bigkid24

So many great pics....and all I can say is....my head looks huge! Almost looks as big as Bobe-Patt's!

Thanks to Kiririth for organizing the Con and for having the idea to have flyers at Anime Expo and to get sponsors for this year's prizes. I think this con was the best yet and was probably one of the largest as well. Special thanks to all the sponsors. Please visit them and buy their stuff! HLJ - http://www.hlj.com/ Overdrive - http://www.over-drive-inc.com/ Bigbadtoystore - http://www.bigbadtoystore.com/bbts/default.aspx Anime Punch - http://www.animepunch.com/catalog/ Otaku2 - http://www.otaku2.com/ Valkyrie-Exchange - http://www.valkyrie-exchange.com/ Also a BIG thank you to Save for all the items he was able to acquire for the Con especially the Mikimoto sketch. Thanks to all the event participants for bringing their stuff to show, sell, and for us regular folks to ooh and aah over. Unfortunately I didn't get to meet very many people this year but it was great seeing so many new faces...and some old faces making a return. If you guys have any feedback about the Con please post it so we can make next year's even better!

I'm sure Kiririth will post up the winners but here's what I remember off the top of my head: Cosplay Contest - Shot Glass (Although due to the winners we renamed it a milk glass) Michael and Ranka (Max and Miriya) They were the only people that cosplayed but I get the feeling they would have won even if there was competition. Pre-reg Opportunity Drawing - Shot Glass Gabe Q won out of all the pre-reg people. Pre-reg early next year peeps and win stuff! Street Fighter Alpha 3 Tournament - $50 BBTS gift certificate, GNU YF-21 snip312 won the tourney to receive the BBTS gift certificate...not that there was any doubt on any of the locals' minds. Bobe-Patt got 2nd due to his lucky draw in the tourney brackets...haha...to receive the GNU YF-21 Customs - 25th Anniversary VF-1S, Urban GBP, $50 BBTS gift certificate x 2 Rohby won with his amazing Minmay Guard Thunderhammer. He had more than 40% of the fan vote. Kirirth won 2nd with his Special Happy Funtime Plush Valk which was completely handmade. NightmareB4Macross won honorable mention with his valkyrie hangar. hirohawa got honorable mention for his P51 Mustang Valk Poker - 1/60 YF-21, 1/60 VF-0A, Popbox Max Jenius doll, Shot Glass, Frontier Poster bigkid24 - I defended my title by sucking out on Lance. He had A9 suited and I had A2 off-suit. The blinds were pretty high and I thought he was making a move. I got lucky with a 2 on the turn to win with a pair of ducks. Sorry Lance! Lance took 2nd after playing a solid game and dealing with being moved to the other table. Maria - Eternal D's girlfriend, took 3rd after my repeated attempts at busting her out of the tourney Eternal D - took 4th >EXO< - took 5th Mikimoto Sketch winner ruskiiVFaussie - it's been posted in a few places so if you didn't already know then you haven't been reading Other opportunity drawings - shot glasses, Frontier posters, vendor exclusive weathered YF-19 Not sure who won what but I'm pretty sure these were some of the winners Major Tom xstoys snip312 x2 Gabe Q bigkid24 All I remember is that snip312 won 2 shot glasses and I won the grand prize of the GNU YF-19. I swear it wasn't fixed! Chunky Monkey transforming contest - $50 BBTS gift certificate The early favorite was Mechatek after transforming the 1/55 in 17 seconds the night before. We added some rules so that for the final pose so that everything was standard. Solscud007 posted the best time in the prelims. In the finals against Eternal D, Solscud was a little slower but still won fairly easily and even gave out the secrets to his speed. Unfortunately, we ran out of time for the Macross Plus video game tourney and the Macross trivia contest was just an epic fail! Wait no. It was EPIC FAIL!

I like the boxes especially compared to the last reissue. I think it would have been nice if they had reissued the white VF-1S by itself though just to switch it up

It's a terminology thing. It's a $25 donation to play in the poker tourney to try to win one of the prizes. We are trying to get people to pre-reg for the tourney but last year we allowed late comers to register for the tourney. Once you are busted out of the tourney you cannot re-donate to get back into the tourney. Once you're out, you're out.

We have a sick amount of freebies and prizes to give away this year. Much more than any previous year so this is the year to come if you love free stuff. I've seen all the stuff as it has come in and everything is so tempting to try and win especially the Mikimoto sketch. I just assumed it was on a piece of sketchbook paper or something but it's more substantial than that. It'll look great hanging in my...uh....some lucky MW member's collection. As for the poker tournament, come one come all to try to dethrone last year's poker tournament champion....ME! Of course, as long as I place I'll be happy. All of the prizes this year are great.

Yeah so come out and play with the poker donks of MW! Fold to the top! Or at least to 3rd for that Max doll! I'm conducting the Macross Trivia contest which is a first for MW con this year. Everyone should be able to participate. Trivia will span all of the Macross animes. If it's stated or done in the anime that's what I'm going by. I'm not including other sources such as books, manga, or whatever else. If there is anything you haven't watched now is the time or you can make a request during the show screenings on Saturday.

That's pretty cool but I'd like to see profile pics or something to get a better idea of how it transforms. The way movie TFs transform I feel like that could be any vehicle.

I was tempted to grab this at Target the other day but knowing how the other DC animated stuff has been I was reluctant to get it. Is the 2nd disc included in the Special Edition worth paying the extra money for? Or is the regular version good enough.

Boo......wait for it.....Bee's done a great job organizing

I don't think they are that stubby. At least the new 1/60 pilots are full pilots without their legs cut off.

True and true but it was one of my first joe vehicles so it's a no brainer for me.

Macross karaoke was a proposed contest last year. This would definitely make it easier to have the contest happen.

I saw these at AX over the weekend and they don't look as bad as I would have thoght but I'm trying to avoid buying too many gashapon figs. The VA-3 does look awkward but it's still unique and interesting to me. The set I saw included the chase but I don't think the 19 was included. The VA-3 isn't from M7. It's from one of the games. VF-X2 I believe.

Kiririth took pics of the box front and a comparison pic of the box to a VF-0A box, but I think he's helping out at AX so don't know when he'll post the pics. The plastic felt just like a 1/48 to me. It seemed pretty sturdy but I didn't see the transformation process.

Yeah I saw it too and it's pretty freaking sweet. Definitely looks at little thin at the size but really does seem like a scaled down 1/48 qualitywise. Nice new box that is still probably a little bigger than it needs to be but they are moving in the right direction. The box is shorter than a 1/48 box but fatter...at least than a regular 1/48 box not sure about a super box.

Cool. We'll probably use the Anime Punch booth as a base of operations, but yeah I'll give you a call.

There should be a bunch of us local guys going. I'm shooting for Saturday.

Crap, this may be the reason for me to finally buy a new computer.

Well now we know where most of the money is going....towards printing that flyer, but it's freaking beautiful.

Woohoo for sponsors!

I'm not feeling the color scheme other than on the shield, but I know it's better than anything I could do.

Solscud has had sizes in the past but for the most part they are L or XL. I don't think he's done other sizes really. Plus after the con the left over shirts usually get sold on the boards.

Yup, I knew there was ST3 coming. I probably would have known about the powered suits if I had finished reading the script. Didn't know about toys. The movie is going straight to video though. Yup that's Casper and Jolene Blalock.

I feel like they have a long way to go to be competitive with the Revoltechs. I will admit that I haven't seen all the pics and read through all the feedback but they need to offer a lot more and cost a lot less than they do now. All of those are valid points. Given that revoltechs had already hit the market and they have the licenses to the same valks it seems like a bad move on Yamato's part to enter this market. I wonder if this is a result of Yamato not having competition on their other valks.