http://www.ushicon.com

Yup. Ushicon, the Austin Area anime convention is here yet again~! And living in the austin area makes this one alot more fun, I actually know my way around, and should anything be forgotten, home isnt far.

Costume List!!

Doing Jiraiya once again, simply because it got pretty good feedback at cons *(especially when I have my binoculars with me)*

Doing Johnny from Guilty Gear X - no shirty goodness, also my girlfriend is gonna be May for me, shes tiny and has the build to do May very well too, so that works out nicely.

Might do Ryu a'la Street Fighter again, but not 100% sure yet.

Plans on future costumes:

Kujo Jotaro - "JoJo" from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure



Well, you know how it works by now...I dissapear for about 4 days, come back with nerdy pictures and funny stories that nobody will read and only Yarr and Milly will respond to...and both will be making fun of me.

LETS GET IT STARTED!

ORAAAAAAAA!

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I like pirate girls. Discuss.

That said Guilty Gear Males always seemed particularly long legged to me... I wonder if you'll have to hike up your pants to pull off the effect properly =)

Still i think your pirate will look better than your Jotaro

aww >.< pre. registration only? whats that about?

You seem like a cool person. I guess I'm missing out by never talking to you, lol.

Well, Ushicon was a rapidly growing convention, and Ushicon 4 actually tallied something around 3000+ attendies.

However, the only Hotel that could be arranged for that many people was the Renaissance Austin, which was very rude and didn't welcome the convention as warmly as the staff had hoped.

So Ushicon had to go back to the location of Ushicon 2 and 3, which was the downtown Marriott...but they have a limit of 2000 people, so Ushicon had to cut down 1000 or so attendies by making it pre-register only, and even then it was first come-first serve. So once 2000 members was hit, pre-reg closed.

HOWEVER!!!

Theres gonna be alot of people who might not show up and there will be unclaimed badges if you know where to look. (Not to mention I'm sure plenty of counterfitters will be working their laminators to the bone)

So dont worry, theres still hope the last minute show ups.

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Are the counterfit badges easily identifiable by the officials? I've always wondered how people would pull that off and be able to go around with the fake ones.

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[In Yarr we trust.]

It's not exactly FBI level security, they glance at your badge as you walk into any places that require it, and look for the same logo, colors and if the badge is printed horizontal or vertical, they don't inspect them very closely, so a laminated copy of an original scanned badge isn't hard to come by.

There are a few things that could cause counterfits to get caught, the badges are numbered and some conventions have been known to have an exclusive stamp or holograph on them, but its one of those things that any normal con-staff person would simply look right past.

Most people on staff are volunteers who only volunteered for a free badge themselves, they could care less about checking for counterfits.

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vivi i love you. but your friggen weird.







and i respect that. have fun and good luck.

lol Ike youre just as strange to me as Viv is.

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COBRA KAI DOJO NEVER DIES
RIP Shiloh

Got to have diversity or the world would be boring :P

And I'm very interested in going to one of these conventions. Viviti, do you know of any around the DC area that are in the near future?

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[In Yarr we trust.]

Closest thing I can find to DC is Otakon.

August 4th - 6th.
Otakon 2006 > Baltimore, Maryland

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Since you've all seen Jiraiya before, heres the new costume onry:



MISTU FINDA!!!

Yeah, Johnny for teh wins. And also Tabby as May for bonus wins.

I'll post more pics, along with Tabbys convention video as this stuff comes up.

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Found another pic of me =3




I'm so smexy

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Welcome to my world~

AND THE MOMENT YOUVE ALL BEEN WAITING FOR!!!


http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... 9749540635


The lovely Tabby's Ushicon "Vivi is a nerd and so are friends" VIDEO~!~

Watch it!

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lol I thoroughly enjoy these threads.

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Haha me too Milly.

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LS: TheMonarchy
The Bearded Hume Player/Coach for the Washington Generals
"I got the fever, and the only prescription is more cowbell!"

I hate my school. Blocked google videos here and my computer still won't play videos

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This is by far the greatest video filmed in Austin.....EVER!!!

You gonna be there? Balitmore is closer to me than DC anyway haha

Lesse...by August? Yeah, I can probably save up enough for air fare, hotel and all that jazz. I'll start saving up and see how money is by August, but I've always wanted to go to Otakon, I'll do my best to be there!

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Wow I am so in for being a box at A-kon

Haha, so you're going to Akon for sure Paz? I'm not sure what I'll be dressed as for that one...might go ahead and do Jotaro Kujo from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure...or possibly Giorno Giovanni, but NOBODY would know who I was.

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So thats *not* the leader of team rocket from pokemon?

lol if it is, I'm going as someone from team rocket

If not I don't know what to do =/

o m g vivi <3 the video

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