"I was even invited to go on Dragon's Den (a popular British TV show where entrepreneurs pitch their products and ideas to prominent businesspeople) but there's no way I'm going on that, " he added.
For several months, del Toro said, he had been working on the dragon.
You fight, capture, and then train and fly around on your dragon, or dragons, as you adventure and quest and do other silly MMO stuff.
The culture is based on Silicon Dragon entrepreneurship--it has venture capital funding, all employees have stock ownership and the team is like a family, even going on annual camping expeditions together.
On March 1, the SpaceX Dragon capsule will launch on its third trip to the International Space Station.
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This was the ad for the 2012 Year of the Dragon on-line sale.
NASA's Internet tool SkyWatch is providing information on viewing the Dragon from Earth.
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The club also hopes that the rebranding of the team's main colours from blue to red and featuring a dragon on the team badge will help secure "future commercial opportunities".
Before moving on from "Dragon Tattoo, " however, they had retooled the music once more for the soundtrack album, spending the last two months filling out some songs and finishing others that hadn't made the movie.
For the rest of Thursday, ground controllers plan to send Dragon on a wide loop around the space station, maintaining a separation of several miles as the spacecraft zips above and then falls behind the station.
SpaceX, owned by PayPal cofounder Elon Musk, has already accomplished two unmanned flights to the ISS. Work is currently focused on outfitting the Dragon capsule to carry up to seven people, with human test flights expected in mid-2015.
Each is, appropriately, adorned with a four-claw dragon on the battery cover, and the engraving process is rather lengthy: it involves 20 stages and takes four highly-skilled master craftsmen 36 hours, eight of which are dedicated just to the dragon's scales.
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Her key initiative was to insist on the weekly "Dragon's Den" bidding sessions, when MPs seeking a debate on a particular subject have to argue their case in public session.
Dragon went on to become the first commercial spacecraft to reach orbit and safely return to earth.
The Dow Industrials started the year off at 794.60 and ended the Dragon year on February 5, 1965 at 901.6.
Many used it to recall fondly playing classic titles such as "Crash Bandicoot" or "Spyro the Dragon" on the original PlayStation console.
Lauren Anne liked what she saw when a dragon appeared on screen.
In August to September last year, China sent its one and only icebreaker Xue Long (Snow Dragon) on a successful two-way test run of the NSR.
Next week China and Hong Kong will be closed on Monday for the Dragon Boat holiday, so activity out of that part of Asia will be quiet.
With Dragon back on Earth, and its mission an unqualified success, the comments are pouring in from SpaceX officials, NASA, members of Congress and commercial spaceflight supporters.
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But Dragon held on, with ticket sales dropping by less than 35% each weekend (compare that to Iron Man 2 which saw ticket sales drop 60% its second weekend out).
Whether the Dragon capsule launches on April 30th depends on the outcome of a final test on April 16th.
After a series of tests on Saturday, NASA cleared Dragon for approach to the International Space Station, only a day late.
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The SpaceX Falcon 9 successfully launched the Dragon space capsule on Sunday.
Mr Jones made his wealth in mobile phones, and has been an ever-present on the BBC's Dragon's Den programme since it started in 2005.
Someone has collated the 10 weirdest "Game Of Thrones" objects, including a direwolf handpuppet and a Dothraki onesie, and elsewhere replica dragon eggs are on sale.
The sport dates back thousands of years, but some of these warriors are modern-day breast cancer survivors racing in a dragon boat festival on Lake Peachtree south of Atlanta, Georgia.
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The Sunday flight -- dubbed CRS-1 -- will have the Dragon capsule piggybacking on a Falcon 9 rocket to punch through the atmosphere while carrying more than a thousand pounds of cargo.
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Branson may also announce that Virgin Galactic is reviving plans for a satellite-launching service, possibly spurred on by the commercial SpaceX Dragon spacecraft, which successfully docked with the International Space Station earlier this year.
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