Supanova - get your nerd on in 2011
Last weekend we piled into the car and drove to Brisbane for our yearly fix of Supanova – the Pop Culture Expo that is a haven for nerds and an all round fun day out if you enjoy people watching. Or, perhaps that’s just the uber nerd in me speaking.
Supanova is a little hard to describe if you’ve never been before. If you like TV, movies, comics, if you’re a gamer, an illustrator, if anime is your thing, if you know the difference between a Colonial Viper MKII and a Colonial Viper MKVII, if you feel you share an empathetic bond with an Ood or 2, if you like to dress up in lycra or like to look at other people who like to dress up in lycra, then Supanova is for you.
In my excitement I had moments of forgetting to check my camera settings, but as I was there primarily in the capacity of nerd, not photographer, I think I can be forgiven that minor transgression. Here’s some of what we saw :
I’m not sure who this guy is supposed to be, so I’m calling him “Shiny Tin Man”, and I’m giving him great kudos for effort. This costume is made of metal, he couldn’t bend over, he couldn’t sit down, and he spent his entire lunch break leaning against a concrete wall looking extremely stiff & uncomfortable. Nice effort Shiny Tin Man.
Considering my children are huge Star Wars fans, Obi Wan Kenobi was a highlight when he sauntered our way with some other unknown jedi type in company.
This blurry, hurriedly snapped shot is to illustrate to you that you can all put down your books and stop searching, because as you can see, I’ve found Wally!
This wonderful specimen of lycra and gold painted cardboard is none other than Captain Falcon, the poster boy for the Nintendo F-Zero game series.
Captain F, your costume is a true work of art, and gave me endless chuckles throughout the day. I salute you!
Wolverine, as you’re not actually looking into the sun I must say I’m a little disappointed that you didn’t open your eyes for my shot. What’s that you say? You’re dazzled by your own rugged good looks and the glint off your blades? Well, maybe so…. but opening eyes would have been nice all the same. I’m just saying…
This, for the uninitiated is a Nazgûl. Not, just any Nazgûl, but the Lord of the Nazgûl, the Witch king of Angmar. He plays a rather significant role in the Lord of the Rings story, but took time out from doing the Dark lord Saurons diry deeds (and from getting his ass kicked by a woman) to join us at Supanova which was mighty nice of him.
This girl informed us that she is The Doctor. But of course she is! To be honest with you, by the time she’d finished her rather bizarre head to toe, back to front, inside both ears inspection of my children with her sonic screwdriver I’d decided that with her odd-yet-strangely-endearing behaviour she might actually be the Doctor in his next regeneration. What’s to stop him regenerating into a female body? Is that even possible? I’m sure somebody will tell me :)
I told The Doctor that she actually looked a lot like Miss Pond which made things somewhat confusing, a fact she informed me she was well aware of.
If you were alive in the 80’s you should know that this is the DeLorean from the Back to the Future movies. If you don’t know, you’ve just dropped huge brownie points. For the person who recently asked me “what’s the Flux Capacitor”?, It’s the thing that makes time travel possible (it’s the “other” thing – let’s not forget The Tardis), and you’ll find it in this car, just between & behind the headrests.
Speaking of The Tardis, this girl has the right idea. When you’re racing all about in time and space it must be awfully difficult at times to remember where you left The Tardis. Surely you’ll never lose it if you’re wearing it! Well….. the chances are less likely at least.
Even Batman, the best equipped of all the superheroes, needs to queue for cash at the ATM at Supanova. I can’t say he looks overly impressed by it. I imagine he’ll be having words with Alfred about making sure his tool belt is well stocked next time.
Nice use of the lycra there Bats…. and tell me please, is that Green Lantern copping a feel of your firm, lycra clad buttock? :)
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Awesome pictures Rosemary !!! now I know where my co host is :)) I’m a Star Trek fan :)) these are beautiful images and your family are right into the spirit of it :)
wonderful !!
Jane
Ahhh, Trekkies. I’ll tell you, we were getting a little concerned that we’d spent most of the day there and not seen a single one. Perhaps they didn’t hear about the convention? Perhaps the the Star Fleet Academy was having a reunion?
So I can’t tell you how relieved I felt when we saw 5 Trekkies in full uniform standing in line for popcorn later in the afternoon. :))
Put it in your diary for next year Jane, I promise you’ll have fun!! :))
– Rosemary Scott
LOL…Rosemary you are hilarious :) Looks like an awesome place to be!! And, I saw a few of my favorites (Wolverine being one of them)… Lord of the Nazgûl… was well prepared, I see. So… I’m wondering, how you knew Batman’s bum was firm? and do you have any pictures of that? ;) lol love it… wish I could have gone with you!!! xx
Ahhh yes, Batmans’ bum….. a lucky guess I’m afraid. He does appear to have very firm thighs after all.
I did however, help myself to a subtle squeeze of Wolverine’s muscular bits when I’d finished my shot. It wasn’t inappropriate at all – it seems anything goes at Supanova ;-)
I’d love to go to one of these events with you Jen, we’d have an awesome time!!!
– Rosemary Scott
Love it thanks for sharing my friend
It’s a pleasure Randy. I had so much fun, I just had to spread the love :)
– Rosemary Scott
It looks like so much fun , I remeber years ago a friend and i went to see old movies at one of the grand old movies ttheatres in Melbourne and they were having a Trekkies convention there too:))
my friend and I were the ones who looked out of place in normal clothes :)) we didn’t realise until we got there that because the movies were old black and white ones and one was called "the man on the moon ’
we had fun , some guy was speaking to me and would lapse into a weird langauge and almost trance like and then start speaking English again , without a pause in the ‘conversation’ ….it takes all kinds and I’m sure they thought we were odd :)) It was fun
I might check it out next year Rosemary :))
LOL, that sounds like it would have been lots of fun. I’ll admit that I’m a big Star Wars fan, so never really got into Star Trek, but I know there’s a lot of very dedicated Trekkies out there. Not to mention equally dedicated Star Wars fans.
I saw so many Jedis and Storm Troopers in outfits that would have cost them as much as I’d get paid in a month!
Then there’s the one’s who actually take the time to learn alien languages….. I struggled with German at school, so I’d have no chance learning Klingon!
– Rosemary Scott
Looks like a wonderful time Rosemary!!
Don’t you mean Waldo?
Apparently he was Waldo in the US And Canada, but Wally everywhere else!! :)
Ahh yes, the Wally/Waldo debate. It sounds very odd to hear him called Waldo.
Whatever his name, I found him! Actually, I found about 7 of him!! :D
– Rosemary Scott
It was , my friend was mortified lol bvut I had a great time :))
and the supernova was on this weekend here in Victoria !!! only one day so I have to wait to next year :)))