Category: Nyári Highlights 2026 (eng)

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Games Day Budapest by Hammer Time Cafe

It’s time for the next edition of Games Day Budapest!

Discover the exciting world of tabletop miniature wargaming, home to legendary games such as Warhammer Fantasy and Warhammer 40,000. Try your hand at miniature painting, or enter the Golden Gobbo Miniature Painting Competition and showcase your creativity! As always, Games Day is all about great fun, and at the HammerTime Cafe you’ll even have the chance to pick up your very first army.

Once again, Games Day Budapest will be hosted as part of Summer MondoCon 2026, organized by HammerTime Cafe. The event even has its own dedicated stage—just look for the HammerTime Cafe Stage in the official program schedule!

What can you look forward to at Games Day Budapest 2026?

  • Golden Gobbo Miniature Painting Competition – created especially with beginner painters in mind. (See the detailed rules below.)
  • Tabletop miniature game demonstrations – where enthusiastic members of the community showcase their gaming clubs, beautifully crafted battlefields, and favorite games.
  • HammerTime Cafe’s event area, featuring quality refreshments, a miniature painting workshop, and the HammerTime Cafe Warhammer store.

You can find the full Golden Gobbo competition rules here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1aX_rkq16XRtCZ2-dcXZCxRCT4QxK9IEoUrPQzxnkM0M/edit?tab=t.0

Games Day Budapest 2026 is a two-day event, with the Golden Gobbo Miniature Painting Competition taking place on the first day.

Golden Gobbo Schedule – Saturday

9:30 – Doors open, competition registration begins
10:00 – Opening ceremony
12:00 – Terrain competition judging results announced
2:00 PM – Competition registration closes
3:00 PM – Return of miniatures that did not advance to the finals
4:00 PM – Awards ceremony, prize presentation, and collection of the winning miniatures

If you’re not entering the competition, you can still enjoy the event with a valid Summer MondoCon 2026 admission ticket.

Competition participants must pay an entry fee of 1,000 HUF per submission, either at the HammerTime Cafe counter during the event or in advance through the HammerTime Cafe webshop:
https://hammertimecafe.hu/termek/games-day-budapest-golden-gobbo-nevezesi-jegy/

The entire HammerTime Cafe team, organizers of Games Day Budapest 2026, looks forward to welcoming you!

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Cosplay Judges and Guests of Honor

Discover which international cosplayers you can meet at MondoCon Summer 2026! Our guests will be judging our cosplay craftsmanship contest, and you can also meet them at their signing booths on both days, where you’ll have the chance to take photos with them and support their work by purchasing prints and other merchandise.

Rerenga (Austria)

Rerenga is a professional cosplayer and full-time content creator from Austria. After enjoying crafting and cosplaying as a creative hobby for 7 years, cosplay has become a career for her. She collaborates with brands, guests at international events, judges competitions and produces content for businesses wanting to reach a wider audience. She is very passionate about combining nerd culture with her love for crafting, fitness and HEMA sword fighting.

Social media:


Photo credits:

Photostegi – https://www.instagram.com/photostegi/

Elio (Ukraine)

Elio is a cosplayer from Ukraine. He is 24 years old and has been active in cosplay since 2016. Over the years, he has won Comic Con Ukraine twice and has also placed at numerous Ukrainian festivals.

In addition to competing, he has served as a judge at several conventions, while continuing to actively participate in events himself.

Currently, his main focus within cosplay is content creation. His audience has grown to 140k followers on TikTok and 42k on Instagram.

He professionally studies a wide range of makeup techniques and applies them in practice, specifically within the context of cosplay.

For the past three years, he has been working as a content creator at FD Cosplay Studio, where he regularly collaborates with professional cosplayers and has developed a strong visual sense and in-depth industry knowledge.

Social media:

https://www.tiktok.com/@elio_coser

Pixie Padlock (Serbia)

Pixie Padlock is a cosplayer, educator and event organiser based in Belgrade, Serbia. She started off as a makeup artist for TV talent shows and developed her love for cosplay. While she occasionally cosplays established characters, she often creates original designs inspired by general fantasy archetypes. A significant part of her work involves building and nurturing the regional cosplay discord community. 

She is a key organiser for several local events and in addition to her cosplay work, Pixie is also known for her positive and welcoming attitude towards people and the cosplay community as a whole, she often encourages others to try cosplay which leads her to write educational posts where she shares her tips for other cosplayers and content creators.

Social media:

https://beacons.ai/pixiepadlock

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Tournament of Champions cosplay qualifier

Once again, the best craftsmanship-focused cosplayer from our community will have the chance to qualify for an international cosplay competition!
The finals of the Tournament of Champions will take place at YuniCon in Vienna, held between October 30 and November 1, 2026.

Why is it worth entering?
The top craftsmanship contestant who gets to represent Hungary at the competition will receive:

  • A YuniCon ticket for themselves and one companion;
  • Accommodation, travel, and meals fully covered;
  • The opportunity to join group dinners with the other contestants;
  • Valuable experience and unforgettable memories!

The Hungarian qualifier will be held during the Summer MondoCon 2026 cosplay craftsmanship competition. Don’t miss it! It’s always an incredible experience both for cosplayers and for spectators, as the qualifiers usually feature the very best of the best!

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Akari Mochizuki: Enka and Traditional Japanese Music Concert

A unique voice of Japanese culture is joining the MondoCon lineup: Akari Mochizuki, a traditional Japanese music performer who has been building a bridge between Japan and international audiences for over two decades.

Originally from Japan, but based in the United Kingdom since 2003, she studied drama in Cambridge and contemporary music in London, and began performing enka in 2009. Since then, her career has gained international recognition: she has performed in over 21 countries and appeared at prestigious events such as HYPER JAPAN, the WOMAD festival, and even programs at the British Museum.

Akari is active not only as a singer, but also as a bilingual MC and cultural ambassador, regularly appearing on television (for example on TV Tokyo) and featured on BBC Radio. Through her performances, she brings the emotional depth of traditional Japanese music closer to international audiences, while making it truly engaging with a modern stage presence.

In 2021, she was appointed as an ambassador for Nike’s “DUNK” campaign, and in 2025 she also contributed as a local coordinator for a major sumo tournament held at the Royal Albert Hall in London — demonstrating her versatility in representing Japanese culture worldwide.

At MondoCon, you can experience a performance where tradition meets modern stage presence — well worth seeing live, whether you are already familiar with enka or encountering it for the first time.

Photo credits: Nocturna Photography