Comic Con 2012 - part 1

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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Comic Con 2012 - part 2

Thursday, or the 1st day of the con I dressed up as a hobbit for the TORN panel & photo shoot. I did see the pic online - but now I can't find it. But I WAS there! I got to the con fairly earlyish (8:00 or so) to get in line for the TORN panel. Long line, but no problem getting into the panel. Then the photo shoot - then into another line for Ballroom 20. HUGE ASS LINE, but as the room was empty still, and I knew my place, I was getting in, just had to wait. That was for the Psych, Beauty & the Beast and Elementary panels. I'm not a huge fan of Psych, though I've watched a few, but I wanted the two panels after, so it meant getting into the room early.

Beauty & the Beast and Elementary are two new fall shows, in which they were showing the entire pilot episode and having a small Q&A with the stars. I was curious about both shows so I wanted to see the pilot. Both looked decent and I'm going to give them a shot. I'm more interested in the Beauty & the Beast - moody, ex-military, scared .. check, check, check on all MY favs for guy angst!! Elementary looked at least to be much different from BBC Sherlock (which I LOVE), so I'm glad for that. I DO like Lucy Liu, so I'm going to watch and see. I do hope they don't copy the BBC show - but they have room to keep it different, so we'll see.

After the panels - it was time for the dealers room!! Whee! More books and haunting the book isles for freebies. I was also attempting to play the San Diego Comic-Con Bingo game (I uploaded the game board to my Tumblr - see it there). It was a lot of fun. I managed to take some shots with my tablet and upload, others I took with my camera (and are here). I almost got a black out - but the problem was actually getting the photo! When you are running one way, and the person is running the other - it's hard to stop and take a photo! ARGH! I saw so many I would have Liked to get a photo of, but they were like: eating or getting food, going into a panel, in a line going the other way, in a huge crowd were I couldn't stop, or my camera flipped out (like on the excellent Nick Fury for the 'eyepatch' square - I got a white screen) *sigh*

What I did NOT see on the Bingo: Lou Ferrigno (he was there, a friend actually saw him signing autographs when she went by), muppet (a different friend saw someone in an Elmo costume - no really!), Jawa (surprisingly! There must have been one!), Naruto (lots of anime, but I didn't see that headband thing myself), Stan Lee (in person, though I did see pics for people to pick up taken with him earlier in the day)


Cute costumes!
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Comic Con 2012 - part 3

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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