WonderCon

This thread just reminded me of all the things I still need to finish.
Full blown panic mode!

Room. Check.
Badge. Check.
Guilt Free Spending Money. Check.
Days Off All Weekend with Zero Chance of getting called in? Cheeeeeeeeeck.
Cosplay? ...FUCK. I knew I forgot something. Maybe next year. That's what I said last year.

>>8906721
>WonderCon is like next week people!

2 weeks

Don't scare me like that

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>Saturday badges are sold out

Oh, ok then.

Still waiting on things to come in the mail but other than that and packing I should be okay.

Anyone else flying from out of state? I'm coming from the Midwest and it's my first con on the West Coast.

>>8906989
Same as last year
If you didn't buy early it's your own fault

Cucka

>>8906997
WC is a good first west coast con to go to I think. It's like OP said, it really is just a smaller Comic Con. BUT it's moving downtown instead of Anaham. Which is fine, it's got too big for the other place. Now it's in the same place as Anime Expo, and that's great for the elbow room. Lucky for me it's only a ten minute drive and I'll be Ubering it so to avoid the 40 dollar parking...JESUS.

Ugh, there's going to be a Lakers game on Friday night. That's going to be a nightmare to deal with.

By the way, Uber has a discount for people who sign up for an account with the code "LACCUBLOG". Your first ride is free (up to $20) so you don't have to deal with parking.

>>8907541
>Ugh, there's going to be a Lakers game on Friday night

Well that's going to be literally impossible to come and go for at least the rest of the night. Hope people have rooms. Make friends with those who do!

I wasn't going to go, but my friend somehow got an extra weekend badge, so I'm like SCORE. And then I just found out Ancient Magus Bride is getting an anime. I betcha I can make a really nice skull headpiece and cosplay Elias since I already have a very fancy suite/dress shoes and I'm 6 feet. 2016. My time has come.

How ded does it get on Sundays?

>>8907581

Not at all. It only gets dead once everything starts to shut down. Panels are a little slim for the pickings at this point, but it's also a great day to go catch up on the AMV or viewing rooms, which are always packed cause people are chillin.

>>8907573
>Well that's going to be literally impossible to come and go for at least the rest of the night. Hope people have rooms.
Game starts at 7:30; if I'm scooting out of the LACC by 5:30 should I be okay or should I aim for earlier?

>>8908083
Game STARTS at 7:30? That means the place will be packed for pre-game stuff/family and friends getting dinner at all the places around. IE Hooters, and Jay's and the parking madness will be on it's way. But I think 5:30 is early enough. Don't think at 6 or beyond you'll have luck though.

>>8907520
I'm not sure how close the hotel is that my friend has for us, but I may consider telling him about Uber to save some cash since he's local.

I haven't cosplayed at all for a couple of years now but I'm kicking around the idea of pulling out one of my superhero costumes and fixing it up. The big deciding factor will be "am I now too much of a whale to fit into spandex." We'll see.

>>8908415
If he's local I can't see him not knowing about Uber

>>8908506
True.

I'll ask him either way just to be safe.

What meetups/photo shoots has anyone heard of?

So far on FB I've seen:
Marvel on Saturday 12 PM
DC on Saturday 2 PM
Disney on Sunday at 2 PM
Dr. Who on Saturday at 3 PM
Dragon Age on Saturday at 3 PM
Valve on Saturday at 1:30 PM
Undertale Saturday at 4:30 PM
Fallout Saturday at 4:00 PM

Anyone heard of a Star Wars meetup? I would have thought that would have been popular this year...

>>8908415

Uber KNOWS when there are big events and then they surge the price. AKA, they jack it up. SO the earlier you use it, the better. They surge during popular hours, but if they know there's a con, they do it for like 3 hour blocks. Still way cheaper than 30 bucks parking a day.

>>8908323
>tfw being in uni band meant showing up for every basketball game 1.5 hours before tipoff
I'm realistic enough about basketball timetables, haha.

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I'll probably head down for one of the days, maybe Saturday.

Wasn't planning on cosplaying, but I've really been enjoying The Division, and I can pretty much closet cosplay it, so I think I may dress up as my character for the hell of it.

>>8909005
Alright. Good news is I checked with my friend and the hotel he got is pretty much across the street. Thank god.

>>8914176
Glad to hear that! Hope you have a great time. Wondercon is a blast.

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Less than a week to go; how y'all doing?

>tfw sewing a spandex outfit when the character designer evidently had only a weak idea on how fabric and clothing actually behave

I'm an idiot and thought that I bought a 3-day badge, but I actually got my FANIME 3-day badge and I got them mixed up. Now Saturday and the 3-days are sold out.

I'm not too sad as I'll still go Friday and Sunday, and I can go explore LA on Saturday instead. Just kind of a bummer because I'm going to be debuting my Black Canary and won't be able to make it to the DC meetup! Maybe next year.

This is my first time at Wondercon. Anything that I should know about before I go? My friend and I nabbed an AirBnB about 10 minutes away and we're just going to Uber it.

>>8921240
If the DC meetup is outside you might be able to ghost it. I haven't looked at the map yet though, so I could be totally wrong there.

>>8921240
Try actually going to the purchase page instead of just the page where they label the badge as Sold Out. I managed to snag one this way a few days ago, you might get lucky too.

>>8906721
>Poor person SDCC
More like the consolation prize for those who couldn't get SDCC tickets.

I'm only going on Saturday.

>>8907520
STFU LAfag. LACC is terrible for these types of conventions.

>>8921289
I thought about that, too! I'll probably take a look at the maps. Thanks, anon!

>>8921424
Damn, this is great advice! Unfortunately there weren't any left when I went to the actual purchase page. I will totally keep this in mind though, thank you! Glad at least one of us got lucky.

>>8919752
I feel your pain. I'm excited because the spandex suit I'm doing had SEAMS in places that made SENSE this time.

>>8921240
This is the first time its been at the LA Convention Center, so what it will be like is kind of anyone's guess. Generally its busy without being absolutely packed. If you're a comic fan, there's lots of cool guests and panels.

>>8907520
LACK is dog shit. Anaheim CC is larger in total space and not designed by an idiot. The downtown area the LACC is located in is terrible, I hope they move back when construction is done

>>8922662
Oh nooo, I'm so sorry that you couldn't get one! If you're really after one, maybe keep an eye on it these next few days. Maybe it changes depending on refunds? You might be able to snag one with last minute cancellations.

>>8906721
she's cute

Going on Sunday morning since everything else is sold out :(

Does anyone know if theyre gonna show any Killing Joke preview footage at the con?

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>>8923342
Don't worry, they are

>>8928425
NICE

I think they realized by now that Anaheim is the best place for Wondercon Anaheim

See ya niggars tomorrow.

>>8925751
Killing Joke!?? Oh man I didn't hear anything, but I'll bet it'll be a suprise thing at the end of some DC panel like they did last year with Deadpool. Get hype!

Any gulls have a hotel room at the Westin on Friday night?

going this weekend. hopefully i won't find myself on here. haha.

>>8928425
thank god. i fucking hate driving to LA.
and the ACC is literally a minute away from me.

What's this about metal detectors being used at entrances?

>>8929241
Wouldn't surprise me, it's pretty standard for larger events in LA.

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Went to Day 0 and got my badge in like 2 minutes. Not sure if it was worth it though because I had to pay $10 parking just to do that.

Any news of a meetup?

I'll post from time to time to let anyone following this thread know if I find any cool free goodies or what not. Will be taking lots of photos with my super new iPhone. I'll be on the hunt for League cosplay like I do every year. Have a fun Friday everyone!

Waiting in the exhibit hall line, for lack of other events happening at the moment.

>>8928425
Thank fuck. I really enjoyed going the first year it came to SoCal at the ACC and wanted to go again but I saw LACC and noped the fuck outta there.

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>>8929656
>Will be taking lots of photos

Please do. I was going to go on Sunday but now I don't think that's happening.

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>>8929755
First one of the day! Standing in line for autograph wrist bands.

>>8929783
The Honest Trailer guy is in line for the Bobs Burgurs autograph!! He's super cool and I took a selfie with him!

I'll be Clover from 999. Come say hi if you see me.

Aka I moved to LA a month ago and have no friends.

>>8929818
Post a pic so I can recognize you

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At the DC panel. Hoping they show something about Killing Joke. Any seagulls coming?

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It is freakin dead. I hope it's cause it's Friday afternoon and everyone is at work?

>>8930024
Ugh and of course the photos turn sideways. How to fix that on iPhone? In line for the abc storytelling panel. There's not much cosplayers.

>>8930014
I'm going to the Preacher panel at 6 if you want to meet up

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>>8929755
Here are some photos I've taken so far

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>>8930085
This person's costume was incredible, movie quality makeup

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>>8930083
Nah. I gotta go to the Rotten Tomatoes panel at 7 so I won't have time. (Doing it for /tv/)
Bored as fuck, anyone wanna meet up rn?

>>8930024
>>8930085
>>8930087
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>>8930095
Heh, there is no one there.

Guess that's why they wanted to move back to Anaheim even if it isn't Easter weekend, because attendance numbers are probably way way under what they expected.

If Saturday is that empty, I will cry.

James Roberts is not at the IDW panel like I hoped he would be as the "special guest".

>>8930150

I have hope for saturday considering it sold out

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>>8930238
Sat is sold out too though. Where is everyone!!?

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>>8928425
Most impressive

Don't know why people are bitching about the space. It's a god damn ghost town. Made it through the dealers dealers room in 30 mins flat, every booth, every row.

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Anyone from /tv/ needs to go to the Rotten Tomatoes panel at 7. I went at Comikaze and it was legendary. You get to fight with critics. I recorded myself doing it and will do another after today.

>>8930358
That's why people are complaining, Wondercon Anaheim last year was so packed and so busy. A ghost town really hurts the con.

#LAWasAMistake

I'm in the RT panel!! I have a fancy paddle.

>>8930385
>>8930449
If no one else does, bring up the low Batman v Superman reviews to start up a shitstorm

Don't worry Human Bean! The Cat in The Hat is the best movie ever!!

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The panel was good, but we got cut short so I could only go in once.
>>8930452
No one did but the critics said they hated it anyways.
Anything going on tonight? The hall seems really dead.

>>8930428
People WANT to be over crowed with no elbow room? ...K. I personally enjoy the breathing space and having to follow behind a million cosplayers a foot at a time trying to get to the other side of the room.

Goooood moooorning!!! It's popping today! Finally. Autograph lines are nuts. Trying to get the Orphan Black tickets.

Well that was a bust. They messed up the lines and we wasted an hour waiting for tickets they ran out of. Moving into the Harry Potter Huge Nerd Club panel. They have trivia and are giving away cool prizes for who can answer three really hard questions.

Just interviewed some homestuck cosplayers for a cringey YouTube video. Anyone want to meet up?

>>8931528
Hmu

>>8931541
At the capcom booth in a grey sweatshirt

>>8931551
In line for umbrella corps

I was driving by yesterday with my cousin on Figueroa and was wondering what the heck was going on. I had no idea L.A. had another Animu con.

Sorry for the blog, just thought I'd stop in and show my curiosity.

>>8931593
It's a comicon derivative, not a chinese cartoon con

>>8931629
Yea just saw they premiered a new TMNT movie trailer there. But the first thing my cousin saw was a Naruto cosplay so that's how the conclusion came to be. Plus it was at night so we couldn't see the banners well.

Any parties going on? That'd make my day 2x better

>>8931825
i saw beanie last night, so there's definitely a party somewhere
take us with you beanie-senpai :(

Hey nerds, me and a buddy got interviewed Friday evening in the exhibit hall, but I forgot to ask what it was for. I was an Imperial officer and he was Spike from Buffy. Anyone got any leads on where to look for something like that?

>>8931889
could be any number of outlets and who knows if they're going to use your footage. you could end up on the cutting room floor

>>8931892
Yeah, figured it was a long shot. Still the first time I had it happen to me, so I thought I'd ask.

>>8931843
we're casual as fuck

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Any more photos of these girls?

The party for cons at the LACC is always at the same place, guise. Bring some cosplay Asian guys for me.

Anyone catch how much parking is at the surrounding lots?

>>8931960

ive found the, to be between 25-45 today

>>8931944
Rooftop?

The masquerade halftime was he fucking coolest thing I have ever seen. I cried when all those X-Men came on.

Anyone know of meetups/gatherings tomorrow? There's the Disney one mentioned upthread (2pm) and I heard floating murmurs about an AtLA one.

>how the hell do yall get this information

>>8931977
>Tfw you're having a suite party and five girls are having an orgy in your bed
Not about this life at all

>>8932064
I'd also like to know, and where these meet ups are located, since I've never been to the LA location. I figure I will check Twitter, tends to be good for this sort of thing. See you guys tomorrow!!!

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Yesterday was fun! Ready to take it easy today and probably haggle a bit.
Change of plans, since I was They Live yesterday, today I'll be Burgerpants.

Here! I'd forgotten that the con is dead before 10 and showed up at 9, whoops.

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>>8932561
We're at the Nerdist panel and waiting for The 100 panel. I heard it was going to be an all out shit show and lots of angry lesbians demanding justice for their fandom. *gets out the popcorn*

I went Friday and Saturday

seemed most people started coming after 2pm on Friday...I got there around 3 and waited probably 45 min just to pick up my badge. The main lobby was decently busy but obviously still less than Saturday at peak. Overall I liked the extra space but I really hate the layout of LA

What a shit show. Having an entire parking area closed for a stupid online registation parking app was a travesty. There were barely any cars in the West Hall parking area due to that bullshit. Had to park 2 blocks away. So fucking glad it's in Anaheim again next year

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Well I for one had a great time. There was too much space, but I agree with the anons that said it was nice to have elbow room. Waltzing through the Artist Alley without having to chug along like a human centipede with everyone was nice. We could stroll and actually look at all the booths and their art. First time at a con none of the shirts caught my fancy which was a bummer. I always get a quirky shirt to commemorate my time there. Oh well.

Star Wars was the new Deadpool. There were more Kylo Rens than any Deadpools I saw. But the space was too big for the handful of cosplayers. I tired to take as many photos as I could, but I think I always manged to get a good angle cause nobody was crowding me. I think it was 1 cosplayer to every 10 normies. All three days sold out, but it certainly didn't feel like there were 60,000 people. It was AWESOME to always have a seat at all the panels we wanted to go to, I highly enjoyed seeing everything I wanted even with the people who squatted in the rooms for the NEXT panel. But no drama, no weirdos, nothing super exciting. Hope everyone else had a good time! I'll start my lovely little photo dump now.

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20's Hydra Party

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Blue Steal

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Saw a lot of Judys and Nicks. Saw more Nicks than Judy's. Throw on a green shirt and some ears, bam. Cosplay. But these three were the first ones on Friday, so they were the best.

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Hot Asumie.

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One of the few Champs I saw over the three days. An ok Singed. Not bald. Wore jeans. Did have big green bottle. 7/10.

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Ray and Matt. Saw a few Matts here and there.

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Cute little Tori. I caught at a good time when she was by herself. Once she stopped a bunch of crappy looking Frisks and Sans swarmed her after I took this one.

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Saw a lot of really cool steampunk people. I mentioned to my friend how I would really like it if steampunk was just the normal fashion. Then everything would look flashy and busy and fun.

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Big and Small

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High Noon Jhin. Not bad for a closet cosplay of a Champ that came out like two weeks go.
BTW, photodumping is so unfun to do now on /cgl/. I have to wait 50 seconds and then I have to click the 4 photos of street signs and then click ok. There's gotta be a faster way to do this.

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Cool Heartseeker Varus. They had all the details on the back too.

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Sith Lady. Liked her dress.

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Sweet Vaporion armor lady.

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Tiny Ahri

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Bum Batman. He was interviewed and I over heard him say "Superman can't beat Batman, but Clark sure can make Bruce go bankrupted with the right story."

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Female Lizard from Spiderman. Sweet makeup.

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Sweet Male Janna and Wolf. I caught a video of Wolf moving up and down and his mouth closed. Pretty cool. Would have been cooler if he had a Lamb with him.

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Sith Mother Gothel. Second biggest thing I saw was Star Wars Disney Mash Ups.

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Tiny Azir

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"Hey Fred! Do a cool pose!"
*Shrugs and smiles politely.*
"........Great!"

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Best Batman movie.

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Tiny Batman and big Mama Jama Penguin.

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They where very sparkly!

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First and only Loki I saw that wasn't a women.

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Super cute. Please come to my village. They gave me a sticker.

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Only Overwatch cosplay I spotted. Sweet armor.

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One of the few Non Movie Star Wars cosplays. Although I hear he'll be in the Bounty Hunter one. I can only hope, he's one of my favorites.

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I liked this Nightmare Moon design.

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Superman chocks Batman...

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>>8933537
*Chokes. Shush! I've been awake for 3 days partying at a nerd convention.

Shazaam chokes Superman. Joker jumps in and goes back to choking Batman.

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>>8933543

And then Deadpool just poses. They drew in a huge crowd. Twas funny. Nice to see when cosplayers actually interact with each other, instead of just nervously saying Hi or Heeeeey.

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I thought that girl WAS the actress Gabriela. Uncanny how she looks just like her.

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Kindred!

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Favorite Yellow Lantern Scarecrow.

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First time seeing a Jax at a con. His eyes lit up too.

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Bloodmoon Squad.

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Favorite cosplay of the weekend. So there was a huge group of people and they were going nuts over a little 5 year old dressed as BB8. Then here comes THIS little 5 year old fucking Alien Queen with a full moving tail and headdress with sharp teeth and claws and everyone just turned and forgot about the little BB8 girl. It was like a cartoon.

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>>8933559
Her dad was the trooper.

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Turtles!

>>8932908
SDCC is similar...they do presale parking ahead of time to avoid really shitty lines every morning, trust me its better (at least for SDCC). Not sure why the lots were empty though

>>8933417
i liked the much more relaxed atmosphere for the panels and expo floor, but I really think the spread out layout meant most cosplayers were scattered between outside, the main lobby and all the connecting halls. Also, thanks for the pics

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Sparkles! And honor! But mostly sparkles! I'll be back later with my other half of pics. Stand by.

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>>8933570
For sure. I think there were more cosplayers outside then in. And that kills the whole idea to moving to a bigger building, don't it? thought I was reading some articles how all the people what went this weekend really helped boost the LA area's economy by 6 million bucks. LA is going to try to get it back in 2018.

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>>8933570

And you're welcome! Glad someone is looking at them. I don't take them for my health people. I take them for you, you silly gulls.

How as the cosplay contest? Any bullshit entries? Did first place deserve it?

>>8933570
Cause Wondercon isnt SDCC sized, and they didnt advertise it anywhere on the site that you needed to reserve parking online, so the lot stayed a good chunk empty and they were turning people away without a reservation

>That stupid barcode scanner bullshit
Please tell me they didn't install this to be a common thing at most cons. I had to wait exhaustingly long in one line just to pass by when one person's card didn't read because he didn't scan TO WALK OUT OF THE FUCKING ROOM.

>>8933608

There was a forest queen who likes to dance

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I would say everything was well deserved (except one), but only cause there wasn't much to pick from? WonderCon has a Star Wars Sponsored Award, right? But if you only have one Star Wars group...well, I guess you're gonna win, huh? And this year there were two Star Wars groups, and surprisingly, the judges split the prize cause they were both awesome. And they were! So that worked out nicely.
But off the top of my head the winners were:

Lady Groot who won Audience Favorite and 3rd Place. I liked it and she did the little Groot dance and would freeze as she walked across the stage. Her dress really looked like bark, so that was cool. Also she's a teacher and her kids gave her the idea and they helped her make the dress? Or the hat? Or something, so I thought that was nice.

The two Star Wars groups were both fight skits that were done awesomely. One was the fight between the three main people of the Old
Republic Game. Second one was an India stylized fight between Vader vs Luke and R2D2 child. Very creative.
A Nightmare Before Christmas Carnival style trio won most creative? But they were decked out in detail and looked really clean and fun. (next pic I'll post).

2nd or 1st place or Best Armor went to a nine foot tall Hulk Buster with all the cool light up LCDs. Thing was huge and had a really nice paint job.

Funniest Award went to The Hobbit- Under Two minutes. Lady was the Dragon in a dress, Bilbo and Legolas were in the group. It was indeed funny, but again, I don't recall any other "funny" ones, so they won by default?

Hawk Woman won a place or a mention. 3,000 individual feathers on the wings and she was only one that made any noise by shouting out a warrior yell. Her mace lit up.

The Bullshit Award went to an original design that was a women covered in purple glitter and star pants? White strips of fabric hung off her arm and she had a messy white long wig? I don't even remember what I was looking at.

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>>8933712

Queen Minnie Mouse got the College of Costume Award for being most creative. And she gets to go to their 4 day weekend class for free. BUT, even though the dress was indeed nice, I think the judges never saw Kingdom Hearts before. Because I'm 1000% sure they thought it was an original design, and half the award is about being original and creative.

A super cute male Harely Quinn got a mention for his Sleep Over Night Time idea. He was in a cute onesy and his butt flat was open and he had black Batman underwear one. He looked like a major dork with glasses and short blond hair, so I actually liked it too.

The half time show was SO amazing!!! It was a real dance group of super hot and fit people, and their dancing was perfectly synced. It was S.H.I.L.E.D themed, and they made their own music mix. Then Deadpool dropped in and it was hilarious and THEN the whole X-MEN team joined. (guys in above pic were some I found before the show started. So when I saw them on the stage I was really surprised). I loved it so much. I would glady pay to see them preform again. It was so nerdy and so cool at the same time. Major props to those guys.

That's all I can remember. One lady totally took someone's spot, I'm sure. She was "Earth Sprit" or something, and she just danced around to some piano music in her "outfit". It was a shirt, a shall, and a long skirt sewd onto a short skirt? I'm sure she took an actual cosplayers real costume spot and I felt butt hurt over it.

The WonderCon MC is super chill and funny too. Great guy.

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>>8933709

Remind me which one that was?

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>>8933745

Old school TAS baddies. I spotted the Scarecrow first and then his little friends came from the around the corner. That was nice.

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Lady Ivy

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Just got home a few hours ago
Had a really good time
Not very crowded in the morning but packed by the afternoon

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Lady Police Box (who from down the hall I thought was R2D2)

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My two favorite Mortal Kombat characters and they were sitting together! Woo.

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I lied, I saw TWO Overwatch cosplays, but then again, Phara had to make all her armor. D.Va had to buy a skin suit.

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Dorky Emmet and Wild Style

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Awww.

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Light up Appleseed. Tall dude too. Nice to see a big guy do a big dude mecha armor.

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Just the head of a Rengar, but it looks very promising if she does the rest.

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I hate getting trash cans in the background.

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The little doggie was Chewie. I don't know if these are creative anymore or not. I don't seem to bat an eye at it anymore. Only Star Wars/Disney mix I ever liked was a handsome tall Hans as Hans Solo (kek) and a very pretty Elsa as Slave Leia.

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Now THIS idea I like, even though it's over done too. More Vegas style Marvel heroes and less Disney crossovers. Maybe I just like sparkles.

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First Twisted Fate I've seen that wasn't a short, busty woman. 4/10. NO BEARD. Come on man, you even had the flowly trench coat and cards. No beard??

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A better pic of the Armored Gems. And that's it! Didn't feel like I took a lot of shots, but like I said either everything was a duplicate, store bought Halloween costumes (Elsa, Kylo Ren, Deadpool, Harley, Rick and Morty, Spiderman, ect...) or I couldn't find people! Halls were bare, but I was so busy with panels and meeting up with people I didn't even get a chance to check out any of the big group meet ups outside. Or go outside in general. Can't wait for ComicCon and Anime Expo! Good job everyone who did dress up and got off their lazy butts to actually make something. Unlike me, who will forever keep saying "Next year I'm totally gonna make something."
Hope I caught a gull in one of these pics.

So much mad. Why doesn't it just move back up to SF instead.

>>8933819
>>8933777

You're a creep. I can feel it.

>>8933708
This is going to be the new method for sure at SDCC but its also their first try at it so hopefully it gets better

for example they already said they will look into raising the scanner so everyone doesnt have to bend over just to swipe the badge

Thanks for all the photos photo-anon! You rock!

>>8934569
>raising the scanner
As far as I could tell, it was 50/50 convenience/inconvenience until later in the weekend, when more people were picking up on it and started wearing their badges near their belts.

>of course I'm biased because I keep my badge looped around my hip-height bag (because cosplay), so having the scanners at midsection-height was perfectly convenient 4 me

What other sites might be talking about their WonderCon experience? /cgl/ seems dead and there's only 10 posts at the cosplay.com threads. Have people just moved onto their own blogs/tumblrs to talk about stuff?

>>8933464
wow cute

>>8935960
Wondercon is like SDCC (aka normiecon), you don't get a large portion of the cosplay or anime convention community attending

>>8937657
Aw really? Are you saying smaller anime cons are more fun?

>>8937683
well, it depends what you're expecting in comic conventions. i mean, if youre expecting anime related stuff at wondercon, then you're doing it wrong.

I personally love wondercon and have been going ever since they moved it to anahiem.
Friday and Saturday alone I spent half the day watching panels/premiers of stuff.

>>8937657
I would agree with you if it weren't for the past two Wondercon Anaheim's that had a pretty significant chunk of the anime cosplay community.

Simply put, they didn't like LA for this con, and they made it known by not even attending.

>>8937729
That's true. I didn't see aaaany anime cosplays. All Star Wars, comics, Disney, marvel, some League, some Halo, and some mortal Kombat, but no anime. Not even a AoT

>>8937735
Its not an anime convention? Why would expect anime cosplayers to come if its not an anime convention?

>>8938622
If they went to Wondercon in Anaheim they would have noticed that Wondercon drew quite a huge contingent of Anime Cosplayers from the LA area. It just happened that this year, the first and only year the con moved to LA did most of them not attend.

>>8933788
>>8933819

I want this to stop

>>8938622
...Oh. Oh I guess you're right! I'm so used to seeing anime at ANY convention, I was taken aback by it. Huh. Weird.

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My friend took some pics.

>>8933444
Hahah i known these two

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>>8939652

>>8933741
The Harley Quinn onesie isn't an original idea it's from a video game

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>>8939697
Da FUCK. That's awesome!!

>>8933537
>>8933543
Ugh it's Sean Long.

>>8933559

Sounds like something from fop

>>8940987
Who is that and is he Batman or Superman?

>>8941319
Whats FOP?

>>8939683
They won best recreation runner up. it wasn't for an original design

>>8932670
How did the angry lesbians go? I was trying to wait in standby for the signing and missed the panel. Terrible idea since they just picked random ass people to go in last, despite be being there first. I was curious about how much rage there'd be. I heard Eliza practically only talked about Lexa because of obvious PR reasons.