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The MCM London Comic Con Crosses The Floor – Say Goodbye To The Culture Clash

1338179677-cosplayers-at-the-mcm-expo-in-the-excel-centre-in-londons-docklands_1241483Attendees of the MCM London Expo… sorry, Comic Con are familiar with the shared events at the ExCel London convention centre.

Whether it was the Zumba Expo that saw cosplayers compete with jazzed up lycra for visual attention, or the Islamic Peace conference held cheek to cheek with scores of lolicon cosplayers, you can usually rely on some cultural clash.

Not any more. Because the show is growing to take both side of the ExCel London centre from this October, increasing floorspace from 25,000 m2 to 34,000 m2.

Ah well, at least you'd get some clashing cultures with the thousands of cosplayers arriving via public transport. Including the new cable car across the Thames from the O2.

Now, if only the Comics Village could grow with it…


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Rich JohnstonAbout Rich Johnston

Founder of Bleeding Cool. The longest-serving digital news reporter in the world, since 1992. Author of The Flying Friar, Holed Up, The Avengefuls, Doctor Who: Room With A Deja Vu, The Many Murders Of Miss Cranbourne, Chase Variant. Lives in South-West London, works from Blacks on Dean Street, shops at Piranha Comics. Father of two. Political cartoonist.
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