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SALT LAKE CITY — Downtown Salt Lake City was filled with cosplayers last weekend as they attended Salt Lake Comic Con FanX 2016.
Cosplay, the art of wearing a COS-tume and PLAY-ing the role, may be misunderstood by the those who haven't been in the vicinity during events of this type. Some may have seen the many YouTube videos of scantily clad women barely resembling their intended character and avoided the convention. Salt Lake Comic Con is not that kind of convention. In fact the event cosplay rules state it is a family-friendly convention and "Cover your body parts. 'No costume' is not a costume."
If you had the fortune of being at the convention last weekend, you saw families, children, couples and groups of friends taking part in cosplay, and what is more family friendly than Disney.
Shannyn handmade costumes for her entire family for their "Monsters, Inc." cosplay. Her husband's James P Sullivan costume took more than 75 hours for her to make. She bought blue fur and sculpted it around items found at home like springs from a used mattress. Her attention to detail helped win their family an award at the FanX cosplay contest.
Kimberly came as Rapunzel from Disney's "Tangled" and her whole family followed suit. Cosplaying as Flynn Rider, Mother Gothel, the Mime and even an animated Pascal that sat on Rapunzel's shoulder and moved. If you were lucky, you might have seen Rapunzel's hair light up as well.
Others modified the traditional Disney character to be battle ready. Blythe worked her magic on Merida from "Brave." Dani did the same for Ariel from "The Little Mermaid."
Ashlyn is a favorite at the conventions for her Disney cosplays, this time with a wonderful cosplay of Giselle from Disney's "Enchanted."
Enjoy these photos of just some of the wonderful and creative Disney cosplays seen last weekend at FanX.
John Mabunga was born in Utah and grew up in New York City. He has a career in computers and loves photography and all things Disney. He loves spending time with his beautiful wife and five children.
