Half-Asleep Chris

Christopher Burton, better known online as Half-Asleep Chris, is an English YouTuber known for his stop-motion/vlogging videos about LEGO, culture and building his cats crazy contraptions.
==Content==
Half-Asleep Chris' channel consists of vlogging videos about various cultures using a stop-motion technique. He has a series on banknotes, as well as doing videos with his cats. He also does videos making projects out of lots of LEGO, like a train circling his house, or a roller coaster that reached to the top of his ceiling.
==Pets==
===Chris' Pets===
====Reggie====
The first cat he owned was named Reggie. Reggie was a ginger male cat who was born in 2009, he became famous in May 2018 after he had a replica of the Golden Gate Bridge in Chris' old home's roof to let Reggie can go to the balcony without an injury. He was reported by SF Gate, but shortly after his popularity and got a cone and not allowed outside for a week. Fortunately, Chris helped him to cheer up for that one week, but sadly, he passed away on 17 August 2018 due to a blood clot after living for 9 years. 
====Ralph and Tom Hanks====
He then adopted a pair of kittens (Ralph and Tom Hanks, though he calls them by their first name) from Thames Valley Animal Welfare in Late 2018. One year later, Tom died due to unknown reasons in December 28 2019, but Ralph has made new friends and still misses Tom.
====Bella====
Chris now lives away from his parents and with Ralph, his girlfriend, Danielle Middleton, and Danielle's cat, Bella, who is basically an old lady in cat years, Bella was born in 2009 and she is 15 as of 2024, surpassing the average cat life expectancy age, Chris is often confused between a loaf of tiger bread and Bella.
====Maisie====
Maisie is Chris's new dog, she loves carrots and had a train ridehttps://youtu.be/G3NvcFKeemo?si=xviS5k2eViRTB9v7, even though Chris never wanted to have a dog,
====Punk and Fin====
Punk and Fin were Chris' guinea pigs, first mentioned and shown in his To Do List video in 2017 for his travel journey, Punk was shown in the Ralph GPS video from 2019 and Punk was with Tom and had a close relation, it is unknown what happened to them but they were possibly died unreported.
===Other Pets and Animals===
====Coco====
Coco is a white and black cat who is the co-residence of Château de Ralph alongside Marley, she was found by the Thames Valley Animal Welfare, the same animal welfare who found Ralph and Tom, she is currently adopted by Chris' Parents after he left in 2020.
====George====
George is an orange cat and the cat of Chris' neighbors, he use to be friends with Reggie, and had a good relation to Ralph and met him shortly before Chris moved house.
====Marley====
Marley is a fluffy tuxedo cat who co-resides Château de Ralph and Chris' parents' home. Nothing much is known about him, and he is described as the most majestic-looking cat Chris has ever seen.
====Raphael and Tommasi====
Raphael and Tommasi were cats that is from an Ancient Roman Cat Sanctuary, he made a theme song for them in Italian, Tommasi is blind.
===LEGO Cats===
====Rolf====
Rolf is a life sized recreation of Ralph using lego bricks that he built in late 2021, he is sometimes headbutted by Bella.
====Stella====
Stella is a life sized recreation of Bella using lego bricks that he built in Mid 2022, she was more complicated than Rolf due to Bella's stripy colors unlike Ralph and he is full black fluff.
====Rodger and Tim====
Rodger and Tim are miniature-scaled recreations of Reggie and Tom, they were made later after Stella was complete.
====Frankie====
Frankie is the name of the alternative build of the LEGO Boost Creative Toolbox Set No. 17101, while he can't walk, he does have a color and distance censor to make cool stuff like moving his tail, changing his facial expression, and even respond when being stroked, the set was purchased for Bella's 15th Birthday.
==Quotes==
*"Stripey one, and one so fluffy, turn these fat cats into plushies!"
*"NEVER, EVER, EVER, TAKE THE STAIRS!"
*"And it only took 34 tries!"
*"Madness!"
*"This is a remote control car, and I want to destroy it."
*"Reg, I just spent 5 days building you a bridge!"
*"I spent 4 and a half DAYS building this thing!"
*"This is the Marina Bay Sands, or more specifically this is a pop-up I made of it!"
*"Look how in sync they are!"
*"That's one of the Wonders of the World!"
* "Does it come with a LEGO frog?"
==Trivia==
*Prior to using his current channel, Chris used to post music on his channel Half-Asleep Music.
*He has done a "Guessing the Designs of the Australian A-Z coins with J.J. McCullough.
*As stated on his first video, his favorite animal is the tapir.
*He first gained popularity after creating the Golden Gate Bridge for his cat, Reggie, on May 18, 2018. Reggie however passed away on August 17 the same year.
**Chris gained more popularity in April 2021 after building a LEGO train that circled around his entire house.
*He has a degree in music production.
*He brought land in Hougan Manor Estate, Cumbria, England, and legally made his cats into a lord and lady.
*He used to work in a travel money bureau, before becoming a full-time YouTuber.
*His bares a very similar resemblance to that of Grian.
**Coincidentally, both YouTubers also own cats and reside in England.
*Chris plays .https://reddit.com/r/PlanetZoo/comments/k6nlhf/king_penguins_im_so_excited_for_tuesday/
*Chris made a video for promoting his Relph and Bella plushies in around November 2021 and in 2022, but after the second campaign featuring Lord Ralph and Lord Bella, Chris removed the original video from his YouTube channel and the full video became lost media, but clips of it were uploaded.https://youtu.be/UhYkTb1matI?si=3i1lH3EFvFSQrWBDhttps://www.makeship.com/shop/creator/half-asleep-chris
*He moved twice, with his first-known home being in his parents' house (until 2020), the second his first house (2020-2022), and the third being his current house (since 2022).
==Gallery==
FortRegs.png|Chris' late cat Reggie, in his fort
TomTime.png|Chris' late cat Tom, in his time machine
SirRalph.jpg|A portrait of Chris' cat Ralph
BellsCatio.jpg|Chris and Danielle's cat Bella in the new catio
ItsMeMaisie.jpg|A close up of Chris and Danielle's dog, Maisie
==References==
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