I attended the MCM LondonExpo on Saturday, and thought I might share some pictures of the event.

Flickr Set

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The event itself wasn’t as amazing as last October, mainly because Nick Frost and Simon Peg weren’t there. The organisation wasn’t so great either, it was difficult to know what was going on, especially due to some issues pushing everything back an hour. However, there was still a robot wars style battle, and some absolutely amazing costumes, far better than I noticed last year.
I will mention a couple of my favourites; Master Chief from Halo, the Stormtroopers, the Night Elf from WoW, Princess Zelda and Link, Ulala from Space Channel 5 and Spongebob Squarepants. Most original in my opinion was Shonen Bat from the little known anime Paranoia Agent. There were many very good Final Fantasty character costumes as usual. I was distraught that I underestimated the poor lighting in the expo some of the photos I took for use by a University society were nowhere near as good as I hoped.

Overall, it was a fun event. Even if I had to get up at 6am to pack all of my material possesions into a car, as I was moving out of my rented university accomodation, and then head to London on the train.

I’m beginning to feel however, that it has become far too much about selling overpriced items, rather than what it should be, a media expo – which is a great shame.