Photos: Tekko Con 2019, Pittsburgh

WARNING: 91 photos on this page.

I didn’t get sick this time, unlike last year. I’m going to update this post with more photos after today’s gathering.. Updates added!

Forgot to mention two key things:
1 – I participated in a world record-setting effort, for the most number of people spinning a Beyblade at once. It should have been at least 1000 people but the organizer were only able to round up ~600 people at the convention.
2 – I drank Ramune for the first time. My daughter and I had to Google the directions for “activating” it.

Someone from something on the left, Kakyoin from JoJo’s on the right:

Raven from Teen Titans, some person on the right:
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Jesus with an ironing board. Obviously:

Some kind of Clonetrooper. Too lazy to look it up:

Aizawa/Eraserhead from My Hero Academia, someone from Darling of the Franxx:

Two Legend of Zelda people:

Two Lolita fashion people (not sure if they were actual characters):

Two JoJo’s people. Forget their names:

Deadpool with some classic literature:

Pikachu:

Someone from JoJo’s, and Pixie-Bob from My Hero Academia:

Kirishima from My Hero Academia, Spider Gwen:

What I bought at Tekko Con. I keep it simple:

Bakugo from My Hero Academia, in his hero costume:

Someone from something, D.Va from Overwatch, and someone else:

Someone, and Steelman:

Koneda from Akira:

Somone from JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure:

Pyramid Head from Silent Hill (Hela from Thor with the photobomb):

Akane from Psycho-Pass. She was unfortunately the only Psycho-Pass cosplayer I saw there:

Someone, and Thor:

Toshinori/All Might from My Hero Academia:

Naruto people, I think:

Kylo Ren from Star Wars:

A bunch of people from JoJo’s:

Poor woman probably had to walk sideways most of the time. Neat costume, though:

Cosplayers from an anime about the human body. Don’t know the title. They are all blood cells, and a virus in the middle:

Thanos:

Anakin Skywalker:

A mech, the Tekko Con mascot. It’s much taller than it appears here:

Sora from Kingdom Hearts in the middle:

Iine, Mei, and Uraraka from My Hero Academia. There were approximately 903583094834 people cosplaying Uraraka there:

Cloud from Final Fantasy 7:

Mr. Burns from The Simpsons:

Another Sora:

Tokoyami from My Hero Academia:

A wandering costume fixer. Whatever she wore looked super heavy:

Robbie Rotten from Lazytown:

Snow White:

This guy had a fan (or whatever it was) that was retractable/pop-openable. He used a bunch of rubber bands and had to replace them every few hours because they’d lose elasticity:

A bad photo of Dabi from My Hero Academia, and someone:

Negan from The Walking Dead, playing baseball with a zombie:

No idea the characters they were playing, but their costumes were awesome:

Princess Daisy from Super Mario:

Poe Dameron from Star Wars:

Mineta from My Hero Academia:

Someone from Game of Thrones, I think:

Left to right: someone, Harley Quinn from Batman, Captain Marvel, and Nick Fury:

Kiki from Kiki’s Delivery Service, and Sophie from Howl’s Moving Castle:

Super Saiyan Vegeta from Dragonball. The guy had the actual muscle to pull it off:

Someone from something. She had a bag filled with random stickers that she let me pick from:

Balcony photos of the gaming floor:

The merch floor:

A bad photo of a foam sword fighting tournament:

A rails shooter game where you had to type words to kill zombies:

Photo on the the south east-facing terrace of the convention center (David L. Lawrence). In the middle you can see the corner of 10th and Penn. Further up is 10th and Liberty:

Looking upstream at the Allegheny River:

And downstream:

Half of the iconic sweeping roof of the convention center:

2 Comments

  • Ed Hurst says:

    On the one hand, you can’t grouse when someone takes on the task of making and wearing a costume when they bear no physical resemblance to the character in question. On the other hand, it’s a real treat to see someone with the physical endowment that approximates some of those characters.

  • Jay DiNitto says:

    Yeah, there’s degrees of commitment to it all. If you have money, there are people you can hire to make your costume, too.

    There were costume contests that I wanted to check out but never did. Part of that is acting in character to who you’re cosplaying as, but some folks maintain the act even outside the actual contest. Fun stuff to witness.

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