AX Live! Every Thursday at 7pm PST! We’ve been doing Giveaways recently so make sure to check out the show to be able to win some awesome prizes!! Plus every week we give away a 4day badge to the convention for 2011!

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So as you may know I’ve been the resident Figure/Anime Merchandise expert for Anime Expo’s Weekly broadcast of AX Live! Well they apparently love me so much they are giving me my own show! I can’t believe it I’m super excited! I hope you’ll all watch! It’ll be called Toybox, well that’s already the name of the segment on AX Live but it’ll be a short 30 minutes of all me! It won’t be live but pre-recorded, so you’ll be able to see me in glorious HD without the clunky headphones and a huge microphone in my face! I don’t know for sure when we’ll begin uploading/airing the episodes but I do know we are going to start filming soon and I need your help! I’m going to have a viewer question section at the end and for my first episode I don’t have any viewer questions! So this is where I need you’re help! Send in your questions! Anything you’d like to ask me about I’m an open book! Not sure how we’ll do it now but I think we might try and do prizes or something fabulous for people who get their questions onto the show! Oh Bonus points if they are video questions so we get to see your pretty face! Either send me the questions in e-mail form to Dancingqueen[at]howagirlfigures.com or just write them here in the comments below! Thanks again to you all for your continued support and I’ll make sure i keep posting here regularly! Also check out our last episode of AX Live!

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AX Live! Every Wednesday at 7pm PST! We’ve been doing Figure Giveaways recently so make sure to check out the show to be able to win some awesome figures!!

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We’re doing it again this year! The Indecent Otaku Comedy Show! We’ve got so much in store for you its crazy! Prizes, Prizes and more prizes! Special Guest Danny Choo! Plus a surprise musical guest!

Of course the promo we have up for this year, this show is seriously going to be amazing! As mentioned we’ve got prizes, but since we’re getting such a huge venue to fit over 5,000 people there is no way we’ll be turning people away like last year. Also we’ll possibly be figuring out a way to do online giveaways for the show as well, but for now that’s still up in the air. With a guaranteed more than 50 figures and some huge sponsors for the show you won’t wanna miss out on this show! Also make sure to dress up, we’ll be doing a cosplay contest too brought to you by Cosplay Cute so you’ll want to make sure dress up too!

When: Saturday July 3rd 1pm (seating is at 12:30 please show up early!)
Where: Nokia Plaza
Who: Hosts Benu from Anime Genesis, Me and Special Guest Danny Choo!
Why: Well I think it’s quiet obvious why you should come! Free prizes, music, and fun!

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I think this video explains it all, but just in case click here for more info!

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So I finally got all the kinks out of the last post from this cosplay. Of my Checklist i went above and beyond to get this cosplay 100% done and work out the small details that bugged me the most. First gonna apologize about the quality of these pictures, someone again messed with my camera and the ISO and White Balance were totally off and since my dad is the one who took the pictures and he doesn’t pay attention to those the pics didn’t come out as great as i wanted them to But I’m far too lazy to put it on again before AX to re-take pictures. Not sure if i mentioned it, this cosplay was made with the love and dedication of the girls of Cosplay Cute! Mostly Fancy India, she’s so amazing! Thanks a bunch!

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Also blocked out some pictures in the background since they are quite embarrassing and personal…

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I added in some of the missing things such as the gold microphone/riding crop, black collar, white gloves, blue contacts, silver middle in the belt, silver emblem on the hat, buckles on the pants and the earrings.

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Overall I’m really excited about this cosplay since I’m such a perfectionist and I feel i’ve come as close as i can possibly get it.

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Here also is my completed riding crop, i bought a black riding crop, cut off the handle and added in this wood piece my dad helped me make for the microphone part. I’m also glad i was able to get this out really well, i love a good prop and this is a prop that i felt really brought out so much more in this overall cosplay.

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Well now we have to do is wait till Anime Expo! I’ll be posting up later my cosplay schedule so if you want to try and spot me at AX you’ll know what I’ll be wearing what days and what times as well! But if you don’t want to bother looking feel free to e-mail me at DancingQueen@howagirlfigures.com and we can trade contact info and meet up! Also we might be planning a small get meet up on Day 0 at a restaurant but that’s still up in the air. if anything not like you can’t catch me at my PANEL Saturday July 4th at 9am!

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Hey you dirty perverts! Not in that way! We are looking for roomates for Anime Expo! We have a room for Anime Expo at the Westin Bonaventure and are looking for some cool people who want to split the cost of staying with us! We’re staying from day 0 – till the last day.We have a few requirements for what we are looking for in roommates.  If you fit the bill, then you’re in!

EDIT!: ROOM IS FILLED! SORRY!

• Age between 19-25 (we are flexible with this depending on your personality) Must be at least 18! We do not want to have to babysit you.
• No Smoking in the room.
• No Stealing our crap.
• No Alcohol in the room (you wanna drink we can go to a bar). Plus do you really want everyone else drinking your booze?
• No theft of items that don’t belong to you.
• You must bathe and be relatively clean (no stinking up the place!).
• No taking stuff that doesn’t belong to you!
• You must have a cell phone so you can contact us if you want to  get into the room.  We will only have two card keys and we will have them in our possession.
• If something doesn’t belong to you, please do no take it.
• No one is allowed in the room by themselves, including us. There must always be a minimum of two people in the room so we make sure that nothing goes missing.  This is for the benefit and protection of all.
• Thou shalt not steal.
• Female preferred but we don’t mind if you are male (must be sexy and a gentlemen ^_~ tee hee).
• The room shall be a larceny-free zone.
• We are having a cap of 7 people in the room.  So far there are 4 confirmed.
• Must use your indoor voice when inside of the room (important because we will all lose  out on the cost of the room if we get kicked out).
• Thieves will be punished to the full extent of the law.  Yes, this does mean we will cut off your hand at the wrist. >:(
• We will have two air mattresses; a Twin and a Full. It’s preferred you bring your own in case someone doesn’t have one, that way we can lend them one of ours. We have Bed privileges. Unless you are a sexy man, then you can sleep with me ^_~
• If anyone’s stuff gets spirited away, we will know who did it and you will be subjected to extreme bodily harm.  Unless you’re a masochist.
• No fighting, if any personal conflicts arise, please come to us first about it.  If there are any physical fights, the parties involved will be kicked out of the room and their money will not be returned!
• Do not ransack the room for the treasures of El Dorado.
• We will bring snacks, please bring some as well and we’ll make it a potluck of snacks and sodas.
• Ain’t no swipin’ allowed, y’all!
• There are no free event tickets since you have to be preregistered with the room.  Even we will not have tickets.  Sorry.
• Not plunderin’ o’ booty is ta be allowed er yer’ll walk the plank.  Arrrgh! (yes, that is a double entendre…)
• You will be issued a shuttle pass for to and from AX
• No abduction or probing of the earthlings’ belongings.
• Please do not hog the bathroom.  Please.  We’re not bathroom hogs, but we want everyone to be able to use it when they need to.  No peepee in the pants.
• Chuck Norris will be released to punish theives.
• Above all, we will be Honest, Friendly, Clean and Respectful!  We only expect the same from you.

So far the split is for:

5 people – $185

6 people – $150

7 people – $125

This  price includes Day 0 till Noon of the last day of the convention. WE MUST BE OUT BY NOON! If you aren’t ready by noon, your stuff will be placed in hallway and we won’t be responsible for your items.

We will be cosplaying, so we will be getting ready relatively early.  Sorry if this bothers you, but if that’s the case you probably shouldn’t apply.  Everyone will have their own designated spaces within the room for their own stuff so that way we don’t mix up our own personal belongings!

We’d very much prefer to be able to meet you before AX to get to know you  a bit better.    We want to make sure you aren’t creepy and to also make sure you’re comfortable with us.  We’d like to know if you had some sort of website so we can get to know your online persona; Myspace, Facebook, a personal blog, Cosplay.com, etc. (not required but very much preferred).

Payment must be made before June 9th! We prefer payment in cash when/if we meet. If this is not possible, you can pay via PayPal.  No matter what, you will get a receipt for your payment and you won’t be screwed out of your money either!

Contact me at DancingQueen@howagirlfigures.com if you are interested in staying with us and fit the criteria!

This is great chance to make some awesome friends! Lets have fun at Anime Expo this year! Also if you do stay with us you’ll get two raffle tickets for prizes I will be giving away at my Panel that will be announced at a later date!

In case you hadn’t figured it out yet, we really don’t want people stealing our sh*t.
EDIT!: ROOM IS FILLED! SORRY!

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I didn’t get to spend as much as i wished i could have at Ax this year, i ended up being pretty broke.

But i still had a decent amount to spend and spent it wisely this year! Normally i do too many impulse buys but this year i went through an entire list of figures i wanted and figures i was going to look for plus their average retail price.

Majority for my figures purchases were Good Smile Company/ Max Factory Figures. Okay, Well they are all GSC/Mf figures.

Got the GSC 1/8 Arin since she was not only a figure i was looking for but also since she was super cheap. Found at this one booth selling figures for cheap since their boxes were damaged. i get her for $20 which is an absolute steal! Then found the GSC 1/8 Melissa Seraphy for $40 when everyone else wanted her for $80. I’ve been eyeing her for some time and found only one online store that had her for $80. So i was pretty lucky to find her for such a great price. I got the Max Factory Shana from the Kid Nemo Booth, my first purchase from AX. I’ve been looking for her for a while now and i was happy to find her! I’ve been wanting this Shana figure for so long now! Also got the GSC Shuraki #1 Akatsuki Mishiro for regular retail price of $40! Everyone else wanted her for $85-$90! I have a eye for good deals!

Got three model kits since the boyfriend has been bugging me to start making some. He’s an avid Gundam builder so he keeps telling me how fun it is to build them so i splurged and got the Bandai 1/35 Lancelot and two Kotobukiya Gurren Lagann Kits. I built them the moment i got home and i love them! Now i want to build more and paint them as well!

Found an Aria Sachou Bank and had to get that as well! Plus i got my first figma! I have to say I’m amazed at the quality and the poseablitly. I’m not an action figure kinda gal but i can see why so many people like them. I don’t know if I’ll be getting more, it all depends on if i like the character enough. Nay pose i put Lelouch in looks so natural and unlike my Revoltechs it’s much easier to move around and replace hands and faces.

Went to the kinokuniya booth and got the Nia art book and the Ground work fo Gurren Lagann book as well! My friend Bridget gave me Nana 11 since she went to a booth that had a buy 4 get one free and she didn’t know what else to get. I’ll go reviews of the GL books later.

Got a Shugo Chara Phone dangly of ran.

And another of Aria Sachou. They had more Aria stuff at that booth but at $16 a pop for each phone dangly i only got one. In the end this is the only item i felt that i overpaid but i love it too much to honestly care.

This was my boyfriend’s Birthday present since his birthday is in July 4th during AX. He’d been eyeing this gundam for who knows how long so he was pretty excited to finally get it.

At the end of the convention at the one staff party (that i snuck into ^_~) they were giving out free shirts from past Anime Expos to staff. I snuck in and got a grand total of 18 shirts! But i gave some to my family and friends and this pile here are my shirts.

I felt like i got a good haul, better than last year since last year i bought too many figures that i regretted getting later. I hope that next year i’ll have more money to spend, at least for next year i hope to be going as press so then i won’t have to pay for my AX ticket.

I would have posted this up earlier but my free internet went down on Saturday and I’ve been super busy adjusting back to “real life.” I’m going through Con withdrawals, i miss AX already, i miss spending time with my friends and having a social life. Its’ weird going from spending the night with 6 other people in one room to sleeping by myself, it’s almost lonely.

Well on Friday night we went to a dance and we partied like crazy. Hence the first picture. Btw best way to get people to overcharge you in the exibit hall is wear a shirt from another booth. I went to a booth to ask a price for a pillow and they told me “$35 but for you $45, since you are with Kid Nemo.” I had to try my best to convince them that i don’t’ work for Kid Nemo that i just buy tons of stuff from them. But i didn’t buy anything from that booth anyways since i was broke by then.

Also on Friday night we went to Karaoke. I would have sang more but it was getting late plus my mind was running a blank while looking through the song list. And the one song i wanted to sing was chosen by a different girl and i didn’t want to sing the same song. So i went with “I’ll Make a Man outta You” from Mulan.

On Saturday morning i met up again with the girl from friday who cosplayed as Amulet Angel but this time she went as Tadase.

Found the other girl from aother girl from friday and we did more Shugo Chara pictures.

Amus fighting over Tadase.

I ended up winning tadase since she hung out with me for the majority of the day. ^_^

Saw this adorable little girl as Sakura, loved her pose and reaction when i asked for a photo, she was so excited that i asked. and then a crowed formed and she just was so happy.

After much searching i found Aria cosplayers! I was talking with the girl who cosplayed Alicia about how there isn’t enough love for Aria at Ax this Year.

My friend sarah cosplaying as Edea from FFVIII, she did an awesome job but i felt bad since she had the entire fan built but it broke on the shuttle on the way to the convention.

Found a good post-time skip Simon.

Pimp Mario guys.

Then on Friday we went to another dance, but it was terrible, the music was bad and the people were worse. We left and then played Twister with some random people in the one hall.

The girl started adding her own weird rules and made us all put our head on the board as well.

I started getting light headed but i kept going since i wanted to win!

In the end the girl wanted us to have our head on the mat and hands in the air! WE couldn’t keep our balance but my friend finally fell over and i won! I only got a jolly rancher as a prize and it never tasted to good!

Last thing we did for that night was chase around the guy in the tetris block, since he couldn’t see around him he didn’t know we were following him. If he turned around we’d turn around behind him as well so he had no clue for the longest time, I was so much fun!

Found the Kid Nemo booth and bought me an awesome Figure from them! Plus they gave me a free shirt! Still no free figures from Kid Nemo

Today was so awesome! Had tons of people asking for my picture! i was kinda down yesterday since no one recognized me but today tons of people did!

Met up with girl who did an Amu cosplay as well and she told me off a Magical Girl cosplay meet up so i went to the place at the time and there was no one there but her and a girl doing Amulet Angel!

We spent a good chuck of time together taking pictures!

Then we found two more girls doing Amu and Nadeshiko, no she wasn’t a trap (i checked ^_~)

Then found one more Amu and we went off to take tons more pictures!

Did a couple million poses.

Little Umbrella, we had to huddle…

Went running.

One girl’s sister laid down and took a picture from above!

We had such a blast taking pictures!

Rest of my day was cosplayers and Benu’s Anime Genesis Panel.

Awesome Simon, not enough good Simon at AX this year

Cute C.C. With a Cheese-kun purse!

Initial D Ba Ba Ba Bum!

Cute Loli Hatsune Miku

Awesome Phoenix Wright Cosplay!

This girl had an awesome cosplay!

Entire group was good but i liked Eufie and C.C. the best

Stomping down on Eufie!

Last thing we did today was go to Benu’s Panel and they had a Used Pantie Machine! I got a couple but they weren’t used (much to the dismay of the BF). But it was a fun panel!

Also Thanks to JList.com! They are providing free interbutts to us all! They are the way that i’m still connected to you wonderful peoples!

So this post is a bit late but i was so tired i just passed out and i didn’t have any internet in the morning to i’m posting it now! Today the highlight of my day was meeting this guy, Faust721 (at least that was the name on his badge!). I was waiting in line for the Shokotan autograph session, and this guy asks me if i have a blog and if i run HowaGirlFigures.com. I was so excited! someone knew me from my blog! Does this make me famous? Or like a Celebrity? I don’t think so but it still made my day!

Saw the Anime Genesis and Anime diet Group! Sadly didn’t get many people taking my picture on the first day, not enough Aria fandom at AX this year. Plus i was the only, ONLY Aria cosplayer I’ve seen at AX this entire time!

So now here are some awesome Cosplays that i saw!

Really good Ino, she had a nice body for it as well but the boobs were a bit small but you the detail on the outfit was awesome!

Post Time Skip Nia and Simon

Gintama Cosplay, pose based off something they do in the anime (or so says the bf)

Yoko and Simon plus Lagann, was decent not great but i liked the effort!

Harima! looks like no one noticed him as much since he was so excited when i took his picture.

Alto and Ranka, not the best Alto but Adorable Ranka.

C.C. and Cheese kun! Didn’t really like the Viletta but she just jumped in

Cute Nia but she could have done a better pose.

Nia looks cute, but when she opened her mouth it’s terrible. I was thankful she closed her mouth for the picture…

This Guy made his own Myspace, while it seems lame he had all this stuff added to personalize it.

Another Harima, he was also so excited to get his picture taken. Not enough love for Harima?

Pony Pony Pony

Amulte Spade! Not many Shugo Chara cosplayers the first day…

SImon and Kittan, Kittan was a woman but she did it really well.

Transformer!

Adorable Shugo Chara cosplayers!

Kamina and Yoko, Her gun was WAY too big, and Kamina’s tattoos were off but it was still kidna good.

Meido!

Another Transformer guy!

Awesome Yoko, she seemed getting pissed about so many people taking her picture cause when i asked she gave me an attitude, but it was understandable sicne she was good!

Another Yoko, her costume wasn’t great but she had the boobs.

Best Young Simon and Nia. The rest of the Young Simons were fat women or fat men…

First people i saw the first day, Group of Three sisters, i got to know the Amu Cosplayers and did more stuff with her on Day 2.