Most of the cosplay at ConnectiCon is either anime or gaming characters, but since it’s a multi-genre conference, all sorts of characters show up! Here are a few Disney costumes I spotted last weekend at the Hartford Convention Center (and captured with my sub-optimal camera phone, unfortunately).
Alice in Wonderland, with the Cheshire Cat
Tink and Peter, woot!
The 501st Legion Connecticut Garrison! I was lucky enough to interview a representative; watch for this on the Those Darn Cats podcast in coming weeks.
Carl Fredricksen, from Pixar's Up. After I took his picture, he gave me a balloon. ❤
The ultimate nerd showdown!!!
Prince Ali, fabulous he
Kiki, from Kiki's Delivery Service (an ever-popular costume for sure)
Maleficent, evil incarnate, seems strangely out of place against the backdrop of Convention Center striped carpet
No, I’m not just sitting around being bitter about the fact that I won’t be at Disney’s Hollywood Studios’ Star Wars Weekends this year….I got myself off the couch this weekend and trucked down to Pawtucket, Rhode Island, for a fabulous appearance by the 501st Legion at the PawSox’ first annual Star Wars Day, woot!
After a user expressed concern that Bioware had “disallowed” the use of the terms “gay” and “lesbian” on the boards in a thread titled “GLBT discrimination in forums?” a Bioware forum moderator dropped in and posted this:
As I have stated before, these are terms that do not exist in Star Wars.
I met this awesome kitty-eared Stormtrooper at ConnectiCon, where members of both Alderaan Base and the 501st New England Garrison were out in force, with plenty of Star Wars costuming goodness from both sides of the Force.
The dashing fellow even had a long, orange tail to match.
I also briefly spotted this fabulous Catbus costume, which should look familiar to any Miyazaki fans (my apologies that the picture’s not better, but I just couldn’t resist sharing it anyway):
There appeared to be just one person in the Catbus costume, which must have made for rather back-breaking locomotion!
Well, that’s not entirely true. The truth is more like this: I spent the weekend on a little getaway with my husband and our newly adopted seven-year-old pug, and after one night at home to re-pack my suitcase I’m now off on business travel in Austin, Texas. I promise you I am trying to do my part to keep Austin weird.
Having discovered the 531 unread items in my blogreader, I thought I’d give you all a random sampling of what catches my eye as I work my way through it. Kinda random, but isn’t that just what you love about me anyway?
Hochberg et al have posted lots of great information about Star Wars Weekends over at StudiosCentral.com, but what post do you think caught my eye first? Merch, of course! I’m kinda liking the shirt with the Stormtrooper eating a Mickey Bar.
ThemePark Insider has a poll about beer in theme parks. I do believe those who enjoy “drinking around the world” at Epcot should get over there pronto.
This new WALL-E video clip (Hat tip: Disney Blog) is almost as cute as my sweet little pug dog. Not quite, though.
Yeah yeah yeah, it’s a little late . . . but this rules! This photo is from JediCon, last week’s Star Wars convention over in Dusseldorf, Germany, and comes to you courtesy of tikistitch’s Flickr pages. Those selfsame pages also include a set of photos from Celebration IV, including some fabulously trippy redecorated Darth Vader masks. This one is my favorite, because I heart anime.
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