monsterpalooza April, 13th-15th, 2012

WOW!!!  What an incredible show this was!!! As much as I love Comicon and Wondercon, Monsterpalooza has become my new Favorite of the collector shows. The Palooza started Friday evening at 6:00 and went through the weekend. There were tons of incredible vendor booths, live make-up, airbrush, and mold making seminars, Movie and horror directors& stars, as well as a host of special make up FX artists.. Monsterpalooza has been an annual event but this year they are adding another show in October and again it will be in Burbank!!!! I’m booking this one as we speak. I took tons of pix from the show and they will speak volumes so enough chatter from me and lets go right into the show…

This is a painting of Grandpa from the "Munsters" painted by the incredible Daniel Horne. Dan had many pieces of his work at the show and I was blown away by his incredible talent, and what a great subject matter to display his mastery of the media

Here is another one of Dan's masterpieces!!! I'm only going to post two of his paintings because I'm going to do a special blog post about him very soon.

There was also a horror museum and this was one of the pieces on display

more from the Museum

If your a fan of John Carpenter's "The Thing" you'll know who this is..

Most of the work in the Museum was full scale and beyond, this piece stood at least 8 to 9 feet tall

this was a shot from a vendors booth who sold horror candles as well as a lot of other great stuff,,,, Check out "The Thing Candle" in the middle

I believe this was from "Cloverfield"

famous busts

A full size horror display featuring the silent film version of "Phantom of the Opera"

A most impressive piece of work, A full size sculpture of Rick Baker applying "An American Werewolf in London" make up on David Naughton

by the same artist another life sized sculpture of Jack Pierce applying mummy make up to Boris Karloff. Rick Baker's hands were cast and used for Pierce's hands.

another view of this incredible sculpture

Frankie in full scale

some pieces from one of the many booths

more cool stuff

IT"S THOMAS WAITES!!!! This is the actor who played the character, Windows in John Carpenter's "The Thing" Thomas was very kind and let me snag a pic with him!!!

Frank Dietz and Trish Geiger of Bonevelent Monster Productions were at the show promoting their new film "Beast Wishes" which is a tribute film to Bob and Kathy Burns. The filmed premiered Thursday night at the Arclight theater in Hollywood and is the best tribute film I have ever seen.. Stay tuned for a special blog about these two and their film in the near future

Don't eat worms or spend to much time at the cemetary

Michael Jackson!!!!!! Incredible

always wear your retainers at night or else

I would die to have this kind of talent!!!

this was a beautiful yet disturbing piece depicting the life of a bunch of zombies

so many great creatures

this was a giant phone booth sized machine that when activated, opened up to a full animatronic character that would sing then try to blow you to pieces when you critiqued his lack of singing skills

AHHHH my favorite!! The Hyperflesh booth, home of the giant baby head masks!!!

here's the mask in action!!!! very scary

My buddy Nelson and his fav piece of the show

a one eyed beauty

this artist sculpts in both practical media as well as Z brush and teaches classes on how to master the program

This young gal had the best outfit n make up!!! She was just a convention goer and was incredibly scary!!

This was my second favorite booth. "Werepups" They make and sell these adorable little furry werewolf puppies that look and move so lifelike you would swear they are real!!!

Here is a pic of the world famous Steven Chiodo!!!

This is Ed and Charlie Chiodo, combined with Steven, they are the Chiodo Brothers. These three incredibly talented artists have a studio in Burbank CA, and in 1988 they wrote and directed as well as made all the Klowns for the space epic "The Killer Klowns from Outer Space", and most recently they created all the puppets for Team America. Three great guys and always working on some very cool projects.

a young Zombie on her way to the showroom.

the Monsterpalooza clock!!!

glad these things were behind glass

here a four ghouls that no one would want to have a blind date with, Sorry I don't have the little black sensor bars to cover things, so quickly move on if your kids are in the room with you!!!

the next several pictures are from the booth where the ghoulie girls were at.. here is something Hannis from "The Ring"

more awesome masks

the focus is a little soft but had to post this incredible piece anyways

Ahhh how cute, A little vampire alien

wicked!!!

full werewolf costumes

these suits n masks are to cool for words

if your in the market for adopting a little demon, you had a lot of them to choose from

and this is the final pic from the show!!!! enjoy