winter_elf

Wow - am I exhausted! It was fun and all, but nothing like being cursed by the monthly yuck the 1st day of con to sap one's energy!

I got into the panels I wanted by way of much planning (and little sleep), saw some amazing costumes, snagged swag, snapped pictures and attempted to load pics via instagram. I'll get better with using the tablet - and on Sat, it was running low of charge, so no more from the Hall H panels (I got lots of my cameras).

Hall H on Sat was a ton of fun. Theonering.net has a full recording and write up of the hobbit panel (minus the video WB showed - amazing!!!!!). I suggest you all run over and take a look if you want to see the panel discussion :)

Pacific Rim with Guillermo del Toro looks to be mind blowing. Giant Mechas fight giant monsters. He had some stunning scenes - and just.... wow.

And then Iron Man 3 panel. Wow again. Marvel has some really awesome footage to show. And Robert Downey Jr. ... Let me just say - just watch this vid. The man makes an entrance - with his own music.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4OHn77YNZI

I was within 2 feet of RDJ. Our seats were on the corner of an isle. So in the Vid, when he turns the corner, that's where we were.

I have over 400 pictures to go through, so I'll try to post some later today.

Boss: blah blah blah report blah blah blah fax blah blah phone blah......

Me: comicconcomicconcomicconcomicconcomicconcomicconcomicconcomiccon....

Ugh. Why did I NOT take off Monday and Tue?? Two more days for the boss to freak out and for me to get nothing done.

Wed is sooooooooooooo far away.

All 4 days of programming are up! Whee!

The key to success at SDCC? Planning, Planning, Planning

off to the Creation Stargate Los Angeles convention. Or the tri-show as they call it. I'm actually more interested a number of the Eureka/Warehouse 13 guests they have in the other side, so I might be showing up for some of their talks as well. I'm going to miss this next year, as this is the last multi-con LA thing with Stargate. :(

Saturday I had already planned to be a big book signing day - so I spent most of the day going back and forth and lines at the Mysterious Galaxy booth and others. I got a free book at some of the signings, and brought some from home. Another day in which my shoulder was killing me (and my feet!).

We had no luck in chasing down the Cowboys & Aliens 'gold boxes', so no premier movie for us. I had still wanted to go over and check out the crazyness at the Civic center..... but none of my pals were interested. So, instead we had dinner at Cafe Diem and then went to the Masquerade - which was a lot smaller (and the room didn't fill), so I think the Sat parties - and the premier - pulled a lot of people away.

Swag - Sat: 1 flashing Lightblub (same style/different place), 2 air-freshners, 1 book sampler, 1 cd book sampler, 2 newsprint papers, 1 catalog, 3 bags (super nice ones), 1 Big Bang Theory game, 5 rubber bracelets (ST), 3 lanyards (2 w/ sharpies), 1 pen, 6 buttons, 1 coin purse, 9 books, 1 t-shirt (chuck), 1 water bottle (vampire diaries)



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Comic 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.


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Starts today. I won't be online much, and might not post much. We'll see. *jumps up and down and checks watch again*

I leave 'god-awful' early am friday morning for Creation's Chicago Stargate con. I hope to meet up with a number of my LJ Flist. I'm in seat O16 and staying in the host hotel.

Leave a note or send me a PM if you're going to be there and where you are. I'm open for breakfast or dinner if someone wants to meet up! Only plans so far is breakfast on Sat. Though now that the schedule has moved earlier, I need to see if that's still okay!

OMG! Comic Con tomorrow!!! *bounces off walls*

Goes back to planning and scheduling. *sigh* so many panels at the same time. I apologize now to all my Merlin LJfriends. I really do. The Merlin panel is at the same time as the Supernatural panel :( Whywhywhy!

I picked up a number of little 'preview' booklets for upcoming books. One - "Geektastic, Stories from the Nerd Herd" included a Geektastic lists of 'Things to Bring to Help Survive Comic Con'.

Here's Holly's list - which is the list that amused me (and is true!)

- Bottle of ibuprofen. Not the little bottle, either.

- Coffee. Because buying it inside the building will mean fighting other caffeine-deprived attendees. Some of them will have shurikens.

- A Sharpie. You just never know when you might need one.

- A Buddy. With whom you can rehearse what you are going to say when you meet celebrity heros ... which you will forget when you actually wind up standing behind hero on coffee line. In this case, buddy can also resuscitate you.

- Large bag or knapsack. To hold all your spoils.

- Steel-toed shoes. Forget comfort! You have to hold your ground!

LOL!