MomoCon 2013 Megablog! Convention edition

As some of you may know, I attended a convention this weekend called MomoCon in Atlanta. It was really fun and I hope to go again next year. I plan to make this two blog posts due to the number of pics I got and I have to cover 2 days of material. So in this entry, I'm covering the convention itself, and I'll cover the stuff I bought in the next one! Some of you also know I went kinda-sorta cosplaying as a character in Disgaea 4 (posted a pic in my last blog entry). Unfortunately, nobody got it. Several people got the prinny hat, but no one I talked to had played Disgaea 4 and so didn't know it was an actual character's hat. Ah well, c'est la vie.

I did, hoever get a number of compliments on my bag and the plushes I had sticking out of it. People seemed really surprised when I said these pony plushes were found at Walmart and several vowed to go looking at Walmart for them. While in the Dealer's Room, I came across a Zorua plush that I added to the ponies sticking out of my bag. At one point, it fell out when I wasn't looking, but a minute or so later, a nice man asked if I'd dropped it (just after I realized it was gone) and, relieved, I thanked him and accepted it back. The mustache on Pinkie I didn't add until I got home, unfortunately. But it's never leaving her now.

Spoiler: My Swag Bag, or.....Swbag...

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I attended a few panels during my stay. I went to a couple of Q&A sessions with Mike Reiss, a writer for The Simpsons. That guy is hilarious. He also created The Critic and worked on many movies like all the Ice Age movies, Despicable Me, Horton Hears a Who, The Lorax, and more. I also attended a Little Kuriboh Q&A (creator of Yu-Gi-Oh! Abridged, which I still haven't seen *raises flame shield), and though I didn't know the subject matter, it was really funny. His first question was from a guy cosplaying as Roxas of Kingdom Hearts, and man they gave him a hard time the entire panel, always joking of course. My favorite joke was when he got around to asking the question (Little Kuriboh and his wife tend to get sidetracked), Kuriboh asked, "Is this going to be a two-hour tutorial that no one wants to play?" xD

Then came the brony panels. One of them was run by Canterlanta's own Josh: MLP 101. It basically covered MLP from its inception in the 80s all the way up to bronies and their creations. We all had to suffer while watching Gen 3 and 3.5. *shudder* After that panel, as I was leaving, I was stopped by a cool guy named Sebastian. He pulled me aside to interview me about basically everything about my being a brony. He asked me how I came to be one, and what being a brony means to me, and if I feel it's made me a better person than I was before ponies, and what I think of people who hate MLP and bronies.

My answers were thus: I came across a brony at work and asked him out of curiosity what the big deal was and he advised I give it a shot. I forget about it for a couple months until I saw a pony video linked in the related videos of something else, and clicked on it out of curiosity. I was attracted to the cuteness of it and the voices and colors and watched some fan videos. I really liked them, so I downloaded season 1 and watched a few and was hooked. And being a brony to me means that you enjoy the show, maybe some fanmade stuff. I do feel I've become a better person since becoming a brony. I always had the capacity to be a good person, and MLP was the catalyst I needed. The lessons it teaches I've known all my life, but had long since discarded for the most part. MLP retaught these lessons and, seeing how it worked for the ponies, I realized all the lessons need to work is belief that they can, which leads to trying. As for pony/brony haters, I'm fine if they don't like it. Ponies, like anything else, are not for everyone, and I respect that they don't like and hope that they respect that I do.

I've been kicking myself since that interview, though, since I forgot to exchange information so I could see and post the final product here. Sorry guys.

Then came the thing I was looking forward to most: the showing of the first half of Double Rainboom, and it didn't disappoint. I found the animation good and the jokes funny, and look forward to the conclusion. I recorded it on my camera, but the quality is pretty bad. Still, if you want to watch it, here it is!

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After that came an hour and a half of brony videos. I saw a ton I never knew of before, but only one I could find when I got home (it's an awesome one though). It was a lot of fun but sometimes I couldn't hear it very well.

Oh, and there was a food court at a mall a couple buildings away (linked by a skybridge) that had a ton of awesome food to choose from. Cookie store, Dairy Queen, Checkers, Chik-fil-A, Great Wraps, suchi, Thai food, a bistro, an awesome pizza place, and much more! I was never wanting for food, that's for sure.

There's a story behind one of my pictures. She's cosplaying as a Rainbow Dash D&D class (not sure which one). She was also part of the Fairy Tail podcast they were doing later, and she played the role of Lucy. Now if you don't know Lucy, one of her defining characteristcs is gigantic boobs. This girl said she doesn't have the boobs for it, so she stuck squeaky dog toys in her bra to fill up some room. xD the result being that her boobs now squeak. She invited me to try, so I did so while making a hyperbolic face. xD

Spoiler: Rainbow Squeak

And now for the rest of the cosplays!

Spoiler: Him (Powerpuff Girls)

Spoiler: Nakajima Yuu and Hanamura Yosuke (Persona 4)

Spoiler: Handsome Jack and Psycho (Borderlands 2)

Spoiler: Juvia, Erza, Gerard, Natsu, and Gajeel from Fairy Tail

Spoiler: Brotherhood of Steel (Fallout 3) and my friend Ralphie

Spoiler: The Once-ler (The Lorax)

Spoiler: D'aww Spike

Spoiler: Shining Armor, King Sombre, and Cadance Missle

Spoiler: Chrysalis and Sombre

Spoiler: Chrysalis, Sombre, and Discord

Spoiler: Scootaloo and Rainbow Dash assaulting the Wonderbolts

Spoiler: Vinyl Scratch (Josh, the guy who ran the MLP 101 panel) and Octavia

Spoiler: Derpy!

Spoiler: Fluttershy

Lilith and Maya (Borderlands 2) - https://dl.dropbox.com/u/73613383/Conventions/MomoCon 2013/IMG_7938.JPG

Tomoyo and Kyou (Clannad) - https://dl.dropbox.com/u/73613383/Conventions/MomoCon 2013/IMG_7939.JPG

Starscream (Transformers) - https://dl.dropbox.com/u/73613383/Conventions/MomoCon 2013/IMG_7941.JPG

Serah (Final Fantasy XIII) - https://dl.dropbox.com/u/73613383/Conventions/MomoCon 2013/IMG_7940.JPG

Altair (Assassin's Creed) - https://dl.dropbox.com/u/73613383/Conventions/MomoCon 2013/IMG_7942.JPG

Primula (Shuffle!) - https://dl.dropbox.com/u/73613383/Conventions/MomoCon 2013/IMG_7943.JPG

Deer Chell (Portal 2) - https://dl.dropbox.com/u/73613383/Conventions/MomoCon 2013/IMG_7945.JPG

Steampunk Pikachu (bad lighting, don't know why) - https://dl.dropbox.com/u/73613383/Conventions/MomoCon 2013/IMG_7947.JPG

Alphonse Elric (Fullmetal Alchemist) - https://dl.dropbox.com/u/73613383/Conventions/MomoCon 2013/IMG_7948.JPG

Turbo, Fix-It Felix, Wreck-It Ralph, and Vanellope von Schweetz (Wreck-It Ralph) - https://dl.dropbox.com/u/73613383/Conventions/MomoCon 2013/IMG_7949.JPG

Alphonse Elric, Edward Elric, and Envy (Fullmetal Alchemist) - https://dl.dropbox.com/u/73613383/Conventions/MomoCon 2013/IMG_7964.JPG

Tingle (Legend of Zelda) - https://dl.dropbox.com/u/73613383/Conventions/MomoCon 2013/IMG_7967.JPG

Micaiah (Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn) - https://dl.dropbox.com/u/73613383/Conventions/MomoCon 2013/IMG_7969.JPG

That's it for this blog. Keep an eye out for thw next one where I post my swag!