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At Anime Expo 2008 - IsaacGS - 2008-07-06

So I went to the Anime Expo in Los Angeles yesterday and stopped by the nexon booth. They were giving out Mabinogi tote bags (which turned out to be quite helpful for carrying everything) and as I walked up for the first time, they were just finishing their Trivia contest. He said they would ask more questions in 30 minutes, so I went and messed around for a while, then came back; the questions they asked were quite simple: "Who do you go to to advance to warrior?" Advance to Thief?" "Advance to Archer?" (This question, btw, I won a T-shirt and 10k NX on.) Then he asked a question about Mabinogi, and Audition (It was funny because no one could answer them. >_>) and finally started to ask some interesting things:
"What is the newest Continent in MapleStory?" Well, that's Masteria (obviously). The next question was even better:
"What's the name of John Barricade's brother?" I was sort of dumbfounded that they asked this because there's only two places where this is mentioned: Once, during John's NLC quest which a good 90% of us did almost a year ago, and the second in the TCG item description of Subani Ankh. These references to him are also not obvious, and considering the fact that it seems most people flat out ignore everything NPCs have to say, quite rare. I couldn't answer again as I had already answered the earlier question, but I tried to whisper it to my friend. I was a little loud and got caught. :p Still, I waited like 30 seconds before and no one answered. (If you're wondering, my friend later won on the last question, which was asking where you could buy NX cards, but they ran out of shirts. I gave her mine since I didn't plan on wearing it anyway. XD)

What's the significance of this? Well, for one the flash ad that's been popping up everywhere, has a picture of an NPC we all suspect to be Jack Barricade on it. Since the other questions were all so easy, it seems odd why they'd make one be about a random remark made by one NPC two times.
[Image: barricadeadke3.png]
Unless, you know, he's coming out as a real NPC soon. (Obvious patch hint.)

I got lots of pictures but I don't think any were at the nexon booth. Mostly of just people in really cool costumes. If any people want to see those then I'll post them. As a whole it was really fun, even though I could only stay for 5 hours.

At Anime Expo 2008 - Hazzy - 2008-07-06

Post the costumes please. D:
I wanna see a real life Mushroom. >:[

At Anime Expo 2008 - Brandini - 2008-07-06

Yeah I would love to see pictures.

At Anime Expo 2008 - IsaacGS - 2008-07-06

Hazzy Wrote:Post the costumes please. D:
I wanna see a real life Mushroom. >:[

I didn't see anyone cosplaying as MapleStory characters, or at least any I could recognize. I did see some people wearing Gaia outfits. They're mostly anime characters and video game characters (Like a group of people playing as the entire cast of Sonic Adventure 2) XD There were two girls at the Nexon booth wearing Mabinogi outfits, but because we don't play that game no one in my group took pics of them.

At Anime Expo 2008 - Katie - 2008-07-06

[COLOR="Purple"]It would be interesting to see pictures from the expo.

On a different note... "cosplay" sounds weird. I have no idea what it means, and I'm scared to google it for something weird might pop up lol.[/COLOR]

At Anime Expo 2008 - Jirai - 2008-07-06

Don't we already know we're getting Jack as an NPC? Wasn't it in the list of NPCs in that folder? >_>

At Anime Expo 2008 - Jay - 2008-07-06

[COLOR="Black"]Heh, pictures would be entertaining. I'd like to see them if you really don't mind posting them.

I find it funny how there were apparently a bunch of easy questions, and then, suddenly, random ones involving Masteria and Jack Barricade. If this was a hint, then Nexon isn't too subtle.

... Two more days until NxProse's threads. Tongue

IsaacGS Wrote:There were two girls at the Nexon booth wearing Mabinogi outfits, but because we don't play that game no one in my group took pics of them.

Sounds like the "Mabi girls" they mentioned in their expo notice. xD I'm curious... were they dressed similar to the characters in the banner at the top of the Mabinogi homepage? (This page.)

xkatiie Wrote:On a different note... "cosplay" sounds weird. I have no idea what it means, and I'm scared to google it for something weird might pop up lol.

Cosplay is short for "costume play". It means to dress up and act as a character from an anime/manga/video game/book/etcetera.

Jirai Wrote:Don't we already know we're getting Jack as an NPC? Wasn't it in the list of NPCs in that folder? >_>

Yeah, he was.[/COLOR]

At Anime Expo 2008 - Anyoneisgod - 2008-07-06

post the shots,i love me some cosplay.

At Anime Expo 2008 - IsaacGS - 2008-07-06

Jirai Wrote:Don't we already know we're getting Jack as an NPC? Wasn't it in the list of NPCs in that folder? >_>
Yeah, but there are still people who obstinately refuse to believe that. I'm just piling more evidence on to the stack. Apparently, I missed some of the more interesting questions from previous days (On sleepywood someone said they asked about Holychoras, which is an even more obscure reference!)
Jay Wrote:[COLOR="Black"]Heh, pictures would be entertaining. I'd like to see them if you really don't mind posting them.

I find it funny how there were apparently a bunch of easy questions, and then, suddenly, random ones involving Masteria and Jack Barricade. If this was a hint, then Nexon isn't too subtle.

... Two more days until NxProse's threads. Tongue



Sounds like the "Mabi girls" they mentioned in their expo notice. xD I'm curious... were they dressed similar to the characters in the banner at the top of the Mabinogi homepage? (This page.)

Yeah, he was.[/COLOR]
One of them was dressed like the girl in black.

Oh yeah, and something else cool is that they were running the MapleStory Anime there (subtitled, not dubbed) all day, so maybe it will be licensed here soon? That's the only way we'll get the Kino pet everyone loves so much.
here's some pics.
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At Anime Expo 2008 - Saver - 2008-07-06

That last picture made me wonder if he got kicked out of the Expo or not.

I believe my state's Expo will be coming up soon. Though it's nothing special, it's still a nice feeling to go hang out with geeks and freaks <.<.

At Anime Expo 2008 - Jay - 2008-07-06

IsaacGS Wrote:One of them was dressed like the girl in black.

[COLOR="Black"]Hm, that doesn't surprise me. She's one of the most iconic NPCs from the game, if not the most.

Interesting pictures! I was wondering the same thing as Saver about that last guy, though... What were they doing, anyway? Still-motion images don't provide much info as to what kinds of activities you could possibly be doing that involve a guy in underwear and a giant mallet. o_o[/COLOR]

At Anime Expo 2008 - Shippo the Fox - 2008-07-06

I feel like killing them all.

Seriously, you went to the Expo, but you didn't kill the annoying Smega spammers? You have brought shame to us!

At Anime Expo 2008 - Katie - 2008-07-06

[COLOR="Purple"]I had NO idea that people dressed up at these things nor the costumes were that elaborate.

ANd whats up with the last 2 pics and the dude in the speedo. Looked like his nuts were about to be crushed.[/COLOR]

At Anime Expo 2008 - Berzerk - 2008-07-06

I lol'd real hard at the Sonic cosplayers. They did a very good job though, as did a lot of them. Zomg, anyone else notice the Black Emo Ranger? xD Oh and, that Ichigo kinda freaked me out. x_x

At Anime Expo 2008 - DrRusty - 2008-07-06

OMG THAT GUY WHO DRESSED UP LIKE KAKASHI LOOKED SWEEEEEEET!!

Also those dudes dressed up as hollow were pretty damn cool too XD
omg im such a nerd , BUT WHO CARES

At Anime Expo 2008 - Sora - 2008-07-06

[COLOR="Black"]Wow, the person that cosplayed Kakashi did it really well imo. >_>

I laughed hard at the Sonic cast, especially Shadow LOL.[/COLOR]

At Anime Expo 2008 - IsaacGS - 2008-07-06

Jay Wrote:[COLOR="Black"]Hm, that doesn't surprise me. She's one of the most iconic NPCs from the game, if not the most.

Interesting pictures! I was wondering the same thing as Saver about that last guy, though... What were they doing, anyway? Still-motion images don't provide much info as to what kinds of activities you could possibly be doing that involve a guy in underwear and a giant mallet. o_o[/COLOR]
Uh, he was running around the shops (he may have been working on one of them?) and waving a fan, making big sumo moves. Then that guy with the mallet came out and he was like, grunting over it. It was really weird.
Shippo the Fox Wrote:I feel like killing them all.

Seriously, you went to the Expo, but you didn't kill the annoying Smega spammers? You have brought shame to us!
There were two computers with MapleStory there, and they both had demo characters logged in from Guest accounts on them. One was an I/L mage (like level 8x) and the other was a nooby character in HHG1. It was odd because I didn't see any other players, maybe they had them set up to a dedicated server. Either way, no one was spamming Megaphones from the convention.

At Anime Expo 2008 - Jirai - 2008-07-06

IsaacGS Wrote:no one was spamming Megaphones from the convention.

I WISH that were true <_<

Well, I can't verify that they were actually at the convention, but a bunch of people with the same format of names (for example ###Class, like 032Priest) were SPAMMING smegas, saying they were at the anime con with guest characters that had free smegas <_<

At Anime Expo 2008 - IsaacGS - 2008-07-06

Jirai Wrote:I WISH that were true <_<

Well, I can't verify that they were actually at the convention, but a bunch of people with the same format of names (for example ###Class, like 032Priest) were SPAMMING smegas, saying they were at the anime con with guest characters that had free smegas <_<
I watched them for like 10 minutes, they never went into the CS or anything... One of the characters was wandering around in Orbis Tower and the other at HHG, but no one was there. Oh well, either way the convention ends today so it'll be over with soon.

At Anime Expo 2008 - Apollo - 2008-07-06

Damn, that looked like a lot of fun.
Did anyone get the alienware laptops?