Steampunk

Yeah.

Steampunk's, like, Victorian shit.

Right, okay.

Oh yeah, that's ...

Yeah, there's a good coverage there.

What's new compared to previous years? You mentioned the Steampunk.

Is there any other sort of new things this year?

I should mention that at my stop, which is stop four, I've also got Caitlin Thomas-Riley, my daughter here, who does digital art, and she has been doing art for gaming for quite a couple of years now and is in the middle of making a computer game, but she'll have some art from that here as well.

And nowadays it's just not as big of a thing.

And that was Steampunk.

I feel like steampunk was everywhere.

Like you go like 10 years ago or maybe even a little more, like go back to a lot of conventions.

Steampunk was all the rage, like people making all their own steam powered.

So like anybody who's unfamiliar, steampunk is the sort of genre of fiction that takes place kind of in the sort of like.

i guess like steam powered industrial revolution sort of era but it's like it's basically like advanced technology that is powered by like steam powered gadgets and gears and stuff like that so it has a very unique sort of like old-timey sort of look while also being like futuristic and we're talking about characters with like weird goggles and maybe like weird steam-powered jet packs or like maybe they have like robotic arms and stuff like that but the robotics are powered by like steam and stuff like that and it's a very unique aesthetic that involves a lot of grommets and gears and just fun stuff and it was a really cool trend because people could just create their own character you know You're basically making your fictional original character and putting together this intricate costume.

because maybe it watches wonders we didn't get the opportunity it was released afterwards and there was one watch that really got me it was called the dazzle and it was based on i don't even know the camouflage that was used i think in one of the world wars on the side of ships to try and persuade people that perhaps there wasn't a ship in the water in front of them that they could bomb out of existence

everything you would expect from the brand you mentioned Serpentis plenty of them you mentioned of course Octofinissimo but it was the collaboration with Wiener Halter that they had and Steampunk 101 no two ways about it I'd been shown a couple of pictures by people that had well seen it slightly before we did because they'd gone on the first day And I was like, I'm not convinced by this.

I'm not going to lie.

A lot better in real life.