reports from the final California Gen Con...
Attention: Worldwide League of Painters
The Phileas Fogg Box arrived in Phuket, Thailand, on 8 June, and was sent off the same day on the trip to Germany.
The box arrived here in great shape; thanks to whoever came up with the idea of the smaller packing boxes inside, as that made it easy to turn around quickly, and certainly gives good protection to the figures. The only change I made to the packing was to wrap each of the figures in bubble wrap, as it looked like a couple of them might have scrapped together during their trans-Pacific run.
I knew that time would be an issue, so pre-painting a figure here was a must for us. I let one of our painters, Ms. Kung, chose the figure she would most enjoy painting, and she picked a Confrontation figure called Misan the Clairvoyant.
So that is what she painted up, and we sent it off today along with the cards that go with this figure.
Once Misan was painted up, he got to make a trip around the island of Phuket and see the sights.
His first stop was a local temple called Wat Chalong. This Buddhist temple is famous for an Abbot of the temple that in 1876 rallied the fleeing local population to stand and face the Chinese coolies that were rebelling, thereby ending the rebellion.
You can see Misan and his painter Ms. Kung in these pictures in front of the temple.
No trip to Phuket would be complete without a trip to the beach, so Misan's next stop was Nai Harn Beach.
He was not a big fan of the sun and didn't want to go swimming with all those books, so it was a brief excursion at the shore.
If you would like to know anything else about Misan or his time in Phuket, just drop an email or message in the Yahoo Group.