Last Impression

I have some first impressions and last impressions on the DaiCon event, the latter was built on blogs and forums posting I read.

First Impressions:

1040-Entered the hall's reception area. Greeted by committee members who distributed handouts for the event. T_T When I saw the listing of the songs to be performed by Chihara Minori and kinda felt like I am going to miss the main attraction of this event (I certainly did regret about this in my last impressions of the event).

Well the T-shirt was not as attractive as those for CF'08, which again made me regretted for not purchasing them last year. The rest of the company was kinda new to this kind of event and was keen to checking the place out. So we quickly headed into the hall.

This is the largest collection of Gachapon machines I have ever seen.
Count the number in this picture and multiply it by 4 times to approximate the sum.

This MMU hall is extremely spacious and INTI's Multipurpose Hall is only about half in comparison to that, not to mention there's even a second level of seatings for MMU's hall.

1130- Done seeing everything in the convention. Pretty small though. I heard that this is the 1st DaiCon event, so I guess I can understand. Pratically what was found at the convention can be summarized into several points:

• 7 doujin groups that sell their merchandises in small booths. I was expecting more doujin artists to turn up. But oh well, this is not ComicFiesta.
  
• KKnM booth that sells original merchandise. Crap, an original imported T-shirt actually cost RM114.90. Even though these are expensive, but the queue was unexpected long.
• There quite few cosplayers that turn up for the event. Probably because DaiCon date clashes with CosFest in Singapore.
• Activities such as Karaoke Competition, Cosplay Competition etc. was kinda lacking of good contestants. Probably the emcee did an unsatisfactory job of promoting them to the audience.
  
• There's a Macross gallery in substitute for Gundams and other Gunpla model kits. Kinda oof a new and fresh idea.

Guitar Hero for the PS3 seems to be another attraction for the convention.

Figurine Mall was also there.
For the 1st time, I wondered why this hobby is gender-biased.

One of the many cosplayers posing for the photographers.
I took a quick snapshot and left.

1250- Seeking for food. Well, we went pizza for lunch and then make one more tour about the convention before going back. It was in this second touring that I spotted more cosplayers and started to take more photos. I also purchased an A4-sized poster and got it signed by the doujin artist. Syok!

0210- We decided to leave the place, and the rest of the company obviously looked disappointed due to the poor attendence of cosplayers. Or maybe it's pretty girls they were looking for. I wouldn't know and I wouldn't want to know either. So off we went while we listen to some anime OSTs throughout the journey back home...

Damn lazy to upload anymore more of the photos coz each are sized 3Mb, so it took a very long time to upload them here.