Sunday, 26 May 2013

Con UPDATE #2!

(Possibly) Best. Day. Ever. Where do I start? Oh, it was so fun. I was slightly worried meeting Three Bewb Smirnoff, as I always am when meeting anyone new, but he's a great guy. He can draw so well, and on the train there he did some amazing charactertures of The Asian Kid and NerdE, and then me at the end of the day. When we were in London, getting to the MCM was a nightmare thanks to Animamagica being a complete control freak, but when we were there. Wow. Standing in the line, we saw thousands of people. Me and NerdE exchanged ideas of who we wanted to see. I wanted to see a PSY, specifically a PSY in the blue tuxedo from Gangnam Style, and I did; I wanted to see a Nova, and I didn't but I did see a Moon Knight and that more than made up for it, I saw him twice, both times I yelled "MOON KNIGHT!" at him and both times he ignored me, but the girl he was with giggled at me both times. I saw a Skull Kid and Moon paired costume. That was a massive highlight, as was the Judge Dredd, the Hetalia meet-up and the Pedo Bear. There were actually two Pedo Bears but one got kicked out, apparently. Hmm... What annoyed me were the number of Pikachu onesies, Monkey D Luffys and Deadpools. Although there were playable demos of the new Deadpool and One Piece games there so the Luffys and Deadpools were fair enough, but I was really pissed off at the number of Pikachus. I would have got some autographs if I knew who any of the people there were. I thought we were going to see the voice of Commander Shepard from Mass Effect: Mark Meer, but it turns out he was at the Manchester MCM, not the London one. I was going to get an autograph from him, and give it to Elfman. Actually, me saying I didn't know any of them is a bit of a lie, I do know who TomSka is but I don't particularly like asdf movie. I know, kill me, blah blah. Moving on, the Hetalia meet-up was great I managed to find a Sweden, and actually all of the other Nordics, we had loads of photos taken of us in the different groups. Me and NerdE found a Belarus and Ukraine for his Russia, and we hung around with them. They were great people. Actually, everyone at the meet-up was great, a great little community. I keep saying 'great', but that is just how the day was; great. I didn't buy a heck of a lot, in fact it truth be told, it wasn't as hideously expensive as I thought it would be... apart from the food. A bottle of water? £1.90 ($2.88) A salad sandwich? £4.75 ($4.75) Unbelievable. And the Japanese imports were expensive as well, but that's kind of a given. I bought an Essential Man-Thing from the official Marvel stall, just £5 ($7.59)! The Essentials were all on sale! Ha! I also got a Shy Guy plushy, from a stall that had loads, LOADS of Mario plushies, and a Portal 2 T-Shirt which I'm wearing now, it's got the two portals, blue at the top, orange at the bottom, Propulsion Gel falling from the blue portal, Repulsion Gel coming up from the orange portal, and in the middle a Companion Cube, the gels splatting everywhere on impact with it. It's a very nice design. And I'm so glad it fits. On the train back, before we had even decided if we were going to go back next year, me and NerdE were deciding who we should cosplay as. We've now decided we are going next year, and we are going as a pair costume: Ness and Jeff from Earthbound. I've already found this: Awesomeness. BRING IT ON, 2014!!!

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