/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

I'm going as Morrigan from DA.
But last con was kind of lame (dat masquerade) so I hope it's going to be better this year. I doubt it though.

While it has gotten a lot better location still boring as fuck and just full of homestuck bullshit.

Going for one day as Dojima from P4, I agree with >>7245860 I hope it's better

>>7245870
agree with the homestuck
but I think most of the panels suck this year
there is only a few interesting or decent sounding ones

Anyone know if they are checking people's eyes before they go into the rave?
If so, after spending most of the weekend drinking, going to panels, taking pictures and spending all Saturday snorting coke of a hooker's asshole, how can I get in while trying to hide my bloodshot eyes, and hooker vomit all over me?

Only been to 2 cons this year, so I am starving for a good start to 2014. I hope this is it.

I'm struggling with whether to go or not at the moment. I haven't missed one for about 4 years, but with the fact that I've worn the same costumes at the past 3 or 4 of them for financial reasons and our entry for the masquerade being kind of stuck in administrative limbo, it's kind of looking bleak.

I would really like to go, but the reasons that usually draw me there are starting to crumble around me, which is a bummer considering that this is the only con I've been able to afford attending regularly

>>7244259
Oh man. I can't wait for this.

They do have a pretty awesome Guest list this time.

>>7250917
panels are meh so far
maid cafe might be fun

>>7251085
Everything I've heard about the Maid Cafe has been negative. The highlight of the whole thing is usually the Masquerade, but the skits are pretty hit-and-miss lately.

>>7251492
It seems like this is a trend in every con.

/cgl/ meetup this time?

Their site's been overrun with Russian Spambots for at least a month and no one has seemed to care, so that should be an indication of this con's popularity

Sup guys im working sacanime again i've worked for the past 4 cons and i will be selling staff badges for 25$ each also as staff ive been given a room i dont need to use it sense i live close bye so ill also be renting that out for 40 bucks each day. Of course there is certain guidelines you got to follow if i sell you a staff badge ill explain in more detail if you buy one.


>>7247078
The yellow shirts (staff) dont give a shit as long as you got a wristband where a mask and move with a group if yr worried.

>>7247078
i've never heard of anyone doing this. If you plan on bringing in an open bottle, expect them to check it.

>>7245870
>and just full of homestuck bullshit.

No fucking kidding. And last time there was one decent-looking Homestuck the whole con. ONE.

I also met this guy though. Who was awesome. So yeah.

>>7253806
Yeah, Homestucks are easily the cockroaches of this con; absolutely everywhere and always underfoot. Some of the other cosplays in Summer were amazing though, like Ursula's giant tentacle dress, the red Heavy from TF2's gun, and MECHAGODZILLA to name a few

Looks like I'm gonna be skipping SacAnime this time in favor of Wizard World's Sacramento Comic Con. They have a BITCHIN' guestlist so far and it keeps growing.

>Stan Lee
>William Shatner
>Walking Dead Cast
>Billy Dee Williams
>Bruce Campbell

Besides, I think I've been more suited to a ComicCon than an Anime Con since day one. I've loved gathering with fellow nerds immensely, but the fact remains that I've never considered myself much of an Anime fan. Of course, I enjoyed some of them very much, but I'm definitely more of a western-oriented media guy. I mean my costumes so far should've been a hint:

>Abomination; World of Warcraft
>Heavy Weapons Guy; TF2
>Pyro; TF2
>Dr. Zoidberg; Futurama
>Wreck-It Ralph
>Plans in the works for Venture Bros. characters

I never intended to ruffle any feathers in the SacAnime cosplay scene, but it happened and at one point I did some stupid complaining that I shouldn't have and made things worse, so I think taking a break from this one will be good for everyone. Hopefully, WizardWorld will put together a Con half as great as the previous SacAnime's have been.

Later days, peoples

Bump

I'll be there! Are we looking at a seagulls meetup?

>>7256160
If previous years are any indication, then no

>>7253998
>MECHAGODZILLA

OK, that one I missed.

>>7256447
It was pretty god damned impressive
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_l3HiJfaTuQ

>>7255354
So I guess that means we won't see you at the valve gathering :(

Was this new drama or just more locking horns with the cosplay director?

>>7257914
Kinda of a combination of that and the fact that the Masquerade confirmation came out just a couple days ago. My team had a skit planned and the costumes all ready for it, but we were waiting for the confirmation before we started work on the Audio and the props we'd need and now we just don't have the time to make it happen.

>>7256485
I got front row seats to the masquerade last time and was right by the judges, seeing it walk out was so fucking cool, I did like 6 pictures of it slowly walking out and at first you only saw it's eyes glowing.

Winter is always a crappier con because all the great cosplayers usually hit up anime LA instead, but I heard that was later this time so maybe we'll see some good up here.

My line up is:
Friday: Mirai (Kyoukai)
Saturday: Hanji (AoT) and my Bannette kigu
Sunday: Junko (DR)
I hope the HS meet goes smoothly for them since others are running it this time.

i'm getting kind of worried... this will be my first year going is it really that bad?

>>7262111
SacAnime's worst days are behind them (the Radisson Hotel era), but don't that let you stop you from having fun

>>7262111
It really has become a good con, have fun with it and everything will be great

>>7251492
What's the cafe like?

>>7262111
It's not that bad anymore, if you're close by or at a hotel it's nice. Lots of great guests this time, panels are kinda meh though. Haven't seen if they've put up any of the anime viewing info, the game rooms got moved last time and were better, same goes for where they put meet ups. Theres food close by and overall it's a decent local con. If you get anything in the vendor room- look the whole thing over first. There are about 10 booths that have the same plushies and figures- and all their prices are different. There are 2 booths of stolen art on mugs, and a booth with people with insane prices "because this is official and straight from Japan!" bitch where the hell did the rest of the stuff come from?!

>>7263568
it's an okay way to kill a hour. The snacks aren't as good as they used to be though. The games are kinda fun and they're good at the dances they do. I haven't been since they move, but I heard it got better, but shitier food.

I prereg'd, but I'm starting to feel like I wasted 35 bucks. All my friends who said they were getting rooms somehow jumped out and now they're not going at all. So now I have a weekend pass, no room, and barely any friends to meet up with. And on top of that, I haven't finished my costume. What should I do?

>>7265310
ask one of your friends that you're meeting?

>>7265310
come kick it with us in our room!

>>7265310
I'm going by myself as well and I'm not cosplaying. Gonna try to go to the /cgl/ meetup if there is one. I hope there is.

>>7268166
usually we all just agree on a area at a set time- I'm good with any time friday, or any time after the masquerade on saturday. If I'm not getting drunk beating friends at soul caliber.

bump for sac

>>7268315
>Drunk
>Soul Calibur
>Drunk
Anime-con
>Drunk
>Drunk

There needs to be a /cgl/ meetup then! Drunk shenanagins with a couple of chill people sounds amazing!

>>7268163
Is it common to get invited to someone's room at a con?

>>7270228
Yes, you get picked up in an unmarked van. Don't worry, that's totally normal too.

>>7270228
it depends, one of my friends is a super nice person and she'll give out food or candy to people in the elevator and we've been invited to rooms before because of it. A few guys asked us because they said they had some beer. I stated how we had vodka, rum and whiskey in ours and we got off at the next floor blowing them off.
Hell we had a girl just walk into our room last time. It was about 1 and we heard a knock on the door, friend opened door and a drunk chick walked in. We took her to the front desk and she called her friends to find the right room.

>>7253765
If anyone is down to split this room, let's do et
Never been to a con. I'm 21 and not too much of a dungeon dweller

I'm going, I'm too much of a bitch to cosplay though
Was there a /cgl/ meetup last year?

>>7263568
I went at the last con cause one of my friends was a maid there, but it was pretty bad. The food was terrible and the skits were really cheesy. I would honestly just skip it.

>>7271747
>>7270031
The meetup last year didn't happen. A time and place was set, but nobody showed

How's the gaming room been in years past? The programming looks pretty lame and if I'm going to drive out to this I'd kind of like to have gaming as a fall-back activity for down time. Any Magic players turn out?

>>7253765
I'm planning on only driving up for Saturday of the con, but if possible I'd like to have a private room for that day to keep my stuff in. I don't need it for overnight sleeping as I will be out before 11 PM on Saturday.

If you're able to accomodate that. Contact is email field.

>>7244259
What are you guys gonna cosplay?

>>7272828
Oh and I'll be shinji. I forgot that the con was this week, so it was kind of a last minute idea. I had clothes that would work, so why not? I was only planning on going saturday.

>>7272907
>shinji
>not just some faggot with his shirt tucked in
When will you idiots learn not to do this kind of shit

I will be there as zoro and mako. I go as them every year to sac.

>>7273804
I can show some pictures if you guys want

>>7271977
I did but I saw no one else. It was the afternoon meet, though.

I left after a minute, though, so that might be why.

>>7270031
>>7268315
ALRIGHT. I vote we do it at 8:30 Friday night for a /cgl/ meetup! The concert ends around that time, and there is nothing really going on until 9:30 when the "rave" starts. I vote we meet in that back area behind the con center's main doors. Where all the big gatherings usually take place. That way there shouldn't be too many people, we can meet up, go grab some pregame drinks and hit up the rave!

Who is with me!?

>>7274679
possibly with.

>>7274688
My crew has never met you Rii. DO EET.

what is the best place to park for the con?

>>7275373
this. Also, I'm looking for some people to Tabletop rpg with. Any takers?

>>7274679
I think a lot of people are going to be saturday only. I know I am. That said I couldn't do a meetup either way since I am commited to being with people for pretty much the whole day.

>>7272084
Dunno about the gaming room but I will be bringing my standard Magic deck. Probably going to leave my stuff in the hotel room for most of the day though.

Dickbutt guys reporting in

We're rolling out to sac anime

Artists better expect us

Although after the entire last year of cons our funds are significantly depleted lol

>>7275912
>>7272084
There's TCG tournaments on the con schedule. Starting times are listed as 2 PM Fri, 11 AM Sat, 11 AM Sun. But that's starting time for "tournaments" plural so it could be a case of, YGO starts at 11 AM, MtG after at 1 PM, or something like that.

Alright, no gathering then. It's all good. If you guys see a Jack Sparrow walking around with a Finn and Malcolm Reynolds, come up and say hi! And come grab a beer or cocktail with us!
See you all there!

>>7276106
Im down, but im not quite sure on the area exactly. At the bottom of the stairs?

Who's going to be on the Adventure Time panel?

>>7276670

Finn's VA, apparently?

http://www.sacconventions.com/?page_id=6161

Anyone get a picture of those kigurumi things? Scared the shit out of me.

So, was day 1 as much of a letdown as this thread predicted?

Also, I've heard from one of the contestants in the masquerade this year that there are only something like 5 or 6 entries

>>7278054
it was okay, at least some new stuff in the vendor hall
I totally forgot about the meet up and walked over to R street for ramen...that took 2 fucking hours to get and made my entire hotel room of people sick. I'll be wandering around as Hanji and possibly Junko tomorrow

>>7275373
>>7275681
There's a parking structure between the cathedral and the capital it's only $5 for the whole day it's about a block away or 3 to 5 minute walk

>>7275681

I'm down for it but last time nobody really did tabletop.

Saturday is really getting too damn crowded. I prefer Sunday even if the panels/events aren't as good.

Also, not enough Kill la Kill cosplays.

>>7278150
>goggles and glasses
fucking idiot

I just went yesterday and the Homestuck was god awful, everything else was pretty alright.

>>7280481
Sat had a lot of SnK, but there was the meet up for that. We had 2 girls walking behind us saying how there were so many and I wanted to say "no shit"
Masurade was a big let down skit wise, but the 3 skits that won were the good ones. Dat idol group kyoukai was lovely.
I think this year everyone didn't give a fuck for sunday, when we hit the vendors hall a final time before leaving we saw maybe only about 10 in costumes and the rest was jeans n tees.

i was pretty disappointed in this con
a few good panels
lol at the speed dating 47 guys 27 girls
crowd control needs to be fixed lining up outside to get in a panel was ridiculous
registration line was faster than pre reg
the rave sucked and the dj from Japan was awful
Overall had fun but they have some things to fix felt like half a con

>>7281217
Who were you I was the white guy with the grey long sleeve

>>7281343
>the white guy with the grey long sleeve

No I was.

>>7280481

The homestuck was a lot less bad than at summer, though as a whole I prefered summer's.

Also what the fuck sort of city is 70 degrees on January third?

>>7281694
This year was really, really weird. Normally it's not that hot, barely 60 or 50s.

I found the con really quiet this time around.

>>7281680
Liar

>>7281680
No i was that guy

>>7281343
>>7281680
>>7281889
>>7281895
Wow, I'm glad I didn't go. Everyone was wearing the same thing I was wearing.

My favorite part of the con was this dude. He was super cool.

I only went on Sunday and ended up only streetpassing it seems lol. Was suppose to go Saturday but got sick. Maybe the next con will be better since I'll finally be 21 haha

>>7260293
This is a bummer to hear. The masqueraed really could've used you guys this time

>>7281217
I only went to the rave on sat, but heard friday was worse. Yeah the Japanese guy was fucking awful. also while having nice looking girls on stage is awesome, having them take up half of the stage spots for others sucks and makes the line take forever if you wanna get up there.
>>7281694
I found the homestucks worse, there were a lot fucking more it seemed and there were about 4 with horns who honked them a ton. We were on a full elevator and a few tried to squeeze on and I button spammed the close door button.

Did the air quality bug anyone else? One of my eyes would not stop watering all day saturday.
I really wish they'd figure out how they want to do the masquerade line up and stick with it. Last con they let all the vips in, lined us against a wall then let us sit wherever we wanted. I was front row by the judges. This year that line up then go down the stairs and watch people who are vip and not in line cut was crappy.

>>7283054
How was the actual cosplay masquerade? I couldn't make it Saturday

>>7284240
6 skits...opening skit was awesome, had a lazy cosplay but decent skit making fun of what does the fox say, a too loud mic 12 yr old vocaloid thing, and 2 girls acting out a part of frozen. I seriously can't even remember the acts that didn't place.
Had some good walk ons, and some really shitty ones. I think 2 were human ponys, and 1 was a tiger girl in a china dress. Eh. The Cafe Hoshi dance was meh this time.The karaoke winners were really good this time, 2nd place's sang teen titan's opening and got the crowd going while 1st was just fucking amazing on vocal rang

>>7284524
6 Skits?!
Was the whole thing half an hour long?

>>7281930

I'm surprised by all the long sleeves. It was hot as a bitch on the floor.

I ended up only getting to spend maybe an hour walking around at this one, but I'd actually like to get weekend passes for the summer one. Any suggestions for stuff I need to see/do there?

I got this, so I'm happy.

>>7284968
It was an hour, but only because there were about 3 times as many walk-ons for the fashion portion.

The skits were mostly god-awful. The Pokemon one was clever and the Frozen one was decently acted, but the rest.... just.... christ, that whole thing belongs in a cringe thread...

>>7288997
Looked like she was pole-dancing from the thumbnail

>>7281694
Homestuck was less awful because I'm pretty sure they got banned from gathering on saturday after the clusterfuck they caused in the summer.

>>7288997
Aww, I have the Kyoko and Homura part of this set. They're adorable figures! I'm glad you got her.

>>7290272
Summer we had a friday meet. I ran it. Shit went normal. They were in trouble from the winter before because people got mad there was only 1 meet early in the day and made a bunch of smaller meets that caused trouble.

>>7289123
The first skit from Kyoukai was good, and the fact that they had all the idol costumes was so cute. Just wish the dreamshade had been made of a different fabric.

>>7290280

God damn her hair is great.

Surprisingly good price too. It was cheaper than her figma.

Have you figured out what the second indent on the spear slots into?

>>7289341

...probably not a coincidence.

>>7290649
When I first took kyoko out of the box I couldn't stop touching the hair piece. It is so glorious!

I honestly have no idea what the other indent is for, I try to ignore it.

>>7290698

I'm seriously debating picking up Mami next. These things are apparently addictive. They're just so... substantial

>>7290698
maybe a separate kuybi goes there? (I know I butchered that fuckers name)

No photos anyone? I've only got stuff from the SnK meet up and still haven't had the interest to upload them from my camera

>>7291000
>No photos anyone? I've only got stuff from the SnK meet up and still haven't had the interest to upload them from my camera
I have a few pics I can upload tmrw if this thread stays active

>>7291000

I barely took any. Mainly just kids.