Now I know everyone these days is getting more and more into buying a custom stick or a TE stick, which I think is great. But as we all know everyone isn't always fond of the art on it...for whatever reason , they just don't like it.

Enter the custom design world. All you need is the idea within your mind...and someone to help you if your not savvy wnough to put your design/idea into focus.

Now right now up front I like the red art on a standard TE..I think its great...but there are way too many "vanilla" TE's out there and I don't want mine getting lost randomly or taken ( another great reason to trick out your stick) I'm also a cammy player sooo I felt like I needed my own art.

d3v a unity/srk member who we all know and GXE from SRK are part of this massive template thread for people who want some nice flava other then the vanilla TE are on your nicely purchased stick. I threw GXE a msg of my vision and after some waiting, came back with me with this finished idea,

Now I never told him that I used the purple color for her, so I thought that was a cool surprise also the logo is in there if your peek for it, also awesome.

Now I might need that Purple balltop and some buttons but I think it works for me.

Now it only rivals one other cammy stick I can think of so far :

but then again..the master is always teaching the student... :)

Now usually I'm playing Street fighter or Lost Planet or some other fun Capcom game in my down time. But it doesn't mean I don't spread myself around to other great games.

Now I won't waste time here talking about Castle Crashers because its been done many times and I totally enjoy it and playing it with others folks here when we all get the chance. Lately though the devs have been throwing out there new DLC pack for free if you can snag a code on there twitter, just like on unity! Your quick enough, your in!

Now this has been going on for a little while now, so tons of codes, lots of fans/people get them, ....but alas much fail just trying to punch in those 25 digits or cut and paste on my part these people are way too fast. I guess I wasn't the only on thinking my way to. Kelly I guess thought the same way...this is going way to fast for people who are cut and pasting up a storm no effort..so they still are using twitter but to a shortened url to txtninja which makes everything a .gif/pic of what you type aka forget the quick and dirty cut and paste...I was like..awesome idea.. lets get back to visually doing some work for it! So I just waited it out each day still trying in vein to beat the speedy folks.

Well today I got mine, at 10:30am their time in the 3rd batch 2nd or 3rd group I made the dash and hit redeem and to my sweet eyes I saw..

You have successfully redeemed a code for: Castle Crashers - Necromantic Pack. It has been added to your download queue.

You have no idea how good it felt.

Thank you thebehem0th for such a great game, being cool with your fans and the DLC code for the pack which I would have dropped the points for anyway if I didn't get one via twitter.

At Evo I saw those sweet sweet SDCC sticks and I knew I wasn't going to be able to make it to it this year so I greased the plam of a friend of mine going to the event, no he was not a capcom staff member or anything shady,( maybe next time..j/k) But after a lil wait, hope and in the storm of other TE related news Im now the proud owner of ......tada.....! I think what I call the "Markman Effect" is coming over me....

Over the weekend fellow capcom unity member and repping the T.O TriCEVEN got to hang out a lil at Fan Expo and meet up with Ono san at the Udon/Capcom Panel Sunday , check out his blog for a recap from what went down!

But today during my net travels I found a sweet detailed 5 part youtube recording of said event from NeoGAF member Jason so we can really know what happened to get the scoop!

Here is a part 1 sampling:

after Tues popular find by yours truly I found a sweet youtube video of those funky Street Fighter IV Real Voice Straps jgonzo posted on, check it out in all its arcade goodness,