Final Day of Anime Weekend Atlanta!

Today I attended the 3rd and final day of AWA. Being the last day, it closed rather early, and I was only there for around 3 hours because of it. Still, I met with the Canterlanta group a few times and followed them as they browsed the Artist Alley, but lost them when I went off in my own direction. While there, I bought a few things: art prints and a couple of buttons. One of the buttons was of the pokemon Abra holding a sign saying "BRB Teleport." xD Unfortunately, these buttons fell out of the art sheet sleeve at some point. D: The Abra button was the last one of its kind, too... No matter how I retraced my steps, I couldn't find them. So I went back to the artist and told her what happened, offering my very last dollar to purchase the Twilight Sparkle button again, and she gave me a Rarity button as a bonus! That was really nice of her. ^_^

After that, I roamed around, taking pics of cosplayers here and there as usual. There was supposed to be a meetup at 2 PM but I could never find it, unless it was the mass of MLP cosplayers I found. I eventually ran into the Canterlanta people again and asked what they were doing next. They said going back to their room to drop stuff off, so I told them I'd do one last run of the Dealer's Room (where all the merchandise stalls are) to see if anything stood out to me. One of the Canterlanta guys came with me and we systematically perused everything, but didn't find much of interest that was reasonably priced. I did, however, buy one more pony badge because I don't have enough already. xD

I forgot to mention, one of our Canterlanta guys was scouted to be in an elite MLP D&D cosplay group as Fluttershy. I forget her class, though. He got scouted as her because he's very like her, as all those who are scouted are like the character they're picked to be. I say it's an elite group, because the costumes are professionally done and every character is locked to the person picked to play them, so no duplicates allowed. This got me thinking. If I were to get picked, what character do I most resemble to play? I asked the Fluttershy dude this, and he considered for a moment, and said Big Mac. I don't care for Big Mac because of the whole...country...thing, but I got to thinking: take away the country side of Big Mac, and you do have a lot of me. Big, silent, thoughtful, kind, honest, and (arguably) hard-working. ^_^

Anyway, time for pics!

Navi (Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time) - https://dl.dropbox.com/u/73613383/Conventions/AWA 2012/IMG_7832_zpscea1ae62.jpg

PONEH - https://dl.dropbox.com/u/73613383/Conventions/AWA 2012/IMG_7833_zpsbf49a2be.jpg

MO' PONEH PONEH - https://dl.dropbox.com/u/73613383/Conventions/AWA 2012/240006_292147000890189_980858021_o.jpg

Weighted Companion Cube and Cake (Portal) - https://dl.dropbox.com/u/73613383/Conventions/AWA 2012/IMG_7835_zpsff75a536.jpg

Cool Junes shirt (Persona 4) - https://dl.dropbox.com/u/73613383/Conventions/AWA 2012/IMG_7836_zps8ef41d5b.jpg

Talim (Soul Calibur) - https://dl.dropbox.com/u/73613383/Conventions/AWA 2012/IMG_7837_zps46651ab7.jpg

Umbreon, Leafeon, and Flareon (Pokemon) - https://dl.dropbox.com/u/73613383/Conventions/AWA 2012/IMG_7838_zpsb3a81b23.jpg

Twilight Sparkle and Discord - https://dl.dropbox.com/u/73613383/Conventions/AWA 2012/IMG_7839_zps7148661c.jpg

Rarity and Spike - https://dl.dropbox.com/u/73613383/Conventions/AWA 2012/IMG_7840_zps50cd8bdc.jpg

Spoiler: Last Convention Swag