2010 Conventions

[Mod_Man_Extreme]

Ah, I'll be in my good old Street Fighter Headband the whole time, but no cosplay for me as all my cosplay stuff ended up half-baked.

Couldn't be Lupin as I wasn't able to find a red suit, and I didn't get a chance to be Marty McFly as I wasn't able to find one of those old red puffer vests.

[Zeonik Freak]

Ah, I'll be in my good old Street Fighter Headband the whole time, but no cosplay for me as all my cosplay stuff ended up half-baked.

Couldn't be Lupin as I wasn't able to find a red suit, and I didn't get a chance to be Marty McFly as I wasn't able to find one of those old red puffer vests.

They actually made those Nike shoes in the 2nd movie a couple of years back but they go for like 1000+ dollars now.

[Mod_Man_Extreme]

Ah, I'll be in my good old Street Fighter Headband the whole time, but no cosplay for me as all my cosplay stuff ended up half-baked.

Couldn't be Lupin as I wasn't able to find a red suit, and I didn't get a chance to be Marty McFly as I wasn't able to find one of those old red puffer vests.

They actually made those Nike shoes in the 2nd movie a couple of years back but they go for like 1000+ dollars now.

Actually they didn't.

Nike was afraid of getting caught in some sort of licensing catch and instead of just talking to universal they just made a pair of Air Jordans in light blue and white colors so yeah, total cop out.

[Zeonik Freak]

Letting you know ill be seeing you guys about late friday morning or so, i wont get to the con till about 10 or 11am.

See yea then suckaz!!!!...

[Mod_Man_Extreme]

Heh, see you there Zeonik!

I'm bringing the lappy to have some sort of link to the world (I do not, and have never owned a cell phone) in case someone needs to contact me and or so we can set up the meeting place for us Racketeers!

My IM, e-mail and other info is in my User Profile and or under my name depending on what forum layout you're using.

[Zeonik Freak]

Sad that animazement is over, but i need the rest. It was cool seeing Mod, Dr Cinco and fastbilly there.

So are we gonna do a thread on this or just keep the discussion here. BTW Mod, i need that cosplay photo of me if there is a way to digitize that.

[Mod_Man_Extreme]

Sad that animazement is over, but i need the rest. It was cool seeing Mod, Dr Cinco and fastbilly there.

So are we gonna do a thread on this or just keep the discussion here. BTW Mod, i need that cosplay photo of me if there is a way to digitize that.

Dr. Cinco.....I am so gonna start calling Dr Cirno that.

Same thing here though,I had a great time and it was a blast catching up with Zeonik and fastbilly there.

I'm going to g get the film developed later this week at the one-hour photo Walgreens and get some photo CD's of each roll made too so I can transfer them around the net easily.

P.S. - for those of you still on the fence about going to a con or not stop thinking and GO. Here's basically a repost of my earlier find's of the day post and what I did at the con that I posted earlier today:

I stole Richard Ian Cox's (Voiced the English version of Inu-Yasha in said show of the same name, was also Bedtime Bear on The Care-Bears and lots of other voices in stuff) nameplate off of the panelist's table when I was in line to see him, Kappei Yamaguchi (Japanese voice actor of Inu-Yasha and tons of other Anime characters) and Noriko Hidaka (Voiced Noriko Takaya in the original Gunbuster and several other characters from legendary 80's-00's Anime.) on a panel of the extent of their careers. Later on the next morning (Sunday) I pulled it out of my bag at the guest signing for general stuff and last minute con-goers and he busted out laughing, told me to hand it to him, signed it no problem and gave it to me.

I networked and exchanged info and cards with a Member of the local 501st Stormtroopers and was cordially invited to join as one of the only few people he was allowed to give cards to.

Bought an Evangelion parody shirt that was freaking genius: http://dog.fpsbanana.com/ico/sprays/like_a_boss.png

Grabbed some free weekly Jump comics from Japan that were being handed out.

Got a Momocon '09 T-Shirt FastBilly was selling at his Momocon promotion booth for $1 as.......well, it was a good shirt for cheap. Plus he pulling a Billy Mays/Vince routine that instantly sold me on it.

Bought a vintage circa '01 original PlayStation shirt from Carlton of Mad-Gear (Video game salesman extraordinaire and all around great guy) that he only had one of left and luckily it was in my size.

I practically channeled Michael Jordan and jumped about five feet into the air off of the ground, smacked this guy's hand out of the way and elbowed this other guy next to me all to grab a signed Supa Pirate Booty Hunt promo card that Spike Spencer (voice actor and writer for the show) threw out into the crowd at the start of his panel and actually caught it!

Met and got the info for the guy at the music booth in the dealer's room who would be able to get me a big pile of MiniDiscs and portable players for like $20.

Bought a Japanese AV-Famicom from Carlson of Mad-Gear as well so I can finally play my Japanese copy of Castlevania III with the VRC-6 chip.

Bought Mushihimesama Futari for the 360 from Video Games New York's booth as I swore I wouldn't leave the con without it.

Bought Spike Spencer's book "How To Be A Frickin' Genius Voice Actor: By, Spike Spencer F.G." and got it signed along with all of my Neon Genesis Evangelion DVD's and a picture of me with him. (This guy is seriously the coolest person I've ever met at any sort of event)

Not to mention I had my hand shaken by amazing Japanese, English and American Voice Actors and started a legend/trend/phenomenon that will forever live on in Animazement history by getting my Namco Arcade Stick signed by every single celebrity there except for the single one that I couldn't get tickets to (the rat-bastard). By the time I was going around the con center to panels and VA's or artists all the translators and panelists already knew what was up as they saw me coming in and some actually complimented me on the idea.

Spike Spencer laughed his ass off at it when I explained that I'd forgotten my DVD's as I was rushing to catch his panel and this was all I had on me, then he signed it first. (He voices Shinji Ikari in Neon Genesis Evangelion (My favorite Anime of all time) and Arakune in Blaz-Blue)

Next I took it to Richard Ian Cox (AKA: the English voice of Inu-Yasha) and got him to sign my one Inu-Yasha DVD and then I offhandedly asked him if he had ever done any video game work. He mentioned Warhammer and a few others after which I pulled out the stick and he FREAKED. He started asking me what I played, how I came up with the idea of getting my stick signed, etc.. etc... and also complimented me on the fact that it was for the original PlayStation and still in good shape despite it's age. After we talked for about 10-15 minutes he signed it "Kevin, You are Old-School! -Richard Ian Cox", told me I was one cool guy and I almost crapped my pants.

Cristina Vee gave me a free promo pic (normally $10) after she signed the arcade stick as she said it was awesome how I had managed to get everyone to sign it.

Noriko Hidaka Signed it "Fight To The Top! -Noriko" and drew a little tulip next to her name and message.

Chiho Saito Signed it and complimented me on using a film camera over digital for my con pictures and was generally the nicest person there. She was seriously just friendly and was letting people sign multiple items so I got my program/schedule signed and a picture with her as well.

Kappei Yamaguchi (Japanese Inu-Yasha voice actor along with Ranma from Ranma 1/2 and several other classic series) looked at me like I was crazy for a second when I handed it to him, mimed a few combos on the stick, then pointed at me and said "Streeturo Fiaghteruo?" in broken English. I nodded and said yes back to which he nodded his translator over and told him "You are an incredibly courageous individual to try having me sign this, I'd like to shake your hand and thank you." to which my jaw promptly dropped, I shook his hand and walked out happy as hell.

Kazuhiko Inoue looked at me funny, but then signed it without much comment. Can't say I blame him, I've never watched any of his work.

Toshifumi Yoshida looked at it and was pretty excited about getting to sign a controller. I then noticed and pointed out his Pokewalker which was peeking out of his shirt pocket after which we spent about a minute talking about games.

I also let Spike Spencer borrow my silver sharpie when I was in line to get my stuff signed and his ran out; later on when he gets up to my place in line I get my stuff signed and leave. Well, upon getting to the room I realize (and to quote....myself) "That fucker stole my sharpie" So I packed my last two unsigned Evangelion DVD's in the box I had, walked down to get my sharpie back and tried to see if I could get another two signatures to finish up my Eva collection. Well I get back at the end of the now thankfully short line and when it's my turn I tell him "I realized when I got to my hotel room that you kept my sharpie, could I get back and sneak two more signatures to finish up my collection?

The man was slightly drunk (drank wine and alternated with vodka all throughout the panel) and apparently needed to piss like fucking crazy, so he says "Walk with me." He starts signing my stuff as we walk out of his panel's room and as we're walking I notice he's starting to bounce around and talk all erratically. Then all of a sudden he just looks at me and says "I've gotta piss like mad, where are the God-damned bathrooms!?" I point him in the right direction, he hands me my now signed DVD's and my sharpie then proceeds to run off screaming and yelling in Shinji Ikari from Evangelion's voice toward the bathroom as an added bonus.

Best fucking moment E.V.E.R.

Basically I had the freaking time of my life and can't wait to hopefully go back next year.

Here are some pics of said swag:

[MrPopo]

Note: although cons are awesome and I recommend you go to them, Mod Man's con experience was very atypical. I fully expect him to be struck dead within the next week due to karmic balance.

[Mod_Man_Extreme]

Note: although cons are awesome and I recommend you go to them, Mod Man's con experience was very atypical. I fully expect him to be struck dead within the next week due to karmic balance.

My experience last year was pretty fun too, but this year I actually knew what I was doing. Plus, I went to Animazement which is a smaller convention, the nice thing about those is practically no security drones, lots of space to walk and move about in, and everybody can just relax and have fun.

[Zeonik Freak]

Alright, granted my story telling isnt in full detail like yours, but ill go.

My best moments were:

One of the dealers i was at apperently got something jacked, so there i was browsing the gundam models when this large old guy in a wheel chair cocked his head back and blew so freaking loud into a whistle then then had enough air to belt out "SECURITY!!!!" I was no more than 6 feet or so from this guy and i thought a part of my ear went deaf. About a couple of minutes later, the security shows up and the guy in the wheel chair helpers (some guy dressed up as Rei) was telling them what happend (of course, some guy dressed as a chick seemed like the type to sit there and watch something like that happend, but i could be wrong). And for some reason during the ordeal, the next thing i saw was this guy moved from being in a wheelchair to being with a cane. I just thought it was funny.

As for autographs go, i was able to go to Trish Ledoux panel and afterwords was like "hey, i dont know if you know me, but i was the guy last year who had you sign a bunch of Animerica mags" and she knew who i was right then. I had her sign a few issues of Animerica which i can take pics of later and post, and we talked for a bit. She told me about her having a facebook and i gave her my name. Of course, theres like 50 Trish Ledoux on facebook. I did find her husband and sent him a message to see if she can add me because i cant find her, and did explain that im just a fan.

I guess this is bad but funny in a way, but i did submit an AMV for the con that took like 2 hours to show. I posted it on here a while ago (you can do a search on youtube for... screw it here it is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjDxtTnglzI) Well anyways, im happy they played it then again not so much. If you watch it, you can tell i added sound affects that is a bit louder on your speakers for either your desktop or laptop, but its not too bad. Well, that wasnt the case at the con. If you hear those effects in the video, just imagine if you will them being 30 times louder, that was what everyone was exposed to at the con that I, the crowd or the AZ staff didnt see coming. Im pretty sure half the room shook and I made someone deaf. But out of that, I expected the speakers to be blown or the sound system frying when that happend. All in all, i got cheers from the video by a quarter of the room on sunday. I think at one point some guy was like "OMG thats HORRIBLE AHHH" and i couldnt help but to laugh. And the ending got some laughs from it, from the people who could still hear. Ill just know next year whatever AMV i decide to do (ive got about 5 possible backburner ideas for next year) to balance SFX and the song so they dont blow peoples ears off.

And when i was in the game room waiting for my laptop to charge, there was this (id have to assume) autistic guy who beat Super Mario Brothers 3 which i thought was pretty cool and pretty funny as he was shouting things like "BOWSER YOUR MOM DRINKS GASOLINE!!!" and got the high score.

Oh yea, when i was waiting for my brother and his friends, they had a mess load of the big schedule sheets they had tacked around the con and gave me one. They basicly told me "yea, we just took them down and started to walk off with them". So now ive got the schedule (with red marker edits) of the panel and con times in my room.

Oh and Mod, the game i was showing you was this: http://www.terraformgame.com/

As for shwag, i got:

Gall Force/Fatal Fury 2 poster
Gundam Wing Endless Duel
Gundam Assult Survive
some Rurouni Kenshin PS2 game
Assult suits Valken 2 PS1
a crap ton of Macross gashpoun/mini figures
Hobby japan books
Gundam models (HG Unicorn, Gundam X and Blue Destiny)
a Momocon 09 shirts that "Id Buy That for a Dollar" from fastbilly.

Yea, its sad that its over already, but next year Ill do a mess load of autographs like Mod did and be prepared. If i can, ill find VHS copies that VA worked on and have them sign those for the heck of it.