Ohayocon 2010

[trickssi]

Who's going?!?! I totes am.

Hope you all are starting to get excited about this year's convention! I personally plan on cosplaying the hell out of that weekend. Anyone else have plans?

[katchan]

hecks yes I am!!!! excited soooo much! i'm not competing with cosplay or anything, but I have some Haruhi Suzumiya cosplay that I will be bringing with/wearing at some point

[halcyonia]

Still have not decidedddd. ; w;
Maybe Selphie? o uo
Or... Xion? xDDD

I... still need to play both those games though. |||OTL

[Salmonking]

RED Engy, man.
So on this. All I need is a couple more things for the belt area, and my hardhat, as well as some paint, and I'll be good to go. X3
Ffff, so excited!

[trickssi]

YAYAYAYAYAYYYY It's almost here! I wonder when they're gonna post the panel scheduling information... Seriously. It's two days before the con. Blargh.

Momohime's armor is almost done! Just have to string it together once it's dry and voila. Oh, I'm super excited ^_^

[katchan]

I found some links to tentative panel scheduling info for Friday and Sat in the forum section, so try looking there. I am soo excited for this... I have no clue what to expect from this weekend, and that is a somewhat scary but also awesome feeling!!! That and i'm looking forward to taking a TON of photos, not to mention Cosplaying on Saturday!!! ^_^ T-47 hours till we leave!!!! (not that i'm counting or anything...)

[trickssi]

Ah, yeah, I found those *literally* after I posted that xD So many cool panels. I'll have to choose wisely!

Also, ARMOR IS FINISHED AJKLD;FJLSK;DJF;LAJ Now I can maybe focus on my nightly readings...? xD Unnnlikely.

[ninfa]

Hey guys!!

Any interesting/funny/creepy stories to tell from Ohayocon?

<3

[trickssi]

YES. YEEEEEEARRRRH. Weirdest/most interesting story for me:

So, I went to the Phoenix Wright panel on Saturday with a group of elite cosplaying friendses (who are amazing). It ended up being kind of lame and it bordered on the time that I had to go change into my second costume. I was about to leave when the panelists announced prize giveaways. "Giveaways?" I thought. Giveaways are never bad. The first question they awarded a prize was trivia-related: "How many cups of coffee were thrown at Phoenix in trial 3-5?" Well. That was a little too specific for our group, who hadn't played the game for at least over a year. I almost left again, thinking that the rest of it would be trivia-related. BUT NO! And alas, I am glad I did not leave, for the next question was "Which cosplayer has the best attention to detail?"

Without missing a beat (and amidst a crowd of people who were less than lively about the question anyway), I stood on my chair, turned around, lifted my skirt, and proudly showed my OBJECTION! panties. Though I was amidst a group of amazing cosplayers (and my costume was pretty accurate besides), I was extremely honored to have, effectively, my arse win that prize. There were no further objections.

That story, combined with general hanging out with awesome people and being in no fewer than four photoshoots with EBK, made Ohayocon one of my favorites.

Now to get rid of this fever/headache/stomach bug that I may or may not have picked up there. D8

[duohimura]

Weirdest story for me, which comes very close to taking, if it does not actually take the prize for the craziest con story I have:

So I am standing in line to grab a copy of Jonathan Coultan's CD and get it signed by him. As it turns out, the room that we were in was created from a larger room by adding a partition across it. Which meant that we were still on the same speaker system as the rest of the room. So as the line was running down (I was almost the very end) we hear:

Speakers: Hello everyone, and welcome to "Dubbing for Hentai!"

Everyone in our room: ........

Speakers: So to kick things off we have a little video for you...

What followed I cannot repeat from memory, except to say that there were a number of phrases beginning with the words "Give me" and the word "dirty" saw a whole lot of use.

Oh, and the room we were in was actually open to the main hallway on one side.

We spent the rest of the time in a sort of mixture of laughter, awkwardness, awkward laughter, and, speaking for myself at least, the sensation of "I do -not- know you random people I'm in line with well enough to be sharing this experience right here..."

There was also an especially horrifying line from the "behind the scenes" segment that followed in the panel which I assume was assigned to some sort of tentacle monster, since it was apparently about some sort of tentacle monster (There was also a professor talking about the lasting impact of such forms of media, which I can only imagine was in some way facetious not having seen the video feed). I cannot remember the line, only that my reaction was to say to no one in particular "...Oookay, I think I need an adult now..."

Aaaaand that is why I will probably always remember getting Jonathan Coultan's CD.

[katchan]

I think con was a lot more normal while I was not cosplaying, as all the random stuff happened while in my cosplay. I was glomped by two people in the space of half an hour while in cosplay saturday morning, and got called 'god' at least 5 or six times that evening. That and getting randomly grabed by a male Haruhi, while taking pictures of Jen and Ben, and getting dragged off to take pictures with him. Nothing TOO crazy, I guess ^_^

Oh, and I forgot my trying to handle two phones and two cameras and take pictures with all of them during the Phoenix Wright shoot!