Comic Con 2011- Thur
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winter_elfComic Con 2011 day 1 - Thur
I got there early to attempt to get registration for next year for my sister and nephew. Let's just say I failed really, really badly, and was in a horrendous line for 2 1/2 hours and it was sold out before I even got in sight of the front of the line. Here I thought 7 am on the 1st day was an early time. HA! :( I really don't think much of this new way of doing the registration. It sucks. They want to hold memberships back for the 'general public', but what about those of us that go? Instead they make it harder to get for those fans who ARE attending.
After that line failure, I headed up to see if the autograph lottery was still going on for Jim Butcher and Patricia Briggs and to stand in more lines. Here I lucked out, as the lottery had been delayed, and I was successful in pulling autograph tickets.
A little time in the dealers room, back up for autograph lines. Made two book panels - 'Magic & Monsters' and 'No Damels in Distress here'. I wasn't too impressed by the Magic & Monsters one - not only bad sound, but not a very interesting talk. However the No Damels one was a lot of fun with talkative and interesting authors. I went to the signing for the No Damels panel - as I wanted to catch one author, and ended up with a free book from an author who I thought was interesting in the panel (her book will be out in Nov). By now, my shoulder was killing me from carrying around all those books (and buying more!) for the day. ugh.
Final dealers room crawl before it closed, then dinner and home.
Swag - wed night: 5 book samplers, button, handful of various postcards, 2 foam swords, X-men t-shirt (got when pre-ordering the DVD), bookmarks, SW fan
Swag - Thur: 2 books, 6 lanyards (w/sharpies), NCIS:LA phone skin, 3 bags, SW fan, comic, 3 coin purses, 1 temp tattoo, 5 buttons, 3 book samplers, various postcards and bookmarks
Conan booth babes!! They were handing out posters and such - there were several of them. Jason you've done well! :) I asked her to pose with the screen. I missed Jason's panels and autographing but I wish him super success and plan to see Conan.
A popular pair!
Mark Hamill signing. This was as close as I got and I was holding my camera over my head for this shot
Syfy's Cafe Diem on the Gaslamp. A cool place to eat - decorated with the current syfy shows and the wait staff wears syfy t-shirts. Also very close to the con, so I tend to eat there (when I can get in!)
Promotion costuming seen in the Gaslamp area. Lots of stuff outside the con - with Cartoon Network doing a 'Southpark land' and several video companies advertising and Sprint doing a gaming lounge. It was a very hot day, I felt for this guy/gal in this rubber suit!!
What I WOULD have spent my b-day money on - IF it was out :( If you can't quite tell from this - in which the bases are lightsabers and they glow red or blue. The glow was very washed out by my flash. They also have umbrellas with lightsabers as the handles. Yes, I was geeking out.
at museumreplicas.com (I grabbed a card)
My favorite drow Drizzt and his companion at the Wizards booth
Another wizards booth statue
I got there early to attempt to get registration for next year for my sister and nephew. Let's just say I failed really, really badly, and was in a horrendous line for 2 1/2 hours and it was sold out before I even got in sight of the front of the line. Here I thought 7 am on the 1st day was an early time. HA! :( I really don't think much of this new way of doing the registration. It sucks. They want to hold memberships back for the 'general public', but what about those of us that go? Instead they make it harder to get for those fans who ARE attending.
After that line failure, I headed up to see if the autograph lottery was still going on for Jim Butcher and Patricia Briggs and to stand in more lines. Here I lucked out, as the lottery had been delayed, and I was successful in pulling autograph tickets.
A little time in the dealers room, back up for autograph lines. Made two book panels - 'Magic & Monsters' and 'No Damels in Distress here'. I wasn't too impressed by the Magic & Monsters one - not only bad sound, but not a very interesting talk. However the No Damels one was a lot of fun with talkative and interesting authors. I went to the signing for the No Damels panel - as I wanted to catch one author, and ended up with a free book from an author who I thought was interesting in the panel (her book will be out in Nov). By now, my shoulder was killing me from carrying around all those books (and buying more!) for the day. ugh.
Final dealers room crawl before it closed, then dinner and home.
Swag - wed night: 5 book samplers, button, handful of various postcards, 2 foam swords, X-men t-shirt (got when pre-ordering the DVD), bookmarks, SW fan
Swag - Thur: 2 books, 6 lanyards (w/sharpies), NCIS:LA phone skin, 3 bags, SW fan, comic, 3 coin purses, 1 temp tattoo, 5 buttons, 3 book samplers, various postcards and bookmarks
Conan booth babes!! They were handing out posters and such - there were several of them. Jason you've done well! :) I asked her to pose with the screen. I missed Jason's panels and autographing but I wish him super success and plan to see Conan.
A popular pair!
Mark Hamill signing. This was as close as I got and I was holding my camera over my head for this shot
Syfy's Cafe Diem on the Gaslamp. A cool place to eat - decorated with the current syfy shows and the wait staff wears syfy t-shirts. Also very close to the con, so I tend to eat there (when I can get in!)
Promotion costuming seen in the Gaslamp area. Lots of stuff outside the con - with Cartoon Network doing a 'Southpark land' and several video companies advertising and Sprint doing a gaming lounge. It was a very hot day, I felt for this guy/gal in this rubber suit!!
What I WOULD have spent my b-day money on - IF it was out :( If you can't quite tell from this - in which the bases are lightsabers and they glow red or blue. The glow was very washed out by my flash. They also have umbrellas with lightsabers as the handles. Yes, I was geeking out.
at museumreplicas.com (I grabbed a card)
My favorite drow Drizzt and his companion at the Wizards booth
Another wizards booth statue
