{"id":35599,"date":"2015-06-12T10:00:49","date_gmt":"2015-06-12T14:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/?p=35599"},"modified":"2015-06-11T19:59:37","modified_gmt":"2015-06-11T23:59:37","slug":"a-few-moments-at-metrocon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/a-few-moments-at-metrocon\/","title":{"rendered":"A Few Moments at Metrocon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/20150611_165707.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/20150611_165707-450x270.jpg\" alt=\"Metrocon 2015\" width=\"450\" height=\"270\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-35610\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/20150611_165707-450x270.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/20150611_165707-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/20150611_165707.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to the friendly folks at St. Pete&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Anime-Fix\/121406541211851\" target=\"_blank\">Anime Fix<\/a>, I had an opportunity to roam this weekend&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metroconventions.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Metrocon<\/a> convention for a few hours yesterday on the first of its four days this year.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-35599 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-medium'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a title=\"Anime Fix at Metrocon 2015\" href='https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/a-few-moments-at-metrocon\/20150611_153300\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" src=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/20150611_153300-300x180.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/20150611_153300-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/20150611_153300-450x270.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/20150611_153300.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a title=\"Anime Fix at Metrocon 2015\" href='https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/a-few-moments-at-metrocon\/20150611_153246\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" src=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/20150611_153246-300x180.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-35600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/20150611_153246-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/20150611_153246-450x270.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/20150611_153246.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-35600'>\n\t\t\t\tAnime Fix at Metrocon 2015\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>The second floor of the Tampa Convention Center, outside of the vendors room is the large artists&#8217; alley.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-2' class='gallery galleryid-35599 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a title=\"Metrocon 2015\" href='https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/a-few-moments-at-metrocon\/20150611_165328\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/20150611_165328-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a title=\"Metrocon 2015\" href='https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/a-few-moments-at-metrocon\/20150611_165350\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/20150611_165350-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a title=\"Metrocon 2015\" href='https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/a-few-moments-at-metrocon\/20150611_165356\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/20150611_165356-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>The word I heard was that the first day seemed more successful than anticipated.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-3' class='gallery galleryid-35599 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a title=\"Metrocon 2015\" href='https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/a-few-moments-at-metrocon\/20150611_161917\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/20150611_161917-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a title=\"Metrocon 2015\" href='https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/a-few-moments-at-metrocon\/20150611_155912\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/20150611_155912-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a title=\"Metrocon 2015\" href='https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/a-few-moments-at-metrocon\/20150611_154701\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/20150611_154701-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a title=\"Metrocon 2015\" href='https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/a-few-moments-at-metrocon\/20150611_154115\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/20150611_154115-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a title=\"Metrocon 2015\" href='https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/a-few-moments-at-metrocon\/20150611_154103\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/20150611_154103-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>I saw a few bargains, compared to typical American prices. I was surprised to see a couple Nendoroid figures priced as low as $30 each.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/figures_metrocon_2015.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/figures_metrocon_2015-450x270.jpg\" alt=\"figures_metrocon_2015\" width=\"450\" height=\"270\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-35616\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/figures_metrocon_2015-450x270.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/figures_metrocon_2015-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/figures_metrocon_2015.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, I also spotted a dealer asking $30 for a single Japanese issue of Weekly Shounen Jump magazine.<\/p>\n<p>The first item I found for my own collection was this Lynn Minmei doll gachapon figure for $12.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/MinmeI_doll_fig.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/MinmeI_doll_fig.jpg\" alt=\"Minmei doll\" width=\"450\" height=\"659\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-35618\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/MinmeI_doll_fig.jpg 1160w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/MinmeI_doll_fig-205x300.jpg 205w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/MinmeI_doll_fig-307x450.jpg 307w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then I found exactly one dealer that had the &#8220;giant&#8221; Danboard figure. Since I have the big vinyl Yotsuba, I wanted the Danboard to match her. &#8220;Big Danbo&#8221; was $38.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Big_Danboard_box.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Big_Danboard_box.jpg\" alt=\"Big_Danboard_box\" width=\"450\" height=\"643\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-35620\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Big_Danboard_box.jpg 1151w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Big_Danboard_box-210x300.jpg 210w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Big_Danboard_box-315x450.jpg 315w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My last purchase was this $7 Violinst of Hameln TV series <em>shitajiki<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/hameln_shitajiki.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/hameln_shitajiki-450x322.jpg\" alt=\"hameln_shitajiki\" width=\"450\" height=\"322\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-35621\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/hameln_shitajiki-450x322.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/hameln_shitajiki-300x215.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/hameln_shitajiki.jpg 1268w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.metroconventions.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Metrocon_2015_program.jpg\" alt=\"Metrocon_2015_program\" width=\"450\" height=\"582\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-35628\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Metrocon_2015_program.jpg 1275w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Metrocon_2015_program-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Metrocon_2015_program-348x450.jpg 348w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to the friendly folks at St. Pete&#8217;s Anime Fix, I had an opportunity to roam this weekend&#8217;s Metrocon convention for a few hours yesterday on the first of its four days this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime-news","category-omake"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35599"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35633,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35599\/revisions\/35633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}