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Over the Christmas and New Year holidays, and I went to New Zealand!! It's such a beautiful country! We went for almost a month and already want to go back. *O*

Of course, with The Hobbit which came out just as we were there, we had to dress for the occasion! We went to Hobbiton, the movie set of The Shire in both Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, cosplayed as Merry and Pippin. A lot of people asked if we were headed home when they saw us dressed as hobbits heading to Hobbiton. XD

This was probably the fastest shoot we have ever done. Since we were actually taking the photos as we were on a tour, we only had a few seconds to set up each of our shots, but our guide was very enthusiastic, accommodating, and very amused. XD We were also really lucky that it wasn't raining or extra cloudy that day. And yup, cosplays made by us~

And we want to share some of our behind the scenes photos of our adventures at Hobbiton, Rivendell and Isengard!

 

Hobbiton

Arrived at Hobbiton in Matamata, New Zealand!


Love the beautiful rolling hills in New Zealand. It looks like hobbits could pop out of the hills at any time
Oh and yes, we have the hairy feet of the hobbits and walked around barefoot.


There were lots of super cute houses. I would totally live in one


The Shire really looks just like in the movies *o*
[Do you like my floating basket? 8D]


It was actually quite a hot day though. Sunburninguuuuuuuu


At Bag End - where Bilbo and Frodo live!


More Bag End! [Sam does a really good job gardening. XD]


View from the top!


Trekking through the hobbit hillssssss


And seeing more cute hobbit houses


At the end, we headed for the Green Dragon Inn, which was recently renovated to be a real working pub!


On the way!


So of course we stopped for a drink. Mmmmmm ginger beer <3


And relaxed by the fiyah in the hot summer heat ;;;;;


Playing around a little longer~
 

They even have Hobbiton buses


Last look at Hobbiton before we left. It's so beautiful! ;o;


The Hobbiton film set is on a sheep farm so there were lots of fluffy visitors :3


Lord of the Rings Tour

On our journey across the country, we also did the Lord of the Rings tour in Wellington, NZ and visited the filming locations of Rivendell, Isengard and a few others - while waltzing around as hobbits, of course.


At Rivendell, there were some decorative posts and maps marking the location. Rivendell wasn't as gorgeous as the location in the movie, but the filming site was very pretty in its own right


Supposedly, this post marks the relative heights of the characters. Although if this were accurate, Gandalf would be a lot shorter than I expected. o.o;


Big big trees at Isengard!


We also happened to find wild mushrooms at Isengard! A hobbit's favorite!


We also saw a giant poster of Bilbo on the side of a building in Wellington. XD


We had a wonderful time in New Zealand, and definitely will have to make another trip sometime!

and I cosplayed Loki with at New York Comic Con last weekend! Male and female versions XD

On the pretty Marvel stage~


With as Knives Chau from Scott Pilgrim - We found this awesome Thor statue by Madame Tussauds. We thought it was a cosplayer at first until someone bumped into it and the statue wiggled XD


Demoed the Marvel Avengers: Battle for Earth X-Box game! The producer was so excited and invited us to demo the game. It was a lot of fun kicking and punching in cosplay, and if we had played the single person mode we would have fought Loki. XD Although I had to take off my fur cloak/cape for round 2 because I was too shiny/furry for the Kinect to recognize my movements. Wearing our horns also made for a fun Kinect read-out of our body shapes. lol


Loved cosplaying Loki - and butting horns with Grrr!


I've got the goods! Stealing all of 's props XD


There was lots of bunny ears all around and with photos with other Lokis too XD


And was a lot of fun when we found more Lokis! [venntus looks so devious!]


Discovered another Loki/Scott Pilgrim group! had to do a fight-off XD


There was also this booth that sold Avengers perfume and cologne. XD The Iron Man one smelled like a rich person, lol


With Nick Fury advertising


Sea of people at NYCC!


<333


Although we didn't actually spend as much time at the actual convention this year. Spent a good amount of time shopping, chowing and watching Looper, which is an excellent movie btw! haha

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San Japan 2012

I know I've been terrible about posting con reports on time this year so I will just have to abbreviate San Japan to the NYCC post. In short - we had a blast this year judging for both the Cosplay Show and the Hall Cosplay competitions. We hosted a series of cosplay panels, and per usual wore our BRIGHT NEON jumpsuits! This year's color was yellow!

Here's a couple shots of us as Len and Rin from Vocaloid [Tsunagi version]:
  

Ahahaha late con report of lateness. 8D

, and I went to San Diego Comic Con this year! It was our first time going and it was a blast! Didn't cosplay this year as we just wanted to see all the sights, but jalfjdsjfdsjfa;dfjs it was so so much fun!

Spent a lot of time waiting in line [as SDCC is line con], but surprisingly managed to get into everything we wanted to see. Took a few pictures and wanted to share - most of the panels and some Exhibition Hall shots.

Thursday


Entering the con!


Centerpiece of the Marvel booth and probably the most visually stunning booth at the con. Complete with the Iron Man suits from Iron Man 3. The guy standing on the stage was an awesome cosplayer *o* So many all throughout the weekend!


Exploring the Exhibit Hall. This was at the awesome Hobbit booth


Randomly saw Elijah Wood! 8D


Dexter panel! Ahhhhh and got to see the first 5 minutes of the upcoming season! Can't wait!


The tens of thousands of people wandering the Gaslamp District right after the con closed

Friday


Early morning lines for Hall H [the largest panel room a the con which holds 6500 people]


Waited for hours and hours, but did finally get into the Game of Thrones panel!


Emily Blunt and Joseph Gordon Levitt presenting their upcoming film Looper!


And saw Matt Damon randomly. He got so many questions about Team America lol


Hoboing camping out orz;;;;;;;

Saturday


HEEEEEEEEEE Martin Freeman at the Hobbit panel! *o*


And Sir Ian McKellan *O*


Group Hobbit picture! They also showed us 12 minutes of the film! It looks amazing! SO EXCITED


ROBERT DOWNEY JRJRJRJRJRJRRRRRRRR LFJD:LSFSDS SDYESSSSSSSS
At the Iron Man 3 panel. AND HE DANCED DOWN THE WALKWAY. COMPLETE WITH MUSIC, IRON MAN HAND AND ALL.


YES.

Sunday

anddddddddd hobo-ed it out to get into the Doctor Who panel... but was worth it! [Not sure if we'll do it again, but was worth it for DW. 8D]


YEYYYYYYY Matt Smith, Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill from Doctor Who! Got pretty good seats too!


The Moff!




Definitely coming back next year!