/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

>>8949070
THAT'S SO COOL!!

I have a similar story…
>San Diego Comic Con 2013
>Cosplaying as Book!Hiccup from How to Train Your Dragon with my husband as Movie!Hiccup
>I make a baby Deadly Nadder for my husband and a Terrible Terror for me (Book!Hiccup's dragon is basically a Terror)
>I can only get my husband to cosplay for one day, so I have both dragons the rest of the time
>Hear that there's a Deadly Nadder from the live How to Train Your Dragon stage show out and about so I stop by a booth that was said to have info on that
>Guy chatting with people at the booth, looks kinda familiar
>HOLY SHIT IT'S DEAN DEBLOIS, (one of) THE DIRECTOR(s) OF THE MOVIE(s)
>Freak out internally
>"Oh hey!" He says, "Book!Hiccup! And you even have Toothless!"
>This guy. THIS GUUUUYYYYYYY. I CAN'T BELIEVE HE KNOWS I'M NOT JUST A RANDOM VIKING AT A GLANCE
>We take some photos together
>I nearly cry from happiness

I found that Nadder I was looking for later too:
>HUGE crowd around it
>There's a StageVersion!Hiccup as the handler and for people to also take pictures with
>The crowd is mostly moms and their young children
>I'm totally stuck in place because of this crowd
>Suddenly the Nadder SCREECHES and charges my direction
>It had seen my baby Nadder and leans into the crowd to nuzzle it
>Crowd gets out of the big dragon's way and I take the opportunity to get my picture
The Hiccup handler was NOT pleased and hissed, "You're not a child, why do you want a picture?" And amusingly my husband wasn't able to get any clear shots just because the crowd was that packed