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Weekend Shenanigans at Supanova Brisbane – November 2011
Madmen booth comics
Last weekend was Supanova‘s second Brisbane event for the year and my sister and I tagged along to get another dose of manga, figurines, cosplay and general nerdy stuff ^_^. Here are some of the photos from Saturday (warning: lots of pics!)
We arrived early this year to avoid the dreaded lines from last time to find that they changed up the system. If you get there early, you can pay for your entrance into the event, get a paper wrist band to prove you’re not sneaking in and then head into the courtyard area while you wait for the doors to open. You still have to eventually get into a line, which was quite long, but it seemed a lot more manageable and moved quickly. When we left around 11:30, the entrance area was now located out the front but the lines were really short. Good to see they’re improving the system ^_^.
But now onto the photos!
How you know you’re on the right to the city during Supanova
Convention bags
Cosplayers getting photos before opening in the courtyard
Nice cosplay
Loved this Daft Punk duo, they had music playing on speakers as they walked around. Wish I had got a better picture of them without the sun behind them ^^;
These Star Wars cosplayers collect money from people waiting in line for charity every year
Portal Cosplay
Gotta catch ’em all!
Line to get in
One of many stalls selling selected manga/anime products
One of three Super Gifts booths on the day
Swords on Display
Kuranosuke Koibuchi from ‘Princess Jellyfish’
People buy cardboard cutouts? Interesting
Manga
Got your other super hero comics here too
Alienware brought along their own caravan
The Star Wars remote controlled droid was back
Awesome Monkey Magic cosplay!
There are always a few booths selling old school comics
Ironman
Boba Fett
I’m surprised to find a lot of stalls selling keyblades this time round
Lots of plush toys to buy as well, especially Naruto ones
Small figurines and keychains
Lots of Haruhi products this time round
All of the other Halo figurines were labelled ‘male’ while only the pink one was labelled ‘female’. I don’t even know they they labelled in the first place, apart from colour they all look the same!
I think this is the first time I’ve seen oppai mousepads at Supanova
Plush wall of dooooooom!
Super Mario Mint Box
You can buy all the doctors!
Some artists drawing live
Mister Game & Watch
DVDs at the Madman Booth
Rock Band Stage
My sister purchases from the day – Fruit Baskets vol 16 and 17 (which I read last night, things are getting weird) and a Hatsune Miku figurine
Hatsune Miku figurine close up
We didn’t go to see any of the super star guests so we were in an out of the place pretty quickly. I wish Danny Choo had come to Brisbane though after tweeting about being invited to a Supanova event. There were some crowd congestion issues at some points which I think the organisers should look into but otherwise it was pretty good day :P. You can read about upcoming Supanova events on their website.
The “Pretty” cosplay is Kuranosuke Koibuchi (aka Kurako) from ‘Princess Jellyfish.’ She was in the Madman National Cosplay Championship.
Just stumbled across your page looking for pictures. Nice job!
Cool! Thanks for letting me know, I’ll update the caption 🙂
That Vaporeon was cosplaying the Eevee evolutions with Cassie’s friends. Her photos on Facebook look great.
I saw a few of those pics, their costumes were pretty neat!