MCM Expo London October 2010 - Highlights!

Finally here's some Bloggomic's to sum up some highlights of the expo that were mostly not captured on film or photo. Obviously Stacey's Rayman costumes were a top highlight, growl! <3

The guy in the Dragonball Z get up, my the name of Jake Broster who is also studying Animation, noticed my Make Tea Not War badge funnily enough when I was taking a photo of him with a gang of other DBZ cosplayers. He even wanted his picture taken with me! Some other girl in some kind of gas mask also said she recognized me but said nothing else so I'm not sure if she was serious or not. It's a bit hard to know what to say when someone knows you from the Internet, haha.

The Bananas in Pajamas were probably the most bad-ass costumes we saw the whole weekend (yes, I am not joking) and at one point we saw them walking down to the storage rooms of which I franticly rummaged to get my camcorder on to film this rare moment of TV coming to awesome life, but just missed it, so here it is in comic form instead.

I played a few games with Internet mate Frobman who bumped into us later on the Saturday, including Marvel vs Capcom 3 which he had already tried out a good three or four times (you only got a short time on it after all) and somehow i mamged to beat him, mainly by spamming Chun Li's kicks and bashing buttons hoping for the best! We also tried out Kirby's Epic Yarn and Donkey kong Country returns as both had co-op platforming goodness.

Ok, the Mayor from Nightmare before Christmas costume was probably the most bad-ass we saw (or it's a tie anyway) because at one point a friend called out 'Hey, 180!', some shuffling happened within the costume and the head twisted around! Amazing!

MCM Expo London October 2010 - Tour Videos!

On the Sunday of the Expo I decided to do a sort of tour of the whole place to upload to youtube, which I've managed to cut down to two 14 minute videos. The first one is here and the 2nd one is here. To be honest the main reason to go to MCM is the people more so than all these stores that mostly sell a lot of the same stuff, but you also get to try out some upcoming games and of course there is the comic village, which I may be considering joining in on myself in May next year..

I also have not one but two Bloggomics about the expo coming up this weekend.

MCM Expo London October 2010 - Video!

Well this sure did take a long time to upload (due to being in HD with my new camcorder)! Here's a bunch of random clips taken over the two days we were there. I also took about 30 minutes worth of footage touring the whole place on Sunday, though I haven't got around to editing that together yet.

MCM Expo London October 2010 - The Swag

Here's most of the bits and bobs I brought back from MCM Expo this weekend..

-The 2nd Simon's Cat book (signed by Simon Tofield himself!) and a Simon's Cat t-shirt (they sold out on saturday but got one early on Sunday)

- A bunch of cheap DVDs including a 6 for £5 deal on MVM's store (they had all but one volume of Paranoia Agent there, on the same store the box set was £25!), some £1 DVDs and £5 Blu-Rays from the Manga Video store.

- Twizzlers! Stacey got me these from the American import shank store, shame they only had Cherry flavor and these small packs of them, whenever my family goes to America they bring back big boxes of the Strawberry ones!

- Some more prints from the ever ace Jess Bradley! The Prince of the Cosmos running into Bomberman is especially cool!

- Stickers, badges and postcards from various other comic village artists.

Not pictured is a commission ordered from Mooglet P Bear for a sculpture of Stacey's Mable Rabbid, and professional photos taken of Stacey in both of her costumes on prints which will be online later in the week on Cosplay Portrait! There was also free goodie bags which we got on the Sunday (they ran out on Saturday when we got there), which were mainly full of Gundam and other anime DVDs as well as the usual leaflets.

MCM Expo London October 2010 - Photos!

Hey there, as you may know me and Stacey went to the MCM Expo both days of the weekend and we're utterly pooped! I will be typing up articles about it soon along with a video or two, but for now you can check out all the photos I took over at this Flickr set (they are also on facebook). There's lots of crazy cosplays in there and of course Stacey in both of her awesome costumes too! Enjoy!