Kapow and cosplaying
This weekend was Kapow! Comic Con, in London, England.
I went on Saturday and met up with jemzamia and roberty88 (hence forth called the filth!couple xD). The weather was fabulous and I'd been talked into cosplaying THE/CB Pond (because, really, why not? :D) thus dressing for Rio was a great plan.
Just outside of Angel station I bumped into the aformentioned couple hunting feverishly for the special edition of SFX magizine.
Why?
Because there was no where to buy 8x10's inside of Kapow! None. What were we supposed to get signed? There was nothing on the desks of the celebrities and few affordable options in the con. Eventually we gave up and ended up buying a Merlin poster for the cast to sign... but this poster only had Colin and Bradley on. *headdesk*
Anyway... so I joined the first epic queue of the day to get into the con, and found Jemz at the front of another epic queue, the Merlin queue, with etmuse and doylefan22 guarding the front with their sign. :D They were lovely and aided in making the crazy long queueing time go faster. We were all muttering about painful feet and backs by the time the cast finally arrived, around half an hour late, for their one hour signing session...
But anyway, Jemz and myself were ushered around to see Bradley and Colin whilst the others saw Katie and Angel... we didn't complain. xD I put money into Bradley's charity collection and asked him if I could get a photo with him to which he replied "Yeah, of course, sure". But immediately the HMV man behind him said "No, you can't". Bradley, bless him looked kind of shocked and apologised to me saying "Oh, sorry apparently you can't"... I kind of love him. Even weirder was a few seconds later when Bradley asked to take a photo of me on his iPhone.
He said "You are the first to donate, can I take your photo?"
I turned into a complete gushing fangirl and was like "Yeah, sure" and stood SO AWKWARDLY whilst he took my photo... twice. I was sooooo worried he was going to twitpic this awful photo of me, but thankfully he didn't! Huzzah. :D
My memory goes a bit fuzzy due to the fangirling here... but I remember gushing some more over Katie as she is SO gorgeous and her drawing a stick figure of herself on mine and Jemz's posters as she thought she should be on there too... <3
The Merlin panel was great, but I could see NOTHING due to the huge man sat in front of me and the really, really low stage. (Also had to do a bit of ungraceful chair-climbing... thank god I was wearing one of the few Pond costumes that doesn't consist of a short skirt!) But oh well, I could see Bradley occasionally (and he was completely zoned out through most of it staring in my general direction) and listening was enough. :)
So, my review of Kapow! Comic Con is that the REALLY need some kind of virtual queueing system like Showmasters does. Queueing for 3 hours for each guest? How are you supposed to enjoy the convention? There was wayyy too little organisation for my liking as well. :/
Also... I didn't take a single photo all day! D:
But... away from Kapow! and onto cosplaying.
FINALLY I get to go a comic cosplay with the bezza, nimbus1991, at London Film and Comic Con 2011 after our Entertainment Media Show plans of The Black Cat and Phoenix got scuppered by the cancellation of the con. This time she is going to do the nekkid-ness that is traditional Wonder Woman, and I shall be Supergirl. :D SUPERHEROINES FTW.
Plus it's July... we can get away with the nekkidness.
The other day (Sunday) I shall be either Giselle!Animated from Enchanted or Lara Croft: Legend. Not sure which just yet.
IT'S GONNA BE SO MUCH FUN. I've bought my wig for this already, it's being shipped from Hong Kong as we speak. It was £10 and looks realllly pretty in the pictures. Wonder what I shall look like as a blonde?
Just wish it could be comic con noaw... rather than after my *whispers* exams. :(
TTFN.
I went on Saturday and met up with jemzamia and roberty88 (hence forth called the filth!couple xD). The weather was fabulous and I'd been talked into cosplaying THE/CB Pond (because, really, why not? :D) thus dressing for Rio was a great plan.
Just outside of Angel station I bumped into the aformentioned couple hunting feverishly for the special edition of SFX magizine.
Why?
Because there was no where to buy 8x10's inside of Kapow! None. What were we supposed to get signed? There was nothing on the desks of the celebrities and few affordable options in the con. Eventually we gave up and ended up buying a Merlin poster for the cast to sign... but this poster only had Colin and Bradley on. *headdesk*
Anyway... so I joined the first epic queue of the day to get into the con, and found Jemz at the front of another epic queue, the Merlin queue, with etmuse and doylefan22 guarding the front with their sign. :D They were lovely and aided in making the crazy long queueing time go faster. We were all muttering about painful feet and backs by the time the cast finally arrived, around half an hour late, for their one hour signing session...
But anyway, Jemz and myself were ushered around to see Bradley and Colin whilst the others saw Katie and Angel... we didn't complain. xD I put money into Bradley's charity collection and asked him if I could get a photo with him to which he replied "Yeah, of course, sure". But immediately the HMV man behind him said "No, you can't". Bradley, bless him looked kind of shocked and apologised to me saying "Oh, sorry apparently you can't"... I kind of love him. Even weirder was a few seconds later when Bradley asked to take a photo of me on his iPhone.
He said "You are the first to donate, can I take your photo?"
I turned into a complete gushing fangirl and was like "Yeah, sure" and stood SO AWKWARDLY whilst he took my photo... twice. I was sooooo worried he was going to twitpic this awful photo of me, but thankfully he didn't! Huzzah. :D
My memory goes a bit fuzzy due to the fangirling here... but I remember gushing some more over Katie as she is SO gorgeous and her drawing a stick figure of herself on mine and Jemz's posters as she thought she should be on there too... <3
The Merlin panel was great, but I could see NOTHING due to the huge man sat in front of me and the really, really low stage. (Also had to do a bit of ungraceful chair-climbing... thank god I was wearing one of the few Pond costumes that doesn't consist of a short skirt!) But oh well, I could see Bradley occasionally (and he was completely zoned out through most of it staring in my general direction) and listening was enough. :)
So, my review of Kapow! Comic Con is that the REALLY need some kind of virtual queueing system like Showmasters does. Queueing for 3 hours for each guest? How are you supposed to enjoy the convention? There was wayyy too little organisation for my liking as well. :/
Also... I didn't take a single photo all day! D:
But... away from Kapow! and onto cosplaying.
FINALLY I get to go a comic cosplay with the bezza, nimbus1991, at London Film and Comic Con 2011 after our Entertainment Media Show plans of The Black Cat and Phoenix got scuppered by the cancellation of the con. This time she is going to do the nekkid-ness that is traditional Wonder Woman, and I shall be Supergirl. :D SUPERHEROINES FTW.
Plus it's July... we can get away with the nekkidness.
The other day (Sunday) I shall be either Giselle!Animated from Enchanted or Lara Croft: Legend. Not sure which just yet.
IT'S GONNA BE SO MUCH FUN. I've bought my wig for this already, it's being shipped from Hong Kong as we speak. It was £10 and looks realllly pretty in the pictures. Wonder what I shall look like as a blonde?
Just wish it could be comic con noaw... rather than after my *whispers* exams. :(
TTFN.