Midlands MCM Expo
So yesterday I took Brendan (My Brother's Fiancée's kid, so basically my nephew XD) to Midlands MCM Expo at the Telford International centre.
As you may or may not recall, last time I went to the Midlands Expo (February '07) I got a call on the way home telling me David had died. Well thankfully that didn't curse Midlands, and yesterday went pretty well :D I'm sure David would have appreciated that...or something ^^
It was a very long day (Up at 6, at the train station by 7 and home for 8.30pm) and I was sort of worried that Brendan wouldn't enjoy himself - two long train journeys and expo's not exactly chock-full of activities, but he had a great time! He's really looking forward to going again, so I've said I'll take him in February!
I did try and get my Medusa cosplay done in time, but I gave up around 4am and wore Konata for it instead - I'm really glad I did in the end, because Amber was wearing her Medusa and it was awesome, I figured mine would look terrible in comparison because it was a rush job. But it'll be fully ready in time for October and hopefully it'll look ace :D
I can't really be bothered to do a full report, so taking a cue from the expo forum's 'thanks and rants' thread, I'll just give you a rundown of everything I really enjoyed, and all the people I want to thank...
- Doing Hare Hare Yukai, Caramell Dansen and Motteke Sailor Fuku REPEATEDLY! It was SO much fun. I had loads of requests for Motteke because I was Konata, and then whenever there was some time to kill during the masquerade they got random people dancing up on stage, Hare Hare first with some Haruhi cosplayers, then we taught the presenter to do CaramellDansen. Then when waiting for judging they got Hare on and everybody danced, and I went up to the stage and they were like "I bet I can guess what you're after" - then they got me up at the front of the stage to do Motteke it was so much fun!
Then there was another round of Caramell.
- The entire Masquerade audience singing the pokemon theme tune (after we ran out of dances) - epic!
- All the Soul Eater cosplayers, you guys ROCKED!
- Royster, Mrs Chumphy, Kevin, Nate, Mike, Amber and anyone else I already knew that I ran into :D It was great to see you all again and you helped make my day awesome!
(Special thanks to Royster for giving me the drawing suggestion to keep Brendan entertained, and Mrs Chumphy for buying that fabric off me - you paid for my lunch!!)
- Everybody new I met, though I didn't get any contact details I hope I run into them again, I met some wonderful people!
- The Where's Wally cosplayer, absolutely epic! I kept spotting her and every time I just wanted to run up and shout "FOUND YOU!" I resisted the urge :D
- Everybody who hugged me, took my picture or generally gave me love for being Konata, I was so happy :D Plus I was the only Konata there, YEY!
- Anybody I got chatting to on the train journeys to/from Telford, you were all so awesome :D Especially Beth on the way there, and the guy in the Smeg Head t-shirt and his friends on the way back.
- The gang we walked with and got lost with from the train station to the centre, the walk was so much fun with you!
- For that matter, the guys we walked back to the train station with, it was so much more fun with more people, because we got to snicker at the chavs for being morons and laughing at us. Laugh all you want, chavbrat, I bet we just had a much better day than you did in our weird costumes XD
- Brendan, for being good all day (most of the time), for putting up with all the people hugging him for being so cute, and for not getting too whiny whenever I got too distracted doing random dancing :D
Had a great time, can't wait for London!
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As you may or may not recall, last time I went to the Midlands Expo (February '07) I got a call on the way home telling me David had died. Well thankfully that didn't curse Midlands, and yesterday went pretty well :D I'm sure David would have appreciated that...or something ^^
It was a very long day (Up at 6, at the train station by 7 and home for 8.30pm) and I was sort of worried that Brendan wouldn't enjoy himself - two long train journeys and expo's not exactly chock-full of activities, but he had a great time! He's really looking forward to going again, so I've said I'll take him in February!
I did try and get my Medusa cosplay done in time, but I gave up around 4am and wore Konata for it instead - I'm really glad I did in the end, because Amber was wearing her Medusa and it was awesome, I figured mine would look terrible in comparison because it was a rush job. But it'll be fully ready in time for October and hopefully it'll look ace :D
I can't really be bothered to do a full report, so taking a cue from the expo forum's 'thanks and rants' thread, I'll just give you a rundown of everything I really enjoyed, and all the people I want to thank...
- Doing Hare Hare Yukai, Caramell Dansen and Motteke Sailor Fuku REPEATEDLY! It was SO much fun. I had loads of requests for Motteke because I was Konata, and then whenever there was some time to kill during the masquerade they got random people dancing up on stage, Hare Hare first with some Haruhi cosplayers, then we taught the presenter to do CaramellDansen. Then when waiting for judging they got Hare on and everybody danced, and I went up to the stage and they were like "I bet I can guess what you're after" - then they got me up at the front of the stage to do Motteke it was so much fun!
Then there was another round of Caramell.
- The entire Masquerade audience singing the pokemon theme tune (after we ran out of dances) - epic!
- All the Soul Eater cosplayers, you guys ROCKED!
- Royster, Mrs Chumphy, Kevin, Nate, Mike, Amber and anyone else I already knew that I ran into :D It was great to see you all again and you helped make my day awesome!
(Special thanks to Royster for giving me the drawing suggestion to keep Brendan entertained, and Mrs Chumphy for buying that fabric off me - you paid for my lunch!!)
- Everybody new I met, though I didn't get any contact details I hope I run into them again, I met some wonderful people!
- The Where's Wally cosplayer, absolutely epic! I kept spotting her and every time I just wanted to run up and shout "FOUND YOU!" I resisted the urge :D
- Everybody who hugged me, took my picture or generally gave me love for being Konata, I was so happy :D Plus I was the only Konata there, YEY!
- Anybody I got chatting to on the train journeys to/from Telford, you were all so awesome :D Especially Beth on the way there, and the guy in the Smeg Head t-shirt and his friends on the way back.
- The gang we walked with and got lost with from the train station to the centre, the walk was so much fun with you!
- For that matter, the guys we walked back to the train station with, it was so much more fun with more people, because we got to snicker at the chavs for being morons and laughing at us. Laugh all you want, chavbrat, I bet we just had a much better day than you did in our weird costumes XD
- Brendan, for being good all day (most of the time), for putting up with all the people hugging him for being so cute, and for not getting too whiny whenever I got too distracted doing random dancing :D
Had a great time, can't wait for London!
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