The LambCutlet Disorganisation

These guys have been commandeering a fair chunk of my time hence the lack of blogging, Photogasmic™ or otherwise, though I figured I’d abuse the former format and bring forth a little “making of” because you all love Bertie Bear! ;)

With the obligatory timeline:

1. In the process of creating a successor to phpBB “Creating Communities” Bertie Bear, the highly experimental –enable-bertiezilla configure option was accidently enabled and Bertiezilla started to romp his way around the world. Whilst this had the advantage of reduced shipping costs since he’d make his own way there, I decided that occasionally wiping the odd city off the map (even somewhere like Luton!) would just not be acceptable.
2. The first prototpye with the “Olympus Odssey” tag-line arrives by the way of a phpBB Mega-Bear and is checked out by Bertie and Domo. Curiously blond and overly nice looking… we weren’t too if we could trust this new guy!
3. The next generation Bertie-clones arrive, sporting a red sweater and red hoodie respectively, both with the “Olympus Odssey” tag-line. The Mega-Bear was starting to look too creepy at this stage so he was sent off to the gulags… :D
4. Original Bertie with his two potential successors… which of the two shall it be? How would two plush toy bears fight it out anyway? Out-cute each other to death? The mind of mere mortals, what with our limited perception, boggles…
5. During the evening whilst I wasn’t looking, the hoodied “Olympus Odssey” Bertie-clone had sliced to pieces the more mild-mannered Bertie-clone with the red sweater. Fearing what he could potentially do to pet humans, he was set off to the gulags too. Probably to be shredded and reused as suffing for a sofa or some such! ;)
6. The recipe for the next generation Bertie was tweaked and after a 1 week assembling period, he arrived! With the new “Conquering Olympus” tag-line, he seemed to be well balanced on the axes of cute-and-cuddleablity versus world-conquering-megalomania…
7. For the next generation Bertie, the back of the hoodie carried an extended version of the old tag-line too, in an effort to please the old conservatives… You just can’t trust the young’uns they say, whilst waving their walking sticks. Pah to all of you! :P
8. “Conquering Olympus” Bertie snarls for the camera just as he would do before devouring phpBB forum trolls and spammers alive! :D
9. Promotional photoshoots are always a pain though “Conquering Olympus” Bertie seems moe than happy to show himself off to the world…
10. … and of course his über-cool red hoodie which has a tag-line on the back too!
11. Next generation Bertie takes a little time out to conquer “Bertie Mons” as 50-something of his clones prepared themselves to be boxed up and shipped to their new pet humans.
12. Around about 110 boxes of “Conquering Olympus” Berties all ready to be picked up by Royal Mail to go off to the far corners of planet Earth…

If you’ve yet to opt to become a pet human for phpBB “Conquering Olympus” Bertie Bear, there still some left, though be quick as it won’t be that long till he’ll have to go back to Mars and finish off conquering Olympus! ;)