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Sep
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Highlights from BronyCon 2018: An Army of Bronies · 11:37pm Sep 2nd, 2018

Or: Stop that Escalator!

Previous Highlight: FLUTTERBOMB!

In which son_of_heaven176 nearly avoids getting sick, and later stands near the head of a horde of bronies migrating to the Vendor Hall.

Saturday, July 28, 2018: Day 2 of BronyCon

Saturday morning, I was off to the Maid Café, as I had pre-registered for the Royal Breakfast, and I was not letting that investment go to waste!

The ticket had said that seating would begin at 10:15 AM, but even though I got there a bit after 10:15, I arrived only to find an unmoving line. Nonetheless, the wait wouldn’t be boring, as there was quite a bit of cosplay on display. There was a woman and a younger girl both dressed up as Pinkie Pie (I would later learn that I was wrong in assuming that they were mother and daughter), and a boy dressed up as Rainbow Dash (that kid was the Pinkie Pie’s son). In front of me was a kid dressed up as Bowser, but with a Hufflepuff scarf. (I would have pegged Bowser as more of a Slytherin myself.) And behind me was a woman in an outfit from Breath of the Wild and a guy dressed up as a Wonderbolt. Needless to say, a few conversations were had here and there.

Finally, the doors opened, and we were all shown our seats. After a Tempest Shadow cosplayer introduced the hosts (the four Princesses plus Shining Armor), we all were able to get our breakfasts.

And what a spread it was! They had the usual: coffee; orange juice; and that sweet, sweet nectar of the gods, Lipton tea! With all the necessities, too: lemon juice, sugar, and honey! After getting caught in that rainstorm yesterday, my body had been warning me that I might get sick, and I had had a niggling feeling in my nose and throat that morning. I was hoping that they would have some nice tea to get my body back in order, and thank God that the Princesses saw fit to include some nice, hot, equilibrium-restoring tea!

And the food was good, too. (A buffet-style arrangement, complete with scrambled eggs, French toast, sausages, etc.)

The event was scheduled to take quite a while, but I had to duck out early, as I had someplace to go: the TF2 Analysis Anarchy panel was going to start at 11:30, and even though the Hall of the Sun was only an escalator ride up one floor, that didn’t mean that I was going to be slothful in getting to it.

During the panel, the panelists showed off quite a bit of stuff. Lightning Bliss presented a [REDACTED], which got everyone laughing. Even though it was unfinished, it showed quite a bit of promise, and was quite a good re-imagining of the original.

Doc then showed off the video of Discord’s Therapy Visit, which garnered quite a bit of laughs from the audience, myself included.

Afterwards, the main event: the newest episode of TF2 Analysis Anarchy. Too bad Eliyora wasn’t there to see the reactions to her episode.

At the time, Doc had asked us to keep quiet about the videos until they came up on YouTube. Thankfully, they’re now up except for Blissy’s [REDACTED], so I don’t have to be so silent.

After the panel, I decided to ask Blissy a few questions about her OC, so I caught up to her. But the second I said that I had a question for her, she said that she wasn’t going to answer questions until she got to the Vendor Hall.

No problem, I thought. I would just walk with her to the Vendor Hall and ask her my questions then!

But once again, I wasn’t the only one with that idea. Another brony approached Blissy to ask a question, and Blissy gave the same answer: no questions until she reaches the Vendor Hall. Around this time, Teric showed up holding a giant Twink plushie, and before we knew it, Teric, Blissy, and I were leading a procession of bronies towards the Vendor Hall. (DarkWind was in the procession as well, and during an offhand comment, he used the phrase “army of bronies” — hence the title.) We all got on the escalator and were taking a leisurely ride down until, for whatever reason, it just stopped out of nowhere!

“Is everyone OK?” Teric asked. Everyone was fine. We then carefully walked down the escalator, and if memory serves me aright, we avoided any more escalators on the rest of the way to the Vendor Hall. On the way, Teric was really into acting as Twink, using an Arnold Schwarzenegger voice to tell people to make way.

Once we got to the Vendor Hall, someone on a scooter was along the path, so Teric told the procession to wait and let the person through.

After that, we finally made it to Blissy’s booth, and I could finally ask the burning question: “So, why did you make Lightning Bliss so short and cute?”

No, I didn’t get a rainbow to the face. I got an answer. “I had originally wanted her to be the size of an average mare, but they misunderstood and made her smaller than the average mare. So I decided to roll with it.”

“Well, since she is short and cute, why does she get mad when people call her short or cute?”

“She doesn’t like it when people underestimate her.”

At the time, I noticed a picture of Lightning Bliss drinking from a juice box. “But she doesn’t always act her age.”

“I’m 32, but I don’t always act my age, either!”

Fair enough.

Afterwards, I asked her to take a picture with me, to which she obliged.

Did you really think that I was going to show my face? Nope!

Extra:
Here are some pictures from the previous night (FLUTTERBOMB!).

SOH176 and Dr. Wolf

SOH176 and Firebrand

EDIT (9/19/2018): Since Dr. Wolf recently revealed it, I can reveal what [REDACTED] is. First off, I misremembered, it was Keyframe who presented it, not Lightning Bliss. Secondly, it was a reimagining of a scene from the TF2 episode "Hennesy Heresy" in animatic format. You can find it here: https://youtu.be/HrHP6dDZW3w?t=1m34s. The original scene starts at 3:54, and the reimagining starts at about 4:21.

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