{"id":23665,"date":"2018-10-27T21:21:15","date_gmt":"2018-10-27T20:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevoiceoflondon.co.uk\/?p=23665"},"modified":"2018-10-27T21:21:15","modified_gmt":"2018-10-27T20:21:15","slug":"londoncomicon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/londoncomicon\/","title":{"rendered":"London assemble: Cosplay and comic fans worldwide come together at Comicon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The annual MCM London Comicon event is to be set\u00a0at the Excel London Exhibition Theatre this upcoming weekend. The convention celebrates animation, comic book and gaming culture worldwide and the event is particularly notorious for its guests wearing outlandish and eccentric costumes that pay homage to their favourite character. The venue held over 130,000 guests last year and will hopefully account even more this weekend before Halloween.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_23677\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23677\" class=\"wp-image-23677\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2018\/10\/landscape-mcgannwho.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"250\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-23677\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paul McGann starred as the 8th Doctor in the Doctor Who series from 1996.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A variety of special guests are also to be attending the weekend-long event including Marvel&#8217;s very own Paul Bettany (who plays as Vision) and Paul McGann, the 8th Doctor in the notable Doctor Who series. The Voice of London team went down to the opening of the event to talk to some of the guests and ask how important this event means to them.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_23678\" style=\"width: 305px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23678\" class=\" wp-image-23678\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2018\/10\/rumor-paul-bettany-is-the-vision-in-avengers-age-of-ultron-social.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"295\" height=\"221\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-23678\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paul Bettany as Vision, who debuted in 2015 in Marvels Age of Ultron.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_23682\" style=\"width: 387px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23682\" class=\" wp-image-23682\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2018\/10\/excel_london-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"377\" height=\"212\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-23682\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The venue of the event. Located just minutes from the Prince Regent tube station.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FjjyPxo-IkE&#038;t=62s\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FjjyPxo-IkE&amp;t=62s<\/a><\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-23665 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-large'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/img_1204\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2018\/10\/IMG_1204-e1540671170224-1-768x1024.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-23687\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2018\/10\/IMG_1204-e1540671170224-1-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2018\/10\/IMG_1204-e1540671170224-1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2018\/10\/IMG_1204-e1540671170224-1-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2018\/10\/IMG_1204-e1540671170224-1-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2018\/10\/IMG_1204-e1540671170224-1-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-23687'>\n\t\t\t\tCosplay at Comicon.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/img_1206\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2018\/10\/IMG_1206-e1540671257324-1-768x1024.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2018\/10\/IMG_1206-e1540671257324-1-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2018\/10\/IMG_1206-e1540671257324-1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2018\/10\/IMG_1206-e1540671257324-1-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2018\/10\/IMG_1206-e1540671257324-1-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2018\/10\/IMG_1206-e1540671257324-1-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/img_1223\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2018\/10\/IMG_1223-e1540671301122-1-768x1024.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2018\/10\/IMG_1223-e1540671301122-1-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2018\/10\/IMG_1223-e1540671301122-1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2018\/10\/IMG_1223-e1540671301122-1-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2018\/10\/IMG_1223-e1540671301122-1-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2018\/10\/IMG_1223-e1540671301122-1-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Words: Luke Furr<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Video: Adam\u00a0Kaczy\u0144ski &amp; Luke Furr<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The annual MCM London Comicon event is to be set\u00a0at the Excel London Exhibition Theatre this upcoming weekend. The convention celebrates animation, comic book and gaming culture worldwide and the event is particularly notorious for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":476,"featured_media":23675,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,42,46,134],"tags":[579,2128,2211],"class_list":["post-23665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-entertainment","category-exhibition","category-uknews","tag-arts","tag-entertainment","tag-exhibition"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/476"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}