Convention Attention: Oh, the horror! D:

[shireishou]

Miss_Goku

Ack, it's so annoying when your costume breaks halfway through a con! D: You don't know whether it's going to be really sturdy until you actually get around to wearing it. That's why I always take hundreds of safety pins with me and lots of thread and sewing needles (and strong glue for extra measure!). And wigs are another thing. Especially if it's long, and it's blowing a gale outside. I completely detroyed one of my wigs in about five seconds flat by going outside with it on. D: It was expensive too!

Indeed. In my latest icon, my armor is broke in the midle of the show. My string arrow also broke when I'm on stage. Lucky I can handle it and make it as good parody --;
I dont know why bust I just get really bad luck that day

Until now the armor not fixed yet. Still lazy  

[Dymagox]

The Weekend my Pants couldn't stay together.....I had to make a couple of pairs of pants, but due to the fact I had spent all my money on an ungrateful girlfriend (now and x-girlfriend) I couldn't afford to buy any fabric. So I had to use what was at hand. I tell you what, what was at hand was ok, but not the best, and a little under in the amounts, but I made it work.

I had two costumes that had to have pants...everything else came out nice, but these two had to have pants, I put them together, they looked pretty good, and I began to where them.....first pair of pants, tore at the crotch...I go back to the hotel room, not sweeting it, and I pin it (we have a rule, no sewing machines in the hotel room, one of us can't stop working and will miss the con if we have one there). well it survived for what we needed. Then the second one....It didn't rip until I took it into the pool, I thought it would be fun, and it was. But the stitches just completely broke, not any of the fabric, but the thread broke. Now, I know now how to prevent this, but these were the first I had to make pants (usually I just have to use spandex/black pants/blue jeans, stuff that I have already made for everyday use) Well, this year I hope my crotch stitch doesn't brake, I probably won't notice if it does in this new costume. but as I was saying, it was a curse! A curse!!!!  

[The Lone Wolf Jedi]

The only con cosplay horror story I can share was at the first con I cosplayed at, AX 08, I did L, Kyon, Capt. Urahara, and Leon Kennedy. When I was planning my Kisuke cosplay I thought the ultimate accessory would be Benihime, so I bought it online and took it with me, at the con they had a thing called "Peace Bond" where all weapon accessories had to be checked and tagged with a yellow band, I checked mine and they said I couldn't have it because it was a real sword, so now sitting next to my bed at home is a $65 dust magnet  

[salsaplant]

So the most recent horror story I have didn't happen at the convention, but after it.

Me and two friends went to NYAF, and we were heading back to upstate New York where they lived which was about a 2 hour drive from the city... Shame that we got lost and made that 2 hour drive a 4 hour drive.

I had several panic-attacks as I don't even live in New York, let alone drive around there and it was nighttime and raining and OMG I wanted to die! D':
So after driving around lost, I took a ramp and across the median saw the exit we were supposed to be on-- But there was no way to get there...

Until I made a way.

I circled back around, said a small prayer, and jumped the median, went through two lanes of traffic, and got us unlost.

Of course by then it was soopa late and being at a convention I had gotten little to no sleep the entire time... So 50 miles away from their house, I begin to hallucinate-- I can't switch drivers because A. The two friends were both asleep and B. Neither of them have their license. So there I was driving as out of it as if I had just dropped acid, and somehow managed not to kill us...

Blacked out twice, and for the following 30 miles I thought I was driving on Rainbow Road from the Mario Kart game. I was that out of it that everything around me looked like furkin' Rainbow Road .__.

Needless to say, I never want to relive any sort of experience like that.  

[XAngelswingsX]

salsababy2889

So the most recent horror story I have didn't happen at the convention, but after it.

Me and two friends went to NYAF, and we were heading back to upstate New York where they lived which was about a 2 hour drive from the city... Shame that we got lost and made that 2 hour drive a 4 hour drive.

I had several panic-attacks as I don't even live in New York, let alone drive around there and it was nighttime and raining and OMG I wanted to die! D':
So after driving around lost, I took a ramp and across the median saw the exit we were supposed to be on-- But there was no way to get there...

Until I made a way.

I circled back around, said a small prayer, and jumped the median, went through two lanes of traffic, and got us unlost.

Of course by then it was soopa late and being at a convention I had gotten little to no sleep the entire time... So 50 miles away from their house, I begin to hallucinate-- I can't switch drivers because A. The two friends were both asleep and B. Neither of them have their license. So there I was driving as out of it as if I had just dropped acid, and somehow managed not to kill us...

Blacked out twice, and for the following 30 miles I thought I was driving on Rainbow Road from the Mario Kart game. I was that out of it that everything around me looked like furkin' Rainbow Road .__.

Needless to say, I never want to relive any sort of experience like that.

That sounds like utter and complete madness O_o'. They should put warning tags on convention tickets! "Do not drive afterwards! Don't follow the colours! No really, we mean it!" o.o'. I was already more than glad my mom was driving me home after my last convention, and I didn't need to go by train D=.  

[hatarakitakunai]

= Turtle Power =
A True Comiket Story

It was a lovely summer day in the year 2008. Over 2 million geeks from all walks of life gathered to share their love of crossdressing as maids, collecting scary dolls, making moyashimon out of sculptyclay, eating oden out of anime cans, drawing underage porn and destroying the dreams of men worldwide by slashing all the characters they love with everyone (and everything) under the sun.

Myself and a friend were perusing a not-at-all-suspicious aisle of what was certainly-not gay pornography when all of a sudden we see something familiar... something... nostalgic!

"Hey! Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles!"

"Wow! I didn't know there would be turtle-stuff here!"

The woman behind the table eagerly held forth the book in question, "over 18 only" ominously stamped on the cover in giant sparkly font. "Look! You can look! Look!" she encouraged us in heavily accented English.

We flipped open the cover and saw things that can not be described in polite society... things I'm pretty sure are illegal in all 50 states.

"Wow..." I offered the woman, hoping to be polite. "This is really something."

"You like?!" she immediately perked up, anticipating a sale.

"Yeah... it's great. The art is very... detailed."

The woman called out her three friends. Together, they had us flip through every pornographic turtle book they've ever written while making incredibly dirty jokes in loud voices. In the end, we bought one of the books as a memento (and because the uber-perv ladies wouldn't let us escape unless we did).

We gave the book to a heterosexual male friend as a birthday gift the following Autumn.

It has since become a local legend.

The boys keep passing it to each other as gifts in hopes of getting rid of it for good... but it always comes back.  

[Son Goshi-kun]

I am horribly afraid of crowds. It's been like that since I was in middle school and has gotten worse now that I'm in college. Public transportation and crowded elevators frighten me because of that.

Okay, well now that that's out of the way. My local anime convention is Tekkoshocon. For a few years, it was located at the Expo-mart in Monroeville, Pa. It was lovely; nice and big and I could use the stairs without problem (my room was usually on the 12th floor). Then, they tore it down.

In '08, we were in a Radison Hotel, not too far away. I usually couldn't walk the main floor without freaking. It was that bad since the hotel was too small for us. No stairs to be seen either.

In '09, we moved to the giant convention center/hotel in Pittsburgh. It's so big, you can't tell that there are lots of people in there. Again, I couldn't use the stairs, was on the 14th floor... and I couldn't handle the elevators. I had a panic attack almost every time I went into one that Saturday and Sunday. I think that the one time, my friends and I waited for an hourish to actually get me into an elevator that had space in it.

This upcoming con, I'm definately checking with the staff to see if I can use those stairs. I'm not going to break down again.  

[Yoko-Niame]

wow, all the trouble you get in at hotels!
thankfully my grandmother lives 30 minutes away from the con site. All stand and bow to her please.... xp
the worst that have hapened to me was when I was cosplaying Matsumoto Rangiku. the top of the haori sliped open. Enough said  

[Son Goshi-kun]

My friend and I went to a con in Ohio in '05 and stayed over in a nearby hotel with her mum. Well, she had bought us Coke, which had just recently started putting Splenda in some of their things. Over the weekend, we drank this stuff and by the second day, I was constantly running to the bathroom. Not only was I miserable, it was really embarassing!!! I couldn't figure out what was wrong in the least.

It turns out, I can't digest Splenda, so it was what was causing me to keep needing to go. And since there was nothing else to drink in the room, save for coffee and tap water (I don't care for either), I had to keep drinking the stuff.

Moral of the story: Don't take something with you to a con that makes you sick!!! You WILL regret it!  

[II K a w a ii D e s u II]

The Lone Wolf Jedi

The only con cosplay horror story I can share was at the first con I cosplayed at, AX 08, I did L, Kyon, Capt. Urahara, and Leon Kennedy. When I was planning my Kisuke cosplay I thought the ultimate accessory would be Benihime, so I bought it online and took it with me, at the con they had a thing called "Peace Bond" where all weapon accessories had to be checked and tagged with a yellow band, I checked mine and they said I couldn't have it because it was a real sword, so now sitting next to my bed at home is a $65 dust magnet

At my first convention, one of my friends brought a real sword. We were sitting down and the sword fell on my head. I'm so lucky the case was on it >.<  

[XDZenLeeDX]

salsababy2889

So the most recent horror story I have didn't happen at the convention, but after it.

Me and two friends went to NYAF, and we were heading back to upstate New York where they lived which was about a 2 hour drive from the city... Shame that we got lost and made that 2 hour drive a 4 hour drive.

I had several panic-attacks as I don't even live in New York, let alone drive around there and it was nighttime and raining and OMG I wanted to die! D':
So after driving around lost, I took a ramp and across the median saw the exit we were supposed to be on-- But there was no way to get there...

Until I made a way.

I circled back around, said a small prayer, and jumped the median, went through two lanes of traffic, and got us unlost.

Of course by then it was soopa late and being at a convention I had gotten little to no sleep the entire time... So 50 miles away from their house, I begin to hallucinate-- I can't switch drivers because A. The two friends were both asleep and B. Neither of them have their license. So there I was driving as out of it as if I had just dropped acid, and somehow managed not to kill us...

Blacked out twice, and for the following 30 miles I thought I was driving on Rainbow Road from the Mario Kart game. I was that out of it that everything around me looked like furkin' Rainbow Road .__.

Needless to say, I never want to relive any sort of experience like that.

Wow O 3O
Sleep deprivation.
My dad once pulled an all-night road-trip and saw Rhinos in Wyoming.
Lol it took him two hours to realize rhinos don't live in Wyoming.
But that sucks.. D:  

[Yellow_Ronin2000]

I went as Tyki Mikk one year at Mechacon V and i had some make-up to make his skin gray like it is in the anime. The face paint worked perfectly and matched it until a few hours later it began to shine, some loved the copslay but some were just the ones who pointed it out when i didn't notice it saying how it was crap! I hate when people do that other cosplayers.
One year i was miroku and these two girls were stalking me for 4hrs and one asked me to grab her butt eek it wasn't only embarassing but utterly creepy.  

[Myopsida]

Only really bad thing that's happened to me is having to be responsible for my best friend, Jensen. She's three years younger than me which automatically makes me responsible for her if she wants to do something or if someone is wondering where she is. At ConnectiCon '09, she wanted to go to the rave. I was told about an hour before it started that a girl had been raped the year before, so of course my 'older brother' instincts kicked in and I started to freak out. No one was really up to going to the rave but she was dead set on going. Luckily my friend Chris went with her because he's great like that. I told them to be back to the hotel room by midnight which was alright at first. She called me five minutes before midnight, asking if they could go to another friend's room until two. The parent who was staying with us can't fall asleep until she knows everyone is back safely so she started to freak out. Even though it ticked her off, I told them to come back after having Chris reason with her. They got back at about 12:15 even though the elevator ride takes two minutes. She tried to pull the same crap again on Saturday so the whole process was repeated. Not to mention she made out with our 20 year old friend even though she's 14.

I choose the best friends.  

[salsaplant]

Yeah, I don't know why girls think it's a great idea to act that way during the raves, especially after knowing that a girl got raped last year (I didn't hear about that actually, that really happened?)
I've been frequenting CTCon for several years now so it's kinda sad to know that my home con has a bad reputation for the rave -_-  

[Tinfoil Paoupou]

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I don't have any major major convention horror stories. I suppose that's good, right? I have such sensible people teaching me good hotel booking techniques.

But at the last convention I went to, Kumoricon 2009, the elevators took fifteen to twenty minutes to go all the way up and all the way back down because people would get on them at every floor. They opened up the stairs for public use because of this, and I don't think I've ever been happier that I was on the 4th floor of a building. I got more exercise that weekend than I did all summer.


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