A frequent visitor of the site, Jacob, has been emailing me a bunch of his Krystal and Star Fox related projects. I've even posted about a couple before. We featured his Fox McCloud cosplay with light up staff a while back, and then he followed up with an amazing recreation of the Shopkeeper from Star Fox Adventures.

Alas, I had been too busy to post about his more recent work (or anything really). But I'm rectifying that tonight! I'm making several posts about his work, culminating in a recent project that isn't yet released. Stay tuned for more.

To start us off, Jacob attempted to recreate Krystal using Lego Bionicle parts. That's not something I'd ever considered. Looks like he did some custom painting to get the suit texture and nice textured fur of her tail. The creation also features what looks like a large gatling gun.

He did some other Lego-related Krystal and Star Fox work that I'll feature in another post.

Update:
I was contacted by the cosplayers directly. Their cosplay name is "Tom_Mjcosplay", not "Tom and Jay Cosplay" as I originally suspected. They have a shared instagram account with a bunch more photos. Working on getting more details from them.

Smikimimi Cosplay has posted the video of the Montreal Comic Con Masquerade, where the cosplayers compete in small skits. I can't embed it here, so you'll have to watch it on YouTube. It is timestamped to 29:35, where the Fox and Krystal skit begins.

The Fox and Krystal duo cosplay were entry number 17, in the Journeyman division (just above the Amateur division). Their skit, "How it Should Have Ended", appears to have been a recreation of the final scene in Star Fox Adventures. Fox congratulates his team and Krystal shows off her staff. Not sure who they got to do the voice acting for Fox, but it sounds just like the original voice actor. As for Krystal, her voice was pretty good too, just different.

Krystal shows off that yes, her staff does indeed light up, and very brightly. Both Fox and Krystal's masks have moving jaws. Unfortunately for everyone, the audio system cuts out right as they started getting into the middle of their skit, so we don't know what the rest of the skit was supposed to be. Perhaps they were going to use some of the unused audio from Adventures where Krystal asks for a kiss. Smikimimi Cosplay cut the video until they walked off stage.

It was hard to hear, but it sounded like the cosplayers were "Tom and Jay Cosplay". And that's all I could find out...

OR WAS IT?!

Because while researching this video, I found the actual Krystal cosplayer!

It's Marie-Dauphin Cosplay, who has a Tik-Tok account. There are multiple videos posted with photos and other details about their experience. In the descriptions, we get a much clearer picture of what happened.

• Cosplay Creation Photos - Lots of details about how the Fox and Krystal cosplays were made. The heads were 3D printed and then covered in fur using a duct-tape cutting method to create the pattern. The jewelry was 3D printed as well. With the heads done, they moved on to clothing and accessories. The clothing was made from scratch with a lot of customization. Additional pieces were 3D modeled and printed from scratch. The staff was created by using light saber parts and then a shaft that had blue window tint with gold pattern around it. (Say, that sounds familiar!) The tails were made with internal supports to keep them relatively stiff. And lastly, Fox's wrist armor was made from foam. They have been working on these since January!
• Fox + Krystal Con Photos - A collage of photos of the Fox and Krystal cosplays.
• Krystal Con Photos - A collage of photos of Krystal running around the convention being silly and posing for photos.
• Quick Turn Around Pose - Krystal shows off the suit and staff before striking a quick pose.
• Complete Masquerade Performance - We see the sections that were cut from Smikimimi's video. They were unable to get the audio restarted and had to walk off stage. From the description, after they were unable to restart the skit, Marie was devastated and was crying as they walked off stage. However, the two of them plan to redo the skit themselves at a later date. Marie also says they plan to modify the cosplays a bit and do another con to show them off sometime in 2024.
• Receiving Prize - Krystal and the guy I assume was in the Fox cosplay earlier find out they won in the accessories category for Krystal's staff, and they rush up to the stage to get their ribbons.
• Award Photos - Photos from the awards ceremony where they got ribbons in the accessory category. According to the description, the earlier tragedy had turned to joy as Marie was crying again inside the suit, but this time they were tears of joy.

Looking forward to seeing the full skit! Well done Marie-Dauphin Cosplay!

Montreal ComiCon 2024 was July 5th through 7th, just a few days ago. This was the stomping ground of two other Krystal cosplayers, Technicolor Cosplay and Moonllita. And it was TechnicolorCosplay who informed me of this new Krystal cosplayer a few days ago.

At this point, we don't know much about the Fox and Krystal duo cosplay. From the photos, it's a fursuit-style head and a very nice staff that appears to internally glow (very cool). The suit is zentai style, which seems to work really well for Krystal cosplays. Apparently these two did a skit during the cosplay portion of the show, and also apparently won in at least one category! There are no public videos of it yet, but I think there might be some to be posted soon. Fingers crossed.

We have no information about who exactly these cosplayers are, but we're hoping to find out. If you know these two, please get into contact with me! If you ARE the cosplayers, first of all, great job and welcome to the site. Second of all, please get into contact with me! I'd love to hear about your experience.

For now, we have a small appearance of the two of them in the background of another shot, which you can view below along with the full photos I have so far.

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Estelle Ellis, the voice of Krystal from Star Fox Adventures, has been very active with her fans lately. In collaboration with UndyingNephalim, they have started a campaign to create emotional support flushies that resemble our favorite blue vixen. In a small way, this project will help spread Estelle's message of emotional support and love. They are attempting to reach 200 backers on their Makeship Campaign page.

At time of writing, there are 6 more days in the campaign. With your $2 deposit, you can help make this project a reality. They need about 100 more backers. If they are successful, you will pay an additional $28 for a total of $30 (plus shipping costs) to have your very own Krystelle plush. (I pledged!)

Estelle has even more plans for the future in regard to these sorts of projects. You can hear more in the livestream from today featuring Estelle Ellis and UndyingNephalim (or IceCreamMan) where they talk about the project. Give it a watch.

Update: The campaign was a success! The plushies will start being produced and shipped around August.

I'm happy to announce that we at the Krystal Archive have reached an exciting new agreement with the Krystal mini-hamburger chain!

If you weren't already aware, the Krystal restaurant chain is one of the oldest in the United States, primarily serving the Southeast corner of the country. They are famous for their mini-hamburgers (or sliders) and mini-corndogs, as well as often operating 24 hours a day. In 2020, they filed for bankruptcy, which we reported here on the Krystal Archive. Since then, they have been hard at work restructuring the company. Now, they're making a come-back with new locations and reinvigorated business goals.

To that end, the Krystal Archive will soon introduce small banner ads for the restaurant: the first paid advertisements on the Krystal Archive. In return, SPB Hospitality (Krystal's holding company) has agreed to pay hosting costs and provide cross-promotion opportunities on the Krystal.com website under the banner of "Other Krystal Lovers".

I hope you are all as excited as I am to spread the appreciation of our beloved blue vixen to a much wider audience. Even more significant is the precedent set: This may well be the first time a major restaurant chain has teamed up with a fansite of any kind.

Please look forward to these changes in the near future. Be sure to check out the announcement video from Krystal Burger as well.

Update
Happy April Fools Day Everyone!

I know a lot of you love these kinds of Krystal keychains. Well, there's another one out there. Artist Praquina (or Daniela Najera) has made an acrylic Krystal keychain available on Etsy. The keychain will take 2-3 weeks to be produced, but there are no apparent limits on quantity. They're $12 each and are 7 centimeters (2.75 inches) in size. Shipping is $7.

Order Here

Can you believe it's been 18 years since this humble little fansite joined the internet? I can't.

So you've probably noticed there hasn't been much posting here. That's putting it lightly. There hasn't been a post for over 6 months! There were only 17 total posts all year. It's a real shame. I apologize for that.

The reason is still the same: my job. I've been put in charge of a whole team and tasked with building an entire software solution (two of them!) in a little less than a year. In addition to my normal work as a front end developer, I've also now been tasked with being a backend programmer, a manager of other programmers, a software engineering instructor and mentor, code librarian, and advisor on design and deployment. It's a lot.

Also, I got a girlfriend recently.

Anyway, I'll keep it short. In 2024, I hope to return to a normal schedule with regular posts. Yes, I see you guys when you email me or message me on Discord. I just haven't had time to respond. I plan to get back to you. Thank you so much for your patience! We're going to make 2024 a great year!

AngelTheVixen has finished the Krystal Wind Waker Mod we discussed previously and has made it available for download! Check out the trailer!

It works with the initially released North American version of the GameCube Wind Waker through the Dolphin emulator.

Features

• Title screen logo changed
• Link replaced with Krystal
• Link's voice changed where possible
• Power Bracelets have a new model
• Magic Armor visuals modified slightly
• Hero's Charm has a new model
• Heart gauge in UI is now fox-shaped
• Minor script changes for flavor
• All text (except the intro) can be skipped through
• Internal labels changed for software/hardware execution
• Demo video replaced

There are a few known issues, which you can read about in the Readme file included with the download. If you run into other issues or concerns, please let AngelTheVixen know via Discord (angelthevixen) or Twitter.

Downloads

• Via Krystal Archive - 42.8MB (Requires 7zip)
• Via Google Drive - 44MB

Twitter user Phoenitoh has made a fantastic Krystal rug. Look at that! She's just so happy! Phoenitoh showed a couple of wip steps (here and here) before showing off the final product. This is super cool! I wonder if these would ever be on Etsy.

Phoenitoh has previously made a Fox McCloud rug too.

AngelTheVixen on Twitter is working on a Krystal mod for Wind Waker. Specifically, her Dinosaur Planet incarnation. Given that Dinosaur Planet was intended to be Zelda-like, it's hard to think of a better crossover!

Beginning with a short video clip demonstrating swordplay on Twitter, the mod was revealed to the world on February 22nd, 2023. I got in contact with AngelTheVixen to get some details.

The mod's scope is limited just to a simple model replacement and some voice clip replacements. The model is almost done, just needing a few tweaks. Gameplay voice clip replacements use the closest voice clips from Krystal in Dinosaur Planet. The voice sound effects in cutscenes are not replaced because that would be too large an undertaking, so Krystal will still sound like Link in the cutscenes.

AngelTheVixen is a complete beginner to modding, but found that the modding scene for Wind Waker is very approachable; the tools and documentation are detailed and the game's simple graphical style is forgiving. Much was learned when making the mod, and this is the third Link model replacement that AngelTheVixen has worked on.

The mod is planned for release soon, but no definite date.

I'm sure we all look forward to giving it a shot. Wind Waker is one of my favorite Zelda games.

Lastly, AngelTheVixen was kind enough to send me a bunch of brand new screenshots, which I have posted below. Enjoy!