White Plains Reptile Expo 09/09/2012 Impresions

everyone with was there feel free to chip in post your photos and comments....

I really tried get there early but want not always means get and that was a case this time with me...

Got out 11.19 from train on White Plains Station abd around 11.30 i was there and....

OMG :O Hour and half since door open and line is HUUUGe... Honestly wasn't expecting this especially that we had first Sunday of football season and not like this was just before door open..

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Fortunately line was moving Quick and 10 minutes earlier i was inside.

As expected amount of people inside was equal to line ouside... for sure that was busy show for vendors.

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Unexpected was that there was nothing really jaw dropping from Big Vendors.

Without Brian and His celebrity persona BHB table was little slower that usually. Lori was in charge and for a first time I had occasion to meet Brian daughter and Chevy!!!

Yes!! Snakebyte bite tester was present in flesh on the show.

Seems like more and more small local vendors coming to this show and this time actually Expo was extended for another side room to make place for everyone.

Browsing thru tables I landed on Book Guy Table and after short handle "Complete Carpet Python" was mine. I pass by RBI table say Hi to Rich and go up top to Outback Reptiles.

Unfortunately like never.... this time their table was really disappointing... Just few Animals.. look like they section was smaller that usually and nothing really catch my eye...

I go down have short Chit Chat with Mike Curtin from shatter Exotic about his new IJ Stripe project with by the way should be featured in next "Reptile" magazine.

He point me to another vendor "Viking Reptilia" where i droled over fer really nice Granite IJ... i think I'm catching Carpet Python bug :O

I grab couple exo terra hides and new water bowl...Then was a Time for a main dish:

In Side room for a first time from long time NERD with Kevin McCurley himself had table with awesome animals.

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I stole him for a few second. He confirmed that second edition "Complete Ball Python" should be ready at beginning of the next year. Book should be some over 500 pages with a loooooooot of new morphs.. not only Nerd stuff but all over...

Biggest Issue Kevin have with new book is photo data base... some people for sure have talent for creating new morph but with camera skills... that different story ;)

And like he said:

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i don't want put only my stuff inside the book

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Of course knowing that he gonna be on the show my worn old firts reptile book ever was with me and now with pride i can announce that I'm an owner of signed copy :D


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Drolling all over Nerd show cases one particular animal draw my attention.. ( OK I'm lying way more but I was kind on the rush ) and Kevin was so nice to spill some beans about this project.

This Animal is called Darth Fader:

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Is obviously (super??)Pastel Fader/YB???/ morph with is called "Lucifer"

Asked about "Lucifer" stuff Kevin described it as:

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Think about it like about extreme "Fire"

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Is a co-Dom mutation He dont produced super form yet.

He Hadn't "just Lucifer" on the table but few combos he show me speak for itself:

Darth Fader

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Pastel/YB/Lucifer

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Lucifer/YB

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Lucifer/Enchi

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Lucifer/Enchi/YB

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and last but for sure not least:

Spider/Pastel/YB/Lucifer

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I'm not big fan of Spider gene.. I'm Pinstripe guy but THIS ^^^ Is JUST AWESOME.

That combo look almost like reduced lesserbee with extreme high white sides....

Thing what impressed me most is Kevin know exactly what is in every mufti gene animal...

Years of Practice make a master on in this case "Evil Morph God"

I show him pictures of my YB and My Granite and....... with word of advise... i keeping both for a while and gonna give them a breeding shot this winter.

Of course Picture with HIM was a must:

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And then I need rush home because of extra day at work feeding day was postponed couple days and i couldn't Keep My babies hungry any longer... so headed back to the City....

So what about You guys???

How you liked This Sunday White Plains Reptile Expo ???

No wonder i couldnt find you man! I was gone before you got there lol. Sorry bout that, maybe next time.

I just posted my own thread with all the pics i took. I didnt come home with anything except rats but still enjoyed the expo alot!

White Plains has always been a great show, I miss being able to go. Does Bruce Louder still run it?

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Originally Posted by ed4281

White Plains has always been a great show, I miss being able to go. Does Bruce Louder still run it?

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From What I heard today I'm pretty sure he still behind steering wheel ;)

awesome, he's a great guy.

Great photos, that darth fader is a good looking animal!

This was the biggest White Plains show to date. It was pretty awesome. Not sure where all you went though because there were plenty of very high end morphs there. George of Morph Madness brought out some wicked animals, Shane and Kim of KSC Exotics had some awesome stuff. NERD, Special K Reptiles and Frank Martin. Just to name a few.

I am hoping it keeps getting bigger now that Daytona sucks.

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Originally Posted by TessadasExotics

This was the biggest White Plains show to date. It was pretty awesome. Not sure where all you went though because there were plenty of very high end morphs there. George of Morph Madness brought out some wicked animals, Shane and Kim of KSC Exotics had some awesome stuff. NERD, Special K Reptiles and Frank Martin. Just to name a few.

I am hoping it keeps getting bigger now that Daytona sucks.

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Like I said I was kind in hurry so I could skip few tables... but You Right White Plains is getting pretty big and I'm very happy that is so close to me.. hopefully maybe in year or two I will be able put together small table with My House snakes :D

Here is a link to all the pictures i took from the show:

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?...5839375&type=1

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Originally Posted by NNJExotics

Here is a link to all the pictures i took from the show:

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?...5839375&type=1

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Very Nice Pictures.... And you Even manage to catch me here on This one :

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You Can see huge BP.net logo on back of my Blue T-shirt :gj:

haha...thats awesome!

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Originally Posted by NNJExotics

Here is a link to all the pictures i took from the show:

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?...5839375&type=1

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I found my wife and me in pic 216. Lol. Nice pics. I took my camera with me and didn't take it out once... :(

White Plains = epic. The show is huge, really really super huge. And here I thought the Hamburg PA show was big. ;) Nice to see all the vendors there and meet up with a couple breeders again.

I didn't pick up the cage I had been expecting to buy, but I did bring home feeding tongs, a couple of books, oh yes and a very nice peppermint Pacman frog.

I'm surprised. I went to the last White Plains show and it was very lackluster.

After being to all the shows in a reasonable distance, I decided Hamburg was the only one worth going to, after Repticon Baltimore and White Plains were both pretty lame compared to Hamburg.

It was less crowded after 1:30.

Does anyone know the name of the vendor that was on the left as you came down the center stage stairs? Nice guy with white hair.

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Originally Posted by JohnNJ

It was less crowded after 1:30.

Does anyone know the name of the vendor that was on the left as you came down the center stage stairs? Nice guy with white hair.

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Tim Koppenhofer of Special K Reptiles. :)

Sick pics and it was nice meeting you Aes_Sidhe! Don't know if you remember but I was the guy that said hello when you were at the BHB table. lol