Cosplay is love...yet again...

Wow, I had a real blast at the California ScienCenter. There were a lot of old friends and a few I only knew online until now. Amazing turnout. I figured out how to transport my costume on three buses and one subway train without killing my back. That took some doing, but basically entailed rolling up the garment bag and stuffing it into my book bag I use at Woodbury.

I have the start of one helluva patch jacket now, including a huge LP-sized Rebel Legion logo for the back, a smaller RL patch for the front, a patch given to me by Singaporean 501st Legion guys who I ran into the day after New Year's in my local Sith*Mart...they were looking for SW toys they couldn't get back at home...and a few other random patches either I have now or are coming to me via eBay or RL sources. Since I really don't trust iron-ons (I lived through the 1970s, iron-on patches have a tendency to get lost after a while) I'm using the iron-on stuff as substitute for basting before each actually gets sewn on.

Anyway, I love these guys. Geeks are good folk, and these are good geeks. Even the ones who carry red sabres or wear white armor. Imperial or Rebellion, we really are family. At least here in LA. I hear tell it's different elsewhere.

More cosplay love at the ScienCenter...

Another 7am run to the ScienCenter. There's going to be a Padawan sabre making workshop tomorrow, so I'll be in on it. It will be my first event as an official member of the Rebel Legion International...I've been part of Sunrider Base since last Comic-Con, but this will be the first event I will be an official RL member.



Doesn't that look kewl? Wait, there's more...



So sweet. I really want a couple of real lighted sabres, eventually. They have to be purple. They just have to be.

Cosplay Is Love, take 256...rockin' the ScienCenter

I didn't cosplay at Anime Los Angeles...too much stuff to sweat between making sure that my partially-sighted friend Donald was OK and my hubby was being treated right at City of Hope. The latter part was no cause for concern at all: CoH treats their patients like gold, up to and including medicines that ounce-for-ounce cost way more than that. And Donald is pretty amazing with his ability to get around autonomously in spite of his visual challenges.

However, tomorrow I'm going to be part of a huge throng of costumed folks at the California ScienCenter. Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination will be in full effect. However, I have no illusions about actually enjoying myself there: we will have work to do.

There will be 60 of us Sunrider Base Brightsiders there, which means that there will probably be twice as many 501st TK Units there as well. This is going to be hella big...bigger by far than Santa Monica.

Since I am not cosplaying a "face character" I will likely not be getting a great deal of love from picture-takers. I'm sure there will be plenty of people out there wanting pix of Darth Vader, Stormtroopers, Anakin, Luke, etc. Hell, usually in a situation like this the Padmes get short shrift, never mind that theirs are the most eye-popping costumes of all.

Hopefully I'll get to roll copious quantities of tape and take plenty of pix. I doubt I will be able to get a look at the exhibit. I should wait until some Friday when I'm feeling bored and caught up with my school work to do that.

I have to be out to wait for the bus at freaking 7am. Target time for arrival: 9:30am.

The Force had BETTER be with me tomorrow. :P