12DOVE at MCM Comic Con - Cosplay madness
Louise Blain is a journalist and broadcaster specialising in gaming, technology, and entertainment. She is the presenter of BBC Radio 3’s monthly Sound of Gaming show and has a weekly consumer tech slot on BBC Radio Scotland. She can also be found on BBC Radio 4, BBC Five Live, Netflix UK's YouTube Channel, and on The Evolution of Horror podcast. As well as her work on GamesRadar, Louise writes for NME, T3, and TechRadar. When she’s not working, you can probably find her watching horror movies or playing an Assassin’s Creed game and getting distracted by Photo Mode.
Now second in size only to San Diego in terms of visitors, MCM Comic Con in London has become an amazing cosplay magnet when it hits the Excel Conference Centre twice a year. I made my way to the Docklands this weekend with Leon to document some of the beautifully crafted madness. As you can see from the gallery above, there was slews of incredible work and we only managed to capture a glimpse of it.
Somehow managing to resist spending all our money on swords, we caught up with the lovely Nolan North on those Alan Tudyk comments, took in the toys of the Play Arts Kai stall, saw Dark Souls 3 in action and I managed to stop myself buying Pocky the size of a small child. All in all a definite victory. Check out the gallery above for some amazing creations. And those Fallout bobble-head costumes? They took four months to build...
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