On video: “Louis the Lion battles for racing supremacy in the first ever Frantic Furry 500!”
Sometimes I joke about my low interest in sports. (Sorry, Canadians!) I’d love it if the teams were all mascots, while one sports guy runs around for laughs.
I imagine mascots worry about being upstaged by fursuiters. But the furries showed they’re good sports to Louis.
January 2018 update: Here’s a note that record top auctions just rose from $11,575 to $13,500.
Last week’s article about fursuits and top prices had very nice feedback.
@DogpatchPress Fantastic article guys, thanks for the shout-out and we're happy to help you with the research! We hope the market grows!
— FurBuy (@furbuy) December 30, 2014
Andreus wrote to mention that he owns Vex:
…a realistic MixedCandy-made werewolf fursuit that cost roughly $4,500 US / £2,600 GBP at the time of purchase. It’s got body-shaping padding such as digitigrade legs and large muscles for the proper muscular werewolf look. It’s also got a moving jaw.
Wearing big rugs for animal role-playing takes a lot of devotion and money.
In the above Anthrocon 2014 photo, 1,326 fursuiters broke the world record “Largest parade of people in fur suits,” set at Anthrocon in 2013.
For each fursuit in the photo, allow a generous but in-the-ballpark worth of $2,320.51. It makes the whole crowd worth exactly what someone paid for The Cowardly Lion costume from the 1939 movie The Wizard of Oz, worn by Burt Lahr. On 11/25/14, the original Cowardly Lion sold for $3,077,000.
Headlines, links and little stories to make your tail wag. Story tips are always welcome.
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A Furry Merry Christmas To One and All – from Tom Broadbent, documentary photographer.
Tom takes us to the Londonfurs annual Christmas party. “Retro gaming was the theme and it was hosted at the Amber Bar in Moorgate.” (More about his art.)
Arrow is the furry star of this! I got in touch with him for some casual questions:
“How did the video come about? Did you answer a casting call or did they contact you? Didn’t the suit already exist… do you think they specifically wrote it to fit you? Did you talk about the story to the writer? What was the production like, and where? How many takes did you do for the demonic voice?”
He answered with a blog post about the video:
Arrow Discusses: The Adult Swim Experience.
…a writer from a company that films shorts for Adult Swim contacted me because he wrote a script involving a buff mascot costume. He apparently found me from a fursuit parade video. After reading the script, I agreed, and flew down for a day-shoot. It was an amazing experience – I was treated as “talent” as much as any of the other actors in the short, and everyone was friendly and fun.
Then Arrow added answers to my questions that weren’t already on the blog:
Find Arrow on Twitter: @arrowt.
It’s the video they LOVE to hate. They can’t tear their eyes away while they stare. There must be some German word for that emotion – something that means spellbound horror. 
I shared it without comment, shortly after it was posted on August 31. Now, it wormed it’s way back to my attention. It’s attracting special antipathy, with Youtube likes outnumbered by double dislikes… but the nearly 90,000 views keep rising. (In the lag for this to post, it’s risen by 10,000 a week.)
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Please help answer the question at the end of the story!
“Furries & Despair” happened on 11/7/14. It was super successful. It featured portraits of fursuiters from Further Confusion by Ron Lussier, and Bobby Pin’s urban decay photos from Detroit. The show was packed with people having fun in and out of costume. You don’t often see such energy at a gallery.
Courtesy of Bobby Pin:
Thank you again for everybody that came out and supported our work. We hope you guys had a great time. It was great seeing everyone.
BAMM did an amazing job filming the opening night. Please give them some love.
Check out the wonderful video they did for the Furries & Despair Show:
Headlines, links and little stories to make your tail wag. Story tips are always welcome.
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Midwest Fur Fest evacuated by chemical spill. Fursuiters: stick to good old fashioned rug cleaner!
Initial report: Chemical leak prompts evacuation during Midwest FurFest at Rosemont Hyatt.
Several people could be seen in animal costumes waiting outside of the hotel. Ambulances from area suburbs were on scene helping transport people.
More: Glass Jar with White Substance, Strong Chlorine Smell Causes Firefighter, EMS Hazmat Response, Evacuation. Man, that’s a hell of a party foul.
Here’s links, headlines and little bites of news to make your tail wag. Story tips are always welcome.
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Fangcon’s Draconis / Calamity Cougar recovering from heart attack suffered shortly after the con.
Shortly before Fangcon, Draconis submitted a tip for my article about it. It was a shock to hear bad news in short order. I’m happy to see his positive video response about recovering, performing like a pro and furry all the way.
Claw and Quill: regrouping.
Watts (Chipotle’s) online publication attracted much anticipation from readers seeking smart furry magazine content, but it hasn’t put much material out. The “long-overdue” second magazine issue has been conspicuously absent. Now comes good news – a recent update from Watts explains a change from webzine format to WordPress, allowing multiple contributors to add content. (I’d sure love to see more than the handful of blogs like this.)
This weekend: Pacific Anthropomorphics Weekend brings a SECOND San Francisco Bay Area convention to San Jose, CA.
The long-established Further Confusion, occurring every January, is now augmented by PAW, a new event offering more than once a year activity. It features: “Photo Shoot, Dealers Area, Gaming and Semi-quiet Social Area, Open Cash Bar During Dances, Fursuit Dance Comp, Fursuit Games… and more!”
Courtesy of Super Jayhawk, from the Bay Area Furries mailing list:
“We’d like to announce that Furry Night Live, “The Greatest Show in Fur”, will be hosting a room party this next Saturday, November 15, at the Pacific Anthropomorphics Weekend Inaugural “Paw-Raiser” Fall Festival! We’ll be there to wish the new con well and will be having a party with a fursuit photoshoot, replays of classic videos from our legacy of all 10 shows since 2005, and throwing around ideas for new projects and videos we’d like to do.
