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Bay to Breakers: Drunken Cosplay at its finest photo

Once a year in the good city of San Francisco, the main streets shut down and surrender themselves to throngs of residents for the epic Bay to Breakers marathon. While the brave few run the track from the San Francisco Bay to the Pacific Ocean, the many walk behind in greater numbers to follow a course of costume wearing, debauchery, and general dancing in the streets.

While the event itself is by far one of the best West coast holidays of the year, stumbling across drunken videogame cosplays yesterday amidst the brilliant chaos was the frosting on the cake. Mario Kart seemed to be the cosplay of choice amidst many attendees, but the Donkey Kong float that doubled as a traveling beer keg certainly wins the prize, in my opinion.

Take a look at the gallery to see a dancing NES controller, some promenading Katamari folks, and other cosplays to make you wish you were there. I also heard a rumor that Dyson was dressed up like Hobbes from Calvin and Hobbes, so please post any photos in the comments that may confirm this phenomenon.

 


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TrailerParkJesus's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/19/2008 11:57
TrailerParkJesus
Cosplayers scare me

OMG Dhalsim!!!... with... Gatorade?
king3vbo's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/19/2008 11:59
king3vbo
Piranha Plant Guy FTW
Kryptinite's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/19/2008 12:09
Kryptinite
This is crazy, I just got into San Francisco and this was going on Sunday. I had no idea what was happening. I thought this was normal protocol for California.
bleep's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/19/2008 12:10
bleep
knew it!
Waluigi drinks Bud Light!
Danmartigan's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/19/2008 12:24
Danmartigan
lol @ Kryptinite

San Francisco: making California look ridiculous since 1969.
F Whipple's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/19/2008 12:26
F Whipple
Although i would've been one of the few lame ones to run the thing this is awesome. I could always say i was the runner from ocarina
Necros's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/19/2008 12:31
Necros
@ Bleep

Of course Waluigi would drink shitty soda, he's eeeeeeevil.
Necros's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/19/2008 12:33
Necros
*BEER

Why did that come out as "soda"?
Samit Sarkar's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/19/2008 12:48
Samit Sarkar
Oh, so Dyson didn’t look like the guy who wrote this:

NihonTiger90's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/19/2008 12:52
NihonTiger90
I thought San Francisco was like this ALL the time. It's like someone took Akihabara and slammed it down on the West Coast.
tgammet's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/19/2008 12:53
tgammet
Another fine year here in the city! Shame they were threatening to crack down on the nude runners and alcohol checkpoints.
MechaMonkey's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/19/2008 13:06
MechaMonkey
Mario's fly is open.
Sharpless's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/19/2008 14:05
Sharpless
If I don't see some Dyson pictures, I'm going to be fucking pissed.
Tactix's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/19/2008 14:08
Tactix
I love San Francisco...I only wished I had made it down there to see it all firsthand!
fish with hat's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/19/2008 15:32
fish with hat
Where is Cape Guy?
Mxyzptlk's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/19/2008 16:09
Mxyzptlk
Diddy Kong guy is going into a future nightmare.
GohanGVO's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/19/2008 17:10
GohanGVO
Pissed off Donkey Kong is ammmmmmazzzzzing.
Green Funk's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/19/2008 20:50
Green Funk
I like the guys sporting real mario/porn staches!

Now thats dedication.
Dyson's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/20/2008 04:25
Dyson
Cape Guy:




Myself, as Hobbes, and wit the Calvin Prime -- Jacob Stillman:

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