the brobee dress has a friend!
Emily has been asking for a "real" muno dress ever since I designed one for her Animal Crossing character. Finally I figured out how best to do it and let her pick out a dress pattern and fabric color for the base. Muno is appliqued with raw edges out of knit fabrics (the black is actually from a t-shirt that was too big!). She loves it, and it's super-cute on! Unfortunately for me, she immediately listed off for me the 10 or so characters she wants dresses of, including a Yo Gabba Gabba character that's been seen twice for mere seconds!! Yikes!! I told her, maybe later.....
(update: I've finally finished up a Yo Gabba Gabba dress how-to entry, if you're looking for tips on making your own, check it out!)
Lovely things people have had to say:
Great design. Very cute and it looks to me like a red pickle that got crossbred with a cyclops and a vampire.
Off-topic, but I remember you mentioning some character called bookska or boksa or something like that. I tried wiki to look it up but I think I have an incorrect spelling.
Also I'm trying to figure out the English name of a character from my childhood. It was a '60s or '70s live-action show about a really dumb, gas-guzzling red robot who was a servant to a Japanese family but was constantly earning demerits from his fellow robots for gross incompetence. I just know the Cantonese name for it and so I can't look it up.
Posted by: michael | February 2, 2008 12:15 PM
Michael: That's actually a character from Animal Crossing if I recall correctly. As for the character you're referring to, the spelling is "Booska"
Can't help you on that red robot, though.
Posted by: John-Paul | February 4, 2008 08:59 PM
Muno is actually one of the five monsters from Yo Gabba Gabba; but the dress idea came from Animal Crossing after I made a design for her to use in the game!
Thanks, John-Paul, it is Booska! Emily loves him too. Thank goodness she hasn't asked for a dress yet!
Michael - I think you probably are thinking of Robocon? I am finding no links....here's a youtube video of a Robocon toy, see if this looks familiar:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3c9dzcvjic0
Posted by: sarah | February 4, 2008 09:45 PM
Thank you everybody! And yeah it is Robocon...man I remember I even had that robot toy featured in the youtube vid. In Cantonese, it was called
Siu Lobo which doesn't even come close to being a translation
Posted by: michael | February 5, 2008 12:02 AM
This is so cute!!!
I hope all is well with you! I have been out of the bloggy loop lately!
Posted by: Jungle Dream Pagoda | February 15, 2008 04:53 PM
Holy crap, that is awesome!
Posted by: justJENN | March 14, 2008 03:22 AM
Please tell me how I can buy your Muno and Brobee dresses? My 2 year old is absolutely obsessed with YGG.
Posted by: Veronica | June 19, 2008 10:28 PM
hi . i really like the muno dress.
i was wondering if i can get one for my baby sister. we are having her 1st bday party. and the theme is "yo gabba gabba"
hope to hear from you soon.
-jen
Posted by: Jennifer | August 12, 2008 01:30 AM