Jungle Furry ~ a beanie baby guide to Jungle Fury

Episode 12: "One Master Too Many"

2009-10-07T15:44:04Z

Posted by: starandrea

Hi ♥

This project was originally called "The RJ/Casey Guide to Jungle Fury (with beanie babies)," which may explain a few things. I decided the beanie babies were more visible than RJ/Casey, but "One Master Too Many" was totally a coming out episode in my mind. Being a wolf, being gay... six of one, half a dozen of another :)

Love, *Andrea

Episode 12: One Master Too Many

( One Master Too Many )

Tea cards ~
The one Casey's holding says, "Love has no fear and no vengeance."
The one RJ's holding says, "Live from your heart, you will be most effective."
And the one on top in the bucket says, "Live for each other."

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Episode 11: "Pushed to the Edge"

2009-09-29T00:33:43Z

Posted by: starandrea

Hi ♥

Dude, my sister actually has the Monty Python bunny rabbit! Perfect villain! The scrunchies that the bunny rabbit uses to trap the Rangers came from Marci, too... would you believe they're from her senior prom? One of them is holographic! I take full responsibility for Camille's star clips and tiara, though :)

Love, *Andrea

Episode 11: Pushed to the Edge

( Pushed to the Edge )

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Episode 10: "Blind Leading the Blind"

2009-09-10T17:44:40Z

Posted by: starandrea

Hi ♥

Oh, levitation. You make this project... more entertaining. Master Swoop had to not be in the final scene, because I only have two hands, so I could only hold the camera plus one beanie baby at a time. Also, candles, sticks and string, and post-it note fans that make Lily and Theo's weapons oppositely colored! Fran gets a dragonfly :)

Love, *Andrea

Episode 10: "Blind Leading the Blind"

( Blind Leading the Blind )

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Episode 9: "Good Karma, Bad Karma"

2009-09-10T01:11:14Z

Posted by: starandrea

Hi ♥

So Casey is apparently impervious to slime in this episode, and also, he runs a lot. I had a random backwards moment while I was shooting this, during which I forgot what kites look like, so I labeled Josh's kite for helpfulness. Also, sekitou gave me the butterflies in the store years ago! Aren't they pretty?

Love, *Andrea

Episode 9: Good Karma, Bad Karma

( Good Karma, Bad Karma )

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"I believe in happy endings" (jem & the holograms)

2009-06-09T03:26:41Z

Posted by: starandrea

Hi ♥

So if Jungle Fury was the most warm and fuzzy season of Power Rangers ever, RPM is its exact opposite. It's the darkest, most standoffish season to date. But really, who needs love, hugs, and beanies more than the most standoffish among us? I added in some charming "Jem & the Holograms" lyrics for good measure.

(It's kind of like setting a Torchwood music video to the Gummi Bears theme song: samantharichter ftw!)

Love, *Andrea

( 'I believe in happy endings' (jem & the holograms) )

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Episode 8: "Way of the Master"

2009-05-23T17:08:35Z

Posted by: starandrea

Hi ♥

Bless A.C. Moore for their lovely craft items and tolerant staff: not only have they supplied several of the beanie babies in this project, they also allowed me to collect some of the loose flowers underneath their silk flower collection. You know, the little blossoms that fall off while people are picking them up and putting them back? Free garden for Lily!

Also, the blue power beads that stand in for Lily's "elephant mace" were a gift from marcicat years ago. She made them! The bracelet and the beads! Isn't she fabulous?

Love, *Andrea

Episode 8: Way of the Master

( Way of the Master )

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Episode 7: "Pizza Slice of Life"

2009-05-23T16:51:06Z

Posted by: starandrea

Hi ♥

So Marci and I used to have a dollhouse. I had sort of forgotten this until I stumbled over some of the accessories while looking through her boxes for beanie babies. I might have gotten a little carried away with the kitchen chaos, which was intended to increase from scene to scene until the last panel--I just threw in more and more stuff until, in the second to last panel, you can actually see a can of soup lying on the floor next to Theo ^_^

On the other hand, if any restaurant were going to have canned soup lying around, it would probably be RJ's.

Love, *Andrea

Episode 7: Pizza Slice of Life

( Pizza Slice of Life )

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Episode 6: "Dance the Night Away"

2009-05-23T16:49:26Z

Posted by: starandrea

Hi ♥

I mentioned to my sister how quickly I was going through minions, and she kindly supplied several new beanie babies to fill this role. Including the dancing Minion of Evil featured in this episode. Thank you marcicat!

Love, *Andrea

Episode 6: Dance the Night Away

( Dance the Night Away )

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Episode 5: "Can't Win Them All"

2009-05-23T16:47:47Z

Posted by: starandrea

Hi ♥

Yay! I have a table! Beanie babies prop well, and there's nothing like a nice table for everyone to lean against ^_^ Unless it's a purple tribble for lying on. Or a walking stick for balancing on. Theo was a good sport in this episode. Also, thanks to marcicat for loaning me her green pack towel as a practice mat!

Love, *Andrea

PRJF episode 5: Can't Win Them All

( Can't Win Them All )

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Episode 4: "A Taste of Poison"

2009-05-23T16:45:54Z

Posted by: starandrea

Hi ♥

This ended up being a cutely prop-heavy episode, to the point where I even gave Casey and Lily hats while they were "working" in the kitchen. Unfortunately, I forgot to put on their morphers while they were fighting! Oh well ~ it matches episode 3 that way :) I put them next to the camera for better remembering next time.

...The evil minion came with that red ribbon, by the way.

Love, *Andrea

PRJF episode 4: A Taste of Poison

( A Taste of Poison )

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Plus: Avatars

2009-05-23T16:40:46Z

Posted by: starandrea

Also,

solarbaby614 went on an avatar-making spree: beautiful Jungle Furry avatars! There are character avatars, dialogue avatars, and even action scene avatars (Jarrod *is mean* RARR!!) which I find truly amazing in a one inch by one inch square ♥ (My personal favorite is Fran going "Yay!") Please to be enjoying solarbaby614's fantastic talent ~ many thanks to her for sharing it!

Love, *Andrea

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Episode 3: "Sigh of the Tiger"

2009-05-23T16:31:20Z

Posted by: starandrea

Hi ♥

It's funny, it turns out that staring at the same pictures for a long time makes it easy to miss obvious inconsistencies. I took out the spellcheck lines in the previous episodes and made the dialogue colors more uniform ~ although I left RJ's lectures blue, because the background was sort of boring in those pictures anyway. Speaking of: I've changed the loft background for prettier contrast :)

Also, I had some "casting" help in episode 3: marcicat provided great assistance with the kids' party scene, not only locating potential "children" but also lending one of her own. Because she's awesome like that.

Love, *Andrea

PRJF episode 3: Sigh of the Tiger

( Sigh of the Tiger )

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Episodes 1 and 2: "Welcome to the Jungle"

2009-05-23T16:16:17Z

Posted by: starandrea

Hi ♥

So I love Jungle Fury. I write about it a lot. I love beanie babies, too. I don't collect them so much as I just... can't resist their cute little faces. I also happen to own a camera, and... well, I actually learned to use a draw program for the sole purpose of doing this. It makes me very happy. It turns out that I really love drawing on pictures of beanie babies acting out Jungle Fury episodes.

Many thanks to Ty, Disney, and Dreamwidth, encouraging all sorts of inspired fannish creativity. Please to be sharing my delight :)

Love, *Andrea

PRJF episodes 1 & 2: Welcome to the Jungle

( Welcome to the Jungle )

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