The London MCM expo was this weekend.
it was my first expo I went with my freinds Liam and Louis and Liam's freinds christel and Omar, who I met last weekend.
this will be long. brace yourself.
We met outside Camden Town station at 8am, me, Louis and Liam. we waited for a while before Christel and Omar came. A "WHILE". Then, across the road, we saw a Kakashi and a Sasuke! It was them! We all walked together and went down onto the Underground platform. This was when I started to sereve as everyone's "Weapon Rack" I was carrying Omar's sword and Christel's demon wind shiruken.
We got on a train to Bank, then chaged to the DLR.
Now here is one of my fondest memories of that day:
There were other (One Piece) copslayers on the DLR, I realised what I was in for, and i felt slightly happy.
We went to sit down, and Christel started drumming on this control panel (it was locked, so there was metal covering it) at the back of the carraige, where we were sitting. We recognised the beat, we then all burst in at the same time:
"WE ARE FIGHTING DREAMERS!"
It felt magical, being with people who are, fans just like me!
We got of at Cusom House (the station for Excel house, the convention center).
Because it was built at the same time al Excel, there is a staircase from the platfom, then a catwalk that takes you straight to Excel(no ticket barriers!). As we got to the staircase, i started up it like a Shinobi, the others caught on. We got to the top and I broke into a Shinobi-run! So did everyone else! Liam and I were ahead and I shouted
"We're gonna be first!" I got to the doors. There was a queqe inside. we went inside. It was a huge queqe. We went to buy tickets. The expo opened at 11:00 and tickets were £3.00, but if you paid ten pounds, you could get in from 9:00! We'd miscalculated. It was 9:30.
We ended up shelling out the extra £7. We then saw Louis' freind Jasmine in the queqe, what a relief! We got in where she was.
The queqe moved. We then saw familliar faces. going up and down the queqe, were the staff from Orbital Manga (our manga shop of choice) handing out fliers for Orbital!
they recognized us "Regular customers" and said, "If you help us hand these out you can come to the shop and we'll give you free stuff!"
Those wern't thier exact words, but that was the idea we got.
So I, The weapons rack, kept the place in queqe, whilst the others handed out the fliers.
We got to the entrance for the main expo center. We handed our tickets over and went in. I was amazed. I'm not going to bother to describe it.
Like that 'cept bigger!
We all split up into groups. I was left with Christel and Omar's bag.
I bought a Naruto Konoha headband.
I then went around looking for them with Louis, we looked for ages and we couldn't find!
When we did find them, Omar had just bought two cosplay jackets and offered to let us wear them for the day!
I was The fourth Hokage and Louis was Itachi.
I then bought myself Naruto volume 4 with Louis, as we walked away from the stall, he showed me that he was carrying volume five and then gave it to me! His exact words were "I didn't pay for this!" What could I say except thanks?
At some point I bought myself a Kunai knife for a tenner. Liam's freind Nico joined us!
Then began the FREE HUG RAMPAGE!!
Let me give you a little background on FHs: I don't know much about them, except that they're done at expos like these and Liam did them at the MCM expo in October!
Me, Liam, Louis, Omar and Christel went around shouting "FREE HUGS!" giving to those who accepted.
Notable people who did accept Free Hugs:
*A group of female cosplays, Including a Kurenai cosplayer.
*Hollow Ichigo, Yorouichi, and Toshiro Hitsugaya
*Loads of people I can't remeber
*A little kid about 5
*A boy called Kaz, who was also freehugging with his freinds
*"Large Kakshi"
*Chouji
*A group of Atsuki Cosplayers (Who refused at first)
Notable people who refused:
*A pair of cosplayers as Bykuya Kuchiki and Soi Fon (guess it sorta fits the charcter's snobby personalities)
*Vic Mignogna (The Voice actor who plays Edward Elric in Fullmetal Alchemist)
*Loads of people who looked at us, scared.
At one point we all went to the drwing tables to make free hug signs!
The fun doubled!
We attempted to FH a group of young Atsuki cosplayers. They refused and I took out my plastic Kunai, the Itachi of the group (a girl) then took out hers. we fought for a bit before moving on. Later on, we free-hugged them and "Itatchi" and I fought again!
at this point i started to wonder where my freinds Kamal and Raymond were (they said they'd be there at 1:00) I went on hugging, thinking they'd turn up eventually!
A while later, by the PS2s, Playing "Ultimate Ninja" were...
No other than Kamal, Raymond and Aaron! As soon as I spotted them I ran to FreeHug them! The rest of the day was great!
We had FUN!!
I went again today with Omar, but it just wasnt the same... Liam had his grandparents over and couldn't come, whilst Christel was in France.
But that day was so much fun... possibly the most fun I've ever had!!
I am  ecstatic I R LISTONING TO Akeboshi--Wind |
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