Friday
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Left earlier than we was gonna leave, about 8:30am, after stopping at stanstead welcome break and havin a very yummy KFC we headed off to Custom House at the Royal Victoria docks. on arrival i could see a group of cosplayers outside the front of custom house, and i believe this is when my actual excitement got to me. after signing in we went to the hotel rooms, only to find out they had'nt given us a superior room, so 4 of us had to squeeze into a ultra small twin room ><. after having a quick wash, getting a drink and unpacking the "P.P.P" (my little cosplay group - PawPrintProductions) decided to go for a walk on the bridge goin over the thames, and waht a beautiful sight. after frolicing on the bridge myself, lee and jazzy decided to get into our full costumes for a mini personal shoot by the cranes near the river. We got some really good pictures and then went to the Fox pub for roughly 12 cocktails each ><>nged and ready to go over to the PTI for some lolages and food with Luna. After eating myself and lee decided to stay out for a little longer and ended up outside the ibis drinking on the wall with tony,vinnie,joseph and cat. At around 1:00am we decided to go back and try n get some sleep.

Saturday
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Alarm went off at 5:45 to which i didnt hear, so was awoken by dad tickling my feet. I was NOT amused. lol. went and had breakfast at 6:30, which wasnt to bad, but made me feel ill all morning (i dont usually eat breakfast, but thought it might help me for the rest of the day. i was wrong) then around 6:45 me,lee,dad and jaz went and got changed we then waited for tristan and rob then went over to excel, only to see the huge queue. Again it seems that expo cant control their queuing systems, and REALLY need to sort something out for the ever growing crowd. cosidering dad was in his gizmo suit, i had my huge wings they didnt even think about asking us to go to a special little bit. i actually felt really bad for Phoebe in her gundam. By the time we got into the hall it was already packed out, and this was by early bird standards. So the first things we did was go to the neo stand and get photographed, and then sign up with Cosplay Fever. we had a walk around the hall but couldnt be bothered to buy anything on the saturday. sunday was my buying day. After a while dad asked to go out to get a drink n sit down, this time i think Gizmo was a lot hotter than Kon, so i was so proud of him when he was walking around in his costume, it must hve been killer for him. As for the standards of cosplay, they are deffinately goin up, but there was so many generic cosplays, and so many i had seen done before that most of them i didnt even look at, tho some of the ones i did see, the amount of work that must have gone into them was amazing, there are too many to name, but i have already co0mmented on a few. Unfortunately there was ANOTHER convention on at the time "muay thai" most of the fighters was fine and was having a laugh, but there was a horrible amount of Chavs making a lot of trouble for cosplayers and fighters alike. luckily enough i only had one incident, but my wings was hidden with something special which stopped them from actually hurt me but ended up them hurting themselves. all the P.P.P decided to leave around the 5PM mark to get changed and washed, and boy did i need that shower. Being cursed howl was not easy ><. Myself and lez then met up with ryan and luna at the japanese restaurant and after that i said good bye to lez and met up with lee, we then had a seat inside excel and had lots of lolages with Tom, Gem, Ash, Joey, Luna and ryan. Me, Lee, Tom and Gem then walked back to the hotel at about 10:00pm said our goodbyes and then went to bed.

Sunday
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sunday was a day of mixed emotions, Excitement, sadness, worry the lot. The queing still had'nt been sorted but this time i was in normal human clothing ><. when i got into the hall i went straight to the cosplay desk to sign in Gizmo, Baron and Howls Moving Castle Group, said hellp to joe and james (who i must give a big thank you to for just being awsome as always). Then came the shopping part, got the usual Neo Mag subscription, and then went to 2 of the best stalls in there. Super Junior, Big Bang, DBSK and Bi Rain merchandise was everywhere! it was like a heaven to me, i managed to buy 3 Super junior Posters, 1 Big Bang Post, 2 Super Junior Sticker Albums, and 1 Big Bang Sticker Album, aswell as buying Bi-Rain's - Rains Coming Tokyo tour DVD, i spent roughly £30 on the lot, but it was the best spent money all weekend! i then went outside and lee and jaz had bought me a Super Junior Super Show 2 Fan, obviously i was over the moon with it. Mum had bought me my £15 pack of Pocky, and a Coco tokyo Toys bag. i then headed back to the hotel and got myself and dad changed ready for the usual walk around, after walking around for many hours it was time to get judged by the judges, and then queue for the Masquerade. Luckily enough mum n lez got front row seats due to mum bein disabled, and with a little help form Joey. Round the back of the masquerade i was talking and trying to calm down Emma, whose first masquerade it was, aswell as tlking thru what to do with katie aswell (which i must say, emma's and katies costumes was one in a million) i managed to tlk to matt,tab and stuart... but missed so many more people. Then came the moment of goin on stage, luckily it wasnt to bad, i didnt have all the nervousness i had the first time, i was really proud of our group, though when goin on joe did mess up and say that all the howls moving castle costumes was made by me. which isnt the case, katie made her heen, emma made her sophie and turnip head and i made my howl and calcifer. then it was lee's tunr in the baron, and he actually did a wayyyyyyyy better job than his first masquerade experience ><. then it was dad, again i cant express how proud of him i am, i love my dad so much and really he was possibly the cutest dad around at that time ><. unfortunately we couldnt stay till the end and left about 2 mins after coming on stage. I wasnt sad, yet i was, i had such a mixed array of feelings coming home and i was so tired that i just kept quiet.
Summary
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This expo i must say was fun as i got to hang with many other people who i never got the chance to even say hello to before hand, but then again i only saw a few from the other groups i hung around and missed seeing a lot of people. this made me sad, but then i know i will always be talking to them on facebook or deviantart :). My post expo blues didnt start till the tuesday night when having a conversation with tom, and i realised how much i actually enjoy this expo.Let me reword it, How much i actually enjoyed the company and cosplays, not the event. The cosplays this year seemed a little too generic, and not much variety, but the standards of handmade cosplays seems to have definately gone up. i just wish that there wasnt so many narutos,soul eaters,bleachers. we need to see something a little different. unfortunately the event has either changed hads or they are becoming more about making money. i used to enjoy the event as much as i enjoyed seeing peole, but know i go just for the people. its a shame but its a definate that next year WILL be the P.P.P's last expo for a little while. be it may or october being our last, we do intend on goin to more private cons like Kita, Ame, Aya... aswell as aiming to go to the Paris Anime Expo next year in 2011.
well thats my report on the London MCM Expo May 2010, please dont take offence to anything i have said as it is only a opinion, but i do hope to see u at the next MCM Expo in October 2010 ============================================================

Future
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this is my future cosplay plans these will NOT be changing, and will be goin on, unless i cant afford materials, or if something comes up. ALL these costumes mentioned will be hand made by me again, so if i have time i may be taking some small requests on making props.

London MCM Expo October 2010
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Dad - Rambo Gizmo (Gremlins 2) - Full body Fur Suit
me - Gremlin*scaled version* Mohawk (Gremlins 2) - Full Body Leather Suit
Leslie - Po (Kung Fu Panda) - Full Body Fur Suit
Lee - Flick (Disney's A Bugs Life) - Full body Foam Suit
Jaz - TBC
mum - NormalLondon MCM Expo May 2011
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Dad - Sully (Disney's Monster's Inc) - Full Body Fur suit
Mum - Mike (Disney's Monster's Inc) - Full Body Fleece suit
me - Roz (Disney's Monster's Inc) - Full Body duvet suit
London MCM Expo October 2011
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Me - Ashlotte (Soul Calibur 4) - first ever feminine costume.

All the above events apart from october 2010 are a maybe, as we may decide to do smaller cons. but the costumes are still being made.!!~Kimi-Chan~!!

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