OK, this image tool is pretty fun. I did always want to be on a trading card despite having no skill whatsoever in any sport which would actaully GET me on a trading card. I didn't collect them either, but as a kid you see fame applied in these very tangible ways.
For the record that is me in that suit. I was Libro the Library Lion for the Bermuda National Library. The suit was incredibly hot and impossible to see out of. Having said all that it was pretty fun to get the kids reactions (except for the little bastards who pulled my tail). I do sort of wish that the library could have gotten a tshirt or something made up for me because without the signs I used to carry there is really no way to know that the lion is a LIBRARY lion (except when I made my library RRRRREEEEEAAAAAD roar).
A lot of kids suspected that Mr. Z was Libro. There was a great moment when Mrs. Z wore the suit and the two of us were seen side by side. I liken the looks of shock to those great DC comics moments when Batman would pretend to be Superman so that Supes could be seen with his "good freind" Clark Kent all to throw off the keen witted Lois Lane.
You spend enough time with your head encased in a Lion mask and this is the kind of thing that comes to mind.
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