Wednesday, March 1, 2006

   MegaCon was awesome! AKA long convention post of DEATH!!!
Wow. I can't believe it's already Wednesday. I would've updated sooner, but I just haven't had the time. I've been busy getting stuff done for school, but hey! I can finally post a few pictures my roommate so graciously took of our MegaCon experience. But first, here's my con report for MegaCon 2006:

Friday: It was originally just going to be me, my mom, and my roommate (Sakura 02), but since we had room for one more in the car and hotel room, my friend Melissa came along after some effective coaxing from her roommate. XD

So, we left for Orlando after our classes ended and arrived at the hotel around 3:30. After changing into our costumes, we went to the convention and picked up our weekend passes, since my roommate and I had already pre-registered. Melissa was just going to get a pass for Saturday, but luckily, this one guy approached us in line and offered to sell her his weekend pass for half the original price. So that was pretty awesome!

For the rest of the day, we met up with my friend Tristin (SpadesAce) and mulled around in the dealers room (where you can buy anime merchandise and stuff). Then my very good cosplaying friend Diana arrived a little while later, and we got some awesome pictures with her. There wasn't a whole lot going on Friday night, so after taking some pictures and mingling for a bit, we called it a night and went back to the hotel.

Saturday: We got to the convention around 10 (when the con opened), and I checked to see the status of the costume contest, since pre-judging was in the morning. Figuring it would take a while to get to my turn (since I was number 76), the three of us (Sakura02, Melissa, and I) went to the dealers room yet again, where we found manga (and even some anime DVD's) for $2 each! Then, after that, we met up with some other friends from our college who were waiting in line for their passes. While I was being pre-judged for the costume contest, Sakura02 and Melissa got autographs from some of the famous sci-fi/voice acting people. Later that evening was the actual presentation of the costume contest. I tried to get Sakura02 to enter, but she wouldn't, so she and Melissa did some stuff while I went backstage to get ready.

But behold, backstage I met up with my other friends from college who were doing a Naruto skit. They had been recruited by some other Naruto cosplayers to join them. So I hung out with them until it was our time to go on. I entered as White Duelist Utena, by the way.

Even though I didn't win anything, it was still fun being in the contest and getting to go on stage. My friend Diana did win Best in Show, though, so that was incredibly awesome!

After the contest, my feet were screaming at me after walking around in those monster 5.5 inch shoes, so I decided to go back to the hotel. My roommate and Melissa stayed at the convention for a bit so they could attend a painting workshop and check out the late-night rave.

Sunday: After being in Utena for the past two days, I decided to dress as Akito, since that's a very comfortable costume. I got some pictures with Diana since she was Tohru, we watched part of the AMV contest, checked out the dealers room one last time, and said our goodbyes since we had to head back home.

And now, pictures:

Diana as Anthy and me as Utena.
The professional con photographer got a lot of pictures of these costumes, so I'll be sure to post more as soon as he uploads his.

Melissa as Akito Melissa didn't have any costumes, so I let her borrow my Akito costume since, like me, she loves the insane villain-type characters. XD

My roommate (Sakura02) in her Hanmyo costume.

Me as Akito and Diana as Tohru.
Why is it that Diana and I always end up mutilating eachother in our cosplay pictures? XD

And the scary thing is, that IS my natural skin tone.

And that's it for now. I might post some more pictures when the professional con photographer posts his photos.
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