{"id":5021,"date":"2019-04-24T10:27:35","date_gmt":"2019-04-24T06:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mbrsc.aud.edu\/MBRSCPost\/?p=5021"},"modified":"2019-04-24T10:27:37","modified_gmt":"2019-04-24T06:27:37","slug":"want-to-be-an-avatar-a-super-hero-come-play-at-the-dubai-comic-con","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mbrsc.aud.edu\/MBRSCPost\/want-to-be-an-avatar-a-super-hero-come-play-at-the-dubai-comic-con\/","title":{"rendered":"Want to be an avatar? A super hero? Come play at the Dubai Comic Con"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sewing costumes, applying makeup, and playing games: &#8220;cosplayers&#8221; from across the region gathered in Dubai last week to dress up like their favorite fantasy character during the Middle East Film &amp; Comic Con event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cosplay is a blending of the words &#8220;costume&#8221; and &#8220;play.&#8221; It is a performance art of role-playing where participants wear costumes and fashion accessories to represent a specific character.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Dubai annual event allows people of similar interests to share the experience of being a video game or manga character, and even a super hero or an avatar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0\u201cI consider myself part of the community because we still gather together even if there isn\u2019t a convention going on,&#8221; cosplayer Yasmine Alolayan, 26, told the MBRSC Post. &#8220;Back home (Saudi Arabia), we actually have a cosplay caf\u00e9 where you\u2019d find a lot of us there, most of the time.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She chose to dress up as Ceil from the manga series &#8220;Black Butler.&#8221; \u201cI picked this character because I admire him. He\u2019s constantly underestimated but always manages to surprise people,\u201d Alolayan said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"312\" height=\"418\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mbrsc.aud.edu\/MBRSCPost\/wp-content\/uploads\/comic2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5023\"\/><figcaption>Ibrahim Roston at Comic Con Dubai, April 2019 Photo: Farah Makhlouf<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis event inspires people to fulfill their dreams, so if someone wants to be Iron Man, they can be Iron Man,\u201d said Ibrahim Roston, 14, a cosplayer from Abu Dhabi. Roston made his costume himself. It took hard work, day and nighy, over three weeks to be completed.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This year&#8217; event gathered about 400 exhibitors and 45,000 to 50,000 attendees over three days,\u00a0Sales Manager Liam Murphy told the MBRSC Post over the phone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The exhibitors came from around the world, selling clothing items, original artworks, technological products, figurines, books, video games, posters, and props. The attendees came from 25 different countries, and 65% of them were between 18-35 years, according to the official survey by MEFCC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Actors Iwan Rheon (Game of Thrones), Katie Cassidy (Arrow), and Ross Marquand (The Walking Dead), were some of the celebrities who attended the Comic Con this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sewing costumes, applying makeup, and playing games: &#8220;cosplayers&#8221; from across the region gathered in Dubai&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":5022,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbrsc.aud.edu\/MBRSCPost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5021"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbrsc.aud.edu\/MBRSCPost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbrsc.aud.edu\/MBRSCPost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbrsc.aud.edu\/MBRSCPost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbrsc.aud.edu\/MBRSCPost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5021"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mbrsc.aud.edu\/MBRSCPost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5024,"href":"https:\/\/mbrsc.aud.edu\/MBRSCPost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5021\/revisions\/5024"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbrsc.aud.edu\/MBRSCPost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbrsc.aud.edu\/MBRSCPost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbrsc.aud.edu\/MBRSCPost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbrsc.aud.edu\/MBRSCPost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}