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Otakon 2006: con report
Aug. 12th, 2006 02:35 amWe got somewhat split up on buses to Baltimore this year, due to being early, being late, being on time.... yes, I suppose that's somewhat vague, but I won't go into specifics.
The first people we ran into when we got to the hotel were Sharon, DC, and Jay! How lucky! It was really nice to see them then, especially since we didn't end up seeing them until late on Saturday, and only for a short time.
We got a slightly smaller room at the Radisson this year than previous years, which was unfortunate. Thursday was sunny and hot and since we waited for a couple of hours on the pre-reg line in the blazing sun, I got a bit of a tan. (Not that you could tell under my white facepaint cosplay...)
I don't think we did a whole lot of con stuff. I know I missed a couple of panels I had wanted to go to. Friday we got to the BCC kind of late, spent a while having our pictures taken... walked across the BCC, spent some more time having our pictures taken... wanted to go eat, but we had to go back to the fountain area to make the KH photo shoot. Which actually kind of sucked, so we left to go to the Hall Costume contest... waited for hours, finally ate, waited for another hour, went to have our pictures taken at the Photo Suite, waited another half an hour, and finally got judged. Which was *squee* (see previous post).
Also at some point on Friday we bumped into that cool Riku and Anti-Sora whom I'd met at AnimeNEXT (the Riku was cosplaying Namine) and took a few photos together. I actually spoke up and said that I'd met them at AN, and recalled to the Anti-Sora that I'd asked him about where to get the zentai suits he used (and which we actually ended up using too), and they actually remembered me, LOL.
Saturday was much the same except we actually made it to the cosplay panel we wanted to go to. Maryann took very helpful notes, and I hope we can actually use them to make something awesome for next year. Liz went into the wig panel briefly, but it seems they were going reeeeallly slowly, so she didn't stay for long. We went over to the other KH photo shoot (which sucked more), but we got to see Chris, Carrie and Cloud (Greg, whom I'd also met at AN and said hi again). We went to eat, then touch up our makeup, then... I can't quite remember. Oh yes! Dealer's Room! We FINALLY got to the dealer's room. Amazingly enough, I bought one $4 manga on my first trip to the dealer's room when I usually spend like $60 in that first shot. There were a few things that I was considering, but nothing really caught my eye except those $30 Nana wallets (which I didn't end up getting anyway).
We changed out of our KH2 outfits and into our FMA outfits for a few hours on Saturday night, which is when I bumped into![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
sharona1x2, dc_logan, devilkitty0, klingonpoo, yaoichick, and a few others as well. It was nice seeing everyone again!
Sunday we took another turn around the dealer's room and I ended up spending about $80... a mild year for me. Not the least I've spent at a con, but certainly not much more than that. I got a cute moogle shirt, Mezzoforte, KITE, and Alien Nine DVDs. (I sooo can't wait to see A9 -- I really loved it!) I finally picked up the only volume of the SDK manga I was missing, so I am now completely caught up, and a random volume of the Kare Kano manga which I have a couple of volumes of, but am trying to collect and complete. I also got a laptop bag from Myth -- it's one of those sling-shoulder backpack deals, which I hope will work better for me than a one-shoulder messenger bag 'cause my laptop is too heavy to carry on just one shoulder for more than an hour. I also got a small FMA poster for free, signed by two of the American voice actors (whom I'll never actually hear, but whatever -- the poster was really smallish and cute, which is what I wanted).
Oh! Maryann was so sweet -- she bought me a Brom calendar for 2007! She got me one for 2006, which is up on my wall and which I love to look at! She says it's also to make up for the "lame pen gift" she got me for my birthday, and it definitely does that. <3
Overall, this was a weird con experience. I didn't get to hang out with old friends so much, which was unfortunate. But I got to say hi to some new friends I made earlier this year at AnimeNEXT and that really made me really happy.
The first people we ran into when we got to the hotel were Sharon, DC, and Jay! How lucky! It was really nice to see them then, especially since we didn't end up seeing them until late on Saturday, and only for a short time.
We got a slightly smaller room at the Radisson this year than previous years, which was unfortunate. Thursday was sunny and hot and since we waited for a couple of hours on the pre-reg line in the blazing sun, I got a bit of a tan. (Not that you could tell under my white facepaint cosplay...)
I don't think we did a whole lot of con stuff. I know I missed a couple of panels I had wanted to go to. Friday we got to the BCC kind of late, spent a while having our pictures taken... walked across the BCC, spent some more time having our pictures taken... wanted to go eat, but we had to go back to the fountain area to make the KH photo shoot. Which actually kind of sucked, so we left to go to the Hall Costume contest... waited for hours, finally ate, waited for another hour, went to have our pictures taken at the Photo Suite, waited another half an hour, and finally got judged. Which was *squee* (see previous post).
Also at some point on Friday we bumped into that cool Riku and Anti-Sora whom I'd met at AnimeNEXT (the Riku was cosplaying Namine) and took a few photos together. I actually spoke up and said that I'd met them at AN, and recalled to the Anti-Sora that I'd asked him about where to get the zentai suits he used (and which we actually ended up using too), and they actually remembered me, LOL.
Saturday was much the same except we actually made it to the cosplay panel we wanted to go to. Maryann took very helpful notes, and I hope we can actually use them to make something awesome for next year. Liz went into the wig panel briefly, but it seems they were going reeeeallly slowly, so she didn't stay for long. We went over to the other KH photo shoot (which sucked more), but we got to see Chris, Carrie and Cloud (Greg, whom I'd also met at AN and said hi again). We went to eat, then touch up our makeup, then... I can't quite remember. Oh yes! Dealer's Room! We FINALLY got to the dealer's room. Amazingly enough, I bought one $4 manga on my first trip to the dealer's room when I usually spend like $60 in that first shot. There were a few things that I was considering, but nothing really caught my eye except those $30 Nana wallets (which I didn't end up getting anyway).
We changed out of our KH2 outfits and into our FMA outfits for a few hours on Saturday night, which is when I bumped into
sharona1x2, dc_logan, devilkitty0, klingonpoo, yaoichick, and a few others as well. It was nice seeing everyone again!Sunday we took another turn around the dealer's room and I ended up spending about $80... a mild year for me. Not the least I've spent at a con, but certainly not much more than that. I got a cute moogle shirt, Mezzoforte, KITE, and Alien Nine DVDs. (I sooo can't wait to see A9 -- I really loved it!) I finally picked up the only volume of the SDK manga I was missing, so I am now completely caught up, and a random volume of the Kare Kano manga which I have a couple of volumes of, but am trying to collect and complete. I also got a laptop bag from Myth -- it's one of those sling-shoulder backpack deals, which I hope will work better for me than a one-shoulder messenger bag 'cause my laptop is too heavy to carry on just one shoulder for more than an hour. I also got a small FMA poster for free, signed by two of the American voice actors (whom I'll never actually hear, but whatever -- the poster was really smallish and cute, which is what I wanted).
Oh! Maryann was so sweet -- she bought me a Brom calendar for 2007! She got me one for 2006, which is up on my wall and which I love to look at! She says it's also to make up for the "lame pen gift" she got me for my birthday, and it definitely does that. <3
Overall, this was a weird con experience. I didn't get to hang out with old friends so much, which was unfortunate. But I got to say hi to some new friends I made earlier this year at AnimeNEXT and that really made me really happy.
