Have visited Benma 1/2's Spring Splash II since April 21, 2000.
TIDUS
Happatai
Blight
Blossom
Chef Solo
Darth Maul
Darth Sidious
Didabarochi
Optimus Prime
Ranma-chan
Rowdyruff Boys
Spam!
Super Saiyan Goku
Tuxedo Mask
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DESIGNER: AGSMA WORN BY: Benma 1/2 CONCEPTION: April 2000 PICTURE DATE: 7-30-2000 APPEARANCES: SDCC 2000 Masquerade, Halloween 2000 COMPONENTS: Universal: Brown slacks, dress shoes. Powers: Gold dress shirt, black jacket, black collar piece. Blight: Shredded black jacket, neon shirt, gloves, mask. PREPARATION TIME: 5 minutes, 10 if doing the inbetween stage. POWERS GAINED: 1. Can walk unphased into nuclear waste dumps. 2. President of Wayne/Powers. 3. Can light up half the city. 4. Look hella cool. DRAWBACKS: 1. Need black light for full costume effect. 2. Human skin keeps flaking off. 3. "You don't want to be around me when I'm shedding..." STORY: The group decided to go with Batman Beyond for the SDCC 2000 Masquerade, and yours truly was chosen to be the lead villian. For two months, I'm pulling teeth trying to get Ucchan to go see Kasumi in order to see what type of paint (or fabric) we need in order to look the best under her black lights. Once we borrow the lights, we find some shirts that look really cool under the light, and a fabric candidate, which unfortunately doesn't show up as well. $15 down the drain. But "living and learning" is what we did a lot of at this convention. Moving along, painting the skeleton on the shirt was an entirely different matter. First of all, we ran out of my good (and more expensive) paint after painting the front of the shirt. Then we get the fabric that takes "30 minutes to dry." Well, it took slightly longer. At 7 AM, after painting circa 2 AM, it still wasn't dry, and out came the hair dryer. With three people who know anatomy fairly well, the skeletal guidelines for painting on were highly accurate, and for backup we had a Batman Beyond comic to work off of. The most utilized comic in my collection that was not just for reading pleasure. Once the costuming aspect was completed, the technical side was a completely different matter. You know you're either in with the right crowd and/or important (or MORE likely just a major pain in the arse) when they take you on-stage before the masquerade to ask where you need your black lights. There was going to be a slight problem, having extension cords laid across the stage during a fight scene, but someone found an empty plug hanging in front, just where we needed it. So off I went. Then I am informed that that plug is for a video camera. Oops. "Can you split it?" And I don't know if it connected, but we had no black light. The next contingency plan that was devised was to flood the stage with fog and have the black light reflect off of that and hopefully back onto me. Alas, that didn't work well either, especially as the lights weren't down when we started, as requested. But that's nobody's fault. What we should consider, however, is a technical rehearsal, where one member of each skit could sit down and watch with the coordinator as to how each skit is supposed to work, giving everyone needed practice, especially the actors. But it still looks good. And at any Halloween parties that have black lights, I'll be the life and light of the party! 
 And this is how it's supposed to look with a black light! Pardon any blurriness...you know how cameras act around radiation! Mwahahahahahaha! 
 This costume is so cool, it even has it's own banner! Link up!! 
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