Very excited to finally share some pictures of my Dread Pirate Frogerts build! I've been thinking about making this outfit for my Kermit for a while now, but the proper motivation to actually get this done was hearing that Cary Elwes was announced as a guest for my local comic convention! So with any luck Dread Pirate Frogerts will be getting to meet the real Westley very soon.
A shocking amount of work went into making this little outfit... I completely underestimated the amount of time I would need to put all this together. Though a good chunk of that was me getting way too wrapped up in perfectionism... ask me how many times I re-did the smocking on the sleeves (On second thought, don't, it's embarrassing). Here I thought I had been con-crunching with Piggy last year... technically, I only just finished Kermit today, and the convention starts Thursday. Lots of internal (and external) screaming was had with this build. I did film the majority of it, with plans to turn it into a full video and reel in the future... maybe once I've had a chance to recoup from aforementioned con-crunch.
So sorry for the wait for this update, its been a week since the convention but I feel like I'm only just starting to feel like a human being again. But here's the grand finale, my Kermit meeting the man in black himself: Cary Elwes! The meeting with Cary was brief but memorable. He said Kermit looked great as Westley, and all in all seemed very amused with him. Prior to meeting Cary I had attended his panel at the convention, and during the Q&A section another audience member asked what he thought of the idea of remaking The Princess Bride with Muppets. I so wish I could've gotten this on film, but sadly it wasn't allowed at the panel so ya'll will just have to take my word for it. But Cary said he approves of the idea and confirmed that if it were to happen, he would want Kermit to play Westley and Piggy to play Buttercup. So that was incredibly delightful to hear, as I sat there in the audience with Kermit on my arm. All in all, it was a good day, and I’m grateful to have had the experience of making my tribute to Westley and getting to share it with the man himself. And it was also really fun to get to see everyone's reactions to Kermit, both online and in-person (In fact, I actually had someone recognize me in a panel from the post on Tumblr, small world! Hello again to you, if you happen to see this!). Thanks to everyone for all the likes and nice comments you've left on the original post! I'm gonna start work on a video going through the build process of my Dread Pirate Froggerts, so look forward to that sometime in the near future (Hopefully soon anyways, I am as slow as cold molasses when it comes to video uploads).
