Getting to AB this year was almost as exciting as last year, except we didn't have my girlfriend's cousin saying "I can't do it Mr. Frodo" the night before because she couldn't get to sleep. We missed our planned train due to poor planning, but caught one about an hour later. This year we were smart, we went shopping for food before the con, so we wouldn't have to order ridiculously priced room service, or buy ridiculously priced food at the food court. We got Vault, Mountain Dew, Ramen, bread, peanut butter, Spaghetti-O's, Beefaroni, and some other stuff.
Anyway, so we got there, and turned out that we were going to have to wait about two hours for the guy who we were rooming with to show up and actually get the room, so we wound up checking our bags, and getting in line to get our badges, which was absolutely ridiculous because the line was about half an hour long, but there was absolutely no wait for at-the-door registration. We got our badges, and decided to hang around in the gaming room until the guy got there. We dicked around in the gaming room for a while, then my best friend, my girlfriend, and I all headed to wait in line for Kaiju Big Battel.
Kaiju Big Battel
Easily the best part of the convention. The basic premise for Kaiju Big Battel is guys in rubber suits pretending to fight each other. It's basically a live-action Godzilla movie set in a wrestling ring. The ring has buildings and s**t set up in it, to make the Kaiju part feel real. The main difference between Kaiju and real pro-wrestling is that pro-wrestling likes to take itself seriously. Kaiju does no such thing. Everything is pure cheese, and tons of it. It was quite awesome. The costumes were really cool, and worthy of a real Kaiju movie (Godzilla, Gamera, Ultraman, etc). After everything was over, I got autographs from the announcer, the "announcer intern," and the referee. I also bought a Kung Fu Chicken Noodle shirt, three pins, and a bumper sticker.
To find out more about Kaiju, go here: http://www.kaiju.com/
After that, things were pretty uneventful, but fun. We got some good pictures, and I think we saw a couple panels. I can't really remember. Then we went to the dance, had a bunch of fun, then the guy we were rooming with had an In The Groove (like DDR, only way harder) tournament, so we went and watched him. It was sort of like watching a guy with a bazooka shooting at a fish flopping on a table in front of him, with the ITG machine being the guy. The challenge was that if you passed even one of the three rounds you had to play, you got a free AB membership for next year. That's how hard it was. We went to bed after that.
Woke up at nine on Saturday because some goddamn fire alarm went off, immediately followed by a guy telling us nothing was wrong. We finally actually got out of bed at about ten, and we took turns showering, during which the rest of the people watched Pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh on the TV, just for laughs. And there were a lot of them. My best friend and the guy we were rooming with both had tournaments pretty early so we went to those. My best friend cleared the first round of Tekken 5, but lost the second. The guy we were rooming with made it to the last four in the ITG tournament.
After that, we had to go wait for my best friend's idiot aunt for about an hour, and she never ******** showed up. Waste of perfectly good time. Then we went to the dealer's room and looked around about half of the stuff. My girlfriend bought something (I forget what) and my best friend bought Cashern. We went to a panel about producing your own comic books (because it sounded interesting), then sort of hung around until the dance. Had lots of fun, my girlfriend asked The Yuffie (pictured below) to dance and got denied, and there were some dance-offs. Then we went back to the room, planning on sleeping right away, but I got really ******** hungry, which kept everyone awake, who then got really hungry, and we wound up discussing how funny and/or disturbing various types of porn/hentai were. Really loudly too. I'm rather surprised we didn't get in trouble.
Sunday morning we had to get up, shower, hustle to get the room clean, then haul-a** downstairs for the Super Smash Bros: Melee tournament. To put it frankly, I did piss-poor. I was the first one out in my match, and only because for whatever reason (I still can't figure it out), instead of pushing towards the platform to recover, I pushed the control stick away, and effectively committed suicide on my last life. I was so pissed at myself. My best friend was in the same match as I was, and he won it. Second match, he got his a** handed to him by a really good Luigi player. During that, my girlfriend wandered off to the dealer's room, and bought a tofu plushie, and a hentai DVD. After the tournaments, we all went to the dealer's room, and my best friend got a shirt that says "I Be Pirate (gimmie your booty)"
After that, we went to see the winners of the AMV contest, then to the closing ceremonies, which was pretty cool. Then we left. The end. Now for pictures. (Descriptions above each picture)
Mad Pierrot, a villain from an episode of Cowboy Bebop
Really good Zelda and Sheik costumes. Not so good people.
Zasalamel from Soul Calibur 3
Some guy from Ichigo, Vash from Trigun, and Wolfwood from Trigun. Vash wins because of the donuts.
The Yuffie, along with friends
Another very excellent Wolfwood
Tifa from Advent Children. My best friend sez "I'd hit it."
Solid Snake wins
(Right to left) Kyoshiro, Yukimura, and Kyo from Samurai Deeper Kyo, my favorite manga
I love costumes like this. Simple but creative.
Pyramid Head FTW.
No explanation needed
Mechazawa from Cromartie High. I highly recommend that everyone watch that show, as it is hilarious.
The Triforce. These guys ******** win.
Very good costumes for Vyse and Aika from Skies of Arcadia. Aika is kinda ugly though.
Gungrave wins. Awesome coffin.
Fem-Fullmetal Alchemist group. Actually, I saw about ten or twelve girls cosplaying Ed Elric, and only one guy.
If you don't know who this is, you fail at life.
And now for the Kaiju pictures!
The announcer, Louden Noxious, and the ring before the matches began. Cityscape complete with the Prudential Center.
This is "Hero Intern" who won a promotion match.
This here is Shrooma Tango, one of my favorite monsters.
My favorite hero, Power Ranjuru.
A random monster, who I can't remember the name of.
Rest of pictures are of Dr. Cube, the main antagonist, and Kung Fu Chicken Noodle, the crowd favorite.
Right after this picture, Soup backflipped off of Cube.
I believe this was the finishing blow in the match. Soup won the Kaiju championship.
One of Cube's moves.
Cube pulls an Undertaker
And lastly, Dr. Cube using his Malpractice Technique on Soup.
The end.
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