While I had intended to get to the convention early on Friday, sleep dictated otherwise. And I needed it. I was extremely sore from all of the walking around the day prior.

My friends picked me and another bud up from the hotel and we took the train in from Ronkonkoma, New York (on Long Island) into Manhattan.

On the train I shot this (well actually one of my friends held the cam, while I talked):

So we get to the Convention with no incident. I head up the the Mega Bloks booth. Hey, there’s a rendering of the UNSC Mantis. Too bad the photo didn’t come out so well…

I knew my friend “Sparky” of Mega Brands loved Castle Greyskull, so I sought out a convention exclusive Skeletor letter opener and gave it to him:

I did a little walking around. Saw some good cosplay. (I’ll be posting all of my cosplay pics in another article later).

I got some Mega Bloks stickers from the folks at the booth.

Sadly only 2 of them made it through the trip…

Okay here is one cosplay. It’s Salvator from Borderlands 2. I was going to do this for the release date of the game, but didn’t get my costume done in time.

Oh and there was this guy…not sure who he’s supposed to be, LOL.

I didn’t really do a ton the rest of the day. Just milled about, took cosplay pics and rested when needed.

Got back on the train around 7:30pm. These three fellows are some of the guys I hung with the whole weekend.

Jon “Cross”; Andrew “Blue”; Mike “Sam” All three are part of my gaming group “Rated Mature”

As in the caption, they’re fellows from my gaming group. ratedmature.NET (If you go to .com, I’m NOT responsible. You’ve been warned)

We got back and went to Jon and Andrew’s house where their parents were waiting with Chili. (Something that I came to regret the next day…)

Next, Part 5: A Comedy of Errors