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Originally Posted by badgoodDeb
1000 points to you!
I play "cool auntie" in other realms. After owning a copy of Sting (the sword) for several years, I finally gifted it to a nephew who'd been ogling it and drooling every time I brought it out.  |
A chap I met at an SF con years back had a story on those lines.
He owned a fab shop in MD, and one of the things he had made was molded fiberglass battle armor, custom fitted to the wearers. They were a Trek Star Fleet Marine combat team. One of the costumes included a mini-gun along the line of a miniature Gatling gun, set so that as it rotated, an led at the mouth of what would be the barrel then firing would flash. The wearers came on stage, one by one, at the costume competition of Shore Leave, a fan run media con. The audience excreted a collective brick.
It got people's attention - he was contacted by some folks who wanted him to work for them. Unless he signed an NDA, they couldn't tell him who they represented, or what he would be doing. They
did say he would be far away from everything, and out of touch with the rest of the world for 6 months. It turned out they were associated with Peter Jackson's production company filming the Lord of the Rings, and they wanted him to come work on the production as an armorer. With that little to go on, he said no.
People I mentioned this to later said "I'd get to do things like make Orcrist and Glamdring? I'd pay
them to do that!", but I think he made the right call.
The next time I saw him was at the Worldcon in Philadelphia, where he had a two story high articulated dragon on exhibit. I don't know what he's up to now.
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Dennis