London MCM Expo - October 2009

[Neversoft]

Elijah Wood had to cancel due to a scheduling conflict. All my excitement - gone. Soooooo disappointed.

[Neversoft]

Expo in a couple of hours and Sci-Fi London tomorrow night. Fantastic weekend coming up! Farewell.

[Nemo]

Farewell! I decided not to go since well.................im not a big buyer of merchandise!

[Neversoft]

It's not all about merchandise you know. This time I'm just going for the experience. Its great to go and meet other fans, talk to the celebrities, play games months before their release and just experience something you'll rarely get a chance to do.

[Nemo]

It's not all about merchandise you know. This time I'm just going for the experience. Its great to go and meet other fans, talk to the celebrities, play games months before their release and just experience something you'll rarely get a chance to do.

and i had no one i like to go with D:

[Neversoft]

It's not like everyone going there is going with other people. Half of the people there go by themselves. You should just come hang with me and my homiez.

[Nemo]

It's not like everyone going there is going with other people. Half of the people there go by themselves. You should just come hang with me and my homiez.

Your homies wont be gangsta enough 4 me.

[Neversoft]

Oh yeah sorry, I forgot you were pretty hardcore. We're fans of yours n'all though. By the power of greyskull! Anyway, must dash. Gotta get up in six hours and I've gotta stay up all night tomorrow. Farewell.

[Nemo]

Oh yeah sorry, I forgot you were pretty hardcore. We're fans of yours n'all though. By the power of greyskull! Anyway, must dash. Gotta get up in six hours and I've gotta stay up all night tomorrow. Farewell.

Farewell bro, when u return there will be an epic picture somewhere in this forum

[Neversoft]

Got back yesterday but didn't come on because I was tired from the all nighter. The Expo was AMAZING! I seriously think it gets better every time. Some awesome cosplays but I didn't get any pictures because I was recording everything. I even spotted some Gintama cosplayers, which are rare at the expo. One cool Kagura and one awesome Gintoki. To my surprise I only bought two things at the expo throughout the entire day, even though I had like £200. They were Sword of the Stranger on DVD, which I got signed by the director and the president on BONES, and the first volume of Slam Dunk (manga). The rest of the time I was looking around, chatting and just taking in the atmosphere. I also attended the Masquerade again (cosplay contest) and there were some fantastic entrants.

The all nighter started at midnight. The running order from first to last was The Sky Crawlers, Time of Eve, King of Thorn, Eureka Seven, Wvangelion 1.0. I was disappointed The Sky Crawlers was first because I had already seen it and wanted to sleep through it and was also disappointed Evangelion 1.0 was last because even though I had already seen it I was hyped to see it on the big screen and knew I'd be pretty damn tired and fidgety by then. The Sky Crawlers was good, but as I've said before not overly entertaining, it isn't really I film I'd watch again in a hurry. Time of Eve was absolutely fantastic. It's a six episode OVA which had the entire cinema in hysterics a lot of the time. I totally recommend it. I was hyped to see King of Thorn because the trailer was awesome, and it started off alright but went down hill soon after. It was an okay film, but nothing amazing. Just glad I was one of the first in the world to see it. The Eureka Seven movie was damn boring. They completely changed the personalities of the characters from the series, as well as the story and the whole damn film was way too serious. As a result everything seemed too overly dramatic and 99% of the characters were ********. The animation was good though, I'd give it that. It was only film of the night I slept in, even though it was only for ten minutes or so. Evangelion was amazing as always, but we were behind schedule so a few people left before it came on. Also, as I anticipated, by that time I was getting rather fidgety from having sat in the cinema most of the time so I wasn't particularly giving it my closest attention. We got free ice cream though which was good. That ice cream was damn nice. They also gave us this free green drink which was probably the most disgusting thing I have ever tasted. Freebies were also given out to everyone, and then a couple of anime boxsets and other goodies were tossed around the cinema. I was sat pretty much at the back so unfortunately I didn't get any as none were through that far. Overall though, it was amazing. Not as good as the expo, but I had a lot of fun.