I once saw Noah Day (of Noah Talks Sports fame, for you Hey Kentucky fans) having the pleasure of purchasing a Pokémon themed box a few years back. They sell for around $30 and have maybe $7 worth of merchandise on the inside of them. They are the second biggest waste of money you can find at any event. For reference, best to avoid any booths that look like this.Ī common feature of more recent Cons are a seemingly endless amount of booths selling blind boxes. And a whole lot of shitty Harley Quinn costumes. Just be leery, every now and then you’ll encounter some lunatics. Most that I’ve seen can be pretty nice people, a lot even have some pretty rad costumes. As crazy as it may sound, don’t let that put you off from interacting with cosplayers, there’s a very low chance you’ll end up having someone grind on you. Dear cousin was making the Macaulay Kulkin face from Home Alone. I hadn’t really noticed what happened till it was all over. We went to pose, and the dude throws his leg around me and starts going to town like a repressed Jack Russell Terrier. Being as I was 16 and had a mild obsession with the character at the time, my cousin encouraged me to take a picture with him. My cousin and I bumped into a guy cosplaying in a fairly ornate DP jumpsuit. I literally got dry humped by a guy in a Deadpool costume once. Nothing too bulky, those drawstring-y knapsack kind of bags work best. You’ll make things a lot easier on yourself if you bring a backpack to carry your haul with you. Take it from someone who’s been in this situation before, it’s not fun to carry around the gradually increasing pile of things that you buy while wading through the crowds. Between comics, artwork, t-shirts, those godawful celebrity encounters (more on that in a bit), and other merch, you’re gonna be spending some money. It’s so damn easy to sink $100 or more at a Con. The writhing, costumed, and sweaty mass you could be wading through this weekend. Your chances of seeing crowds like this skyrocket if you go to the show on Saturday. The line to get in can be just as bad too, with the wait to get in sometimes taking an up to 45 minutes or longer. Lots of awkwardly squeezing through crowds and shoulder bumping into people. That means there can be a pretty obscene lack of personal space when it comes to maneuvering around once inside the convention. They Can Get Super Crowded, Especially On SaturdayĪs stated above, thousands of people will be in attendance. It’s not unbearable by any means, just don’t go in unprepared. I don’t say that as a knock against the management of the conventions or to the legions of nerds in attendance, it’s just an unavoidable fact about Cons. Cons are some of the foulest smelling events you can attend. The scents that are brewed from that unholy concoction of circumstances are truly horrific. It’s not a pretty picture, but it’s an accurate one. Thousands of nerds, many in ill-fitting costumes, and all packed into a single hall of a convention center. Every year brings more and more newcomers, and for those of you who may be included in that number, I’ve got a nice heap of unwanted advice.Īll Cons Smell Like Ass, Be Ready For That It’s become a pretty beloved past time, so I take a lot of joy in seeing LexCon grow the way it has in the past few years. I’ve been attending Comic Cons on and off since I was a pretty small child, but I had never started annually attending one till I visited Lexington's (this more than likely being because Lexington is the only one within reasonable driving distance from me). The Lexington Comic and Toy Convention has astronomically grown since the first time I went in 2016.
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