NYAF/NYCC - Saturday

Well, I guess I will now relive my Saturday at the convention as best as I can through the images in my head and the images I have recorded. It's been two days since I went, and it is still nothing more than one big blur. 

There is so much to tell, and I don't think I can remember everything. But, I will try. I arrived at about a quarter to eleven and picked up a program guide along with a floor map. The size and scale of the Javits Center was overwhelming enough, but now with two simultaneous conventions occupying the entire building, it was beyond belief.

Just moving around was a big issue because there were so many people. At every corner and section of open floor space there were people walking through or standing around.

The last time I went to NYAF was two years ago, and I thought that was crowded back then. My idea of large and crowded was dwarfed by comparison.

Of course, two years ago NYAF was the only convention being held at the Javits Center around this time. While it was large and crowded back then, only half of the Javits Center's floor space was being used.  

Still, it was great to see fans, enthusiasts and supporters come out in full force. There were people of ages who came out and enjoyed a day of festive events and screenings.

Of course, the cos-players were the real attention grabbers that kept the spirit of this dual convention going strong!

The main show floor itself was turned into a mega shopping and advertising center. All the major names in comic, games and anime (within the US) were present at the con.

People flocked to these booths to get their first look at the latest merchandise available. Yours truly did a little shopping as well, but only a little.

There was so much to see that I couldn't see it all, and I only had so much money on me!


I tried to get as many pictures as possible, but in the end I only stayed in certain areas because to go back and forth between different sections of the Javits was a complete pain. Believe me when I say that I tried to keep up and go to every place, but I had my own agenda, and there wasn't enough time to get to everything. As my time slipped through my fingers, I had to sacrifice most of what I had scheduled for myself. And, as the day went on, I said "Forget it" and just went where my legs took me. Ha!

Anyway, the real reason to go to a comics and anime convention is to see what costumes were popular this year.

One thing that you can always depend on is the amount of detail cos-players put into making their costumes.

This was a real crowd grabber! I forgot which game company presented this booth; I think it was Ubisoft. Michael Jackson: The Experience for the Nintendo Wii was revealed, and it was a real crowd gatherer.

I stayed here for a while watching as several groups of people volunteered to go up on stage and dance along with the game.

It looked very addicting!

Even the Joker made an appearance! This was actually very funny because he went around dragging the beaten corpse of poor Robin behind him.

At one point the limbs started to fall apart, so being the resourceful villain that he was the Joker started putting him back together. 

No convention would be complete unless someone came dressed as a character from Dragonball Z. In this case, there was a group that came fully dressed and in full makeup.

Here are Picollo, Mr. Satan (Hercule in US) and the Supreme Kai. Again, the level of detail in the costumes was impressive.

Some might say that it was simple in design, but again it was the attention to detail that counts.

Who says comic characters don't mesh with anime characters? This picture obviously proves that wrong. Here are The Comedian and Rorschach from Watchmen posing with Yoko from the anime Gurren Lagann.













Like I said before there was so much happening at once, and so many characters walking around that it was hard capturing everything. It was so overwhelming, but I managed to cover a lot of ground while staying on my two feet.

The amount of people that were present made it difficult to move around easily. So, I spent most of my time navigating around as I walked from point A to point B.

Mid way through my day my camcorder's battery died, and what made it worse was the fact that I couldn't find a single available electrical outlet.

So I had to resort to my Iphone to take pictures and video. Luckily for me the battery on my phone lasted long enough for me to get some really nice shots!

Hey, even Optimus Prime from Transformers and R2D2 from Star Wars made an appearance.

The R2D2 was an actual fully functioning model replica. You could hear the bleeps and sounds familiar to every Star Wars fan. The full Optimus Prime costume was a nice find. Again the detail in that full body costume was impressive to see!

I had almost forgot to remember that this artist was going to be there working on a new masterpiece. I happened to find him where I was walking through a section of the main floor.

This year it was a Yugioh 10th Anniversary portrait! All the main characters (Yugi, Judai and Yusei) from all three seasons of Yugioh were in the portrait.

It was too bad that I couldn't see the completed work, but at least I caught a half it! Nice!

As I was heading out and calling my day at NYAF/NYCC done I took a snap shot of the much anticipated new AMC original series poster advertising The Walking Dead.

I'm really looking forward to see this series. Oct. 31 is the debut at 10pm!











All in all, it was a fun day and very memorable. I couldn't post every picture that I took because this post would then be huge. As it is, it's the longest post so far! Anyway, I might make a video slide show of all the pictures I took, and upload it to Youtube soon.

But, it's not over yet. I still have videos and pictures of what I really went to see, and what a managed to buy at the con. So, look forward to that soon! 

Until then, Laterz.