Off to see Chicago

[Spokavriel]

I hope that people will be able to get lots of pictures. But I hope that of any time someone goes to an Event.

[lwf58]

I never would have thought of taking pictures. I'm not real big on that sort of thing. I do have a real digital camera, though, as well as my cell phone. Maybe it'll occur to me to use them this time around.

After all, what's the point of seeing fat, sweaty guys in sailor moon costumes if I can't share it with you all?

[talonhunter]

you share yours from ACEN and I'll share mine from http://animelandvegas.ning.com/

[Spokavriel]

Amazing it's become a case of You show me yours I'll show you mine.

[ranmas]

I'll be there.


I got my ticket before I decided on volunteering, so I'll have another badge waiting on me when I go to the hotel on Thursday. So long as you can get the parts of the badge to line up correctly it looks pretty good. However they said that the ones mailed out were only for those that ordered them. The badges at the door will be different. Other than setup, tear down and what ever my schedual will be for work while I'm there I don't have any major plans for it other than taking pictures.

[lwf58]

Oops. Sorry about this, ranmas, but the Billy vs. Snakeman sig image has to go. It's too wide for what our rules allow.

We allow sig images to be 350 x 100. Your's is 380 x 94.

You can resize it to be 350 pixels wide and then it'll be fine, but unless you do that it has to be removed.

[Spokavriel]

You know that image can be edited to fit the rules just trimming off some of the red roll before the photo and head protector. It looks to be about 35 pixels wide.

[ranmas]

It doesn't matter to me about that. I stopped playing it a while ago, and as you can see by my post count I lurk quite a bit. I don't even want to think about my join date vs how many posts I've made.

Anyway its gone. There would have been more ways than that to limit its size. In the code itself for the sig there should be a way to limit the size of an image to whatever you want it to be.

Quick catch on that though.

[CRBWildcat]

I never would have thought of taking pictures. I'm not real big on that sort of thing. I do have a real digital camera, though, as well as my cell phone. Maybe it'll occur to me to use them this time around.

After all, what's the point of seeing fat, sweaty guys in sailor moon costumes if I can't share it with you all?

...Thanks for the warning, Larry.

[lwf58]

Well, I'm at the convention now. The ride here was mostly okay, although we were being rained on for a little over half the trip.

Got my first taste of toll roads in Chicago, and was promptly ripped off by one of the unmanned booths. It was the last of three, and said the toll was 80 cents (the first was cheaper, the second was also 80). But when we put the money in, it didn't let us pass. I ended up giving the blasted thing all but my last three pennies before it finally decided to stop yanking us around. First time I've seen a road where they stop you every so often to extort more money.

As it turns out, I don't need to take pictures. The guy I rode with loves to take pictures of hall costumes and he's doing a much better job than I would. I'll see about setting up a display somewhere. Then I'll link to it.

Wandered around the dealer's room yesterday and today before I actually bought anything. Got a boxed set of Negima DVDs. My friend has gone off the deep end with his spending, but he set aside a budget of $1k for the purpose. I guess he's determined to not go home without making a noticeable dent in it.

[Spokavriel]

I don't know if it's still online but someone once posted a site of a time when they spent $5K at a single conventions dealer room and posted full pics of everything they got.

[talonhunter]

WOW111, I usually spend a couple hundred at the con...most of my money gets spent on new music and/or equipment for the con...(cd/g's, mic's, wires, ect...)

[Comartemis]

Yeah Larry, you really need an I-Pass to get around on the toll roads around here; just cruise right through and they charge it to an account you set up. Shame it doesn't work outside Illinois, but there you go.

I've also been at the convention for the last day or two; got my pass at the door after a twenty-minute drive out of the suburbs and ten minutes waiting in line to get my pass. To anyone who waited multiple hours in line as I've heard stories about, I have this to say:

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!

*Ahem*

No sign of ManFaye or any 300-pound Sailor Senshi, but there was a scantily-clad catboy running around yesterday; didn't see him today, thank god. I have seen some of the most elaborate costumes in my life, though, including one KOS-MOS with a scale-model G-Shot replica and red color contact lenses and one guy who was completely encased in cardboard, dressed up as the Heavyarms Gundam. If I can figure out how to upload cellphone pictures onto my computer, I'll see if I can post them either here or in the Favorite Pics thread.

[lwf58]

I was pleasantly surprised at the number of attractive young ladies at that convention. Many more than I'd expect from a region noted for problems with high percentages of folks with problem obesity. There were a large number of well-crafted hall costumes too.

I'm debating an attempt to put together a costume if I go next year. I'd like to try for a Zeon commando outfit from Gundam 0080, or maybe something from MS Igloo.

I was rather dismayed by the contingent of guys in "Zeon" outfits that were much more Nazified than they should have been. The kids just took standard WWII SS dress uniforms and added a few modifications like red felt on the collar or a few Zeon style emblems. At least one left a bunch of German insignias on his.

Anyone who has actually looked at the uniforms from the show (even those from MS Igloo) can see that they are not direct copies of Germany's. Those guys ended up looking more like Gestapo on parade than Zeon cosplayers. A group I was in a shuttle bus with didn't even realize they were trying to cosplay Zeon troops - one girl was shocked by what she thought was a demonstration against the con by American Nazis.