From Awesome Cons newsletter today: CALLING ALL SUPERHEROES... The Museum of Science Fiction, the world’s first comprehensive science fiction museum, and Awesome Con are inviting costumed superheroes to Washington, DC on April 18, 2014, in an attempt to break a GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS® record. This attempt for the Largest Gathering of People Dressed as Comic Book Characters will happen at the U.S. Capitol Reflecting Pool at noon, just hours before the start of Awesome Con 2014 at the Washington Convention Center. Many attendees at Awesome Con and other similar conventions dress in superhero-style costumes, a practice known as cosplay. To celebrate the start of Awesome Con, we invite you to help us break the current record set at World Joyland in China: 1,530 people dressed as comic book characters. We know we can break that record and mark Washington, DC as THE CAPITAL CITY OF COSPLAY. An adjudicator from GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS will be on hand to count and qualify all costumed participants. The guidelines state that the characters must have first appeared in comic books, partial costumes will not be counted, and that costumes can’t be shared between two or more participants. Please click here for the PRE-APPROVED CHARACTER LIST from GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS, and all the details. Tell your friends! Invite your neighbors! Bring the kids - we know its Spring Break for a lot of locals, so throw some superhero fun into your schedule! We cant wait to see 1,531 awesome superheroes in front of the U.S. Capitol!
Posted on: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 13:34:56 +0000