Summer and I got up a little earlier this morning and headed straight down to Comic Con. We got to see most of Andy Serkis’s panel, then went to watch a bit of The Threepios Star Wars parody band for a bit. We ended up leaving that and I learned that William Shatner had a panel as well, so we stopped by to see that. He seemed old and senile with his story telling, so we actually left after just a few minutes of that. We failed to find anyone at the Ghostbusters cosplay meetup, but I did finally convince Summer to start taking some pictures with the cosplayers that she really liked. We stopped by to see our vendor friends and eventually made it back to the big ballroom to see Katee Sackhoff’s panel.
By then we were pretty hungry, so we headed over to the mall for some lunch. It was just as sad with everything open as it was when we arrived at closing time. At least half of the stores were abandoned, but there was a food court in full swing. We had a couple cheesesteaks before making it back to the con.
We found a part of the vendor floor that we hadn’t visited before, and got to see a pretty incredible NeverEnding Story photo opportunity that included pulling Artax out of the Swamp of Sadness, a backdrop of Morla, G’mork in a dark hole of rubble, a Pyornkrachzark statue, and of course a rideable Falkor. They looked like big, strong hands to me.
We saw several celebrities from a distance. Summer wanted a sneaky picture of Tony Danza and Lou Diamond Phillips, but I told her we might as well just find better pictures online. We sat in on Sean Gunn’s panel, where he talked a surprising amount about his time on Gilmore Girls, to which I had no idea he had any connection at all. Fan questions were mostly either about that, or his brother James’s plans for DC.
After Sean, we moved super close to the stage and got to see Rainn Wilson. He tried calling Oscar, who declined the call because he was watching a movie. Then he called Creed, who actually answered. It was a great, funny panel. Following that, we should have stayed for the cosplay contest, because as soon as we left, we saw the line for re-entry wrapped all the way down and around the hallway.
We ended up going back to the vendor hall where several of them had already left, or were in the process of packing. Our friends were still there, so we said our goodbyes and walked out the other far side that we still hadn’t visited. We got to see a replica of the old Batmobile from Adam West’s days. We managed to squeeze in for a few minutes of the cosplay contest, then grabbed a couple soft pretzels on the way out. On our way back to the hotel I heard one more panel going. It was a magician by the name of Paul Draper, so we stopped to watch the rest of his show before making it back to the room for the night.
That’s a wrap!