So in this last PAX article, I’m just going to show some pictures and things I did that I just couldn’t fit into any other category.  Lots of crazy stuff and people dressed in costumes of video game characters!  Let’s check it out!

PAX can be a very dangerous place.  Why?  Because there are monsters there!  Really!  I took pictures of them!  Here’s a monster who looks like he’s having trouble with the bubblegum in his mouth!

And here’s a big ol’ ogre guy.  I wouldn’t want to meet him in a dark alley.  Or a well-lit alley for that matter.

There was even a T-Rex at one booth!  It was huge!

I think you could wait in line to climb on top of it like you were riding it, hence the bit in its mouth.

One booth had this giant skull with glasses that had screens showing lots of crazy stuff.

At the convention center, they have places where you can grab a quick bite to eat, but I never went to those places because they were always really crowded.  But I liked this menu they had there which had a Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam motif.

And here’s a picture of a pretty cool truck.  What I want to know is, how do they get a truck on the 4^th floor of a convention center?

Costumed Crazies

A lot of times at video game and comic book conventions (and even theme parks now), people like to dress up as their favorite characters.  I think it would be fun to do that myself, but I’m probably too old to do that now!  But I can still take pictures of others who do it, so here were some I snapped at PAX!

I don’t watch Doctor Who, but I do know this giant robotic salt shaker thing is from that show.  I don’t know what it’s called, and I’m not even sure it’s a costume or not.  I just saw it sitting by the curb as I was going to pick up my press pass at the start of the show!

Here’s Bender from Futurama wearing one of his outfits from one of the episodes of the show.

Like I said in a previous article, Pokémon was big at PAX.  I saw lots of people wearing Pikachu hoodies, but this was the only full-bodied Pokémon costume I saw.  Although Flareon looks a little weird standing on hind legs and holding a Pokeball!

This tough-looking lady was at a stage where you could get your picture taken with her, and the booth was promoting a game called King of the Kill.  When I first saw it, I thought it said King of the Hill.  I wouldn’t mind a King of the Hill game!  “Dang it, Bobby!  That game ain’t right!”

This was a really creative costume.  This guy dressed as one of those Wavy Tube Men like you see at car lots and such.  The picture is a little blurry because he kept waving around, like Wavy Tube Men tend to do.

And I saved the best for last.  Those of you who know me well, know how much I like Pac-Man.  So you can imagine my reaction when I saw these guys dressed in suits, slacks, and ties with Pac-Man maze patterns on them!  I asked where they got them and they said, “The depths of the Internet.”  Yeah real helpful there.  But man, I would totally wear a Pac-Man suit to job interviews and church services (Well, OK, not really).  Still pretty cool, though!

Conclusions

And that’s all for my PAX West 2016 articles!  I hope you liked them.  If you have any questions or comments, please let me know.  I’m really happy I got to go again this year.  For a while I didn’t think I’d be able to.  I was glad to finally be able to experience VR after being worried about it so much, and to play lots of new, fun games, too.  But the best parts are being able to talk with all the publishers, developers, and PR professionals.  And I bring family with me every year (this year it was my dad again), and it was great to be able to spend time with him, too.  You should always try to enjoy being with your family while you can!  Later!  –Cary

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