WonderCon 2012 (Anaheim???)

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Special offers and savings for WonderCon 2012 attendees, professionals, and exhibitors!

SPECIAL DISNEYLAND TICKETS AND SAVINGS AVAILABLE FOR WONDERCON ATTENDEES!

Disneyland and Disney California Adventure Park are offering special tickets and savings for WonderCon attendees and their guests.

Buy in advance and save! Significant savings with your pre-arrival purchase of specially priced one-day and multi-day Theme Park tickets. These tickets are created just for you and not available at the front gates of the Theme Parks!

Tickets are valid Wednesday, March 14 through Sunday, March 27, 2012. The Ticket Store closes at 9:00 PM Pacific Time on Thursday, March 15, 2012 so purchase your tickets before you get to WonderCon!

For more information and to purchase tickets, please visit: http://www.disneyconventionear.com/ZMWC12C

Please be aware that the staff of WonderCon is not responsible for supplying this service. This service is offered through Disney. If you have further questions, please call: (714) 956-6781.


MOVIE TICKET SAVINGS AT ULTRALUXE ANAHEIM CINEMAS!
UltraLuxe Anaheim Cinemas will be offering $6.00 admission (3D up-charge applies) to everyone with a WonderCon Badge during the convention! Come enjoy our unique amenities, including Star Class 21+ auditoriums with in-seat service serving beer and wine; D-Box Motion Seats, where your seats move to the action of the movie; and UltraMaximum, the 65-foot large screen and awesome sound experience! Wear your WonderCon Badge for this special offer!

UltraLuxe Anaheim Cinemas is located across the street from the Anaheim Convention Center in the Anaheim GardenWalk shopping center at 321 W. Katella Ava, Anaheim, CA!

For more info, visit:
www.UltraLuxeAnaheim.com
www.facebook.com/UltraLuxeAnaheim

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I figured Disney would do something to attract people to it's theme park. I wonder if they'll have more Marvel figures on hand in their souvenir shops.

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They probably will have more figures available especially at Downtown Disney. I haven't been to Disneyland in about a month, so Im not sure if they have the Avengers movie toys available there yet. If they do, thats what they're probably going to try to sell(that and the left over Thor and Cap movie figures).



I checked the weather for Anaheim for this weekend there is a 40% chance of showers for Saturday and Sunday. A 20% chance of showers on Friday.

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Visit Comixology At WonderCon This Weekend And Get THE WALKING DEAD Volume 1 For Free

ComiXology will be exhibiting for the first time this weekend at WonderCon ’12, taking place at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California from March 16th-18th. To celebrate our WonderCon ’12 debut, comiXology is offering a not-to-be missed giveaway!

The first 5,000 WonderCon 2012 attendees to come by comiXology’s booth (#107) will receive a limited edition promotional postcard imprinted with a unique download code redeemable for The Walking Dead Vol. 1 exclusively on comiXology.com. In partnership with The Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman’s Skybound, comiXology is making sure attendees of WonderCon ’12 get a “taste” of the first graphic novel — regularly $8.99 for 140 pages —that the hit The Walking Dead TV show is based on.

ComiXology will also be providing hands on demonstrations of some new as-of-yet unannounced features on it’s Comics by comiXology digital comics platform at our booth all weekend long. Attendees will also find comiXology leading the digital comics discussion in a number of different panels during the show.

All WonderCon ’12 attendees are invited to attend the special “ComiXology Open Discussion Panel” where comiXology co-founder and CEO David Steinberger will answer questions from the audience on “Everything Digital” with no topic off limits. The “ComiXology Open Discussion: Everything Digital Panel” will be on Friday, March 16th from 3:30pm- 4:30pm in Room 203.

In addition, Mark Waid joins David Steinberger on the “Digital Comics Price Fight Panel” on Saturday, March 17th from 11:30am – 12:30pm in Room 208 moderated by creator Sam Humphries, who was the driving force behind MySpace Comics. Later that same day, Steinberger joins Dark Horse publisher Mike Richardson, The Nerdist’s Peter Levin, Comic Book Resources’ Jonah Weiland, and Beach Ball Comics’ Thomas Gaul on the “Comic Book Entrepreneurs Panel” from 3:30pm – 4:30pm in Room 211 also moderated by Humphries. ComiXology’s VP of Marketing, PR and Business Development, Chip Mosher, will be hosting the “Indie Comics Marketing and PR 101 Panel” with comic creators Sam Humphries, Ben McCool, and Dark Horse’s Director of PR Jeremy Atkins on Sunday, March 18th from 12:30pm – 1:30pm in Room 208.

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Nice. Any news on other exclusives? DC Direct via Graphitti Designs? Marvel or DC got anything for us? I love con exclusives so I'm a little disappointed that despite the move to SoCal they haven't had more options.

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These events are happening at the same time as wondercon, at anaheim convention center.

United Spirit Association All Stars - March 2012

From: Sat, Mar/17/2012
To: Sun, Mar/18/2012
Location:
Arena, Hall A
Event Information:
Event Type: Sporting Event
Open to the Public
Website: www.usacamps.com

and

SCVA Junior National Qualifier Volleyball Tournament - March

From: Fri, Mar/16/2012
To: Sun, Mar/18/2012
Location:
Exhibit Halls C & D
Event Information:
Event Type: Volleyball Tournament
Open to the Public
www.scvavolleyball.org

http://www.anaheimconventioncenter.com/events.cfm

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It sucks that I'm not attending this event. I should have already met Candice Bailey at the G4 booth.

I'm guessing that Graphitti Design didn't have an excluvise for this event other than a T-Shirt.

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I didn't see too much as far as the floor went today. My wife & I went in ST:TNG outfits & she was blind due to her non-prescription contacts, so there was not much sightseeing to do.

Tomorrow will be better, as I won't be in costume & can go off on my own as she'll be with a group.

I did get some photos of some Lanterns- Guy Gardner and Soranik Natu. Both looked pretty good. I'll put up pics later on.

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LeeAnna Vamp's photo album from WonderCon 2012: http://www.facebook.com/#!/media/set...2718265&type=1


Here's a few photos from LeeAnna's Facebook album:

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It sucks that I'm not attending this event. I should have already met Candice Bailey at the G4 booth.

I'm guessing that Graphitti Design didn't have an excluvise for this event other than a T-Shirt.

Yeah all GD had were the wondercon shirt and leftover exclusives of Zoom from SDCC and Arkham City Sick Joker from NYCC.

I figured Disney would do something to attract people to it's theme park. I wonder if they'll have more Marvel figures on hand in their souvenir shops.

They probably will have more figures available especially at Downtown Disney. I haven't been to Disneyland in about a month, so Im not sure if they have the Avengers movie toys available there yet. If they do, thats what they're probably going to try to sell(that and the left over Thor and Cap movie figures).
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I was wrong, they didn't have any Marvel figures at Disneyland. They didn't even have their usual Cap and Thor movie figs.

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So how was WonderCon? Was it very crowded?

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It was pretty cool. Lot of people, not as crowded as SDCC though. Imo the anaheim convention center made a mistake of having a volleyball tounament and like a cheer tounament going on at the same time. But they probably booked it before the anaheim convention center knew they were going to get wondercon this year. Made traffic/parking at the convention center a lil worse than it already was to begin with (weather(raining on Saturday) and Disneyland ).

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I only attended Friday. It was NOT crowded at all. I got there around 11:30 am and was able to park at the convention garage (and there were plenty of open spots) and was able to walk right up to get my badge and then waited in line for a minute before they started letting everyone in early at 11:45 am (that was nice). Once in, nothing or no one was really busy. I was able to get and see everything I wanted. I walked the entire floor. Got some quality free SWAG (Full Size Avengers Poster from the Marvel Booth, DC booth picture where you get to digitally be a member of the Justice League). Bought and wore my official WonderCon T-Shirt. I was able to get some great sketches ... Brian Buccellato did a nice flash, Bernard Chang a Wonder Woman, Mike Choi a really detailed Batman and Livio Ramondelli did an Optimus Prime and Megatron sketch. All this by 3 pm!

I easily made it in to attend the 21 Jump Street panel. It started at 3:45 pm and I was able to walk in and be in the 8th row center area when I showed up about 3:10 pm. Even at 3:45 pm it was far from full. Anyways, Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum are really good down to Earth people that genuinely care and appreciate their fans. They were totally cool and accommadating.

I then watched a little bit of the J. Michael Straczynski panel and then the Mike Mignola panel too. These were only half full at best.

Got back to the floor at 4:45 pm. Walked the entire Artist Alley and Guest Signature area again. Checked out a few comics. I got a nice picture of me holding X-Men #1 graded CGC 9.4 that is retail valued at $120K!! Never held a more expensive item in my hands before!

I wanted to stay to watch the premier of DC's Superman vs the Elite but got too hungry and didn't feel like walking around killing 1 more hour of time so my brother in-law and I left and got some food at BJ's. Went home and called it a day.

It was a nice and I'd do it again but not to say it was boring but I'm actually OK I was only able to go Friday because not sure what else I was going to do on Saturday or Sunday. I got what I wanted, walked the convention floor 2 times so I probably would have just found a comfortable seat and sat in the big Hall all day watching whatever panels came. Maybe getting out here and there for a sketch or two from some artists.

I felt WonderCon lacked the cool exclusives ... no DC Direct Figures, even the WonderCon exclusive comics were not real unique (no X-Men SF Giants Comic, no Godzilla destroying WonderCon, etc.). I did not like Gentle Giant's Star Wars Yoda figure ... it was I felt blasphemous to the true Star Wars fan and it was just a paper weight book end type of deal. It was not worth the $70 it costed or the $100 some folks are buying it on the bay. Thought the AFX figures were overpriced. So to me WonderCon lacked that real "gotta have it" item or "gotta go" moment. Friday was rainy and cold so maybe that explains some of it. I was definitely expecting more especially being in SoCal and in Hollywood's back yard but I felt the WonderCon's in SF had more glitter and pop. I'm looking forward to it coming back! I will say that the general consensus of Wondercon (Head of Entertainment, Head of Security, etc.) was they would like to come back to Moscone so I'd be shocked if it did not return.

Anyways, it was good times but I'm definitely looking forward to the machine that is Comic Con!!

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I saw that they brought the Yoda down to $65 on Sunday. Yeah on Friday parking wasn't bad, got there around 9 something. Saturday and Sunday they closed the convention center garage by 9 something. Dropped off on Saturday.Had to park at Disneyland's Toy Story lot on Sunday(felt it was better than parking at the stadium,didn't have to take a shuttle, it was closer to the convention center and it was free because of my annual pass).

You were at the 8th row of 21 Jump St panel! Me too,from what I counted it was the 8th row center(toward the left facing the screen). I was the Asian guy with the green Hydra shirt .

Saturday I just stayed at the Ballroom all day. Even had the same seats I had on Friday.

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Anything good happen in the Ballroom?