Obligatory Wai-Con report

[rallamajoop]

Keeping this brief as the con was something of a blur. Most of it was spent a) Behind Lisa’s art table watching in disbelief as everything on it vanished in a prolonged puff of smoke, b) At cosplay competitions, c) Panicking about last minute cosplay problems or d) Leaping in and out from behind Lisa’s art table for photos of us in costume, interspersed with more periods of watching the rest of whatever we had left to sell at that point disappear in a blur. It very quickly became obvious we didn’t print nearly enough posters or nearly enough bookmarks, though we did print exactly the right number of copies of our Cloud Tossing doujinshi, which must count for something. I am told there were some sort of panel-y things and anime screenings going on somewhere behind all those closed doors, but I can’t produce any evidence to support this.

I will summarise our costumes simply as follows: that in the end, they were entirely worth the nightmare that was making them. I actually managed to maintain some sort of resolve about just skipping cosplay next year and saving ourselves the stress for almost thirty-six hours somewhere mid-con, before jaseroque almost accidentally came up with this really great idea for next year and... well. At least the next lot will be a little simpler.

Speaking of cosplay, anyone know where we can track down an ankle length dark-red coat? We still owe harveystoat a Zaphod costume, and if we can find a pre-made one (preferably one that doesn’t cost a fortune) we can save ourselves a lot of work.

Comments

[velithya]

Yeah you guys stuff sold like hotcakes, it was very impressive :D

Your costumes were awesome. :) What are you guys thinking about doing next year? (if you can say :P)

[rallamajoop.livejournal.com]

Thanks. ^^ And no real secret - the plan is to get together with Alex and May (Ichigo and Rukia/Sasuke from the con) and do a group Yu Yu Hakusho cosplay - much less ambitious than the FFVII girls, but we've all got a soft spot for old-school shounen. Just how far we get with that plan will depend on whether some of us are still in the country next year, but we'll see how it goes.