Comic Con Day Three

There wasn't much going on Saturday in regards to the panels, at least not much that I wanted to see. So I planned on spending most of my time down in the dealers room or roaming around taking pictures. But there were two panels that I wanted to see. At 10:30 there was the Lost panel. I have gone to this every year (this being year three) and every year different actors show up to promote this show. This year we had Jorge Garcia (Hurley) and Daniel Dae Kim (Jin). It was a packed house over 5000 people and they talked about the upcoming season but kept very tight lipped. After that panel and in the same room was The Simpson panel. The creative time behind this show came in and discussed several things, the big thing was seeing unfinished clips from the big Simpsons movie coming out next year. Both panels were great

After the panels I picked up some lunch and went back down to the floor where I took tons of picture ( which you can see on my website) and continue to check out all the geeky things. At 8pm there was a special screening of "Done the Impossilbe" it's a fan film about how the fans of Firefly fought to get our beloved but cancelled TV series made into the big damn movie Serenity. When then did dinner and back to the hotel for some much needed rest.

Comic Con Day Two

Friday was my first full day at this years Comic Con and I would have to say that it didn't disappoint me. There were crowds, lines, people in costumes and plenty of geeky things as far as the eye could see. Every year I sit down with the program schedule for each day and make lists of what I want to see and who I want to see. Of course there is always conflicting event happening at the same time so I pick which one I really want to see and have the other ones as back up just in case I can't get into the one I really want to see. There were 12 events/panels that I wanted to see but 0nly three were "must" see.

When the doors opened on the huge dealers room ( about the size of a football field) I started to look at all the goodies. I only needed a few action figures but was also buying some figures for friends that couldn't make to comic con.. so I started to shop. I knew that I had about an hour before I needed to get in line for the Warner Bros presentation. I knew that they weren't going to be showing any new footage from the new Harry Potter so it went from a 'must' see to if I had time panel and once I was on the dealers floor looking at all the cool things I decided that it wasn't so important and skipped it.

Around Noon I knew that I needed to get upstairs and get in line for the one thing that I really have been looking forward too, the screening and panel for Heroes. Heroes is a new TV series that will be premiering on NBC in the fall and they had a special sneak peak at a 70 minutes comic con exclusive cut of the pilot episode. Then the entire cast but two came in and spoke to the crowds of thousands. The pilot was awesome and it was so cool being one of the first people to watch this great new TV series. The cast was funny, charming and taken back by the response from the audience. Eveyone must watch this new TV series.

After the Heroes panel I went back down to the dealers room and continued to go through the crowds of people and shop for items that I needed. About and hour after that my nerves were starting to get frayed. I can only take the crowds for so long and my feet were starting to hurt.. so I decided that is was time for lunch. I went upstairs and found a semi-quiet area and sat down for a much needed rest. After lunch I really didn't want to go back down to the floor so I decided to go to another panel. And so for the next few hours I went to the Star Wars Day: Lucasfilm's Star Wars Spectacular, which really is one big sales pitch for what games are coming out next year, but was still fun. I also went to The Jim Henson Company: Power of the Dark Crystal and found out about some upcoming movies and event from the Jim Henson Company. Now being 7pm I was tired but Tom and I wanted to see if we could get into one more panel, SNL Saturday TV Funhouse. We got in line, which was huge but the room filled up and we couldn't get it. We decided that it was time for dinner and then back to the hotel to rest up for Saturday.

Comic Con Day One

Well after getting five phone calls from work asking me various questions I managed to get everything packed and ready to go. Tom showed up and we jumped in the car and went to the store to buy some snacks. We were just about to get on the freeway when i noticed that I didn't have the directions or my hotel conformation information so back to the apartment we go. So we get the info and head out again. After almost four hours in the car we get to the hotel and find out another surprise. A few months back my credit card was stolen and I cancelled the card and was re-issued another one. Well I used that cancel card to hold the room, I thought this would be okay because they ran the CC number when I booked the room back in Feb. to make sure it was good. I figure when I got there I could give them the new one and all would be good. Well the guy told me that they cancelled our room because the credit card was bad. He then went on to tell me that I was a bad person because the credit card was bad. I tried to argue but they already gave the room to someone else. Tom asked why they didn't call us or let us know about this and he said it was my problem and not theres.. he also mentioned that they booked our room for about $500 a night instead of the $189 that booked it at back in Feb.. He was the most un-helpful person but after talking to him he did call another hotel and asked if they had rooms and if we could get the same rate. Well the rate we paid for this hotel was high because it was close to the convention center. Our new hotel was 5 miles even though the guy said it was 1 mile away from his hotel. So we paid a ton of money for a crappy hotel five miles away and had to taxi in every day which cost us another 100 dollars what we didn't expect.

We did manage to get to the convention center before they closed and get our badges and still make it to the second half of a panel with Kenneth Johnson the creator of V, The Incredible Hulk, Bionic Man and Woman, Alien Nation amoung others. So what started off as a horrible day and continued to be a crappy afternoon ended with a good night. Next up Friday.. one of the busiest con days.

"little" outing

Entry for July 16, 2006 - "little" outing

Well I had my third outing with my "little" Sean. We went to Castle Park in Sherman Oaks. Played a round of minature golf, we hit the ball around. He wasn't really into golf. He would nail the ball and it would go flying. He then would hit if a few time and then get bored and pick it up and move to the next hole. He liked the arcade more. Played tons of games for the next few hours. All in all a fun day and with all the tickets we won he got a really cool SFX "LOTR - Sting" sword for only 280 tickets.He was trilled. Only a few more outings before he moves.