Hey hey out there!
As many of you know I'm a casual cosplayer. That means I'm not too much into cosplay but if I'm planning one, I make the best out of it.
I'm also a newbie at this topic. I know much about it and I'm fascinated about costumes (the reason why I manage to waste hours on the internet to search for nice pictures) but I have never sewed one by myself. My first cosplay was Light (the costume which I got my nickname from), but it was all bought. And I think a
real cosplay has to be a self-made one.
So my first
real costume was the Lady Loki I made for the Gamescom in Cologne this year. I'm very proud of it, because I had never sewed before and it looks...well... really O.K for that circumstance.
To cut a long story short, I wanted to wear my beloved costume at the FBM (Frankfurter Buchmesse) again. On the one hand because it was very expensive. For example the fabric is synthetic leather and I had to tinker a golden helmet and wand/crane-thingy (of course not it's not real gold...!). On the other hand four months haven't changed my Avengers obsession my Lady Loki cosplay results from.
The FBM is a wonderful exhibition, especially for cosplayers. It's so colourful and interesting. It would have been perfect for me to perform my costume but there was one barrier: Rain and coldness.
The weather forecast predicted partly rain and temperatures under 10 degrees. No good preconditions for props that are made out of water-soluble paint and building material. And for a mini dress without sleeves and tights.
Well, there was no way but to leave my costume at home and enjoy the exhibition as a lurking paparazzo with a nervous release-finger.
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Kyo at our trip |
I had so much fun anyhow. We drove off from Karlsruhe at half past nine. We?
Yes I went with my really good friend Kyo and her incredible likable girlfriend Reita. It was so much fun at the trip already. We sang 'Gangnam Style' and tried to dance to it, while Reita was driving us fast but save to our destination: Frankfurt.

It was Saturday, so it was a very crowded day. But in the morning there weren't that much people yet. The first cosplayers we saw was a Nazgûl and some Uruk-hais. I noticed the whole exhibition was under the theme of Middle Earth because of the new movie 'The Hobbit- An unexpected Journey' that is going to be released this end of the year (And I'm going to see it - hopefully - in London).
There was a monstrous book at the curtilage of the building. The whole day the people from Middle Earth were passing by. Elves, Hobbits, Gandalf, Orcs... So awesome.
The curtilage is the place where the cosplayers sojourn. There is a beautiful fountain in the middle and thousands of eating booths. The people sit on the ground, talking and laughing or just leaving their things behind. Some photographers (like me...) were on the road, some were very creepy, some nice. One made me a compliment about my camera (my baby...!).
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The curtilage and the crowd |
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Reita's crêpe. It was a normal one. |
Of course we got hungry. I wanted to eat pizza or soup but I forgot there was a soup booth and the queue at the pizza booth was so long I decided to go to the just a bit shorter queue at the crêpe booth. I waited a felt hour until I got my crêpe with
way too much Nutella and just a baby slice of banana. There was just mud on my paper plate and it was a horror trip to eat it without smearing my face with the brown mush.
Buuut...it was delicious! And so sweet I got sick after it...
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Beautiful wigs |
Inside on the upper floor was a little cosplay corner. But because of the temperatures outside it was very crowded. You could barely see the beautiful stalls with comics, wigs, middle age costumes and merchandise. The photo corners, where cosplayers were photographed and allowed to buy their own pictures, were as famous as every year.
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The elevator to the upper floor |
Outside we made a little photo shoot with some acquaintances of Kyo's. Kyo and Reita made a partner cosplay (The names wouldn'd say anything to you, sadly). I made some nice photos of them. They were so AWESOME. I can't stop loving them!
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Aren't they AWESOME?! |
We became tired and went home early. I think it was 5 o'clock. We made a stop at Burger King, drew some nice things at the children's game desk and the day was over soon.
At home I fell in my bed like a sack of potatoes.
Well, that were my expressions of the FBM '12. I'm so glad I went there, with or without costume. Thank you, Kyo and Reita to make this possible to me.
Have a nice time, wherever you are!
xoxo