{"id":29829,"date":"2017-03-14T19:39:47","date_gmt":"2017-03-14T23:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/?p=29829"},"modified":"2017-03-17T15:56:19","modified_gmt":"2017-03-17T19:56:19","slug":"cosplayed-pax-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/cosplayed-pax-east","title":{"rendered":"We Cosplayed at PAX East"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last weekend, Community Manager Andrew Thomas and I were in Boston, Massachusetts for PAX East 2017<\/a>, the festival that\u2019s all about gaming. It was an amazing opportunity to check out the latest and greatest in video games, tabletop, and overall hot tech trends.<\/p>\n

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I went full cosplay<\/p><\/div>\n

To give you an idea of the scene, there were tens of thousands of people in the Boston Convention Center, dozens of panels (ranging from how-to video game creation to tips on creating the best D&D campaigns), cosplayers galore \u2013 even the signage was in character:<\/p>\n

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PAX rules<\/p><\/div>\n

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Getting pixeled<\/p><\/div>\n

We checked out a bunch of tabletop games and booths of designers who use Shapeways for prototyping. It was pretty incredible seeing how Shapeways enabled these designers to bring their tabletop games to life, letting them physically conceptualize the games before moving toward mass production. We spent some time in particular with the Dragoon<\/a> and H.E.A.D. Hunters<\/a> teams \u2014 stay tuned for interviews with both.<\/p>\n

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H.E.A.D Hunters<\/p><\/div>\n

While Andrew and I are no strangers to cosplay<\/a>\u00a0(trust me, just click the link), this time, I wanted to wear something that really showed the magic of 3D printing. In my quest, my knight in shining armor was Lumecluster\u2019s Melissa Ng<\/a>, who let me borrow eight pieces of her Sovereign Armor<\/a>. This was enough that I could mix and match the parts to create different looks, all easy to travel with. Thanks to Melissa I, got to cosplay like the best of them (and I did \u2013 check out my dance with the Yip Yip aliens<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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muppet cosplay time with @ladybuglise #paxeast #pax #paxeast2017<\/a><\/p>\n

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