Sunday didn’t start off too well, as it was grey and rainy. I was a dork and had put a plastic bag over my Flareon tail so it wouldn’t get wet. Left around the same time, and would have made the 9:05 again – if it weren’t for a FRIGGIN’ TRIATHALON! Seriously, on the way to the Metro North, we got stuck in traffic for at least 20 minutes because of cyclists in a triathalon going through the intersection. We were all fuming, especially because there were so many gaps where we could have gone through – but the traffic controller wench sucked balls.
Finally, we get to the Metro North, missed the two preferrable trains, and because it was Sunday we had a nice long 30+ minute wait until the next train >_<. So since we had been bad con-goers that weekend and hadn’t really eaten well, we got breakfast at the food stand downstairs. I was getting a little dissapointed on the train (and pissed at the cyclists), because I had been looking forward to getting the Pokemon voice actresses’ autographs, but now we weren’t sure if we’d get there in time.
Ran to get the shuttle, then walked as fast as we could in the yucky weather to the Javits Center. It was 11:20ish, I put on the rest of my costume, and my friends and I decided to go to the autograph room anyway (they were doing autographs from 11-12) because it wouldn’t hurt. Ends up, the line was really short because a large chunk of the voice actors/actresses didn’t show up – but Veronica Taylor was still there! So I drew on my nose, and my friends and I got a little giggly as we were let in. Luckily, the guy they also wanted an autograph from, Jamie McGonnagal (I soooo butchered that, and I lost my program book), was the only other person there =D. Veronica Taylor was a sweetheart, and said she liked my costume ^^. She signed my box set “Kiera, Follow your dreams! – Veronica Taylor”
<– I look like a total ‘tard =P
I start to put my camera away and get my stuff situated while the rest of my crew were getting their autographs/pics with Veronica Taylor, when Jamie asked if he could see my camera – which lead to a nice chat about cameras/photography. He started playing around with my Nikon D40, and ended up getting a nice pic of me.
Austin, her sister, and her friends then started taking to him and figuring out what they wanted signed. He voiced a character from a series they love, El Cazador de la Bruja (so spelled that wrong too ^^;) – Jamie was surprised that they watched the series. He was a really cool guy, so I got him to sign my NYAF badge (he’s also done the voice of Barry, the rival in the latest episode of Pokemon. Gary motherf’n Oak >>>> Barry ^_~).
So we were all giggly, happy ‘tards and collectively agreed that this made up for being late thanks to the cyclists. We headed to the Dealer’s Room to do our shopping, and ran into the Japanese twins from the Masquerade that were still cosplaying from Vocaloid, leading to Austin, Krystyna, and Megan getting a pic with them. Reni Mimura was selling CD’s at her booth, so we headed over there. They were doing a game where you could win free stuff at 12, so we did some power-shopping in the 10 minutes ’till then. The game was playing Rock-Paper-Scissors with Reni, and Austin ended up winning over everyone ^^. She got a few free pins, then we got in line to get her CD & an autograph.
We had plenty of time to kill before ichiP!’s dance workshop at 3:30, so we split up and went to shop. While still together, we came across this booth that were selling this apparently really, really sour chewing gum. We’re watching this group of people try a piece while the booth videotaped them, and they’re making these faces like it was living up to the hype, so we had to try. Nikki was the brave soul who went first and bought a Blue Raspberry pack – at first, it didn’t do much, but shortly it kicked in and we cracked up. I was next, and got a Lemon pack. Anyone remember those candies that were popular years ago, Warheads? This was the gum equivalent of those – I’m chewing the piece and it just tastes lemony, but then I got to the sour and it burned! But it was still tasty! Megan went next, and had a similar reaction. Krystyna bought a pack, but she was a chicken and wouldn’t try it out in front of the booth =P.
I didn’t buy much this weekend, because nothing really jumped out at me. I got a figure of Aeris from Final Fantasy VII, since I’m working on getting the whole cast of the game (they better eventually make Cid and Barret, and I don’t really care about getting the Kadaj figure until the main characters are all out). Of course, after I buy mine for $24 (the cheapest price I had seen), we go to another booth that had marked it down to $20 lol. I had wanted to get this set of Murloc figures from World of Warcraft to split with my boyfriend, but the booth where I had seen them were sold out, and no where else had them. Got a print from the Artist’s Alley of Cid Highwind with a Chocobo and a tea set =D. *looks at wall* I need Yuffie, Barret, Sephy, and Vincent prints to complete the cast.
Our group was tired and still had time before ichiP!, so we plopped by a wall and people watched. I ran off at one point to buy more of that sour gum (got Blue Raspberry and Strawberry), and a Mana Potion energy drink for my boyfriend and I. Whenever I end up cosplaying Codex, I want to be a dork and have a potion prop so I can say “Share a potion with me?” =D. We were resting by the door to a panel room, and at one point Jamie McG came out and saw us and said “Hi ladies!”; we squee’d “HI!” (we dorked out a little because he recognized us ^^). Austin, the resident yaoi fangirl, wandered off at one point because there was a game of Spin The Bottle going on.
Eventually, we headed to the Apple Kissa stage to get a good spot. The maids were hosting a dance competition, which was pretty entertaining. The music ranged from Britney Spears to cutesy Japanese stuff to Korn. One girl got a lot of cheers because she grabbed someone (I assume she knew) sitting near the stage and started doing yuri and dancing with them. But yuri had no chance against the hilarity that was the Spiderman cosplayers. Spiderman’s a pimp, yo.
Our friend Nikki (from school, not the one in our travelling group) was the Mama-san of the Maid Cafe and we hadn’t sene much of her all weekend, so we yelled at her to try to get her attention after the competiton. We yelled “NIKKI! TODD FROM GAMESTOP! MEL GIBSON!”, all inside jokes, but she didn’t hear us – finally one of the other maids got her attention for us.
<– Nikki’s the one on the left, she’s a character ^-^
ichiP!’s dance workshop was fun, we learned the dance to Bacchkoi from Naruto, and part of another routine. Afterwards, we were all tired and spent – so homeward bound we were.
I still have to put up my new posters I got. Hope you all that attended NYAF as well had a good time!
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