One More Custom Pop Vinyl For Dragon Con's Dan Carroll

This will be a little puzzling for most of you, but I had to share.

See, John has a budding bromance with the Media Relations Director of Dragon Con, Dan Carroll. I've talked about Dan here before; he's the huggable-but-fierce protector of all geeks, and to know him is to love him.

Anyhoo, three days before DCon we'd just finished our McKay Pop figure, and John got it in his head that we should make Dan one, too.

So we did:

We modeled the clothes off of Dan's most recent (at the time) TV appearance:

 Then we asked our inside sources what color this year's staff lanyards would be, so we could include the world's tiniest badge:

(We didn't have the badge art, though, so we just used a DCon logo.)

I'm rather proud of the beard; Dan's fades from blonde to white, so it was tricky to paint.

To make the figure we used a Crowley body - since we had one left over from McKay - and Captain Picard's head. (John sanded off the sculpted hair fringe with a Dremel.)

And once again, the best part is John's box:

He changed "Pop! Television" to "Pop! Conventions", and then used the world-famous Marriott carpet pattern for the background. (DCon attendees literally make clothing and camouflage out of this pattern to wear to the con. It's a shame the hotel is replacing it!) The number is Dan's birthday.

Then, on the back, one of my own photos of the Marriott lobby:

And here's Dan with his new Pop figure!

This was a lot of fun to do - so much so that John's been talking about doing even more custom figures. Any suggestions?

But first, we have a big project in the works that may please some of you: EPBOT PIN PACKS. And John's made even more designs! Woot woot! We'll have a limited number going up for sale on Etsy in just another day or two, so stay tuned!