Robogirls, the
WebbwerX annual cosplay theme show with a plot,
is coming up on its fourth year. With an online
trading card release, a booth at Sakura Con, a
comic book, and “Dr.WebbwerX” showing up all
over the place talking about it, the show
promises to be one of WebbwerX largest shows..
The show was originally the brain child of Jimni
Cricket. She started the idea as a joke in the
kitchen of the infamous “aquatorium” to tease
Travis Webbwerx about is infamous fascination
with robot girls. The idea behind it was to put
three things that Jimni Cricket knew Travis
WebbwerX loved; Raves, robot girls and anime.
Travis and Jimni envisioned a monstrous party,
but were too inexperienced to manage what they
had envisioned. They had planned to create a
story and plot which would generate a fun
background to the party that people would dress
up for.. What they were able to manage was a
full page flyer, some nice décor, and a major
headlining Dj, Dj Polywog from the movie Groove.
The event was presented in the now legendary
venue The Washington Hall.
Even though the whole of Robogirls 1 was not
what they had envisioned, the WebbwerX crew
accomplished a lot on what was at the time the
most ambitious event they had ever conceived. The
crew spent 3 days decorating and reshaping the
facade of the Washington Hall stage. When the
crew was finished, the large “Jazz” stage was
reduced to a 12 x 6 foot glowing window behind
giant black sheets. This created a shiny
black wall, with a simple glowing rectangle in
the center where the dj stood as a silhouette.
Above this rectangle a large screen running
video of code and 3d robot images played,
completed by a shinny silver mannequin with
lights, electronics and giant white flowing
angel wings that spanned the ceiling.
“Robogirls 2” was a
greater effort to achieve the whole Robogirls
concept. The flyer featured original art work by
Raven Winter and would featured the first plot
references for Robogirls, introducing the main
icon of the event to party goers, Kiara, the main icon of the
event to party goers. The flyer had all the
female dj’s portrayed as anime like Chibi’s.
Patrons were encouraged to dress up as their
favorite sci-fi and anime characters, with girls cosplaying as robot characters getting a special
discount. This was the first known Seattle
reference to WebbwerX now popular cosplay raves.
"Robogirls 2” was by far more successful than
“Robogirls” and nearly doubled in size, making
it one of WebbwerX largestshows.. Members of Nwtekno (www.nwtekno.com)
enjoyed scripted postings from Dr. Ido and plot
additions in serial form. Though at the time no
formal outline had been generated, the posts
were entertaining.. (However Dr. WebbwerX had no
editor at the time, so Dr. Ido’s posts were
worse then this post.)
Another milestone of “Robogirls 2” was the
addition of Sonny Chiba’s half hour “break-in
set” as Dr. Ido. The set was designed in to give
some entertaining drama to the main stage. It
incorporated a brief show of Dr. Ido stealing
the stage from the female dj’s just before the
headliner. Towards the end of his set, girls at
the show were encouraged to boo him off by the
other female dj’s and allow the female headliner
to play. In this case he was dragged off by Madora Mew and Jimni Cricket.
“Robogirls 3” though originally planned full
year in advance, should have been the full
incorporation of everything, however it snuck up
on the crew quickly.” To while “Robogirls 3” was
planned a full year in advance and should have
been the full incorporation of everything, it
snuck up on the crew quickly. Though originally
planned to be advertised with a comic and have
weeks of promotions, artist delays and staff
issues pushed the party into the last minute and
over drive by the crew. The flyer and the shows
lack of any reference homage to the original
franchise may have damaged the turn out. It
probably made matters worse that there was only
one weekend of promotions, and the show was
scheduled to compete with Bad Boy Bill at the
last minute.
Even with all the headaches the party was a
resounding success and helped continue the
franchise of Robogirls, bringing in numbers
barely short of the second Robogirls and still
greater numbers than the first. It was the
dominating party that weekend.
This year the official artist of WebbwerX, Sun
Tate, and Travis WebbwerX have begun working on
the long awaited Robogirls comic to advertise
the event. For the first time all the
characters and plot lines will be introduced in
their entirety, all drawn and colored by the
magical work of Sun.The event will tie directly into
the comic book plot and even into the Hyve (1)
plotline generated by WebbwerX in 2001.
Also this year, the WebbwerX crew has
scheduled many interactive mini events leading
up to Robogirls to help gain more involvement by
party goers into the Robogirls plot, including;
meets, panels at Sakura Con, AS WELL AS a booth
at Sakura Con.
Advertising for this year's event consists of;
online collectable cards with all the characters
and a rule set so the game can be played, full
page color flyer, a 20 page comic, and a web
page with a full back ground story written by
Travis WebbwerX and illustrated by Sun Tate.
WebbwerX is proud to be the only known rave
promotion crew to have an interactive party for
its fans and hopeS this year, with all our
efforts and work, Robogirls will become the mix
of fantasy and reality for Ravers that we as a
crew have dreamt of.
Thank you for joining us!
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