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Umineko Beatrice Cosplay

Dancing Queen — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 01:53:59 +0000

Just got pictures in from a photo-shoot I did a while back with my friend Tim of Fiverings! I am so happy to finally get these in! i got this cosplay done in time for Anime Expo but being so busy running around for AX Live that I didn’t get much time in the cosplay to get many pictures taken. Those of you who got pictures of me in it were very lucky since i maybe wore it a total of 3 hours at the convention

After Anime Expo I really wanted some decent pictures of the cosplay since I worked so hard on getting it done in time! That’s where Tim came to the rescue and did these amazing photos for me! Thanks again SOOO MUCH!!!

I don’t think I’ve ever had so much fun shooting with someone, while I’m still a little awkward in-front of the camera, I’m so used to being the one taking the pictures, it was nice to know I was dealing with someone who helped me pose and find good angles and such!

Sexy Beato will still kill you without warning! Thanks again sooo much to Tim for these amazing pictures! check out his website

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Pokey the Cosplaying Puppy! Day 2: Yoko

Dancing Queen — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 01:06:05 +0000

Today pokey cosplays as Yoko from Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann!

Isn’t he such a cutie! Who knew Pokey loved to crossplay so much! Maybe we’ll have to find him a male cosplay for tomorrow!
See day 1: Haruhi Suzumiya

Also Pokey isn’t mine but my friend’s adorable dog!
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Pokey the Cosplaying Puppy! Day 1: Haruhi Suzumiya

Dancing Queen — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 22:26:43 +0000

Silly little post, as we’ve decided that Pokey needs to become a cosplayer! Day 1? He’s being lazy with just the Haruhi headband! What would you like to see pokey cosplay as?
Also Pokey isn’t mine but my friend’s adorable dog!
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Sheryl Nome Cowboy Cosplay + The Indecent Otaku Comedy Show

Dancing Queen — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 05:56:45 +0000

Just got these in today from a friend who did some photo coverage of The Indecent Otaku comedy show at Anime Expo 2010 this year. I love these photos and sadly they’re the only good photos I have in this cosplay. Doing this show was really hard on me this year, so many things went wrong so quickly right before con and during con. I barely had a chance to sit and breathe or eat. Still I had a blast!

I thought while showing off these pictures I’d talk about The Indecent Otaku Comedy Show and my reasons why I won’t be doing the show anymore. It was a fun time when we did the first show back in ’09 with Anime-Diet with our group. But it was a lot of work and last minute things coming in. We tried to do the show again and not have last minute ideas, only ideas well rehearsed and well thought out this year, but sadly things didn’t go as planned.

We did have our videos, and guests planned out but still last minute with prizes things got hectic, we had so many issues with the raffle tickets, first not having enough, then having too much that ended up making the tickets so pointless that we had to throw out prizes into the audience, bad idea. Unless you were super tall you weren’t able to catch the prizes, I saw people hitting each other to get their hands on some of these figures and other prizes. It was honestly scary.

Not to mention my throwing arm is just horrible, as many of you who were in the audience noticed most of the prizes i threw kept going in the same direction, ACK! Plus we were so overwhelmed with Sponsor support that it became too many prizes to give out.

I’m not coming back to the show not because this show wasn’t successful or because of a falling out with any hosts. Heck Benu our second host is coming to my Birthday party this Saturday! He’s gonna do some magic for us! I’m only stopping the show since it stopped being fun this year. While it was amazing getting Danny Choo all the way over from Japan to come for our show and then also having him as a guest of honor, the show took it’s toll on me.

Normally AX Is a fun experience for me, meeting new people, scanning the exhibit halls over and over again till I’m absolutely poor beyond belief from spending all my money on figures. Catching as many concerts as I can, seeing fun interesting panels and more. This year? I spent so much of it in either my hotel room crying because I had no time to set up for the show and no one to help, or running around the convention like a chicken with no head trying to get things organized before the show on Saturday. It got to a point that the day of the show I was screaming at my best friends, yelling at cab drivers and on the verge of a nervous breakdown, and really I never let myself get like that and when we started our show we decided early on if it became “work” and “not fun anymore” we would quit, well it became work and wasn’t fun anymore. Heck I only got to go into the Exhibit hall once to look around and that was the last day about an hour before the convention closed, if you’ve ever gone shopping with me at a con you know I need at least 3 or so hours before I’m sure that I’ve seen everything and I know what I’m going to spend my money on.

I do hope that maybe one day someone will come back and do the show justice, make a comedy show that is entertaining, with live music, prizes and fun. But I’d rather be in the audience cheering them on then on stage doing the show. Not only that, with being on AX Live I’ll have tons of responsibilities of filming for AX during the convention and filming things for my own show Toybox, which coincidentally was supposed to air today but due to illness on our director/editors part it’s been postponed a week.

As for me, while I’ve been lacking in making new posts for you guys, I’m kicking things into gear now that this term for school is over, and I’ll make sure my class load next term isn’t so much that I’m kept from bringing figure reviews to you! Plus with AX Live, I’ve met so many wonderful people who collect figures as well who love lending them to me for review, so even if I can’t afford the latest and greatest figures they can and I’ll still be able to show you why I love this hobby so much! Meeting people who love the same thing you do, who understand why you love them so much and don’t think you’re crazy when you want to spend $800 on Dollfie Yoko!

On another note… Obligatory underboob shot for you guys. I figure I always give you guys the panty shots with figures, and the naughty parts, so it would be wrong to hide these from you…

I want you all to know, today on my 23rd birthday, I love you all. Between the bombardment on Facebook, Twitter, E-mail’s and MyFigureCollection messages of Happy Birthday to always the wonderful fans on AX Live’s chat during the show. You are why I still do this, that and because nothing can keep me away from owning the best and newest and prettiest awesome figures that are always being released! I Love you all, thank you from the bottom of my heart for your constant support!

Photos by Joseph Servantez
Cosplay by India Atkinson

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Ganguro Girl Cosplay

Dancing Queen — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 04:57:38 +0000

So it seems that we had a brilliant idea for a little video project but we needed a Ganguro Girl for the project. My lips are sealed as to what the video is but you’ll see what it’s for at The Indecent Otaku Comedy Show Saturday at Noon at Anime Expo this year!

The show at Anime Expo is gonna be really awesome, did you know that we even got Danny Choo to come all the way over from Japan to California just for our little show!

I know that Ganguro Girls have stickers all over their face, sadly I don’t have enough stickers just yet and I went with the only ones I had, penguin stickers!

I felt so ridicoulous in this outfit but I would love to go out in public dressed like this just to see people’s reactions.

Even put on some super crazy long nails! It was so good to get those off, was terrible to try and type or even handle my phone!

So I’m actually really happy with this crazy outfit! I might wear this one day as a cheap easy silly cosplay one day! What our your thoughts on Ganguro fashion? It’s so silly and outrageous but in the end was really fun dressed up so silly and crazy!

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Mikomicon ’09 – Sheryl Nome

Dancing Queen — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 08:44:27 +0000

Went to Mikomicon a Sep. 19-20. Went for Traci Hines‘ and Makenai‘s concert ended up also having a blast with my cosplay. I wasn’t planning on cosplaying but with someone convinced me to and it ended up being a blast as i got this photoshoot while I was there.

I was also convinced to enter into the Masquerade which I did last minute.

I ended up winning the Judges award during the Masquerade, which was such a surprise since my little “performance” was just a complete improv and a blur. I personally still can’t see that video without dying of embarrassment but in the end it was a fun experience and it makes me want to do more things within cosplay and Masquerades at Conventions!

There are plenty more pictures where these came from here at DBDARKROOM.com I had such an awesome time with you guys, thanks again for taking my picture! It makes cosplaying so much more fun when other people appreciate teh hard work that goes into making our cosplays! Also don’t forget to check out the newly revamped CosplayCute.com where the majority of my cosplay related posts will be migrating to! Find our tutorials on how to make some of you favorite cosplays, more cosplay photos and great cosplay advice to anyone who wants to cosplay!

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Macross Frontier – Sheryl Nome Cosplay COMPLETE!

Dancing Queen — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 03:02:40 +0000

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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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My Sheryl Nome Cosplay 95% complete!

Dancing Queen — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 07:43:45 +0000

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My Sheryl Nome Cosplay, from Macross Frontier, based on the outfit she wear’s during her concert on Frontier. I decide what cosplays I do for Anime Expo quite randomly, I eventually settled on this design because I already owned the boots and the shorts. I’m really glad I decided to do this outfit and I have to say I’m quite proud of the way it came out.

Here is the design that it’s originally based on, there are a few things I’m missing;

White Gloves -CHECK!
Riding Crop -CHECK!
Black Choker -CHECK!
Silver Wings for the Hat -CHECK!
Buckles on the Pants -CHECK!
Earings

but I should get getting them all soon within the next few weeks.

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There are a few inconsistencies like the fact that I have gold buttons and not silver buttons, I don’t have blue eyes, and the silver buckle on the belt. But these things I’m really not that focused on changing. Contacts can be expensive since I need them with a prescription it would be costly so I’m not that focused on getting them but if i get my Settlement check for my Car Accident soon then I’ll go ahead and get the contacts. The belt I don’t really care to change but if i get enough people commenting that it’s terrible like this then I’ll try and go about changing it. The buttons I actually like in Gold rather than Silver, that’s my own personal preference. Hopefully there really isn’t anything noticeably wrong with the rest of the outfit. If you notice anything highly wrong let me know since i’ve still got time to fix things! BTW this cosplay was made with the love and support of the girls of Cosplaycute.com (the site’s down atm but it should be up soon!)

CosplayCute is a cosplay site made up myself and my two best friends in the entire world! Fancy India and Kawaii Clare, I’ve known them both for so many years. All of my cosplays this year were all a group effort between the three of us and once the site is up check back often for Cosplay News, Tips, and more!

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So-Cal Cosplay Spring Gathering 09 & Sheryl Nome Cosplay!

Dancing Queen — Sun, 10 May 2009 06:41:00 +0000

How a Girl Figures » Cosplay

Umineko Beatrice Cosplay

Pokey the Cosplaying Puppy! Day 2: Yoko

Pokey the Cosplaying Puppy! Day 1: Haruhi Suzumiya

Sheryl Nome Cowboy Cosplay + The Indecent Otaku Comedy Show

Ganguro Girl Cosplay

Mikomicon ’09 – Sheryl Nome

Macross Frontier – Sheryl Nome Cosplay COMPLETE!

My Sheryl Nome Cosplay 95% complete!

So-Cal Cosplay Spring Gathering 09 & Sheryl Nome Cosplay!

Anime Expo 2009 – Dq’s Cosplays