The Best Cosplay of Dragon Con 2014, Pt 2

Time to dive in with another batch of Dragon Con cosplay goodness! I'm trying to be more selective with what I post here on the blog, just because I have SO MANY LEFT, but rest assured everything will be up on my Flickr account later. The pics here are just the ones I most want to talk about.

Kicking off with one of my favorite shots:

She was standing in front of wall sconce right at eye-level, so I asked her to tilt her head sideways into the light. Look how perfect her makeup & forehead prosthetic is! 

(Because, as we all know, everybody wants prosthetic FORE-heads on their re-al heads!)

Ahem. 

And behold the rest of her costume:

Had to HDR it up a bit to bring out the detail. STUNNING.

And another stunner:

Dragon Con is such a sea of talent, it's almost dizzying. She looks like she just stepped off the set of Face Off!

 I was *this close* to running off with this Astrid's adorable handmade dragon:

And speaking of handmade dragons... you are going to love DC's children's costume contest winner!

Coming through the door - look how high the tail is!

 And from the side:

So her legs are the dragon's legs, of course (oops - did I ruin the magic? :)), and she really had to throw her weight from side-to-side to walk. It must have been so heavy!

Here she is in motion:

 I wish I had better pics for you, but with a costume this big, and in crowds this massive, well... excuses, excuses, I know. ;)

It's always fun seeing look-a-likes cosplay, and this guy is a great Cary Elwes doppelganger:

 

Even better, the next day he cosplayed as the Dread Pirate Roberts! YES.

Ghost Rider & Max Headroom:

 I like this idea of carrying around your own photo backdrop!

So there was a big group of Peter Pan / Hook cosplayers, and right in the middle they had a big poster of Robin Williams...

 

... and maybe for a second my viewfinder got a little blurry. WHAT. [sniffle]

Then a photographer next to me asked them all to make funny faces:

 

 Hee.

And here's that Lady Hook on her own:

 

Gorgeous. See the ship on her hat? And I love the teddy bear.

Speaking of groups, this Fifth Element gang is here every year, and I love them.

Hard to choose, but I think the neighbor guy is still my favorite:

 Remember? If not, go and watch Fifth Element again immediately.

And one more, since the baddie alien is blocked in that shot:

 You can see Zorg's gun behind him on the ground, and the professor is holding one of the element stones. So, so good.

Remember that Vintage Vogue Fashion Show I mentioned in my last post? Here's another one of the dresses from it:

 Some of the ladies decided to stay in costume all day, so I spotted them out and about later.

And remember I said there'd be more Groots?

 TINY SHOULDER GROOT! Woot!

This year John brought his own camera, so I have an interesting mix of shots I don't remember taking... because I didn't take them. :) Anyway, I like this one for giving a sense of the overall DC environment:

 In other words: crowded. I like crowd shots with just one person in focus, though.

Which reminds me, a couple of readers I spoke with this year mentioned having anxiety for the first time ever, just because of the crowds. It's hard to communicate just how suffocating the Marriott lobby can be in the evenings, so if you struggle with crowd panic, I advise staying away from the Marriott entirely after, say, 5 or 6 pm. (And the later it is, the more crowded it gets. We've stayed past midnight several times, and the crowds then were the worst of all.)

Ok. Onward.

You see a lot of Poison Ivys at cons, but I've never seen one carry a prop this cool!

 Even the flower buds have teeth! Haha!

Terrible picture, but I loved this mashup:

 

 At first I thought it was Sailor Moon & Rainbow Brite put together, but I must be wrong on the Rainbow Brite part. Help?

[Ok, looks like it's Retro Scouts by Hyamei. Thanks, guys!]

Awesome glowy eyes:

A beautiful dragon mask:



And this lady is doing a PERFECT "Jen's Mom" cosplay:


"Fabulous, Mom, I love the feathers."

(And hey, there's a blurry "Jen's Dad" in the background! Sweet!)

My mom had a different steampunky outfit - and hat! - every day for four days. It was awesome.

This Claptrap from Borderlands was SO FUN:

The guy operating him could even make him wave!

So, you know, now John and I want to make our own Claptrap. Of course.

Just Dragon Con, folks. Nothing to see here...

Any of you watching the new Ninja Turtles cartoon? I've only seen maybe a dozen episodes, but I really love the re-boot. (The series, of course, not the movie. And I was a fan of the original one, too.) 

Plus John and I enjoy impromptu dance sessions to the new theme song, so please enjoy THAT mental image.

Anyway, here's Metalhead from the show:

So basically a robot Turtle.

And here he is... IN REAL LIFE:

 BOOYAKASHA!

So... this was terrifying:

I don't watch scary movies or play scary games, so... help?

[Aha! Gender-bent Dracula from the1992 movie. Thanks, guys!]

And now a few especially bad photos of really awesome costumes:

The girls from Bob's Burgers! Here's a reference if you don't know the show:

Best of all, Linda is wearing her "spice rack," which she invented on the show. John and I immediately went - in Linda's voice, of course - "spice raaaack! Aha! ha!" And my poor parents were SO confused.

And a super blurry shot of a gorgeous Hell Girl:

The Lutece twins from BioShock Infinite:

And a reference:

Yep, she had the coin on the platter, too, so you could flip it!

(You guys seemed to really like my including reference shots, btw, so I'll try to do that more.)

How do you cosplay the famous flat of the world's most famous detective? Like this:

Awesome. Check out the little skull on her headband!

And finally, you guys may want to step back, 'cuz I'm about to fling some crazy fangirling all OVER this place:

DO YOU KNOW WHAT THIS IS?!

Here, let's try the front view:

 

My fellow fans are no doubt joining me in my shriekfest, because THIS, my friends, is the trash lady from Labyrinth:

AMAZEBALLS. The second I saw her I went running to grab her pic before she made it into that room there. I felt kinda bad for holding her up like that, even for just two seconds... but I had to have this photo, you guys. HAD TO. 

And on that victorious high note, I shall leave you. 

Hope you guys are liking the DC run-down! Because we still have a LOT more to go. Wheeee! [collapses from photo-editing exhaustion]

{Click here for part 3!}