Masquerade:

• Costumes I saw outside of the masquerade include Kurotowa (from last year’s masquerade), a Tank Police officer, Kyoko Otonashi (“Gambatte kudasai, ne!”), Ataru Moroboshi (with a Lum doll), Sasuke from RANMA 1/2 in street clothes (no, wait, that was me…)
• Walter Amos was again MC, this time as an imperial general from LEGEND OF THE GALACTIC HEROES. He started speaking in German, but switched to English when someone in the audience yelled “Subtitles!!”.
• A Ranma/someone else martial arts exhibition.
• Deunan Knute and Briareos. Unfortunately, Briareos couldn’t be there,so they called in his stunt double… a cute Bri plush doll. Deunan disappeared afterwards, and I never got a chance to look at the costume and doll.
• A Zentraedi soldier. Nice costume, but who did his hair? ^_^
• Some guy dressed as an ADP trooper. Incredibly detailed costume with working searchlights, the works. Unfortunately, the stage lights went out less than 30 seconds after he came on stage, and never came up again until he left, so no-one got to see the costume.
• Darold Higa as a Gundam Federation pilot. Instinctively, me and Gaver-sensei started chanting: “Sieg Jion! Sieg Jion!”
• A very well done “Captain Harlock and Emeraldas”. The most incredible
  thing is that their hair was for real!
• A Saotome Genma vs. Riding Bean “Street Fighter 15” sequence, which
  gets interrupted by Minky Momo, who beats them both.
• A-ko walks on screen, picks up the microphone, proclaims “MY FATHER
  IS NOT DEAD!”, and storms off to a huge audience reaction.
• Inaba-kun, complete with business card. I saw him before the masquerade,and he played the part convincingly, looking hopelessly lost…
• The Ranma and Giant Robo teams from the previous con were there. Fogler still had a problem memorizing his lines.
• The most bizarre sketch involved Widja Santoso in a rioutous Monthy Python-esque message on the proper way to cosplay… C-ko. That man is two tempura fries short of a bento box. Walter said it best:”This skit goes to prove that, even after conquering several galaxies and countless planets, there are times when you just want to shoot yourself in the head…”
• At the end, another group skit with GoH Scott Frazier playing the part of “I.M.Sleezy”, a video producer who buys rights to Japanese shows and rearranges them for an American audience (sounds familiar, folks?). Yet another Otaku Squad appearance (four out of four… this is getting boring!).
• After the Masquerade, “Kurotowa” (who knew me from the net) invited me and a few others to the local Denny’s (I was the only one not in a costume… the token normal guy). I had to decline, for a number of reasons.

This is part of a longer post called “How I Spent My Summer Vacation, Part II” posted on Rec.Arts.Anime on July 9, 1993