DragonCon Cosplay Party
September 29, 2015 7:46 AM   Subscribe

A music video showcasing some of the awesome cosplay at DragonCon 2015. Part 2, Part 3.
posted by cozenedindigo (16 comments total) 12 users marked this as a favorite
 
People were cosplaying as Canadians?
posted by GenjiandProust at 7:54 AM on September 29, 2015 [2 favorites]


More seriously, that is some amazing inventiveness, and I am kind of wondering how any of the costume designs arose out of the thought "I could never make a costume of X... oh, wait... I could try this, then...."
posted by GenjiandProust at 7:57 AM on September 29, 2015


Wow, at GenCon they just parade thru the halls of the convention center. I'd love to see the costume parade taken out on the street. (Downtown drivers would probably disagree.) Though plenty of cosplayers can be seen on the streets that weekend, costumes this amazing deserve to be widely seen.
posted by Gelatin at 8:05 AM on September 29, 2015


oontz oontz oontz
posted by echocollate at 8:09 AM on September 29, 2015 [1 favorite]


I desperately want that high-five counter costume at 2:25 for this halloween!
posted by mayonnaises at 8:17 AM on September 29, 2015


I just love how my city embraces Dragon Con. Everyone loves the parade...even the added traffic (to already awful traffic) gets a pass because it's dragon con. It just makes people happy. Love living here..
posted by pearlybob at 8:20 AM on September 29, 2015 [2 favorites]


Props to the guy playing the Hilton.

No pun intended.
posted by ChurchHatesTucker at 8:34 AM on September 29, 2015


Ooo! Does Captain Red Riding Hood appear?
posted by The Whelk at 10:11 AM on September 29, 2015


I liked the large number of Immortans Joe and Imperators Furiosae.
posted by TheWhiteSkull at 10:42 AM on September 29, 2015 [2 favorites]


I liked the large number of Immortans Joe and Imperators Furiosae.

There was sooooooooo much Fury Road cosplay at DragonCon this year -- I expected it, but it was still wonderful to see the variety -- the Imperator Trump dude, the kid who made his wheelchair into Max's car with himself as the 'blood bag', so many war boys/girls (here are my Mad Max tagged DragonCon photos).

Ooo! Does Captain Red Riding Hood appear?

I recognized so many of the costumes, I was wondering if I might find myself in a corner of the frame somewhere, but, alas, no luck. Maybe next year.
posted by oh yeah! at 5:39 PM on September 29, 2015 [1 favorite]


The hand drawn muscle lines are the best.
posted by Dip Flash at 7:37 PM on September 29, 2015


That's a lot of people who can dance acceptably for a nerd convention. I've never been because of a longstanding feud, but I hear the grousing.
posted by ob1quixote at 9:28 PM on September 29, 2015


DragonCon is THE convention for serious cosplayers. On the latest (mefi's own)Adam Savage podcast, Norm mentioned one guy at DragonCon who dressed up as John Mclane from Die Hard and who changed his costume 6 times during the evening to coincide with Mclane getting progressively more bloody, beat up, shoeless and armed. Now that's dedication.
posted by PenDevil at 12:31 AM on September 30, 2015 [1 favorite]


I've never been because of a longstanding feud, but I hear the grousing.

I have never been to a con, but I've been going to burning man since 2002. You could swap out the grousing article with one of a thousand talking about that thing in the desert with very few changes.

I hope that it's a similar situation, where something small and lovely has grown into something large and lovely, if in a somewhat different way.
posted by flaterik at 1:20 AM on September 30, 2015


PenDevil: “DragonCon is THE convention for serious cosplayers.”
Atlanta has built itself a cottage industry in "serious cosplayers."

flaterik: “You could swap out the grousing article with one of a thousand talking about that thing in the desert with very few changes.”
I'm sure that's true. I stay away solely because of my aforementioned grudge that has nothing to do with the actual convention. Given the fact that nearly everyone I know goes, I'm sure I could find a good time. A few of my friends do complain, but the loudest complaints lately have been from my friends who are dealers. DragonCon has been making things difficult on the dealers the last couple of years.
posted by ob1quixote at 2:07 AM on September 30, 2015


That grousing post is from 2010 though. As far as I know "invasion by non-fans" isn't as much of a problem as it used to be since the con-staff convinced the hotels a few years ago to only allow entry to people with badges or hotel keys. First year the hotels did badge/key checks at the doors during evening hours only, but now it I think they start putting people on badge/key duty during any high-attendance time. (I hear that the hotels resisted the idea at first, in fear it would affect alcohol sales, but it turned out the sold more drinks when the jock dude-bros & hipster lookie-loos were kept out, so they've embraced the policy.)

I've only been going since 2009, so, I don't have the perspective of someone who has seen it grow from a small local one-hotel con to the massive five-hotel+dealers'-room-in-the-America's-Mart circus that it is now, but I've been going long enough to have witnessed some changes (registration/badge pick-up used to take hours of standing on line but they overhauled the system and now it's a breeze, they launched a scheduling app in 2012 and now I can't even remember how I got by without it). At some point I guess they'll have to start capping attendance, and I suppose someday I'll have my own grouse about the good old days of the 2010's. But so far I've been having a blast; it's a giant convention but I can still manage to have small-con fun.
posted by oh yeah! at 5:39 AM on September 30, 2015 [1 favorite]


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