♥ MCM Expo London♥

Hello everyone! I'm not usually the type to blog but lately its appealed to me more and more, SO I guess I'd like to start! hopefully my posts will intrigue and entertain and I'll do my best to constantly update this blog with the goings on between myself and my beautiful significant other :)

For those who know me its no secret that I absolutely ADORE anime, I was introduced to it as a baby by parents (Astro Boy ftw!) and still actively watch it 24 solid years later, I'm not quite sure whether its the exotic storylines or the art style that I love so much but it has kept me entertained all my life, it has also led me to enjoy other mediums kind of relating to anime. More specifically video games and special effects in movies (guess you can call me an all around nerd xD). But despite my absolute love for these things I have actually never, EVER been to an anime or media convention. ever. Living in London, where conventions aren't particularly big its hard to find out if there is one going on or where you can get tickets and when. But this year I managed to nab myself and the GF two tickets to the MCM (Movies Comics Media) convention in EXcel for the first time.

I was pretty excited not to mention nervous, I wasn't sure what to expect from an event like this, what would I see? what would be on offer? And will I really enjoy myself? Guess theres only one way to find out.

The show is spread across two days, a weekend actually, the GF and I chose to go on a Sunday since we figured it would be some what quieter than if we were to go on Saturday, and the GF was only available on Sunday anyway.

I got up pretty early on Sunday, (8:30am....didn't know that time even existed) and got ready, GF text me telling me to be at Canning Town by 12:00, I have never really been to that area so I wasn't sure how long it would take to get there so just in case I left the house around 10:00 where I hit the first road block.




Kingston Station

Hmmmmm...now what could be missing? TRAINS! yup, being a Sunday trains were running particularly slow (Sunday service) so although I arrived at the station pretty early the train took another 15 minutes to get to the station!

SO after a rather length train journey to Waterloo I had to take another train (underground) from Waterloo straight to Canning Town, where I it the second roadblock.
TFL have decided that today would be a good day to do engineering work from North Greenwich to Stratford....guess what in between those two stations? You guessed it Canning Town -___-'' I'm starting to sense a pattern here...

I took the train to as far as I could take it before having to use a train replacement service the rest of the way, words cannot describe how much I hate the the buses they use to replace the trains during engineering work, these are so cramp and hot (it was a really hot day) smells pretty bad too (seriously, I think a lot of people who take the bus are allergic or scared of soap and water) while tolerating the hollering and loudness of teenage kids trying to act like "gangstas". So it wasn't the best experience so far =(

After finally getting to Canning Town I then had to wait for the GF to arrive, it was really great seeing her again, these days we don't see each other as often when we used to so I always appreciate and cherish the times that we do have together.

Getting to the convention itself now, it was located in the ExCel convention center near Canary Wharf.




On to the convention itself, check out the first thing we see as we walk in.



BRUNO! xD I remember watching Borat and laughing my face off, this will definitely be something to watch (not the ass)

Upon entering the actual convention itself it was actually a lot smaller than I thought it would be, there was a LOT of cosplayers around (though I didn't take any pics since i was too shy to ask >__<) some were surprisingly good while others were.....um....(seriously, an overweight Sailormoon and anorexic Tuxedo Mask are FAIL).




This was a pretty nice surprise, the actual car used on the first Transformers movie (no transforming I'm afraid xD)

I was really suprised by the abundance of soft toys available there were tables of them! so looked pretty cheap, others just looked awesome and cute!




Kirby!!

Lunchtime was little less hassle than getting there, we went to the Bagel Stop, one of the foodstalls located within the convention.


Meatball Swiss melt...yummy!


Had these drinks with the Bagels.....absolutely gross, we couldn't tell if it was fizzy or flat =S I don't recommend em

After lunch we didn't stay in the convention much longer, bought 2Mario toadstools in red and blue and a Bleach Ichigo Blankai sword =D its awesome, its not exactly accurate but you know what it is once you see it, I've not set it up yet, but once I've got it on display, pics galore!




on the way home, great more trains -_-'' at least I wasn't alone this time =)



Before heading straight home we stopped over to a Japanese restaurant in Kingston, ordered a lot of food (including Korean seafood pancake) and Sushi






Overall it was a very good day, as my first convention I really enjoyed it, I'd like to go back next year and hopefully there will be more I can go to in between.