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shot is me(Jeff) in the Don Post Cornelius mask with an outfit made by my wonderfull seamstress wife, Susan. This was put together in 1988. The other four are our outfits made for DragonCon in 1998. We were extremely well recieved by the audience and fan crowd in general, even if our audio tape of the Ursus speech was barely audible. There was no tech rehersal at the con, so I had no idea that my tape wasn't going to work on their equipment. There I was, ranting and strutting in my best James Gregory imitation and the audience could hear NOTHING! Almost nothing, anyway. We were waiting for my cue when I realized that the distant noise I was hearing WAS my cue. I went into the speech about ten seconds late. But such is life. We still took a Re-Creation award, so it wasn't a total loss. We were CONTINUOUSLY told to keep our damn dirty paws off of everyone (people's off-the-cuff originality can be staggering sometimes)and all the guys wanted photos of themselves being kissed by my wife as Zira. Our presence also triggerd a few rousing choruses of "Dr.Zaius-Dr.Zaius...!" to the tune of "Rock Me, Amadeus", from the Simpsons bit that I will assume you are familiar with. Our friend Joe Tripp was BORN to be Zaius. He worked so well in that costume, it was spooky. Our Cornelius was Max Smith. Anyway, in spite the technical difficulties, a good time was had by all. My wife did an excellent job with the glyphs. The Chimp's little, "half moon" pieces are missing, but as usual, we ended up short on time. Better looking feet will also be made. We wanted to build them around actual shoes, but again, we ran out of time. Enjoy. Jeff & Susan Stringer
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