The Dragon Con 2025 Cosplay Parade presents the greatest show on Earth! Screw you, ordinary circuses!
Previously on Midlife Crisis Crossover:
In 2019 my wife Anne and I attended our very first Dragon Con in Atlanta, Georgia, one of the longest-running science fiction conventions in America. We once again made the eight-hour drive from Indianapolis and returned for our fourth nonconsecutive Labor Day weekend at that amazing colossal southern spectacle. We can’t conscientiously afford to do D*C every year, but we’ll see how long we can keep up an every-other year schedule before we’re too old or overwhelmed to handle it…
Same as our visits in 2019, in 2021, and in 2023, one of our favorite D*C features was the annual Saturday morning cosplay parade. Each year hundreds of cosplayers team up in appropriate factions or categories and march the streets of downtown Atlanta in their costumes, sometimes even driving their own geek vehicles. The roadside crowd lineup around the parade route is the best opportunity for the public-at-large to join the festivities and get a taste of comic-con life for free.
We amateur enthusiasts took nearly 800 photos (maxing out my memory card at one awkward point), from which I spent two nights culling maybe 200+ to post. We’ll be sharing batches of them over the next several chapters, time and energy permitting. If you or someone you know was in the parade and you’d love to see them, pretty-please let us know! We’ll be happy to search our files and show ’em if we caught ’em. No guarantees, but we’ll oblige if we can.
First up: lots of Star Wars characters, just because. Enjoy!
Pink Vader, a recurring D*C parader.
The first of many Mandalorians to come.
Ahsoka Tano, Obi-Wan and Mara Jade.
A Mina-Rau farmer from Andor.
Tracksuit Mandalorian.
Queen Amidala.
The Queen’s handmaidens, a joint alliance of the 501st Legion and Rebel Legion fan groups.
Captain Rex and Anakin.
Darth Revan, introduced in the 2003 Knights of the Old Republic game.
Giant-sized Mouse Droid.
Friendly ol’ Ben Kenobi.
Lord Vader and his subordinates.
A TIE Fighter and its appropriately detailed towing car.
Emperor Palpatine lurking on the tailgate.
Right around here began a procession from the Mando Mercs Costume Club.
“I want YOU to come to Dragon Con!”
Mandalorians turned up in nearly every color of the rainbow.
Neither of us got a decent shot of the flag.
The most fabulous Jawa of all, among the members of the Great Jawa Horde.
The Jawa accessorized with whatever they plucked from some circus they’d just looted.
Let’s all go to the lobby! Let’s all go to the lobby!
The Jawa tricycle stunt spectacular!
Full shot of the Sandcrawler in our lead photo.
One last on-topic mashup in under the wire: Darth Bender!
To be continued! Other chapters in this very special MCC miniseries:
Part 1: The Stars in Our Galaxy
Part 2: Some Cosplay!
Part 3: Slightly More Cosplay!
Part 5: The Cosplay Parade, Video Game Division
Part 6: The Cosplay Parade, Marvel and DC Comics Division
Part 7: Pimp My Cosplay Parade Rides
Part 8: More Than Cosplay at the Parade
Part 9: Did We Mention There Was a Cosplay Parade
Part 10: The Cosplay Parade Is COMING TO GET YOU
Part 11: “But Sir,” You Ask, “What About the Cosplay Parade?”
Part 12: The Cosplay Parade Marches Into the West
Part 13: A Conclusion of Convivial Concatenation
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