Today in beautiful Hollywood, California, a group of cosplayers gathered for what could have been a record breaking attempt for the most cosplayers in one place. The current record is held by Melbourne, Australia with 1,245 people. Sadly, the title still belongs to Australia since not many people showed up. How many exactly? Jump past the break for the answer and pictures.

The event, held on Hollywood and Highland, managed to bring ten people out for the world record attempt from what we saw. That’s approximately .8% of the people, falling well short of the 1,245 they needed to even tie. So what the hell happened? Where was everybody?

From what we know the call for this attempt was put up on Yelp and ComicsAlliance.com, but from who it isn’t clear. Still, these few and dedicated cosplayers were not upset, just confused, as we all were. Below are pics of the people that actually did show up. Thank you for trying.