Please tell your crazy/funny con experiences!
Share some con stories with us.

I had a guy run by me, shoot my picture while I was at my table and scream "EBAY!"

hmm... Can't think of anything else atm.

junoblairb
I had a guy run by me, shoot my picture while I was at my table and scream "EBAY!"

hmm... Can't think of anything else atm.

"shoot" your picture??? Like with a gun??? O_o

I guess my most amazing and somewhat bizarre con experience was randomly deciding to go to Anime Reactor back in 2000ish, for it's first year.

I did this over college midterms weekend, without telling my parents. So I was basically flying off to a convention that no one knew I was at. I was also dog sick that weekend. I nearly missed my connection flight in Connecticut, which would have left me stranded until my return flight after the con.

The point of going was really to get to meet one of my favorite manga artists, Tsutomu Nihei. And things worked out well, he ended up giving me a signed copy of his art book that wasn't even available in Japan at the time.

And...my parents found out I went, when they saw my bank statement that said I withdrew money in Chicago.

It made for a great story to tell teachers when I didn't have my midterms done the next Monday..

Skulldog> You were at the first reactor? No way, me too!

Anyways my story takes place at Anime Reactor #2
I used to cosplay ALL the time as Ryoko from Tenchi Muyo. I did this really rare only seen for 10 seconds in the OAV battle suit of hers. Basically it's a skin tight body suit full of slashes. Well I was posing for photos and a girl walks up to me and whispers in my ear "sweetie you've got a costume malfunction going on" I looked down, where, where. I couldn't see it over my boob, but one had fallen out the bottom of my bra WHILE THEY WERE PHOTOGRAPHING! Seriously I spent the next week tracking all the photographers down telling them not to post photos of my boob on the internets! Some were actually like, oh it's not that bad let me post it. HELLS NO!

Carly> Small world eh? I wasn't out of the hotel room much due to being dead sick, but I was there. :P

Years ago, a friend and I drove to a convention in St. Louis. We were so poor that on the way there, we just had bread slices and potato chips. Gourmets that we are, we made Pringle sandwiches. They were pretty good.

JillyFoo

junoblairb
I had a guy run by me, shoot my picture while I was at my table and scream "EBAY!"

hmm... Can't think of anything else atm.

"shoot" your picture??? Like with a gun??? O_o

HA! No, totally shoot as in with a camera. Lord, had it been a gun though, with flash an all? I think I would have been traumatized and no more cons would have ever happened. XD

Joey! WTF!? What con did you go to in STL? if it was after 2001 I WAS THERE TOO! yeah seriously I didn't realize how much I got around there for awhile.

During "the season" I was driving to a con almost every weekend, hauling books around, all that stuff.

Oh, oh! I have another funny story! It pertains to being FLAT broke. When I was at Otakon in '03 my friend Becky and I were so hungry, and we were cosplaying as Mihoshi and Kiyone from Tenchi Muyo so we got the bright idea to hold up a sign that said "Hugs for $1" well *ahem* we were both pulled aside by the Baltimore police and nearly arrested for solicitation... they don't mess around!

okay. this was a pretty cool thing that happened to me at comiccon.

it was at the dc panel.

my friend aaron, who was dressed up as Batman wanted to ask a question, but because no one could see him, I suggested that he should wave his girlfriends (dressed as zatanna) top hat.

it got the attention of the heads of DC and they asked about the tophat and zatanna stood up and then they noticed the rest of us.

Flash stood up, the Huntress stood up (my gf at the time), Aquaman stood up (me), and Wonder Woman stood up.

The panel announced "It's the Justice League" and everyone applauded.

....oh....and Brad Meltzer met up with us to take a picture.

-J.

I'll try to tell this...but it is SO MUCH BETTER IN PERSON...

I'm at Pitt Comic Con...this goes back...3 years ago. I go with my buddy Rich Bernatovech who does the comic TPB Sentinels (it rocks!) We get there the night before the con starts...and sort of wander around.

It's laterish...9:30 lets say...and I'm wandering the lobby when I see this woman making a BEELINE toward me. I see this woman with RUSHING toward me and ...its Margot Kidder.

My mind goes back to that Family Guy episode...the one where they have her for dinner and she wrecks everything, jumps THROUGH the wall, etc. Then my mind goes to when they found her naked in Beverly Hills missing all her teeth in someone's backyard. I think this and look forward at me...at this woman with the crazed look in her eye...and I think one thought:

"DEAR GOD...Lois Lane is going to kill me."

Margot walks up and she says, "I'm hungry!"

Ooooooooookay. Not exactly the "Hi I'm Margot" I thought I would get. Luckily I had just eaten at the bar there at the Radisson and the food was awesome so I tell her I just ate there and...the food was awesome.

"Okay. Can you take me!??!" She looks crazed...but I know the feeling when I'm hungry...so I lead her there hoping that Lois Lane doesn't eat me.

I drop her off at the bar and I go.

AGAIN...not so great in typing it out...but in person...its damn funny. I ran into Margot several times that show but the BEST was when Non - the non-talking guy from Superman II - was at the bar and we had him for drinks and talked for hours. The man is funny as hell! And he could talk...which surprised me more.

MORAL: Margot Kidder is scary...but she probably just needs food.

OMG that is a great story! I have a theory, it's that every convention veteran has either a
A)Lou Forigono
B )Virgil
C)Margot Kidder
is crazy as f*ck story. Unfortunately I've dealt with psycho Margo and pissy Lou...

carly_mizzou
Skulldog> You were at the first reactor? No way, me too!

Anyways my story takes place at Anime Reactor #2
I used to cosplay ALL the time as Ryoko from Tenchi Muyo. I did this really rare only seen for 10 seconds in the OAV battle suit of hers. Basically it's a skin tight body suit full of slashes. Well I was posing for photos and a girl walks up to me and whispers in my ear "sweetie you've got a costume malfunction going on" I looked down, where, where. I couldn't see it over my boob, but one had fallen out the bottom of my bra WHILE THEY WERE PHOTOGRAPHING! Seriously I spent the next week tracking all the photographers down telling them not to post photos of my boob on the internets! Some were actually like, oh it's not that bad let me post it. HELLS NO!

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As for my own experience, i was watching a Soul Calibur match between a female friend of mine and some dude, she won the match and the the next fool came, and the next and the next and the next...It was pretty bizarre, because it seems like she's kind of famous because she was being cheered since the beginning.

carly_mizzou
...if it was after 2001 I WAS THERE TOO! yeah seriously I didn't realize how much I got around there for awhile.

Actually, this was a book arts convention at the University of Washington (I think) and it was about 1997. I exhibited comics and handmade book art stuff there. I missed you by four years I guess.

carly_mizzou
OMG that is a great story! I have a theory, it's that every convention veteran has either a
A)Lou Forigono
B )Virgil
C)Margot Kidder
is crazy as f*ck story. Unfortunately I've dealt with psycho Margo and pissy Lou...

At the first comics con I went to I took Lou Forigno's photo from across the convention hall cause I was too scared to go up to him and take a photo.

Also at that same con I almost got run over by the guy that played Chewbacca as he bolted for the door. All I could do was stand and say "wow, he's tall". My friends had to pull me outta the way.