The Lair of the TX2: May 2008

Man that was an awesome trip. There's a slight irony to the fact that my regular job has me sitting around all day and my first vacation was to a convention where I'm on my feet walking around all day. But I have to say, I feel a lot better after the whole thing. I guess a change of pace is just refreshing weather it's slowing down or speeding up.
Me my sister and my brother were at the convention mainly to scout it out. Next year we will be putting up a booth in the artist alley in hopes to make a sustaining profit off our work.
We learned a lot from the trip and have plenty of ideas for the booth we'll have set up next year, but I have to keep those plans under my hat for now. (Of course, Magic 8 Ball Girl will be a star attraction to the show.

It wasn't all just work of Course, Here's some of the pictures from the Con'. My sister has most of them right now, so I'll get those up later.

This is the "Costume" I had for the convention. I'm not one for Cosplaying, so I got the Elmo Puppet (from the same Youtube Video) and Dressed it up as Tayuya from Naruto. I turned more than a few heads for this one, but MAN ALIVE it was a strain just too keep it's head up sometimes. My arms nearly fell off there.

Sadly, the only Cave Story Costume I came across.

I swear, when they designed the Girl Trainer's costume for Pokemon D/P, They must have thought, "What would be the most Cosplay friendly design for her."

L plays Chess with another L. THIS is what I call getting into character.

This statue was a block away from the convention... I don't think I need to explain what's so funny about this.

Here are some of the Souvenirs I purchased at the con.

In addition to getting the Shiraishi Figure, I also picked up a special box of the first Lucky star DVD.
That sketch in the Middle I purchased from the Artist Alley. on my last day there.
And there was a girl in the artist ally was making custom figurines, so I commisioned for a magic 8 ball girl one. Her Deviant art Profile is here, if you want to check it out.

Including the price of Food, I only spent a grand total of less than 200 dollars at this convention, which appearently isn't much at all. In fact on my first day I spent hours wandering around the "Dealers den" and this Tron Bonne Toy was the only purchase I made. (at half price too). I've always been needlessly finicky, though.