I don't have anything that cool. But I've always 
loved animation. When I was little, I was in one 
of the very high-class gift shops in Disneyworld 
(where kids are glared at as if they're about to 
break half the store 9_9). On the wall were two 
framed production cels from Sleeping Beauty. 
(Still one of my favorite animated pieces.)

I can still see them in my head, framed side by 
side in the same frame -- one of Maleficent with 
her raven perched on her staff, and the other of 
her as the dragon with curls of fire all around. 
I remember being amazed how *COLORFUL* they 
were!! I knew I'd seen those pictures in the 
movie, but the film's color had long dulled with 
time. I asked a not-glaring store clerk about 
them and she brought over a chair so I could see 
them closer. She told me that all the movies were 
made with pictures like those, painted on plastic.

I wanted the cels *BAD* but the price tag was 
around $25,000. (I think. Maybe it was $250,000. 
In any case, it was a LOT!) But the not-glaring 
store clerk found me a book all about animation 
and my mom got me that instead. ^_^

When I finally found anime, I immediately loved 
it. I never once thought of looking for anime 
cels since that $25,000 price tag had taught me 
cels are like things you see in museums: Someone 
owns them, but not normal people.

Then, frusterated by my inability to find a doll 
of Sailor Pluto that *really* looked like her, I 
decided to poke around online to see if I might 
find a cel of her -- just to see how expensive 
they were. (I expected to look at pretty pictures 
and leave.) What I found instead were Mosquiton 
OVA cels (this was before it's domestic release) 
and got one for a complete pittance! I dug more 
and discovered the *ENORMOUS* price difference 
between anime cels and Disney cels! ((@_@))

That was the end of it. Over a year of collecting 
later, I finally did get a cel of Sailor Pluto. 
So here are both my first cel, and the first of 
my two cels of Sailor Pluto. ^_^

Many Sharp Smiles,
--Drac