I attended MCM this weekend. I've never been to this convention before so I wasn't really sure what to expect. I'd heard it got busy on the saturday but this was just insane...

I don't normally rate conventions as a whole I normally just make a video/picture highlights, however I was so fucking (excuse my language) during this entire convention that I need to vent my frustration as I'm getting ignored by the MCM staff. I don't normally ignore event coverage from the day but I just feel like I can't let this one go.

So I go to lots of conventions across London and when turning up to MCM with my priority 9am ticket (you pay a little bit extra) I expected them to be letting people through pretty quickly and easy. So we would be in for a few hours before general admission at 11am and actually be able to stand around and look at the products on the stands properly. How wrong I was...I was left to stand out in the pouring rain and didn't actually get inside until 10.45am, despite getting there early and paying for priority tickets. Myself along with other people were fuming that we had paid out so much money to be left outside and not even get in on time, almost 2 hours queuing.

To make it even worse the security staff were absolutely horrible, shouting at people sometimes in even in their faces. Telling people to queue up in one queue and then when they had for half an hour finding out they were sent to the wrong queue. It was a shambles, and the most unorganised event I've ever been too.

I later found out they sold thousands of priority early bird tickets, which makes absolutely no sense. The whole point of priority early bird is so a select amount of people get in early, not over 70% of the people attending.

The layout was shoddy and they bunched all the stands really close together with loads of excess blank space, so when queueing for a stand you were practically in the way of anyone trying to look at the stand next to it. Also if you wanted to go for a quick cigarette, you left out the main doors and then had to queue another 45 minutes to get back into the venue (I don't smoke, but my boyfriend does), so when my boyfriend went out for a cigarette I was left waiting on my own for him for almost an hour with no phone reception.

And to make it worse is that their twitter account is full of angry people tweeting them and they have said that the queuing was due to changes that needed to be made after last years event. However last years event was praised and supposedly much better, when I tweeted and ask if I could complain and get any compensation my tweet was ignored. The ones they did reply to showed absolutely no remorse to the customers whose cosplays were ruined in the rain, and who had a really disappointing impression of the show.
I would say it's not the staffs fault, but they do not seem to care, haven't apologised and I saw Excel staff screaming in people's face.

I know the event is supposed to be busy on a Saturday but this just seemed disorganised, maybe I'll go on the Friday next year and see how it fairs.

RANT OVER; 

However all the companies stands were amazing, they were all super friendly and you kind of forgot about the shitty outdoor atmosphere once you got inside. I had a lot of fun walking around (although I was drenched) and met some awesome cosplayers. Here are some of my favourites from the day;

Dark Djinn - Ni No Kuni

Spot the Deadpool!

Shout out to the staff at Insert Coin, TK, Rising Star & Rice Digital who were the stand-outs of the show, incredible helpful, friendly, chatty and absolute bargain prices!