Apparently Anime Expo was overrun by these overly colorful...humans. Compared to the other meetups I have posted, this is a pretty extreme amount of cosplaying. Someone also went ahead and filmed everything. Sadly the video is blurry, but you can still get a relatively good idea about what went on there. You can find it here!
Or jump on the 49 picture photo album here!
Again, if this isn't your thing, just avoid the comments. Some people enjoy stuff like this!
A few more random ones after the break outside of Anime Expo.
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| DASHIEPIE (Convergence 2011) |
Rainbow Dash Cosplay, complete with hooves
62 comments:
Only one Rarity.....she looks kind of lonely.....
ReplyDelete....the costumes all look great though!!
^_^
Well you gotta have balls to believe you are fabulous enough to pull Rarity off.
ReplyDeleteAhaha, that's adorable, look at all the Pinkie Pies, there's some pretty good costumes here. Also, I don't wanna sound rude or anything but uh, is there a scrawny brown guy cosplaying as Pinkie? If so, that's dedication.
ReplyDeleteSo many Pinkies' 6_9
ReplyDeleteI'd love to see a Luna cosplay one of these days...
Pretty kewl ^^ nice to see the bronies/ponies are EVERYWHERE
ReplyDeleteFirst
ReplyDeleteFluttershy is the best human.
ReplyDeleteAlso, in the album, the TF2 pics made me laugh. So awesome!
Is it wrong that I'm disappointed because I didn't see any Trixie cosplay?
ReplyDeleteThe costumes are cool, but I would have thought there'd be someone who'd try and get a Trixie costume as well.
Eye hate my self for missing this get-together ;_;
ReplyDeleteI'm not a fan of cosplay, but I have to say 4/5 Applejacks looks great.
ReplyDeleteCONFOUND THOSE MALE RAINBOW DASH'S! Quit Arnold Lane'ing my favourite pony!
ReplyDeleteWas there.
ReplyDeleteLike a baws
AGH, PONY CLONES!! D8
ReplyDeleteAnyone else notice the Ranma in the top pic? I thought that was pretty lulzy.
ReplyDeleteYay, pony cosplay! A couple of my favorite things combined to make one even more awesome one. :D I know there are some pony fursuits out there as well, since we had at least two at Anthrocon. And I'm kinda thinking of making one myself.
ReplyDeleteThe Anime Expo brony meetup was soooo awesome! There was a good turnout, and it was a bunch of fun. There was lots of cosplay, and we ended it by doing a winter wrap up sing along.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad to be an LA brony =)
it was great to meet everypony who showed up, looking forward to hanging out with you all again at future SoCal meetups =)
I see Otakon's not the only TF2 popular anime con lol. Maybe I can provide some pictures when I go. Wish I had a decent camera though. Was gonna shoot for the one a friend has but found out it's like 2.5 grand lol.
ReplyDeleteMissed it because I only went on Saturday. I did cosplay as a Cloudsdale WeatherWorks color specialist though. Lab coat and hardhat and all... it was a lot of fun.
ReplyDeleteThe second Pinkie from the right just pulls off her personality right on the spot.
ReplyDeleteThe funny thing is that there's only one person cosplaying as Rarity.
ReplyDeleteLots of people there that shouldn't be doing cosplay.
ReplyDelete@Anonymous
ReplyDeletePrepare for the EQ shitstorm of tolerance, kid
I hope fellow bronies don't take this the wrong way, but my first reaction to the pictures was "Thank god, they're mostly female." That was followed by "Thank god the guys aren't in dresses."
ReplyDeleteBeen to a lot of cons over the decades and one of the things that's always horrible is guys who can't pull it off dressed as female characters. It's like, no, thirty year old, hairy dude, you are not pulling off that Sailor Moon costume and I wish so, so very badly that you'd made your skirt longer. /shudder
I guess one of the nice things about ponies is they don't wear clothes, so cosplayers are completely free to make up their own outfits. A guy can make a costume recognizable as, say, Twilight Sparkle without having to wear a miniskirt and a halter top (get it? Halter? Oh, I kill me).
As for the costumes, there's a lot of very good ones. Actually, I don't remember there being any bad ones in the photos. But, I think the winner for me is the Pinkie Pie in the pink and white skirt with the stuffed Gummy. She just comes across as so Pinkie-style energetic. When I saw her I was like, "She nailed it. That's Pinkie."
Nice job on the costumes if any of you read this!
@Eddie Perkins
ReplyDeleteYou should be allowed to express that opinion without being in fear of being lectured about why you have to tolerate everything ever.
Picture 39
ReplyDeleteAwesome!
holy shit! I know the girl dressed as rainbow dash at convergence
ReplyDeleteI think the Ranma in the back is the best person in costume out of the whole picture.
ReplyDeletei mean not to rag on the pony cosplayers its just that ranma one is much better.
Haha i know one of the fluttershies. she was posted on a nightly round up :3
ReplyDeleteI want to see people cosplay at Anime Detour or at AniMinneapolis!
ReplyDeleteCan Fluttershy having a GoW Lancer be canon? Please?
ReplyDeleteRarity dress is pretty awesome in multiple ways.
ReplyDeleteIt's cosplay.
And a perfectly good dress. Maybe a bit too bright for formal affairs but a very striking general purpose dress.
I am disappoint at the lack of comments on that dress :|
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ReplyDeleteWHY WOULD A FAT PERSON DRESS AS RARITY
ReplyDeleteI need to know, RIGHT NOW, why glorious Dash is so under-represented in hotness.
ReplyDelete1 in 24... Suddenly her name makes sense.
ReplyDeleteHere's one group shot I got after the meet.
ReplyDeletehttp://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g317/Asrialys/AnimeExpo/2011/AX11_42.jpg
Rarity cosplay is best cosplay.
ReplyDeletePlus the cutest....
@Anonymous Because she likes the character. Why else would someone dress as Rarity?
ReplyDelete*gives you huge-eyed innocent look*
Oh, wait, you're just annoyed it was a fat chick. Sorry, the world forgot to revolve around your clopping fantasies today. Try again tomorrow.
The far left Twilight! hhhhhhooooottttt.
ReplyDeleteI threw up a little when I saw this picture.
ReplyDeleteThere was one girl who was cosplaying as Pinkie Pie, who I believe showed up after the photo was taken, and she did an amazing job being in character. Her voice was spot-on sound like Pinkie, she was really energetic, she could sing, and she even brought party hats, and confetti poppers, and candy =)
ReplyDelete@Lysana
ReplyDeleteClever. When in doubt assume I fap to ponies. It was because she's fat, but it's because I'm shallow, not due to any fantasies.
Oh my, 5 Pinkie Pies and 1 Pinkamena Dianne Pie. lol
ReplyDelete@TehTrojanPony
ReplyDeleteYeah that was the best pinkie pie ever. i even got a picture of her holding the lancer, best picture ever
So long as everyone is cosplaying as a character of their gender and bodysize its cool.
ReplyDeleteThat one old pic with the RD and DW and the RD had facial hair was wrong.
@Lysana
ReplyDeleteIts not a matter of fap material, but doing a non-fat character when you are big is a bit of a injustice to the character and or the artist who created it. But no one whose reasonable would fault a big person for cosplaying a big character because thats actually suitable and/or accurate.
You can still be a hot or toned person and do a character injustice too depending on the construction of the costume.
It always makes me sad how the comments always devolve into "how dare fat people have fun where I can see them" rather than "hey cool, look at all the people who love ponies enough to dress up!" Especially for cosplay of this show, which is about friendship and acceptance.
ReplyDeleteGreat pictures, I am impressed by the army of ponies!
For human cuteness, Applejacks took the cake.
ReplyDeleteFor being in character, the aforementioned party-favor Pinkie Pie made the cake (although every fluttershy was in-character)
With complete bias -- 3 awesome big macs
A Rainbow Dash came later on roller blades, nice touch.
Best shot taken was Rainbow Dashes worshipping a Wonderbolt
Also, fun fact: one guy in internet troll mask was trying to slip into background of group shots the whole time and apparently failed from what pics I have seen posted.
We had no Trixies, princesses, or chickens, though~
Who is the random dude in the back supposed to be? He just looks like a dude who jumped in and was all "so many colorful wimmens."
ReplyDeleteI like how people are told in the post itself to stay out of the comments if you don't care for the pictures, but still they write up a comment about how fat people are ugly and are somehow 'disrespecting' cosplay.
ReplyDelete@Anonymous
ReplyDeleteThat reply wasn't directed at anyone in the picture,
@Anonymous
ReplyDeleteSo someone who worked hard on the costume and did it in a manner to compliment her body type is disrespecting a character?
Well then, I guess everyone who is plus-sized should give up and cosplay as fat ponies.
Really, it's additudes like that that take the fun out of cosplaying.
I'm the one who hosted the meetup, that's my photobucket album with all the shots, and I'm close friends with that Rarity.
At any rate, the turnout was amazing and everyone who attended was awesome. We had a Rainbow Dash giving out trivia questions along with prizes, a party Pinkie Pie, and our own little TF2/Brony hang out. You all were great and I hope the SoCal meetup goes just as well.
I didn't get a lot of shots with folks outside my group and the gathering since I'm only one person and was usually in one spot so I apologize.
If you have any other shots of ponies I missed, please let me know and I'll be sure to add them.
Also, I'm putting in my Facebook in my url in case you attended so I can tag you in the other pictures I have up there.
((Excuse my current profile picture, it was a bit of a dare.))
@Anonymous
ReplyDeleteRandom dude from the back row here.
I was going as Rarity, dyed my hair purple and everything, but since the shoot was inside (with poor lighting), my hair looks blackish. Had some cutie mark pins on my collar and flank to represent.
Wore fancy clothes because Rarity = fancy.
I have to toss my two cents in... Rarity obviously made her dress, and it is AMAZING. And just to point out the obvious, they're all cosplaying a character with a different body type, since the original characters are candy ponies. Also that Rarity isn't fat. She's curvy in all the right places.
ReplyDeleteYour gonna tell me no one went as Big Mac? I am so going as him for Halloween! And maybe even an anime convention lol.
ReplyDeleteSpike cosplayer with ridicolously large mustache.
ReplyDeleteEpic win xD
Oooh ooh, the two at convergence are friends of mine, I wasn't there unfortunately, but a week later we were at animinneapolis so there will probably be more pictures up soon... I forgot to take any though; but lots of other people did though
ReplyDelete@Anonymous
ReplyDeleteMe and some friends are planning to throw a MLP:FiM room party (assuming the con lets us)at Anime Detour as well as various other shenanigans. still in the process of getting the party registered though; if we run in to difficulties with them letting us, I hope all the bronies out there will support us.
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ReplyDeletePony palooza!
ReplyDeleteYay for random Twilight Sparkle guy with Spike LOL
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