Comic Fiesta 2007
After our first exhibit at Anime Fest in June, we were looking forward to Comic Fiesta ’07 which was held at Times Square last weekend. After all it’s one of the bigger anime event to be held locally, which means more visitors and more cosplayers.
My company dinner was on the day before we were gonna be exhibiting, so I was dead tired when I was back, and had to pack up the 20 figures to I’ll be bringing to the event. All together I use 2 big boxes and 2 smaller boxes for transport my figures, they were all wrapped only in paper, I was praying the whole time that nothing breaks during transport. Fortunately my prayer was answered phew. Took a photo of the boxes before I left home in the morning ^^.
Lots of photos after the jump, 56kers beware ^^.
The turn out for the event was good, lots of people around and as usual our booth was quite crowded ^^ with visitors taking photos. There’s dslr, handphone cam, PnS and any other electronics that can be use to take photos.
The guy who made it all possible ^^.
Next time instead of just putting up strictly no touching sign, I think we probably need to put up becareful with your lens and elbow XD.
The crowds and the rows of figures ^^.
That’s the entrance to the hall, the place was quite pack, making it hard to move around.
More photographers, this time armed with dslr.
Some shots of the figures, didn’t take all of them this time.
While walking around I found a booth selling Gundam kits and they have this cool diorama on display.
Not sure what he’s suppose to be cosplaying, he was hanging around near our booth so I just too a photo of him. The armor is quite cool, now all he needs is a big ass sword.
Tried to take photos of the Hare Hare Yukai dance but lens not long enough, need a 75-300 maybe haha.
A girl singing, probably an anime theme I guess.
Some cosplayers photos that I manage to take, not much though, coz I lend my battery to another photographer, hopefully he’ll send some of the photos he took to me soon.
The aftermath, it’s time to go home, with everything pack and ready to go.
Some stuff that I got for free haha coz as usual I didn’t buy anything XD.
I find this event is much more exciting and happening than the previous one that we went to, probably coz they been having this for a few years now. The venue is nice and easily accessible, best of all the lighting is good, especially since our booth is near the window so we get some natural light as long as it doesn’t rain anyway.
There are more variety of cosplayers around, instead of just Naruto and Bleach, apparently there was a Shana but I didn’t saw her, though I did see Mikuru, see if you can spot her in the Hare Hare Yukai dance photos. Someone even setup a proper area for cosplayer to take photos, with clean background and lighting.
As usual our figures display are quite well received with lots of visitors taking photos. So this is something that we probably gonna do again, but definitely need to improve on the logistic haha, it’s still quite a nightmare XD. It was also great meeting some fellow figures collectors that visited our booth on that day, we should probably do a gathering of sort someday ^^.
Photo taken using: Canon EOS 400D with EF-S 17-85 lens
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Hmm, the gundam diorama displayed is familiar though. I think it was on the BAKUC this year
The guy in the armor seems to be cosplaying Judge Gabranth from FF12
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It must so gratifying to see your own treasures being stared at with passion ^^
I envy you haha. Looks like you and your mates did a good work. Congratulations!
Nice gathering of figures, wish I was there to take pictures ^^. You must have felt relieved when your figures came back to the safety of your home lol.
Must be lots of fun, nothing like seeing a full range of figures displayed really xD So any clue on which was the most photographed figure? :p Looks like a cool turnout too, really looks like it was fantastic fun ^^
Its really fun. But my bet haruhi and co. gets the most snaps as average ppl knows shit bout the others LOL.
Well, i do upload some of my pics on my flickr, but bare your eyes coz theyre rather blurry/crappy. *damn i need better skills.
good job valho & everyone this round! ^^
@valho
your pics turn out great, for mine, those that were taken earlier in the day was okay, towards the end…bad TT
@e-jump
SOS-dan got quite good response, others that were also popular were fate series & shining series
*i smile weird in that photo* ^^;;
Waa… Nice and clear photos
I still wan ur Hikaru hehe.. too bad I din got the chance to go T.T on the other hand, I might spent lots of $$$ on the stuffs sold there lol Hm.. and I wud be the oni girl figure collector to meet up with you guys there ^^” haha.. Very nice to see a whole row of figures *drools* XD
the people definitely made it a really fun event, especially that crowd in front of your exhibition booth
Was really fun seeing all the figures displayed, so many people took pics of them! The Fate figures and Nendoroids seemed very popular XD Shame about the lack of cosplay pics, the girl in the Tsubasa Chronicles costume looks really good =)
@e_g~that gundam diorama looks really good. ahh so the guy in armor is the judge from FF12, haha I can’t remember what they look like
. I saw some of the nice stuff you got, I should really go around looking at other booth more hehe 
. there was another girl there, byaku-chan ^^. hehe 66 figures on display is quite an achievement for us, hmm next time maybe more XD.
@lu-k~thanks, yeah it was great
@AS~yeah it was really a relief ^^
@shino~apparently Haruhi and FSN were quite popular, I guess the two anime are more well known. turn out was great ^^
@e-jump~hhaha yeah, those are the more popular ones. saw some of the pics, they looks ok ^^
@LilKeV84~hehe yeah fortunately they were ok, a bit blur on some but still ok. hahah yeah XD
@Serene~thanks, hahah she’s not for sale
@rain~yeah it was quite nice really ^^
@byaku-chan~nice meeting you there ^^ we weren’t expecting you to be there though, so kind of surprise hehe. haha yeah, I am still not fully confidence taking pics of people, but they did turn out ok though ^^ so next time there will be more cosplay pics. yeah her costume looks good, fortunately she was still around near the end, otherwise would have miss the chance to get the pic
Thanks for the great pics Val!
Especially the pics of those figures, the Ayu looks pretty good. I love how they displayed the figures.
Awesome. I loved the whole booth. Too bad it was crowded most of the time. I could hardly move and take photos. +_+; Which one were you during the day ? I tried to ask those people at the booth, but was pretty shy. XD;;
So I suppose that most of the figurines there were yours ? You’ve got quite a big collection. Anyway, hope to see this booth again in another anime convention. Hey, if you need more figurines for your next booth, do tell us. I’m sure most of us could contribute a figure or two.
@victor~thanks ^^, we decide this is the best way to display the figures, can display a lot and all are visible
@kiddokun~thanks ^^, haha yeah it was quite crowded most of the time. I was the one in black and wearing blue jeans, holding a Canon dslr. I have 20 figures on display that day ^^. Yup we are looking for other convention that we can display our collection, sure, it’ll be great if other collectors can join us ^^.
ZOMG i saw myself in those pic D:
Anyway you have such a nice collection and I really envy you >.<”
There’s something here that I don’t understand……if this was held in Times Square how come the I only see Asians? Not that I have anything against any race on the planet it’s just that if this was in Times Square there should loads of westerners (americans) there, or is there a Times Square outside New York?
Anyway it’s an interesting festival, putting your own figures on display for other people to take pictures, I would like to do the same with both my figures and gunpla, of course I would have to choose my gunpla wisely since I don’t want to show the crap that I made on some kits especially on OYW RX-78-2
(will probably get another RX-78-2 to redeem myself)
@cholic~haha really ^^
@Belela-san~It’s the Times Square in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia ^^. yeah we just started to do this year, and the respond was pretty good ^^
Awww tight! It looks like a lot of fun! That’s quite the collection of figurines there, Valho! Congrats on getting such a nice display going! Did you guys print those labels out yourselves? That must have been a lot of work.
It’s cool to see such a great interest in anime happening in ML! Just looking at the keen interest of the people taking the photos, that’s just awesome.
I wish I could have been there to see so many figures in one place! Maybe someday I’ll own that many xD; (Yeah right! But I can dream right?).
@radiant~yeah it was great ^^, tiring but fun. One of the collector printed it
There’s always an interest in anime, so now we are introducing figures to the masses ^^
@figures~^^ well you are bound to own as many if you continue buying hehe
That’s very true xD;;; eep.
Nice. It looked like a lot of fun. Be careful with your lens and elbow…hehe. Yeah. Even when I’m shooting at home sometimes the lens bumps into the figure.
Yay.. There’s another girl
Hi hi Byaku-chan ^^ Oh yea.. other merchandise was too poisoning.. you shud go see 
I shud bought more ^^” 60+ is reali o.O and 20 figures so much adi haha.. Nvm, next time “steal” ur hikaru hehehe.. Oh.. gonna hav an anime convention next year in Kuching, interested? 
A chance to promote figures to Kuching ppl 
Kuching is too FAR my dear O_o . Nevertheless, by next display booth maybe we should put a poll or something so people can vote what they wants to see in real life. Well, just an idea anyway :p
Valho, next weekend in sg.Wang event, going?
@figures~XD
. as e-jump say Kuching is too far, logistic is a nightmare, but if go there just to take photo and see stuff it’s ok ^^
@super rats~yeah it was quite fun, lens is always a danger around figures XD
@serene~yup there is ^^, next time will look at all the booths more throughly ^^.wahh next time must keep a close eyes on my Hikaru next time
@e-jump~sg wang, what even is that ?
It was a nice event and I get to meet up with many old friends
@e-jump
good idea, i should create a program/script for that b4 the next event ^^
yea, wat event is that?
988 StarDJ Cosplay Competition on Sunday 30th. Since the prizes looks luxury enough, I bet its gonna be real quality cosplay showdown.
When I was in Hobbycon 2007 (local event in KK, Sabah), I do get a bunch of cameras on my booth, but most of them wanted to take pictures of either a small display of my military figures or together with me, the military otaku wearing a heavy assault vest, helmet, goggles and face mask. Was selling spare items for 1/6 action figures, but garnered little interests with buyers.
hi there.. luv your figurines. By the way I was the Mikuru in the Hare Hare Yukai dance. And FYI, I cosplayed Shana on the 1st day.
Hope to see you guys in other events like GACC.
love ya photos.. was there at the event as well.. didn’t really stay there long as I was quite occupied that day itself..
I’ve been reading ya’ blog for awhile and was surprise to see that it was actually you who were displaying the figurines booth. Could’ve said “hi” if I knew earlier
Anyway, looking forward for next years comic fiesta~
Great pics – I sent them to GoodSmile and they were happy to see their figures.
haha.. yup.. omos like shipping the figures to Kuching XD Imagine a whole box o.O yea.. come visit visit oso can ^^ Can get to meet ya guys
and see wat we hav for our figure display booth 
Surely by nxt year our collection wud hav increased ^^” and $$ decrease ow.. T.T
The event wud be on 19th July if not wrong XD
@e-jump~sounds interesting, but probably will be limited to taking photos of cosplayers on stage
@Hangmen~haha i think a military otaku in assault vest, helmet etc looks more interesting eh ^^
@dytia~thanks ^^, nice cosplaying as Mikuru btw, too bad I didn’t manage to take photos of you, would have love to see you cosplaying as Shana as well, but wasn’t free to go that day. hmm GACC still nothing confirm yet, maybe just go there to take photos ^^
@hanxdesign~thanks ^^, hehe, well we’ll probably do it again next year, so come and visit us then ^^
@danny~wow that’s great, thank
@Serene~haha yeah a lot of figures to ship over there. going as a visitor is great too though, more time to take photos ^^, and see the collections you all have, hmm 19th July eh, will note that ^^
That’s quite a figure gallery you had there. No flash photography please! =P
Yupz.. ask ur frens to come too and help suppot us ^^ Too bad I oni had 3 figures at the moment >< May increase nxt year by 2 or 3 lol
And yea.. more time to take photos o.O I’ll be cosplaying, mayb? haha.. There’ll be other ppl who are cosplaying too
@Yamcha~thanks ^^, I don’t use flash when taking photos using my mini studio, but at convention at stuff depends loh
@Serene~hmm thinking of visiting Kuching, not only just for the cosplayer and figures, but also wanted to go there for my other hobby, photography ^^
Haha.. izzit? Great ^^ Well, if nature photography is your fav
Esp in macro mode reali love taking photos of the small tiny flowers hehe.. Come 2gether with the others too and hav mor fun 
Was tinking of doing photo shooting with the Cosplayers and nature BG XD
@Serene~probably do some landscape and macro stuff, need to invest on the lens first thohgh hehe. yeah hmm need to discuss with them on next TT see if anyone interested ^^. wah cosplayer + nature, two birds with one stone ^^
Haha.. You’re right, 2 birds with 1 stone, save mor time and energy XD Oh.. the lense? Tink the lense you’re using for ur figures are gud enuf adi o.. o.O LilKeV84 adi wanna book ticket come to Kuching lol
lol.. Serene.. I tot rain said wanna organize some photo-shooting sessions.. we start first then invite the experts to come.. haha..
btw valho, I changed my blog link..
WOW super COOL! dols!