The Following is a Guest Post from Jackson QRST Sinclair, the acclaimed Cryptid Hunter, and star of the hit podcast Expedition Sasquatch. (Yes, Jack is a fictional character that I write. Yes. This is just a blog post I wrote announcing the return of the Expedition Sasquatch podcast. If you’re not a fan of my fiction, skip this one.)

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the stories we build for ourselves. We all have our private universes, the worlds we escape into in books, games, and shows. They’re safe harbors, but they’re also static. You can’t change the course of the Enterprise. You can’t open a weird little bar on Deep Space Nine. The story is set, the canon is immutable, and you’re just a visitor.

Expedition Sasquatch is Now a Game Boy Color Game!

Well, we survived the inagural Designer Toy Art Fest, and I’m still recovering. It was a whirlwind of incredible artists, late-nights, and the kind of creative energy that makes these shows worth the exhaustion.

For the last six months, we’ve been elbows-deep in melted plastic, failed molds, and the kind of stubborn optimism that keeps you going when your twentieth test shot comes out looking like modern art instead of an action figure. This weekend at the Designer Toy Art Festival in Philadelphia (August 9-10), we’re finally unveiling what happens when you mix revolutionary joy with a whole lot of trial and error.