Dragon Con 2025 Photos, Part 7: Pimp My Cosplay Parade Rides

September 9, 2025 By in Conventions & Events Tags: , , , , , , , , , , 1 Comment
Multicolored 1951 Studebaker Commander painted multiple colors, with bubbles painted atop those.

It’s Fozzie’s car from The Muppet Movie! Refurbished by Razorfly Studios.

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…

Our belated coverage of Atlanta’s annual Dragon Con Cosplay Parade continues! We amateur enthusiasts took way too many photos that took me too long to sort in between juggling other life aspects (such as a family reunion this weekend). The parade had more than just costumes, though — next batch up is the unused $25,000 Pyramid category “Things People Rode or Drove at the Dragon Con Cosplay Parade”. Well, the ones we haven’t already posted in previous chapters, that is — geek-themed cars! Trucks! Bikes! More! Enjoy!


Woman with pink hair and hoverboard riding in a DeLorean with the doors open.

A DeLorean going far less than 88 mph. Bonus vehicle: a hoverboard!

Fancy convertible with flowers in the grill, a Queen Charlotte cosplayer riding on the retracted top, and a Queen Charlotte banner on the side.

Queen Charlotte presents Bridgerton: The Car!

Mr. Six cosplayer riding and pointing, shot too closely to see much of his bike.

Accomplished bicyclist Mr. Six, the Six Flags guy.

Black coach that doesn't need horses.

D*C’s own Diversity in Speculative Fiction and Literature group brought a coach.

Evil Knievel cosplayer on a motorcycle.

Evil Knievel lives!

replica of the cop car that the Blues Brothers stole in their first movie.

The Bluesmobile from The Blues Brothers.

Jurassic Park jeep!

Not the first, second or fifth time we’ve seen a Jurassic Park jeep in the wild.

White SUV with Jurassic Park door decal and fake dinosaur claw scratches all over.

Can’t say the same about a Jurassic Park SUV.

Blue sedan with Men in Black 3 logo on the door and a stuffed green alien sticking out the back window.

For some reason I don’t recall seeing the Men in Black’s car.

Beige VW van with Surfer Boy Pizza logos, sign, and phone number that actually belongs to Stranger Tours.

Argyle’s pizza truck from Stranger Things season 4. (The phone number is real, but offers guided filming-location tours, not pizza.)

replica of Sheriff Hopper's tan and white Chevy truck.

Also from Stranger Things: Sheriff Hopper’s truck!

Light blue keep with lots of Care Bears painted on it.

A Care Bears jeep.

large truck painted all over with the Marriott Marquis' old, unique, inexplicable carpet pattern.

For fans of D*C in-jokes: the Cult of Marriott Carpet’s wheels.

Semi covered on one side by Netherworld banner. Two horror cosplayers walk alongside.

Once again local Halloween observers Netherworld Haunted House announced their upcoming season.

Seventh Doctor cosplayer driving a yellow Edwardian roadster with a darkly dressed passenger crouched behind him.

The Seventh Doctor driving Bessie.

parade float with fake TARDIS control deck. Costumed riders include the Ninth and Thirteenth Doctors and Rose Tyler.

More Doctor Who fans share a TARDIS float.

White Hyundai sedan with sunroof Cruxshadows logo on door. Woman with butterfly wings stands inside sunroof; riding alongside is black-clad elf on seated scooter.

Entourage for the Cruxshadows, one of many bands gracing the con this year.

Blue SUV with Ghostbusters logo on door, followed by dozens of walking Ghostbusters.

The Ghostbusters bought a new car!

Mach 5 replica with Speed Racer cosplayers waving.

Speed Racer busy revving up the powerful Mach 5! And no doubt itching to finish the parade and floor it.

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 4: The Cosplay Parade, Star Wars Division
Part 5: The Cosplay Parade, Video Game Division
Part 6: The Cosplay Parade, Marvel and DC Comics Division
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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