Dragon Con 2013

[faith_king]

I have been super remiss in blogging about my many recent travels. There have been several. I was also kind of a slacker this year and did not take the trouble to do a hyper-detailed minute-by-minute writeup of my con. It was a really fun weekend. Highlights included

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[smor]

It looks like such fun! Hopefully I'll get to go sometime--I miss having excuses to make costumes.

[faith_king]

Ooooh, I've officially got whereismysam roped into it. You can be next. ;-)

[smor]

Hey, if we can convince Doug to either survive without me for a few days, or tag along, I'd be down with that. (Though getting him to dress up would probably be too much to ask, sadly.)

Of course, then the question becomes whether to do group costumes and/or individual. ;)

[jackwabbit]

Parade: I've never *not* marched in the parade. ;)

Meeting/inscription: Yeah you did! :D

That All-Father is perfect, but I love the male Hit-Girl behind him. Was this at the Marvel shoot? They told me I can't come to that as HG, because she's an Icon character (which is a branch of Marvel, but still...). Poopie heads!

That Merida is just classic! Great expression!

And I've seen Rockford Peaches before (the WWII parade group always has a few), but missed seeing any this year - love them so very much!

[faith_king]

Haha, you know, I didn't notice that "Hit-Guy" one single time, ever, until just before I posted this yesterday and I went... "Ah! Wabbit is going to point him out!" ;-) I'm not sure how the superhero groups are combined. These guys were close to us in the staging area, but when we started actually marching, the classic Batmobile was right behind us (which I will never forget because it made me feel really loved). ;-)

I seem to recall that these two Peaches made their costumes on an impulse after watching the movie the last couple of months before the con. But including them in the WWII group is FANTASTIC. Does anybody ever do any of the other teams? A League of Their Own was probably my family's very first "Family Quotes" movie. And also my first ever meeting with Hammond of Texas. :-)

[jackwabbit]

Ha! That's hilarious!

And if it was the parade, that's a bit different. The photoshoot guys said no to me when I first made my Hit-Girl. Not sure about parade group, though pretty sure they said no, too.

But no biggie. I found my periodic table home. ;)

And I'm sure they were the same Peaches, but I have seen Peaches in the parade WWII group before. I have a great pic from my first D*C of some, in fact. I haven't seen other teams that I recall, but that would be neat!

As for A League of Their Own, well, I have an older sister. That is all. Sigh.

[maerchen]

Awesome pictures!

Was there any video of Shakespeare's Star Wars?

[faith_king]

Unfortunately not! It is a copyrighted work, so it probably wasn't something they wanted to mess with. I really hope the publisher has (or is frantically drafting) some sort of plan where theater companies can secure actual performance rights for this thing. I wonder if they had any idea how universally people would want to.

[dm_lunsford]

Enjoyed seeing your photos. Your River costume was fab.

I saw that Thor and All-Father at one point, but it was in a place where pausing for a photo would have been impossible. Still, great costumes!

Glad you enjoyed the parade. I've never actually braved the crowds to watch that, but I like looking at photos from everyone afterward. ;)

The Fans for Christ family, they do some kind of family-themed costume every year. It's so fun to see what they'll be each time.

[jess_being_me]

All the pictures are epic and awesome, but my fangirl heart belongs to that Jurassic Park one. <3 <3 <3