Dragon Con 2015: The Best Cosplay, Pt 3

Time for more cosplay!

I've photographed this Twilight Sparkle once before, so you may remember her glorious wings:

She went on to win one of the categories in the Masquerade, DCon's largest costume contest.

The Dark Lady Sauron:

 


An incredible Once Upon A Time group:

Regina's dress! 0.0


You can actually order a custom robot suit like these from the maker, now; they had a booth in the vendor room!

Plus they brought a couple new female models, which were great dancers:

Dragon Con has inspired some truly unique "helper" cosplays, like - get ready for this - The Febreeze Fairy:

Just as I was passing by one chap took her up on her offer of a free spray-down - and in your choice of scent, no less:

If you've ever been to a con for more than a few hours, then you know what a valuable service this is. :D

I also spotted Captain Con Crud and Deodorant Girl

Plus there was a lab-coat wearing group going around offering free Purell out of a big sprayer.

I tried to keep a brave face at the time, but this was the most terrifying cosplay of the whole weekend:

Have you ever seen a life-sized zombie puppet? It was hanging on to the girl like a monkey, legs around her waist, and the girl's arm was inside its torso, making it lurch around.

The zombie was also snarling, LOUDLY.

Plus as soon as the girl caught you looking her way, she'd make a beeline straight for you, zombie first. I kept my camera up more as a defense mechanism than anything.

Pulp Fiction Storm Trooper and that always-amazing Ralph McQuarry Vader:

From the game Castle Crashers:

And a reference picture, in case you're like me and haven't heard of it:

Here's John as Dreamfinder with another Disney icon:

The Haunted Mansion Tightrope Girl! (With a fuzzy crocodile bag! D'awww.)

Anyone see the movie Interstellar?

This is the TARS robot from the film:

Not sure what the colorful feather girl is from (if anything) but I love her headdress:

And that Warrior Belle has the best shield!

Eren's Titan form in Attack On Titan is not for the shy OR the chilly:

 This is also one of the very few times you'll see a guy wearing pasties. :D

We ran into two more Dreamfinders PLUS a femme Figment:

The Figment is the artist NoFlutter, whose art inspires so much amazing cosplay - including that gender-swapped Dreamfinder next to her!

This Harry Potter group was so big, I couldn't fit them all in frame!



Sweetums from The Muppets:



This girl cracked me up, so I had to stop her and chat for a minute:

Start counting cosplay references. See how many you get.

And there's more on the back!

She even sewed a square of the famous Marriott carpet to the back of her cape/skirt.

So, how many different costume homages are there in there?

42. 

OF COURSE.

Dragon Con has a lot of performance-style cosplays; the all-night environment really encourages folks to push the creative envelope and find new ways to make their fellow con-goers smile. From people just being REALLY in character:

 
 (Would you believe these two just found each other in the crowd? WHAT ARE THE ODDS.)


.... to the Pac-Man ghosts chasing their way through the crowd:

(Complete with an extra loud 8-bit soundtrack, PLUS a dead ghost trailing near the end! Ha!)

... to a group of bell-ringing "Shame Nuns"(?) who ran around yelling at anyone drinking! Ha!


And that's Cersei from GoT, dressed as a Playboy Bunny.

While we're at it, here's the rest of her group:



One more funny example of interactive(?) cosplay: Here's Laura, an awesome reader who also wrote my surprisingly popular interview for TheNotMom a bunch of years back. Anyhoo, Laura is completely unaware that she's about to be netted by a group (pod?) of hissing Sleestaks from Land of the Lost:

Warn her? Why would I warn her when I could take pictures?

Sorry, Laura.

Fortunately these guys operated on a catch-and-release policy, so they soon shuffled on to their next victim.

Getting back to those GoT bunnies, I'm not sure how everyone got the memo, but apparently Thursday night was Bunny Night. There were bunny mashups everywhere, though I only caught a few:

And my favorite:

Though I suppose he's more of a rabbit. 

:D

That is, of course, the White Rabbit from Alice: The Madness Returns:

 

 And look how big he is! SO COOL.

(I'm terrified of scary movies, games, books, etc. etc., but for some reason I just love creepy stuff from time to time. Is that weird?)

I'll leave you with a less nightmare-fuely rabbit, though:

DISCO DANCIN' RABBIT.

And just watch him dance!



Kinda hypnotic, isn't it?

Hope you guys enjoyed this latest batch! Stay tuned for lots more where that came from!