| Awesome idea! I shall get this sorted when I get back from work. I will write the newsletter and email the various societies :P Then, when we get feedback from everyone then I will send an update out mid-week :P I'd better go to work now.. I start at 4.30pm ^^; |
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| I am looking at the possibility of hiring a coach. I should only take 2 hours to get there and it may be cheaper than the train. It'll be about £30-40 for train tickets each, wheras if I hire a coach we could maybe split the cost between however many people come along, with subsidised travel for members. It says cosplayers get in for free, so I'll be attempting that. I'll bring enough money for a ticket just in case, although I will be probs be buying merchandise anyway so I'll have money. TwilitWolf, you are welcome to join us if we get a coach ;) |
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| Well, ask them if they fancy going by coach instead since it will be waaaay cheaper. I mean, if we get enough people it could be less than £10 per person. Plus we get to have fun on a private coach instead of worrying about train times and sharing it with other members of the public. Just email me if anyone wants to come along on the coach. I need numbers so i can book up. |
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| OK, I have emailed a coach company requesting a 24-seater coach. I need 24 people to fill that coach in order to make it cheaper for everyone. I am awaiting the email telling me how much it will cost. Ok... so I think maybe we have 10 people at the moment.. with a couple more thinking about it. Seriosuly, if you have friends, tempted them with the idea that there will be comic book artists there! And lots of merchandise. |
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| OK, coach is hired.... £15 per person. 24 people need to turn up otherwise I will be £360 out of pocket. And I will be very angry. |
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| I demand a postmortem. |
| It was an awesom day. Everyone who said they would definately turn up, turned up. I didn't have to pay an extortionate amount by myself and everyone seemed to enjoy themselves. We were a mixture of cosplayers and regular dress, and our lovely coach driver, Kath, first though we were a hen night or something, before she realised it was 7.30am and there were guys in the group :P We had a couple of L cosplayers, a couple of Misa cosplayers and Ben and I were the Androids from Dragonball Z. Then Phil dressed up as Otani from lovely Complex by borrowing my cardigan. He looked just like him :P We ate pancakes and croissants on the trip down to Leeds, arrived in just enough time to get in the queue for a few mins and go straight in. There were so many wonderful stalls and everyone was pretty much spent up by 1.30pm. Soul eater figurines were very popular. Phil was disheartened that nobody knew who he was dressed as, so the Dimensional Manga people who were running the cosplay contest asked him to be a judge. It was an awesome atmosphere as everyone stood around in a big circle and one by one people paraded in their cosplays. It was narrowed down to 5 amazing cosplayers. The final was a close fought battle between an practically perfect Edward Elric (whose only down side was that it was a girl... and no Vic Mignogna voice :( ) and a well-acted Dr Who. Despite the fangirly protestations and vast support for Ed, the good Doctor won. We had a problem in that 2 of our lot went missing and we searched for them for a few hours... but they turned up 20 mins before we had to leave. Turns out they were shopping in Leeds City Centre and neglected to let me know... and they were the only 2 people I had forgotten to get contact details from.. But yeah, it was awesome! If I weren't going to be in Japan next year, I'd go again :P |
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| Sounds nice, wish I'd been with you all =) cabbit-chan said: Then Phil dressed up as Otani from lovely Complex by borrowing my cardigan. He looked just like him :P Phil, let me just say, you're a genius =P |
| Hey! It was my cosplay cardigan! I was the one sewing the red bands round the arms and cutting out the funny star shape... And I was the one who suggested he cosplay as Otani XD I am the genius! lol It was a good festival but we all wish we were in Japan with you instead ;) Everyday in Tokyo would be a cosplay convention XD |
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| OK, you're a genius too. Genius hats all round. みんな天才達だよ。 With the obvious exception of schoolkids, (and then only in theme - anime school uniforms could do with a dash of realism) you'd be surprised how much people in general fail to resemble anime characters. There's always the guys with the spiky hair and (I suspect) makeup but other than that there's not a great deal of 'perpetual cosplay' ambience. That said, Akihabara station and around always looks like a plague of nekomimi maids has just hit, and I have yet to go to Harajuku on a weekend and take a butchers at Meiji Jingumae... |
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