CAA: Christian Anime Alliance

I don't think there's been a sighting since '08. Pretty sure she's safe. Plus we're talking separate coasts.

K. Ayato (post: 1516650) wrote:No guarantee he'll be at the con, but beware the man-Faye.

Who, this guy?

That's one version. Version my friends and I were unfortunate to encounter had a skimpier costume and boy was he hairy.

Who is Faye?

EDIT:Oops, didn't know there were two pages to this thread. Mah bad.

Dang, I was all ready to start tossing tips around, but you guys beat me to everything I was gonna say

Animazement is actually a really good con to start off with. It was the first convention I ever attended, back when it was in Durham, and it's still a personal favorite. It's probably the most family-friendly con I know of, which is cool.

Regarding the cosplay-for-more-than-one-day question, just remember to think about hygiene. Walking around Raleigh in the hot sun and standing around in a crowded building with lots of other people can get you all sweaty FAST, and clothes can suffer accordingly. If you aren't going to be changing, at least be sure to bathe regularly to avoid the dreaded Con Funk (Febreze can help in a pinch, too)

Lines at Animazement can vary greatly depending on what events you're waiting for. Major guest-related stuff and big events like the Cosplay Masquerade start lining up early and stretch out looooooong, but smaller panels often don't develop lines at all. It's the sort of thing you'll want to play by ear.

(also, ashfire, I'm glad I'm not the ONLY one who doesn't care much for the Hyatt Regency. I'm SOOOO glad AUSA is moving next year!)

^Were you at AUSA? I wanted to go to Animazement but I had nobody to drive me and it's right at the end of the school year.

One of the best things about cons is you have nice strong cosplayers carrying you around like a baby .

aliveinHim (post: 1517480) wrote:^Were you at AUSA?

Yeah, actually... and I'm still not caught up on the sleep I lost

I guess I better find out where AUSA is moving to. I should have asked a friend of mine where they were showing AMVs Sat. He told me there was another room where they would be shown at 11:30 am. Another thing was that the staff member who asked that I leave the main events should have said something about it.

Next year AUSA is going to be in the Marriott Wardman Park, in actual DC rather than Crystal City. It's near where I work, and it's MUCH bigger than the Hyatt.

aliveinHim (post: 1517480) wrote:One of the best things about cons is you have nice strong cosplayers carrying you around like a baby .

Wait what? Please explain. I'm dying of curiosity.

During photoshoots, there are some people who are really nice and they'll hold you like a baby if you are doing a fan pairing. I was Momo Hinamori and there was a man dressed as Toshiro Hitsugaya (Bleach) and he held me like a baby. I felt so special.

Blltzkrieg, who did you cosplay?

^ Uhhh... yeah, that's not exactly normal, aliveinHim. Even for Con standards, that seems pretty creepy.

A lot of people at AUSA got asked to be held. Hugs are one of the best things at cons though .

Blitzkrieg1701 (post: 1517544) wrote:Next year AUSA is going to be in the Marriott Wardman Park, in actual DC rather than Crystal City. It's near where I work, and it's MUCH bigger than the Hyatt.

I would hope that finding a place to park won't be a problem if I do go.
I have never been great with traveling thru Wash. DC. I have lived in the suburbs and have only traveled uptown when friends or family have visited to see the sites.
Most of the time we got lost.

ashfire (post: 1517743) wrote:I would hope that finding a place to park won't be a problem if I do go.
I have never been great with traveling thru Wash. DC. I have lived in the suburbs and have only traveled uptown when friends or family have visited to see the sites.
Most of the time we got lost.

Oh... Supposedly the Marriott's got a decent parking deck, but I doubt it's cheap. The only previous time I've been to a con in that area (back when Katsucon was at the Omni across the street) we parked outside of town and rode the Metro in.

aliveinHim (post: 1517727) wrote:Blltzkrieg, who did you cosplay?

My most common costumes are Dr. Forrester from Mystery Science Theater 3000, Irvine from Final Fantasy VIII, The Bard from Ragnarok Online, and a couple of Digimon characters (namely season 2 Matt and Ryo)

Who were you on Saturday?

aliveinHim (post: 1517800) wrote:Who were you on Saturday?

Well I didn't cosplay that day. I came in just my everyday clothes, my fire dept jacket and hat.
I did cosplay at Otakon and Nekocon. I wore my Japanese Rescue Firefighter uniform in honor of the Japanese Firefighters that died in Japan during the tsunami and for the 10th anniversary of 9/11 at Otakon Friday and Sat.
At Nekocon I was a Steampunk Firefighter sort of late 18th Century early 19th Century type Japanese outfit with a real hand pump fire extingusiher.

I spent most of Saturday as either Ichabod (a character from my webcomic Far Out There) or Dr. Forester.

I've never been to a con. Nevertheless if I went to one, I'd either dress up as Yomi from Azumanga Daioh, or a furry. Most likely I'd be a furry.

hehe! i'm attending my 1st con in april ^^

I want to attend to one this year, in the summer...but do not want to do it alone since it will be my first one

alma wrote:I want to attend to one this year, in the summer...but do not want to do it alone since it will be my first one

I attended my first anime con and a few others close by on my own until I found a anime club to join. Mostly I was just going for the day until I started staying over night and out of state cons. Since the club broke up I go to the con with a couple of friends from the club. Still run into some of the old members from our club at a con.

K. Ayato wrote:No guarantee he'll be at the con, but beware the man-Faye.

Is he more awesome than Sailor Bubba or man-Rosette?

I hope that someone's first con was not Katsucon this year after the problems that arose from conflict of two different organzations using the Gaylord Hotel at the same time. It seem the Katsucon people got the worse of it from some of the B'nai B'rith Youth Org. attendees.
I have ran into that before when attending a anime con and the place hosting it has another group or groups using the place too.
You could see a lot of tension or verbal exchanges between the groups or scorn from people about what you are doing.
Just besure that someone does not touch you anyway. I have heard there was pushing or grabing of con attendees. Leave those problems to con staff to handle or the security or police on hand.