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Conventions, Halloween and My Birthday.

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So I haven't posted in a while so I thought I'd do two in one night. This post is to regale you of my adventures over the last few weeks we start with..... MCM Expo. So as you know I Cosplayed for Hyper Japan but this convention was my my first fully home grown Cosplay. I had made everything and was entering a Cosparade I bloody loved it as I said I my Final Pepakura Post . Other then this I got a few more autographs for my collection Here are some pictures from that day.  Me hanging out in the queue for the Red Dwarf crew. This amazing Cosplay This guy was in Ace Venture When Nature Calls. Robert Llewellyn AKA Kyrten looking under duress. What a bloody nice fellow. Hatty Hayridge not so under duress. Hanging out with a Pyramid Head. Becky and I donning our Pikachu hats on the train home. All the the autographs from that day. Hatty Hayridge, Robert Llewellyen, Andrew Lee Potts and Neil Jackson. Cardiff

Final Pepakura Post

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Hello all, I finally finished my costume. Here all the final bits done and me in the costume at MCM. (I will talk more about that in another post later tonight) I started spray painting the pieces just plain black to start with. Lining the pieces with silver paint. Everything put together. I also made some arrows I'm particularly proud of these. And finally her is me on the Pop Asia stage at MCM expo. I went with the Bosmer make up. I had so much fun on stage and I will do it again. Your friendly neighbourhood Bendy Benz.

The House Of Night - Not really a review but what I think of it....

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Hello All, I hope you are all very well this fine Sunday. So yesterday I finished Redeemed the last book in the House Of Night. I have been reading these books since about 2010 is started reading them a little late as the first book came out in 2007. The series is made up of 12 books and 4 novellas. The books are: Marked Betrayed Chosen Untamed Hunted Tempted Burned Awakened Destined Hidden Revealed Redeemed The novellas are: Dragon's Oath Lenobia's Vow Nerefet's Curse Kalona's Fall This series is essentially about a vampire finishing school The House Of Night. The vampires in these books are different to traditional vampires, they are marked as vampires as teenagers by the Goddess Nyx and not every fledgling vampire makes the Change. The story follows a young fledgling called Zoey Redbird. She is gifted by the Goddess and tasked to save the world for vampire and human a like. While de

Destination Star Trek

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So last weekend Mike and I went to the fantastic Destination Star Trek. It was held at the London Excel it was a 3 day event which held the cream of the crop of the Star Trek world being a Trekkie myself I had to go. The day started with a failed Guiness world record attempt. In 2012 the first Destination Star Trek beat the world record of most people dress in Star Trek uniforms. I was not part of this unfortunately but I tried this time with an original series red dress which I love. We didn't beat it but I got a selfie a borg so it turned out great for me. After this we entered the exhibition hall. This year I found the stalls a bit sparse there wasn't as many in 2012 yes it gave you more room to move but there wasn't has much selection. We walked around some of the stalls and decided to get our autograph tokens. We chose Jeri Ryan (my girl crush), Karl Urban (my guy crush), Robert Picardo and Tim Russ. As Robert Picardo was close we went straight to him. He was polit