came down to this area. I never opened it. It was sitting on this one artist's table in a little bowl of mystery envelopes. I think for a dollar. I liked the idea so much that I snapped on up immediately. And then when I got home, it was in my bag of convention swag with all my cards and everything, all the business cards, and it stayed there. And it got separated from the business card. I wasn't sure if it was this one or with another. So I sent out some emails to see who it was, and it turned out to be this one, Squeaksland Studio. She also calls herself World of Pumpernickel. None of her websites are active anymore. The last time she made any kind of entry looks like it was 2013. But anyway, I contacted her and asked her, was this indeed hers? And this was 2012 when I sent these emails out a year later. And she said, yeah, I had the mystery envelopes. So I told her, I'll do a mystery unboxing someday on YouTube. And that was five full years ago. So this thing has been sitting, has been moving from my kitchen counter to my desk to my bookshelf back to my desk for six years. And now we're finally going to open it. These are her characters from her web comic, it looks like. Traveling Hill Monster. Okay. It's like a collector card for her characters. And this must be a magnet. Okay, the green one is a magnet and the purple one is a sticker. Look like some kind of sock bunny. Is there something? This one's glittery. The magnet is glittery. Okay. This is cute stuff. No, this was six years in the making. All right, folks, there's all my cosplayer friends and my artist friends and the Super Rare Amy Meberson Mystery Science Theater drawings. There you have it. I'll do more of these in the future because I have tons and tons of stuff. See you then.