Dragon Con nerd alert

[71chevellejohn]

I want to go to one badly! Not sure what i would go as, though.

Check your avatar!

[Downs]

holy shit. thats alot of fucking nerds. Do those people make those costumes themselves, or do they buy them?

I actually looked into this because I'm probably gonna go to the next one as a Colonial Marine (Battlestar Galactica) or something similar cause........well I'm a giant nerd.

But anyway, a lot of costumes are built by hand by the people who wear them. Some of them are "commissioned", and that's where you hire someone to build a costume for you. There's actually people who make a living "commissioning" costumes. This can cost anywhere from a few hundred to a few thousand dollars depending on how complex the costume is.

[YALE]

So I went to Dragon Con this past weekend, and it was fun as hell. I'm not a big cosplayer, but I was impressed by the lengths people went to with their outfits. Hell, at one point, there was a giant troop of the space marines from Aliens charging all over. The crazy thing about it was, the con was all over downtown Atlanta, and the panels and shows were still way over capacity. I'm told preregistrants alone were around 55,000, to say nothing of those that just paid at the door (there's no limit to either). It was fucking packed, and I pity anyone that tried to get anything done in Downtown Atlanta during the con, lol.

EDIT: I can honestly say it was more fun than the LSR.

[motoman]

Dallas Comic Con is a month away.

http://www.scifiexpo.com/DCC/fandays.html