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And the final day - Sunday.

I, again, had to get up early and get down to the con to attempt to get into Hall H. The panels were Fringe, Supernatural and Dr. Who. I managed to make my target time, got into a long, long, LONG ASS line that wrapped around the park quite aways behind the convention center. Ugh. I wanted to see the Supernatural panel - but not enough to sleep over for it. When the line compacted, I moved up enough so that I knew I'd make it in, so I stuck it out in line. And I did get in - half-way through the Fringe panel in one of the last groups.

I didn't take any photos - we were WAY in the back and to the side. I tried a few pictures of the huge screens (we could see the screens easily) but they just didn't come out. No biggie. I enjoyed the panels - and scored a Fringe Hat as swag too.

After the Dr. Who panel - time for a last dealers room crawl to score some more books and try again at WB for anything on the Hobbit. I didn't take many pictures - though I saw a number of nice Dr. Who inspired ones.


one of the 6 batmobiles (outside con). I like the sleek lines of this one

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Friday - Dealers room all day!! I hit the booksellers HARD and got a huge haul, went through some of the big studio lines and got buttons, posters, stuff bags, lanyards and 1 t-shirt.

When the dealers room closed - I headed over to camp out overnight in the Hall H line. Yes, I was a crazy person. Luckily I talked hotmarscube into being crazy with me :) I wanted good seats for the Hobbit panel.


Dealers room floor - Crazy crowds!

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Comic Con is always a supreme test of stamina and not for those who can't deal with crowds. Because Hooboy are there crowds and lines and more lines.

Wed night was preview night - 3 hours to check out the dealers room floor to see what big exhibits the studios were going to dazzle us with this year - to check out those deals early and see what possible promos there were. I snagged a number of photos, spent money on Hobbit jewelry and got a number of free books from haunting the book sellers isles. They had to kick me out when time came. :)

Warner Bros. re-designed their booth this year (it had been the same for several years). The front had a more 'studio' look with huge screens, while the back was all Hobbit - with huge 3D posters of the 12 dwarves, Galadriel, Gandalf, Gollum and Bilbo. Video of the posters To get a good look at the posters, take a look at the TORN vid. I tried to get pictures, but since they were moving 3D pictures, it was hard to actually make them look good in a still photo!


Weta's trolls - and they also had a huge amount of Hobbit props at their booth I was drooling over. They were on the corner of the booth, at the isle... across from the Walking Dead exhibit. It was a HUGE bottleneck - and almost impossible to get close and get a photo of the trolls without getting a lot of people. I never got a shot with me posing with the trolls :(


also at Weta booth.

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I seem to be working backward. Torri & Jason were the final Stargate guests on Sunday in LA.

Jason had some amusing stories about the stunt work he's done - and that horses still hate him and try to kill him. His major injuries have come from horse related stunts. He also said that it was MUCH more lax in Bulgaria, in that 'oh sure, do that' way. Where as in hollywood they are like 'oh my god, no, where's the stuntman!' One stunt he didn't want to do (a fall/slide off a 'cliff' into a pit (where stunt guys would catch him that sounded very scary) he had to do anyway.

He talked about Game of Thrones and learning Dothraki - which involved a bottle of whiskey, and locking himself in his hotel room. LOL. He also talked about doing the Haka for his audition (I had already heard that). And he spoke some Dothraki for us too. He also joked that the main producer? kept trying to get him naked in Game of Thrones - so he played a joke and wore a pink 'sock' over his junk.



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Big panel day for me. I got down there early, though not as early I was was attempting (stupid trolley). However, it was early enough to squeak into the end of the line for Hall H before they split it off across the street.

I had Glee first - then Supernatural, and I stayed for the Dr. Who panel, which was amusing. Most of those in line with me where huge Dr. Who fans (one girl dressed as Amy - and really looked like her! Another as a Dalek) attempting to get in before their panel. I was really far back in the room - and at an angle to the screens, so no pics. But I enjoyed the panels - well .. except for the Glee 3-D thing - which is about Glee fans gushing about how much they love/live like the characters - IN 3-D?!? uhg. No.

After the Dr. Who panel the entire room emptied- and wow - what a huge jam of people! Then I hit the dealers room for last minute swag gathering - like the publishing booths - which give away their 'display' books on the last day (I managed a few). I also attempted to get the Supernatural swag - and that took me hours - but I FINALLY got one - just as the dealers room closed.

Then I was STARVING, so off to Cafe Diem for lunch/dinner and trolley home. Another con over *sniff*

Swag - Sun: 1 rubber bracelet, 1 lanyard w/sharpie, 5 buttons, 5 books, 1 comic, handful of NCIS LA postcards, BBT rocks, Supernatural salt shaker

I was, unfortunately, a little too close here to get the whole effect.


My photo taking kind of dropped off on the last day - so not too many.
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We had planned for Friday to be our big panel day with Big Bang Theory, Bones, Eureka & Warehouse 13 in one room. However that plan was blown when Bones was cancelled :( Timing just didn't work out then - and it would mean a lot of panel sitting for the kid in our group when what she wanted to see was cancelled. Instead we ended up doing the Sid & Marty Kroftt panel and then hitting the dealers room and wandering around for the day. We had thought about going back up and trying to get in later for Eureka & W13 - but the line was long since after W13 it was True Blood... so needless to say - no chance.

After the dealers room closed, we got a quick Subway dinner and headed for the Syfy screening of Eureka & Haven. Before the Syfy screening was the 'Klingon Lifestyles' panel - which is pretty strange fan done skit that we've been calling 'Klingon Situational Comedy', but it made the room easy to get into and they keep the skit short - so win/win.

Swag - Fri: 1 t-shirt (Dresden !!), 1 book, 3 bags, 2 lanyards, 1 patch, 1 comic, 2 Kre-o's (transformer lego), 2 air-fresheners, 4 dogtags, 18 buttons, 4 book samplers, 3 posters, 5 magazines, 1 flashing lightblub, (coolest toy ever!), 1 poster tube, large handful of postcards, flyers, cards & bookmarks

Marvel's booth this year – Big Avengers promo (last year it was Odin's throne). Here's some fans posing.


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And I am sad, and taking the day to go over loot, sleep in and spend time with kitties (who think they have been abandoned). You know it's been a good con when the day following you ache all over and want to spend the day sleeping.

More reports and pictures to follow. Here's the first thing I saw when arriving at the con on thur morning. One of many Dalek's that I saw over the con.

I hopped over to the Whedon Con (Buffy/Angel/Dollhouse/Firefly) to see a few of the stars.

Like I mentioned earlier, I was very impressed by Eliza Dushku. She's extremely well spoken - and gives you 5 minute answers to almost all questions. She reminds me a lot of Joe in how she talks and is very thoughtful. It's probably from having educators as parents and traveling the world and seeing a lot of the worst humanity can do to one another.

She talked about how she got into acting - at 9 she wanted to go to a casting call, her mother was less impressed - and was busy. When her mom did not show up to take her, Eliza turned to her big brother and DEMANDED he take her to the audition. Luckily, it wasn't that far away, and she knew where it was. She went as she was - filthy, in torn clothes, because she was NINE and didn't know better, didn't have anyone to have her get ready, or even realized she had to change! She got there to find a room full of made up 'princess' in fancy poofy white/pink dresses, curled hair, bows, etc, etc. She was horrified and was about ready to turn and run, when her brother told her 'YOU wanted to come. YOU will stay and go through with it! It doesn't matter what anyone else does!' To make a long story short, she did, and she got the part. And that's probably a huge reason she gets the 'tough girl' rolls to this day.



Sean Maher (Simon/firefly) is very petty... but either a little shell shocked or a slow thinker. His response to every question was 'that's a good question. Uhm. I need to think about that....' and would fall silent for several moments and not really come up with much. Oh well, he's pretty!



I also caught a little of Morena Baccarin's talk. She told some horror stories of fans that made me cringe. I wanted to get up and apologize for all of the idiots at Comic Con. Someone asked her of her best and worst fan experience she had (a good question actually. I wish I had heard it earlier/that this person had asked it in the Stargate area). Her best is coming to cons and chatting with fans who give her respect in return. I had gotten an autograph by her earlier (on an Adira pic) and she chatted with everyone and wrote little comments on every picture. Her worst... basically she was given attitude - pretty unpleasant attitude when she was in a hurry and late and had told the fan, 'not right now, catch me later' and he KEPT IT UP till he basically bullied her into it. *facepalm* She's pretty amusing and busy right now with filming on V. I didn't take any pics. I was pretty far back because I came in so late.

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Joe's panel was a nice and long talk - and yes, someone commented - the lights were up the whole time - which was super nice. My pics are still a little on the yellow side, but that's just the super bad lighting. Joe would walk from side to side of the stage and lean then walk to the chair and lean on it, then walk around behind it... and on. So, I have lots of pics of him leaning.

BTW - Joe did not write anything funny on the banners (bummer) in response. I did get pictures of the other two though.

I know you are all waiting for these... so here's some of the many I took, formatted and uploaded :)



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