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Drawn by Gubaba Drawn by Tom Bateman Drawn by Tom Bateman? Anonymous drawing And last is a non entry drawing by UCLA JAC member Jessica!!! This was a great contest and i'm glad so many people participated!

Just got around to scanning the sketches from our MW Con Live Art contest from Saturday! The contest rules were that contests were given only 20 minutes to draw their favorite Macross character or mecha AND include some sort of background. Everyone was given a 8.5" x 11" sheet of paper and a pencil only. We had a good number of participants and the winners were decided by fan vote from MW Con attendees after the contest. Congratulations to Mitch for winning 1st place, Daisuke for 2nd, and Ken Cho for 3rd! Drawn by Mitch (1st place) Drawn by Daisuke aka Maiden Japan (2nd place) Drawn by Ken Cho (3rd place) Drawn by Modineceaste Drawn by Lance Drawn by Miriya

Drawn by Gubaba Drawn by Tom Bateman Drawn by Tom Bateman? Anonymous drawing And last is a non entry drawing by UCLA JAC member Jessica!!! This was a great contest and i'm glad so many people participated!

Just got around to scanning the sketches from our MW Con Live Art contest from Saturday! The contest rules were that conteststants were given only 20 minutes to draw their favorite Macross character or mecha AND include some sort of background. Everyone was given a 8.5" x 11" sheet of paper and a pencil only. We had a good number of participants and the winners were decided by fan vote from MW Con attendees after the contest. Congratulations to Mitch for winning 1st place, Daisuke for 2nd, and Ken Cho for 3rd! Drawn by Mitch (1st place) Drawn by Daisuke aka Maiden Japan (2nd place) Drawn by Ken Cho (3rd place) Drawn by Modineceaste Drawn by Lance Drawn by Miriya

Great video montage Ron!!! hahaha... love the credits especially... I didn't make any money out of organizing the con either hehe... but i guess i've been doing it since i love event planning and making cool things happen. As for next year, i'm still debating about taking the lead with organizing the event again. Like EXO said, i did the majority of the work since my usual helpers and locals weren't in town or didn't even come this year. I spent a lot of time contacting UCLA JAC and making sure we had a venue and worked out all the logistics with them. I worked on getting the sponsors, putting together a schedule/program, handling registration and printing out badges for everyone, coming up with the rules of each event we had, facilitating each event we had at the con, packing up most of my collection so we had a good display of Macross stuff, and a whole lot more. Luckily EXO helped with the flyers and tshirts and Bigkid reviewed most of my work on the con, but that was it. I guess it was my fault for not asking for help, but I kinda felt that i did so much work and I don't have much to show for since i always give out most of the prizes and donations to MW Con attendees. I even worked out making this year's convention FREE and people sometimes won a prize by just showing up. I feel bad about participating in events i'm hosting to win a prize even, since i'm so competitive and love tournaments. I love connecting with Macross fans from around the world, but I'll need to find the motivation to do this all over again since it took a lot out of me this year. Maybe if a lot more people took on responsibilities for helping with the event. I know there were some people that posted saying they would help, but I'll have to think about how it will all work out. Anyways, thanks for everyone's positive comments about the con. I'm glad everyone had a good time!

Check out all the cool FanArt Submissions from various MW Members. Congrats to Polidread for his Itano Circus Valk Girl! Submitted by Polidread Submitted by Temjin Submitted by Grapetang Submitted by anime52K8 Submitted by Akt-m Extra non judged entries from akt-m

Check out all the cool FanArt Submissions from various MW Members. Congrats to Polidread for his Itano Circus Valk Girl! Submitted by Polidread Submitted by Temjin Submitted by Grapetang Submitted by anime52K8 Submitted by Akt-m Extra non judged entries from akt-m

I have it, i forgot to PM you about it, but i found it after everyone left the con.

good memory Miriya!

I really wanted to participate this year too, but judging was also pretty fun! Next year if you're around, let's have an exhibition match! I want to challenge the reigning champion, haha

Check out our Misa cosplayer! And she's good at serving cake too! haha... i like how NMB4M volunteered her to cut it for everyone Here's a picture of our Customs contest winners! Ron for his diorama won 1st, NMB4M won 2nd for his cake, and Miriya won 3rd for his EvaValk Ron wins 1st place in the customs contest!!! And boy was that cake good!! This picture is especially for you Save!! I tried to save you a piece, but thems hogs ate it all.. haha That's all my commentary for my pics!!! Hope you guys had a good time and enjoyed yourself. Now to take a vacation from coordinating the con and time to pass the torch! Any volunteers? =]

and for our final championship round, i had the contestants go from Battroid back to fighter mode in a test of speed an accuracy! Miriya vs Mitch for the championship! did he get it just right? And the winner with a blazing time of 28.8 seconds is Miriya!!! Haha... he had been practicing all week for this and it paid off. 1st place price was a VF100's VF-25 Ozma valk donated by HobbyLinkJapan. Congrats Miriya

Tim from JAC vs Mitch from MW. Tim transformed a 1/55 for the 1st time that day... haha... guess who won? xstoys vs Jasonc. Game time!!! Oh!!! that head antennae wasn't pointed straight up!! +3 seconds for you sucka!! Round 2, i had contestants transform from Battroid to Gerwalk with REALLY funky fixed posed arms Miriya vs NMB4M haha... man that judge was pretty anal wasn't he?? haha Mitch vs xstoys... what a showdown!

I had no clue if anyone was gonna bring stuff for display, so i ended bringing most of my personal collection of stock Macross toys to display at the con. I love displaying my toys so i brought a bunch of acrylic clear bases to set up my display. I think i did a decent job displaying my stuff... no? All my toys! And i have a TON of pictures from our 1/55 Bandai VF-1 Transformation contest. We had 8 contestants that were seeded in a tournament bracket, head to head. the 1st round, i had them change from Fighter to Battroid with fixed arm poses. We timed each contestant and added 3 seconds for every error on their valk after they placed it on the table. It was really exciting! Can't wait to see the photos. I had a good time being the judge.. hehe Orguss vs NMB4M Check out how much detail i put into judging each valk!

xstoys brings only a very small portion of his impressive collection to share this year. Original Yamato Macross Helmet and Shoulder Armor xstoys collection, those are 1/48 resin kits of the VF-19 and VF-22 original LV purple minmay guard scheme Thunder Hammer! We had 3 thunder hammers in the house this year!!! here's EXO's original TH, i brought mine but it was just plain... haha Major Tom brought his REALLY cool patlabor figure. It's amazingly awesome with all the gimmicks it has Tommy Yune brought the new SDCC exclusive VF-1S steath valk for display. Haha, i showed him Yamato's 25th Anniversary VF-1S valk which he saw for the first time at the con he said... haha

Notable Day 2 pics We had all our Customs brought in today with some other great displays! Here's Ron5864's ridiculous Macross Frontier Ranka's Rescue Diorama Tommy Yune hosts a panel about his artwork and working in photoshop Some of the Macross Artwork submitted for the FanArt Contest. Congrats to Polidread for his Itano Circus valk girl that won 1st place! Jasonc's very cool Minmay doll in her Red Chinese Dress which i hear is a production sample and one of the only ones in existence! Denversaur's custom VF-1 Angel Bird Custom Mechatek's Destroidi Phalanx custom

Basara joins us for MW Con 09! Ken Cho gets crazy singing Dynamite for our Macross Karaoke contest. Ken Cho wins life! And here's the winner of our MW Con Karaoke Contest Lloyd! He had a great rendition of Ranka's birthday song for Alto. AND he knew all the choreography from start to finish. You have to see the video to appreciate it.. haha All our Macross Karaoke Contestants! And the winner Lloyd on the right and Tomo on the left who got 2nd place

Macross Live Art drawing contest in action! contestants had 20 minutes to draw their favorite Macross Mecha or Character along with a background. Daisuke and Tom Bateman even participated! Check out some of the awesome drawings! I'll scan each one later and post it then This is a PaperCraft Madox made by Daisuke which is 100% made of Paper! and scratch built too We had some great Karaoke singers. the girl on the right had an awesome Sheryl anime singing voice! NMB4M shares his cake with a kid. =]

Former Robotech comic artist Tim Eldred speaks Daisuke transforms his 24" Optimus Prime for everyone! Check out how popular he is We actually had Ranka and Alto cosplayers join us on Saturday! baby plush next to my big custom VF-1J plushie. the baby VF-1S plush was my inspiration for making the big one... hehe Daisuke's prototype Beta for display along with his original drawings Miriya's hangar diorama made by Ron5864

Day 1 notable Pics: MaidenJapan putting together his 24" Optimus Prime before the con All of the prizes donated from our sponsors and contributors Macross Flyers and coasters donated by Otaku2.com and MW member Save! Each pre-reg attendee received a coaster and 2 flyers of their choice Sample picture of our pre-registration badges, Everyone got a 3" by 4" badge with plastic holder and string lanyard Set up of our stage where we hosted Macross Screenings, Artist Panels, Karaoke Contests, and general announcments we had 2 TV's set up, 1 for all day Macross videos and the other for Video games. We had RockBand 2 and Super Smash Bros Brawl on the 2nd TV Our MW Con 09 welcome sign made by NMB4M

That's NightmareB4Macross's custom VF-X test Valk

Sorry i moved the pictures around in my album so here's the new linked picture for your comment. I finished posting all the pics i took from the con with my camera! Linky is here again: MacrossWorld Convention 2009 Day 1 Photos MacrossWorld Convention 2009 Day 2 Photos I'll post some notable ones here on the thread, but you can check out close to 400 pictures in those 2 albums

Finished uploading MW Con Day 1 pics onto Photobucket. Check out the album here! MacrossWorld Convention 2009 Day 1 Photos MW Con day 2 pics here! MacrossWorld Convention 2009 Day 2 Photos

For everyone who attended, please post pics and videos if you have them!!!

Official day 2 Recap! Whew!... I'm so tired and exhausted. Anyone wanna take over for planning MW Con? hahaha....I'm glad everyone had a good time. i don't think i heard too many complaints this year except maybe that i hardly stuck to the original program schedule that i posted. But we did do most everything that i said we would, right? I wasn't sure how Sunday could top Saturday, but it started off great with a TON of new customs and Macross displays being set up. I think our exhibition displays were better today than they were yesterday! Thanks to everyone who brought out something to share with the attendees: xstoys, Jasonc, Major tom, Maiden Japan, miriya, Mitch, Denversar, Ron5864, NightmareB4Macross, Peter, Egan Loo.... did i forget anyone? that was all from memory, but thanks again for bringing stuff to share So after everything was set up, we started off the day with a Street Fighter 4 tournament. Big thank you to Ricky for bringing his MAME arcade system on Saturday and PS3 with joysticks today. He ran the whole tournament with a record number of participants at 16. Danny Vo was the winner of the tournament! Thank you to BigBadToyStore for sponsoring this event. We had some great opportunity drawings throughout the day so thank you to everyone who donated and purchased a ticket. All funds raised will go towards hosting future MW Cons. Tommy Yune did a panel about his artwork in photoshop which was great look at a professional in the industry sharing how anime is created. Thank you Tommy for sharing your work and for bringing a sample of the Toynami 1/100 Stealth and MPC Rand We also had our MW Fanart submission contest so thank you to everyone who submitted an entry! We had Grapetang, Polidread, Akt_m, Temjin, and anime52K8. Thanks for submitting great work! I'll post the entries you submitted in another thread. The winner selected by Tommy Yune for best Fanart is Polidread for his valk girl! Honorable mention goes to Akt_m for his amazing 3d work and CG work. This year's 1/55 Bandai chunky monkey contest was one for the books! We had a full load of contestants that competed head to head in a tournament bracket. Contestants had to transform their 1/55 from Fighter mode, to Battroid and accurately into a fixed pose. Each contestant was timed and the for each error, 3 seconds were added to the overall time. It was a heated battle and the judge was really anal about errors but it was a fair contest. Congrats to Miriya for winning a Vf-100 series VF-25 Ozma donated by HobbyLinkJapan!!! 2nd place went to Mitch who received a bootleg 1/55 for his efforts so he can practice and come back next year. Our customs contest entries were also great this year! Thank you NightmareB4Macross, Ron5864, Miriya, Orguss, Denversaur, Mitch, and Mechatek for bringing your customs! the contest was decided by 3 judges who ranked their top 5 customs and also a Fan Vote score that everyone who attended could vote for their favorite custom. Points were assigned based on their rank by the judges and by the most popular fan vote custom. Here were the results! 1st place: Ron5864's Macross Frontier Diorama set of a VF-25 and Ranka's rescue scene! 2nd place: NightmareB4Macross' incredible and 100% edible SDF-1 cake! 3rd place: Miriya's smashup custom of a Evagelion Rei in and a Valk thingy-ma-bobber! Thank you to HobbyLinkJapan for donating a 1/60 v2 VF-1J Canon Fodder as 1st place prize, BigBadToystore gift certificate as 2nd place prize, and LAFToys Flexi-display stand for 3rd place prize. The day ended with another round of opportunity drawings where our grand prize of a yamato 1/60 Fan Racer model kit was up for grabs! The big winner of the fan racer was Bobby aka sneakers who deserved it since he helped me out so much all weekend with registration and packing up supplies. Thanks bobby! Oh yea! and we ate NB4M's delicious SDF-1 Cake! Thanks to our cosplayer Misa who dressed up and served us cake! I had a ton of help from the Japanese Anime Club at UCLA. Thank you to Phillip, Abraham, Tim, and Jessica who were my main volunteers from the club. Big thanks to Abraham for running all the technical stuff and organizing the karaoke! And thanks to all the volunteers that came to help over the weekend: Ricky, Mindy, Exo, Sneakers, and some folks who just came early or stayed late to help out Phil and Peter. Oh, and that guy Bigkid24 claims he sent some emails to help with this year's con so thanks to him too even though he's out of the country... haha.. bastid That's MW Con 2009 in a nutshell!! thanks again to all our sponsors and all the attendees. Our sponsors were: www.over-drive-inc.com www.HobbyLinkJapan.com www.Otaku2.com www.BigBadToystore.com http://tokyohunter.blogspot.com Unfortunately, Toyhell was a no show this year, even though we advertised them as a sponsor. See you next year! (haha... and hopefully i'll just be a regular attendee!! )