belated con report
Nov. 3rd, 2010 12:12 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ladydoujiSo oni-con was this past weekend and for the first time in years I actually got to go all three days. It's been way too long since I could do that, screwed up my sleep schedule but it was worth it.
Friday: Some-how woke up around 8:30 got all punkified and headed out to the hotel. I got there early enough that there wasn't a long line for a badge. Some improvements is that they didn't have the dealers room spread out across two locations like last year, and the Artist Allery was in it's own room, rather than in the hallway making it easier to move around. Things that bugged me, is that for one of the two anime viewing rooms they never actually labeled it, so it was mostly ignored. Also while the panel rooms were labeled, they never posted signs or schedules about what was in each panel room at the door, so if you didn't have a schedule you were pretty fucked.
Explored the con while waiting for the dealer's room to open and found that there was a steampunk group and they had a steampunk museum. I mentioned that I had made little doll-sized steampunk guns and the guy in charge said, "Bring them in and we can put them up with a little piece of paper with your name." Well I got bored waiting for the dealer's room to open so I ran home, got my guns and brought them in. Guy thought they were extremely awesome and I became a last minute addition to the museum. Later I found out another in their group collected dolls and needed steampunk guns for her dolls. We exchanged info for later.
Dealer's room opened and I started exploring. At first I didn't find much, but did pick up some volumes of Fairy Tail, that I've been reading online. Also got a Snow(from FF13) action figure. Cursing the fact that ff13 is the first time I want figures of all the characters and not just the boys, plus this is the time that they're the most expensive. Typically the figures have been 20-30 dollars. FF13's are 40$. The dealer gave me a small discount because the Snow figure was the last one he had in stock. And a woman was selling home made yukatas and hair shinies( Pan-Gaia.com.) I had my hair in pigtails at the time and another customer commented that her hair in a single braid wouldn't be as thick as one of my pigtails. I ended up buying two combs and the dealer asked if I was from in town because she wanted to use me as a head/hair model for her shop. In the artist alley I got a phone charm and badge that says "what do you mean there's no such brand as god damn tea? Met with my friend Sarah and her fiance for lunch. Then Sarah and I just hung out waiting for panels and I met a cute Snow cosplayer. Went to a couple panels, first about airsoft guns, the one about leather-working. I left halfway through the leatherworking on although I wanted to stay for a panel about wigstyling. I was just too tired.
Saturday. Again got up ungodly early for me about 9-ish. Got dressed in my lolita outfit and let my hair out into pretty waves. Second day was more of the first with wandering around, taking photos of cosplayers. Didn't buy much in the dealers room again but got tempted by several things, but decided to wait until the last day of con. Watched some bad anime in one viewing room(dubbed anime at an anime convention. Really!) In the other viewing room they did have some new stuff, in promotional disks from the anime networks simulcasts. Lolita outfit started feeling too warm so went home and changed. Later went to the yaoi-fest and had a blast. I thought it was going to be watching some yaoi anime, but apparently they couldn't actually get licenses to show any(cons are so legit now) Instead we played games, such a yaoi trivia, bingo, Whose line is it anyway? and match the seme to the uke. We actually ended up going through all the panelists planned activities but we had the room as long as we wanted so we ended up playing Truth or Dare for several hours. Finally went home and went to bed
Sunday: Last day of con and I ended up sleeping later than I wanted and missed the steampunk panel I wanted to go to. Hit the dealer's room one last time and picked up a bento box, some gundam models(Deathscythe Hell Custom and the GX 9900)Dome mini posters of Snow and Hope from FF13 and a grab bag. Grab bag turned out decent with a hetalia placard thing, Lithuania keychain, Cross Marian key chain, and a Clamp and wonderland figure. Chatted with friends, picked up my doll guns and went home.
Friday: Some-how woke up around 8:30 got all punkified and headed out to the hotel. I got there early enough that there wasn't a long line for a badge. Some improvements is that they didn't have the dealers room spread out across two locations like last year, and the Artist Allery was in it's own room, rather than in the hallway making it easier to move around. Things that bugged me, is that for one of the two anime viewing rooms they never actually labeled it, so it was mostly ignored. Also while the panel rooms were labeled, they never posted signs or schedules about what was in each panel room at the door, so if you didn't have a schedule you were pretty fucked.
Explored the con while waiting for the dealer's room to open and found that there was a steampunk group and they had a steampunk museum. I mentioned that I had made little doll-sized steampunk guns and the guy in charge said, "Bring them in and we can put them up with a little piece of paper with your name." Well I got bored waiting for the dealer's room to open so I ran home, got my guns and brought them in. Guy thought they were extremely awesome and I became a last minute addition to the museum. Later I found out another in their group collected dolls and needed steampunk guns for her dolls. We exchanged info for later.
Dealer's room opened and I started exploring. At first I didn't find much, but did pick up some volumes of Fairy Tail, that I've been reading online. Also got a Snow(from FF13) action figure. Cursing the fact that ff13 is the first time I want figures of all the characters and not just the boys, plus this is the time that they're the most expensive. Typically the figures have been 20-30 dollars. FF13's are 40$. The dealer gave me a small discount because the Snow figure was the last one he had in stock. And a woman was selling home made yukatas and hair shinies( Pan-Gaia.com.) I had my hair in pigtails at the time and another customer commented that her hair in a single braid wouldn't be as thick as one of my pigtails. I ended up buying two combs and the dealer asked if I was from in town because she wanted to use me as a head/hair model for her shop. In the artist alley I got a phone charm and badge that says "what do you mean there's no such brand as god damn tea? Met with my friend Sarah and her fiance for lunch. Then Sarah and I just hung out waiting for panels and I met a cute Snow cosplayer. Went to a couple panels, first about airsoft guns, the one about leather-working. I left halfway through the leatherworking on although I wanted to stay for a panel about wigstyling. I was just too tired.
Saturday. Again got up ungodly early for me about 9-ish. Got dressed in my lolita outfit and let my hair out into pretty waves. Second day was more of the first with wandering around, taking photos of cosplayers. Didn't buy much in the dealers room again but got tempted by several things, but decided to wait until the last day of con. Watched some bad anime in one viewing room(dubbed anime at an anime convention. Really!) In the other viewing room they did have some new stuff, in promotional disks from the anime networks simulcasts. Lolita outfit started feeling too warm so went home and changed. Later went to the yaoi-fest and had a blast. I thought it was going to be watching some yaoi anime, but apparently they couldn't actually get licenses to show any(cons are so legit now) Instead we played games, such a yaoi trivia, bingo, Whose line is it anyway? and match the seme to the uke. We actually ended up going through all the panelists planned activities but we had the room as long as we wanted so we ended up playing Truth or Dare for several hours. Finally went home and went to bed
Sunday: Last day of con and I ended up sleeping later than I wanted and missed the steampunk panel I wanted to go to. Hit the dealer's room one last time and picked up a bento box, some gundam models(Deathscythe Hell Custom and the GX 9900)Dome mini posters of Snow and Hope from FF13 and a grab bag. Grab bag turned out decent with a hetalia placard thing, Lithuania keychain, Cross Marian key chain, and a Clamp and wonderland figure. Chatted with friends, picked up my doll guns and went home.
