WonderCon 2012 (Anaheim???)

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Saw footage from Amazing Spider-Man, and Abraham Lincoln vampire hunter those movies look awesome. The new Promtheus trailer.

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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!!

Great review on the show. Glad you got all the stuff you wanted, and getting sketches is always sweet.

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That's my wife & I at 1:15 on Part 1 in Star Trek uniforms.

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That's my wife & I at 1:15 on Part 1 in Star Trek uniforms.

You and your wife make a great Data and Riker.

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