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July 30, 2004
Otakon, Day 1
It was a bad omen that we started Otakon by leaving Baltimore.
We got all the way into downtown, but somehow got turned around on the way to the hotel and ended up back on the road out of the city. Took us a few miles before we finally found the exit (thank you Caton Road!) that allowed us back into Charm City.
With that little wrinkle out of the way we checked into the hotel, got our stuff put away and went to get our badges. And promptly ended up waiting in the wrong line. (To those people who lied to us: May you be cast into the nine hells of pins and needles and badly designed model Gundams with instructions only in Chinese.) Once we finally got into the right line, things finally started to go kinda right. I barely recognized any of the badge picture choices but at least they had Risky/Safety. (Speaking of which I went to the AnimeNation booth in the dealer's room and they said the boxes were available only through mail order. Bah.) So anyway, day 1 passed without too much event. Jewish Wolfwood was the best costume idea I saw and the Greatest American Hero was ....well, certainly the most unexpected. Nothing on the scale of Man-Faye or Sailor Bubba. Yet. (It's only Friday, after all.) Saw a Sakaki with the kuroneko clinging to her fingers.
This is definitely the summer of Naruto though. Even those who are not wearing the full costume are wearing at least the headbands. I really should start watching that.
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Posted by Innocent Sidekick of Evil at July 30, 2004 10:32 PM | Posted to
