Yorkshire Cosplay Con 2017
Just over a week ago, Gen and I attended our first ever full blown convention in the form of Yorkshire Cosplay Con at Sheffield Arena. I was looking forward to getting my geek on and spending a carefully planned out budget on merch, t-shirts and any other collectibles and ephemera that may catch my eye. Gen looked forward to meeting a certain J. Michael Tatum and working on getting a restraining order. So if I were to define the quality of the con by how much cash I spent, the YCC 2017 was a roaring success. That carefully planned out budget I mentioned, I may have exceeding it by 60 or 70 %. Now I'm getting automated text messages from the bank about my balance, or lack thereof. The floor of the arena was lined with stalls as you'd expect at a con such as this, all catering for all aspects of geekdom. Several of them tempted me with the prospect of a classic console and I came very close to leaving with an original Nintendo 64, it being the...