MCM October - Figure.fm Meet

I arrived at around 8:20AM, and it was already filling up. I was in the sixth line from the front. CookieDude, who arrived around 20 minutes before me (I missed my first train) was in the fifth line and down the other side of the hall. Amazing what happens in 20 minutes.

These Steward guides were placed every row or so. I guess maybe for the people who got lost on the one-way system?

Standing in line. The door on the left was the one to eventually open, to cheers and applause.

Obligatory Master Chief.

A group of Vocaloid-ers who were nice enough to pose for me, even though they were almost finished posing for other photographers when I stumbled upon them ^^;

The most recognisable license plate ever.

It says "Get to 88", of course.

Did it actually glow red? I wanted to try out one of the hover boards and take a closer look at their gravity shenanigans - they were reluctant to let one go, however.

I spy..

Table o' plush?

I spy once again..
Was tempted to get some more stuff this year, but it's all over-priced :/

These two I actually met on the DLR when travelling to the event. Nice enough guys who were helpful in letting me follow them. Didn't quite get what they meant when they said look out for Mr Red and Mr Blue. Well, now we know.

Watching Cookie and Cloud play Assassins Creed 2 (?) on something called a PS3.

Yoko

My Yui, cosplaying as Misaka Mikoto using the awesome outfit made by ddotark! ^^ ( http://www.darkdollhouse.com )

@mshaw_uk 's Mio

One of the three, i think?, BRS' Nendos we had on the table.

Portal guy!

Mio, as usual being all shy~

nyan!

One of ddotark's mamachapps (spelling?) - so irresistibly cute!

Both of them ^^

We had both Yui and Mio holding them for quite a while - they drew quite a lot of attention from the passers by! Many requests for photos, enquiries about price and where to buy them etc etc
Myself and mshaw_uk were laughing away to ourselves as many people caught glimpses and then tapped their friends on the shoulders to take a quick look over.
I think we were both proud of the attention our girls got in the end ^^

Got some sneaky snaps of cosplayers going past. I've not yet really got comfortable with going up and directly asking - I know it's the thing you should do, but I always feel awkward ^^;
But then I sometimes like photos where they're not posing, just going about business and sometimes more natural. If anyone here finds their photo and wants it taken off for any reason, please let me know.

:3

Saw lots of people with these signs

Thought this guy was pretty cool

We ended up leaving the event at around 5:30 I believe. Got to the DLR station to find people queuing to get ONTO the platform. We waited for the crowds to thin a bit before taking the plunge, and eventually got on, however due to the mass of people the DLR's door alarms were tripped quite often, resulting in the train lurching to a sudden stop every now and then.

Eventually got to...somewhere, Poplar?, then the DLR to Bank was shut, so we went to Tower Gateway? I can't remember much XD
Though we got there in the end, and after seeing a few packed busses arrive and leave at the bus station, flagged down two black cabs to take the 10 of us to Leicester Square, to walk through China Town to our dinner reservation. Was a really good walk through China Town in the evening, and I would have taken more photos if I weren't so Dollfie-ridden-security-mad ^^;

The restaurant ended up being pretty good, I'm not sure how CookieDude know's it, but it's not one of the one's you'd directly go to via appearances, and it's actually outside one of the gates of China Town. (is that still in the 'town'?)

I had curry spring rolls and chicken satay skewers. If you have this dish, don't ever put the spring rolls in the red dip on the right. Spice-overload ^^;

omnomnomnom

So all in all, a really good day out, tiring, but awesome. It was great to meet up with everyone and share some great, and albeit maddening travel experiences XD

Here's to the next meet-up! Hope you liked the post ^^

Some more photos available at http://www.flickr.com/photos/gabrielvh/sets/72157625280866250/