Link: http://www.londonexpo.com/

I had an absolutely great time at the MCM Expo 2010. One of the things that really made it, other than the things discussed by Gavin here, was the Cosplayers. They were an absolutely permanent fixture of the 3 day event, so much so that when on the way back from the Expo I found it weird to look around and not see them brightening up people's days.

So hat's off to all of the Cosplayers that made it to MCM Expo 2010. I didn't manage to make it to the Euro Cosplay finals like I'd wanted to but these folk certainly made up for it. The love and attention to detail that went into these guys' and gals' costumes really needed to be seen first hand to be believed, I just hope that these pics I snapped whilst wandering around do them justice.

If you see yourself here, post a comment at the end - it'd be great to hear from you and also the perfect opportunity for you to inform me that you are in fact Kurosaki Ichigo from Bleach and not Aunt May from Spiderman.

Ladies and gents I present to you, and in no particular order, the Cosplayers of MCM Expo 2010!

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Link: http://www.aintitcool.com/node/45326

You scamble around looking for any kind of hint of what superheroes' costumes are going to look like in their upcoming movie adaptations and then two come along at once. This first one (above) is obviously from Captain America: The First Avenger, if you go over to AintitCool they've got even more renderings showing old wing head in various poses and Bleeding Cool have got the comic book covers those poses were 'swiped' from. On the subject of wings, I notice this Cap costume is sans wings on the head piece, the angry fanboy in me is crying out that this is an abomination but then the realistic non-crazy side of me bitch slaps that fanboy and tells him to stop being a fool (is it me or is this post getting a little worrying?!). I like the straps and the utility belt, he's a soldier and these touches make him look like someone ready to go to war. I imagine the shoulder straps are for the shield but as I've just finished Band of Brothers there's a part of me that hopes they're from his parachute after just dropping into Nazi-occupied France with Easy Company. As for the shield it looks pretty spot on when compared to the comic book version but after the sneak peak we got inIron Man 2 we'd already guessed that was going to be the case.

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