What I Bought At BronyCon

Just this silly little mouse pad. That’s all nothing else. Well…

See, I needed a mouse pad because the hotel I am staying at has glass-topped desks, so my laser mouse wasn’t tracking. Thankfully one of the first booths I came across in the dealer’s room sold mouse pads for $15. The guy there seemed honestly surprised at my excitement.

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So yeah, just the mouse pad. And the print that came with the mouse pad.

First, Tony Fleecs’ amazing 2013 Botcon exclusive comic book cover, featuring Optimus Prime in Pinkie Pie, signed by the artist himself.

And then I found this down another aisle, from an artist whose name I probably should have made note of before handing him $20. (Update: the artist is none other than Dreatos of deviantart!)

And since I was in a print buying mood, I couldn’t say no to Katie Cook’s pony cosplay adventure, signed by the artist. Everything she draws is so happy.

Again, no idea who the artist is, but how could I possibly resist this? LOOK AT THEM. THEY ARE POKEMON. She has a lot more at her booth. I shouldn’t go back today.

So that’s about it. Just those prints, and the mouse pad and — oh, I brought one too few t-shirts with me. Well then, over toWeLoveFine, one of several dealers attending the convention under a shall business name in order to keep a degree of separation between the convention and Hasbro.

Completely video game related. I have no regrets.

While I was there, I picked up some Rainbow Dash leggings for my wife, who deserves so much more and is very pretty and will one day read my posts.

And since I was waiting in line so long — they couldn’t really see me on the scooter — I talked myself into picking up a flocked vinyl DJ Pon-3.

Oh, and they had the Future Twilight vinylwith the cropped hair, bodysuit and eye patch.

Phew, all done!

Almost all done!

I was kind of excited, going into the dealer’s room, at the prospect of picking up a custom hand-made plushie. These lovely creations were all over the marketplace, proud new owner exiting the room as if they were just crowned King or Queen of the Amazing People. I wanted to be that.

Then I realized even the smallest ones run for $50-$100. There was a bigger one for $1,500.

I bought a licensed Rainbow Dash for $20. She spent the day riding on my GoPro.

The front of my cart has transformed pic.twitter.com/LBHzPTDUjZ

— Fahey (@UncleFahey) August 1, 2014

*looks through bag* I think we’re… oh, nope.

I picked up a double starter set for Enterplay’s collectible card game as well. There’s a sealed deck tournament for beginners I hope to get in on today. Enterplay is another company selling under a different name,to ensure Hasbro can’t be connected to the show.

And we’re done, just in time as well. If I’d continued shopping, I would have started by completely stupid things, like this hat.

Yeah, I don’t know what the hell I was thinking there.