I was a cosplay guest, contest judge, and Q&A master at cosplay repair all weekend. I was actually contacted as a potential vendor, but I don’t have anything to sell, so I asked about being a cosplay guest and BOOM! there I was. I invited my friends Kat and Sam along for the trip, and I’m really really happy that they decided to come along because we had SO much fun. It was really easy to vlog with three people, and we ended up getting HOURS of footage that we now have to sift through… oh, and its spread over five different devices (three phones and two cameras). We also made it our mission to do our first CMV (cosplay music video) to showcase the amazing cosplayers that attended ComiCon Erie. Doing the CMV really helped us to network with other cosplayers and make new friends (even if it were just for the weekend). We hope to get the CMV put together and uploaded as soon as possible so that we can share it with the awesome folks at ComiCon Erie and (hopefully) get even more cosplayers to come out for their show next year. For its first year, ComiCon Erie did a really good job. It had the right balance of all the fandoms – comics, tabletop gaming, sci-fi, anime – and the dealer’s room/artist alley was a pretty decent size. We were scared because we didn’t know what to expect with the convention and hoped it would be more like Tekko and less like Steel City Con. We were pleasantly surprised. There were things to do and people to see and food to eat – that’s a big one that a lot of cons fail to address, I think. The availability of food was nice, even if it was concession items – and they were cheap! We lived off of pretzel sticks (which we called bread dicks because of Sam) all weekend and they were delicious. SO! Here’s my recap of my ComiCon Erie weekend. Day Zero Travel day! We decided to leave on Thursday after work and travel up towards Erie to stay Thursday, Friday, and Saturday night. The plan was to leave around 5 pm because I worked until 4 pm, but that didn’t happen because Kat got stuck in like three major traffic jams and a 50 minute trip took her about 2 hours.. and then we needed to go to Walmart for supplies, so we didn’t end up leaving my house until around 7 pm. Oops. We traveled west to grab Sam before heading north to Erie. Imagine cramming three people into a small car.. each person with at least two big bags of things.. some of us (me in particular) with four or more bags.. plus bags of food and prop weapons/armor. Yeah. It wasn’t fun. We ended up getting to our hotel/bed and breakfast around midnight or 1 am and literally THIRTY SECONDS after getting out of the car, the entertainment started. You see, lightsabers are like bug lights and drunk people are like mosquitoes and when you accidentally turn on a lightsaber in the darkness where there are bars around, you attract drunk people. Two guys approached the car and one of the guys (the drunker of the two) stopped and stood like two feet away from me. I asked if he needed anything and he said he was just waiting for a friend. Okay. We gather what we had - which was like three bags, three lightsabers, and a big sniper rifle, and headed into the lobby of the hotel. I made sure to close all the doors/trunk and lock my car. Inside the lobby, I watched the drunker of the two men walk to my driver-side door and try to open it, so I went back out onto the steps and kindly asked him to walk away from my car. He immediately got defensive and started walk-running down the middle of the road as he yelled nonsensically. The other guy hung around and ended up standing about two feet from my driver-side door. I asked him to leave because he was making me uncomfortable and he just kept saying that he wasn’t doing anything and even said “What are you going to do, shoot me?” to which I replied with a “No, but I’m going to call the police.” Thankfully, a campus cop was driving by and I flagged him down. He kept the drunk guy busy with conversation while we finished unloading the car and eventually got him to leave.
After the con was over, we went back to the hotel, went to the McDonald’s across the parking lot for dinner, and then got ready for the cosplay afterparty. It was a lot of fun - Bourbon Barrel (where it was held) was really nice, though no one was dancing and the DJ was playing some good music, so Sam, Kat, and I started dancing and, sure enough, soon we had several people on the dance floor. When we got back to our room, we concrunched a little bit because I had to add elastic to my leg armor and Kat had to fix up her Ursula, which she didn’t end up doing because Sam and I convinced her to be a Sith with us, to which she agreed. We kind of pieced together a costume out of random pieces that we had, and it ended up looking really great!
Sam was always the first person asleep and always the first person to complain about being tired the whole weekend. What a baby!
Be on the lookout for the numerous vlogs that we accumulated over the weekend! I will be posting them here and on social media when they are done.
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