Bedtime Bear

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Bedtime Bear (real name Jeff), is a fursuiter and professional mascot performer who lives in Orlando, FL formerly in St. Louis. Missouri, USA.

Biography[edit]

Bedtime got his start as a professional mascot through the Missouri River Otters of the former United Hockey League back in 2005 as a backup/community mascot and has not stopped performing since. He has done professional teams in both Missouri and Illinois across sports including baseball, hockey and football. His favorite being Hockey. As of 2016, he has performed in well over 3,000 professional sporting events.

As a furry he joined the fandom officially in 2003 with his first convention being Anthrocon 2004. At AC 04 he got his first chance at wearing a big fuzzy costume when he performed with Rapid T Rabbit on stage doing "We Built This City" By Starship. He has been in the fandom actively since then, and has recently started taking on more and more staffing roles at conventions to bring his experience and expertise in the mascot world to furry conventions.

Professional mascot[edit]

Chip the Buffalo at US Cellular Coliseum 2006

Career notes[edit]

  • Largest Crowd Entertained at a Sporting Event - 32,467
  • Number of Mascot Related Injuries - 0
  • Number of Media Interviews with Newspapers/Magazines/Commercials - 10
  • Number of New Characters Performed/Introduced - 3
  • Number of National Championships with Sports Franchises- 2
Shiver P. Bear Gearing up on the Ice 2014

Fandom involvement[edit]

Bedtime has been involved in the furry fandom since 2004 and he made his mascot/furry debut as "Tenderheart Bear" of the Care Bears at Anthrocon 2004 performing in the Masquerade that year with Rapid T Rabbit doing some guitar to Starship's "We Built This City." Bedtime has also done Care Bear appearances with Rapid T. Rabbit in the Ocean City DooDah Parade.

Bedtime was also the Fursuit Lead for the new Gateway Fur Meet in St. Louis during it's first year as a convention, as well as the fursuit lead on Staff for Mephit Fur Meet Bringing his professional experience as a mascot to furry cons in recent years.

Bedtime was also listed as "Fursuit Lead" for Waystation FurCon, a convention proposed for 2013 in Illinois, U.S.A.[1] The Waystation FurCon website stated.

After largely being an attendee in his early years of being in the fandom, he has started to reach out and take on more responsibilities at conventions, including working with Security, Video Gaming, and Fursuit Tracks.

Fursuits[edit]

  • Tenderheart Bear 2004 - Present
  • Bedtime Bear 2011 - 2016
  • Oscar the Otter 2021 - Present

Convention/event attendance[edit]

Oscar the Otter hangs out with Mike from 92.3 WIL in St. Louis the Event Coordinator 2006

References[edit]

  1. ↑ http://waystationfurcon.org/Staff.php Retrieved December 3, 2012.
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