WONDERFEST 2001

(Saturday's Wonderfest Show - The Vendors' Room, Page One)

Saturday morning found me awakening a bit late. The old body was still trying to recoup from that marathon driving session we went through the previous two days.

I headed down to the mini-van, retrieved my models and registered them in. While doing so, I got a chance to check out the entries that had already been entered. MANNNN, they looked really good!

The contest was broken down into five different sub-categories: figures, dioramas, spacecraft and vehicles, dinosaurs and an adult section.

The Figures were Fantastic! The Dioramas were Dynamite! The Spacecraft (and Vehicles) were Spectacular! And, the Dinosaurs were Dynamically Devastating! (Sorry about that). All entries were really something to behold.

After entering my models I headed over to the Vendor's Room. Clara and the kids had decided to head over to Great Adventure for the day.

This freed me up for the entire day.

There were slews of guests speaking upstairs in two different theater rooms. Also, there were numerous How-to Demos being conducted down the hallway in the Lizard Lounge. To top things off, there were "How-to" (Make-it-take-it) workshops being conducted (both days) for children attending the show.

The How-to Demos ranged from the basic "Building Figures" and (Model) "Construction 101," to the advanced "Figure Sculpting 101," "Scratch building," Super Detailing" and "Lighting Basics." There was something for everyone at this show.

Even though I had intended to check out as many of the seminars and speeches as I could, I ended up spending so much time in the Vending room that I only attended the end of several.

Once I arrived at the vending room I headed over to the Polar Lights table and checked out what they had on display.

Next, I ran into the Diceman, (Ed Bowkley of Diceman Creations). He had a table and was selling a multitude of resin figures, along with copies of the Model Maniacs Magazine.

Steve Iverson had a table as well, (with Ziz and Anthony Taylor assisting). They had copies of the Jupiter-2 Book on hand, along with after market detail sets for the J-2, a brand-spanking new Aurora-like resin model and a number of miscellaneous videos and plastic model kits.

I ran into the folks from MonstersinMotion. Most notably among their products being displayed were a Mad Max V-8 Interceptor Car Model kit, an in-progress, almost completed 16 inch Moonbus (with a removable top), and a HUMUNGOUS Japanese Mecha-battle tank, (that was going for the paltry sum of $600.00!)

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