London MCM Report! + cosplay

I meant to include the cosplay first time around, but I didn't because it was taking too long and I had stuff to do.

took the actual photos, but I helped by yelling at people to come over X3


and her friend came to find me(and buy a book, woo~)!  They were dressed as Tiger and Bunny!  It was awesome.  


as Professor Layton! Not only was his cosplay fabulous, he challenged me to a puzzle!  I picked medium and I got it right ^-^  My reward was a golden apple, which I ate X3  It was nummy.


Princess Sapphire from Ribbon Knight!  A manga by Tezuka Osamu, it's about a princess who must disguise herself as a prince, because the law allows only a male heir to inherit the throne... it's a bit more complicated than that, but it's a fun manga.  This lady was awesome and she was really happy that I recognised the cosplay!

She also let me try on her hat X3 -



RINCEWIND   He bought a book too X3  He had such an awesome costume!  
It really shouldn't surprise you that I'm a huge Discworld fan.


There were two decepticons with this guy, but I didn't recognise them >.<
Apparently this is


Digimon cosplay!   I saw T.K first and then I was like OH MAH GLOB ALSO MATT and they let us have a picture!  I saw Masaru walk past 3 times before I finally yelled at him for a picture X3


What time is it?!


We collected ponies the whole time X3  That IS Doctor Whooves, but sadly his hand is in the way of his cutie mark.  And oh my gosh, there was a Daring Do!   Big Mac was awesome and stopped to chat to us!  ..partly because I screamed like  fangirl when I realised what I was seeing (I did that a lot over the weekend ^-^; )



Everyone else awesome X3 From left to right:
The Doctor and K9, Merida and.. er... (someone enlighten me), Dokuro-chan from Bokusatsu Tenshi Dokuro-chan(which I shouldn't admit to having watched-), Velvet from Odin Sphere, Kaneda from Akira and.. um..(I think that's a Warcraft class?), Miles Edgeworth and Phoenix Wright, Loki from the Avengers, Gravity Falls peeps, Rosette Christopher from Chrono Crusade, Cross Yuki from Vampire Knight, Maes Hughes from Fullmetal Alchemist and Dark Magician Girl from Yu-Gi-Oh.

Phew.

Cosplay spotting is fun =3

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How it went:



We're back and we had a great weekend!  Friday was actually not too fun because we had to get up at 3:30am to get the MegaBus from Manchester >.<  Then we had to figure out how to get to the Expo site and buy Oyster cards and find our stall (bit of a nightmare all round!) and set up.  All of which was made more difficult because we were carting around 2 suitcases full of books and leaflets and bookmarks... I was tired and stressed and I was just not on form on Friday.  We only sold 5 copies that day, which was pretty dismal.  But apparently Friday is always pretty awful for sales, so I was comforted by that.  I was actually really ill when I got up the next morning(caused by stress) and for the first half an hour on Saturday I was passed out on the table.  I felt like I would never make it through the 9 hour day >.<  But I felt better really quickly and we made up for our poor sales the previous day.  Sunday went less well, but I didn't feel sick at all and we only missed our target by one book.  We sold 56 books in total, which is over a 10th of my total print run and over a 5th of my remaining print run.  We gave away all but one of the bookmarks too!  We took 5 packs, so that is a LOT of bookmarks.  Our suitcases were sooo much lighter on the way home, it was wonderful!

Of course, I also got chance to walk around and buy some stuff (mostly on Sunday, when it was quiet in the morning) and I got me some cool swag!

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Most of it was bought from - I bought the two Scandanavia and the World comics on offer and also the Fresh Epics anthology, since I'm also a fan of the other members too.  I also bought a print of Nini the cute kappa   I actually ran back to my stall which was very nearly on the other side of the hall to get more money to buy things X3  The only other things I bought that day were two g1 ponies.  I used to own a heck of a lot of g1 ponies, but my mothet threw them out ;_;  So I'm slowly building my collection back up, plus ones I wanted when I was little that were in the show.

and both came to find me and I was so happy   I know there were other people looking for me who couldn't find me... my stupid phone wasn't loud enough for me to hear from my bag, so I missed about 3 phonecalls >.<  My editor spent a whole hour trying to find me and had to collar some MCM employees and ask them for help.  

  I had a great weekend despite the most un-fun start we had and I hope we will be there again in May!  I'm hoping to be at Memorobilia Birmingham at the end of November, but I'm not sure I can afford to.  (I actually made a pretty big loss, despite my good sales - but what I want is exposure.) But we shall see... I was advised that I really ought to be in the Comic Village, so I shall look into that.  

I hope you all had a fun weekend too, and thanks for reading!

Alicia


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Book signings:

Waterstones Manchester (Arndale Centre) 8th December

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