1st Annual Midwest Plushform Show

Carol and John’s Comic Shop on the Westside of Cleveland and Shoparooni on the Eastside are putting their efforts together to host the 1st Annual Midwest Plushform Show taking place between November 7th and 29th of 2008 at both locations.  The show will be used as a fundraiser “Toys For Tots”, and 50% of all proceeds from the show being will be used to purchase toys to donate to Toys For Tots. 

The Plushform is a blank, do-it-yourself plush figure made of a primed, canvas-like material that can be customized a variety of things including: paint, markers, pens, applique, sewing, and just about anything else you can think of.  

After making my Munny during the summer, I really got into the conceptual freedom and design opportunities in the custom toy making field.  It is a lot of fun, and a unique enough idea that really provides anyone with a chance to make something they like or create without or without experience. Shawnimals creator Shawn Smith is an ex-Electronic Gaming Monthly staffer who I followed recently when Ninjatown was announced as a Nintendo DS game.  So when I heard about this, I was interested.

John, from Carol and John’s Comic Shop just got in contact with me to ask me if I’d like to participate in the inaugural year.  Of course, I said yes, absolutely.  So should be getting my ideas together and roughing out some stuff and posting it here soon.  I just wanted to announce my entry and give everyone some links to what is going on incase they’d like to join too.