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Anime Expo ’13 – Photos

So I got to the Convention Center on the first day of Anime Expo and as I’m about to enter I see people just inside checking bags and was also led to believe I also need a badge to enter the entire building (which was completely new for AX) and was bugged by that. So I waited in a very long line with the sun beating on me to get a pass only to learn I actually didn’t need one just to walk around the place, you just need one to enter certain areas and the people at the doors are just there to check bags. That made me feel better so I did just what I wanted to do, wander the place and take photos.

Something else fun is after 4:30 you can enter the exhibit hall free, but have to get a pass for that to. But it’s still free to pick up after 4:30.

But what a confusing start of a day

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E3 Expo ’13 Photos

Ok, here is the story. For a while I’ve always said, “one year I’m going to E3.” and being to lazy I didn’t do anything I didn’t and last year I said I will goto the next one. Once again, knowing it was coming up I found myself to lazy to do anything. Then after seeing some of the stuff going on during day 0 and 1, I decided to head down and see if I could check it out. Mainly because I knew some friends of mine would be there and figured I could also hang with them at least, I had nothing going on. So I got there, took some photos outside and went in some to check on a few things but weren’t in that long because some people were roaming around asking for passes. So some took of, others stayed to see what they could do, I did something different. I was sitting outside and I wrote on my iPad “my I have your pass?” and maybe around 5 minutes later a guy come up to me and said “come here real quick, I have an extra I can give you.” Victory. Once inside again I entered the south exhibit hall of the convention center and roamed around for about and hour and a half or 2, played a little bit of Diablo 3 on the console, then when to the western hall and walked the area shortly to get an idea of whats there. Soon after I went back to my place but I think I took off a little to early.

So since my pass was going to still be good for the next day I headed back down the next morning because once again, nothing going on. Went in and like the day before played some games but this time did some more. Found a friend of mine working the booth for Snail USA promoting the game Black Gold Online. Gave me a shirt, mouse pad (which I really needed) and a fan. Neat. saw some of the stuff for the massive Nintendo booth which I would of liked to play stuff on but there was always a line and set ups to have your photo taken. Found an area with some old arcade games and played a bit of Mortal Kombat 2. It’s been so long. Outside the convention center was the Namco booth with a bunch of Pacman games which another friend of mine was working so when some of my other friends gone back to the area I went out just before and we all spent time together. Spent time outside being strange and such then we all went in to behave even more strangely, because we can.

What was also nice was much of the convention center had free wifi throughout the place with the help of the nice people at Square Enix to promote the game Final Fantasy XIV which I very likely won’t play anyways but figured would be nice to mention. Spent some of that time online posting a few things on my personal facebook page. you know maybe I should of done that to with my Steel Shark page and the Twitter page. Hope I remember next time. The whole event really wasn’t as exciting as I had expected, I was hoping to see more cosplayers and take more photos but not a lot of opportunity come.

But over all I’m glad I finally got to crash E3

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WonderCon ’13 Photos

Yes, they are online. I ended up taking off from my place saturday morning and it was a very long ride down to Anaheim so I really spent like a day and a half there. I should of left on friday. Oh well, I had fun. And there is a short video coming from someone else famous.

And now to post about things I saw and people I talked to, for example I ran into the Nerds Like Us guys dressed as Dark Helmet and Barf from Spaceballs. Meet the original Blue Ranger from the Power Ranger series, and the Soup Nazi from Seinfeld. Turns out he was in more stuff I’ve seen then I had once believed. Took part of a scavenger hunt created by the guys from Been Better Comics. Sadly I didn’t get the chance to show them photos of what I got on the list. Talked to the people from the TooSoon Comic booth and told them one thing I’m trying to do to get more people to like my page on facebook is when I get 500 likes on my page I’ll post a video of a toilet being destroyed. I think they said they want to help out on that because they want to see that video. Meet with a guy going by the name EJ De la Pena from the series Nobilty. He said it was like the Office in space. That kind of peaks my interest. And last before I took off I looked at the Cartoon Hangover booth and a guy there asked if I had seen Bravest Warrior. Told him I haven’t and signed a card for me saying to. So many things I need to watch.

To bad I was only there for 2 days, I knew I should of headed down on the first one.

iTwinkle Booth @ AX 0

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iTwinkle Booth @ AX

A video I did at anime Expo that I noticed I have have not posted on the site here.

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Comikaze ’12 – Day 2

So here they are, photos from the second and last day, took more this time around. How the day started off this time was I went up to the press booth and let them know that I had emailed them a few times asking about getting a press or pro pass but never heard from them. So they asked me a few questions and if I had a card just to make sure I was legit and got what I was after. Now, a long with taking more photos I really roamed around the exhibit hall a lot more and talked to the artists, actors, writers, vendors and such.

For example I saw The League of S.T.E.A.M. guys again from when I saw them at Comic Con in which I still haven’t seen the videos on the site but I should because it has one of the writers from Batman Beyond and Justice League, and I enjoyed those shows a lot. I also ran into someone I knew in Moorpark awhile back in the artist ally, selling some of her drawings and such which I’m not sure I’ve seen any of her work before till last weekend. I would say it’s all good. And there was Steven E. Gordon whose done work on X-Men: Evolution and long with a few other shows and movies I liked only to later find out he worked on a lot more stuff I liked. And lot of good art on his site along with some neat drawing tricks. And last I found this booth with fossils and replica of different animals like a Smilodon skull and Megalodon Tooth to help promote Jurassic Con and the Cooper Center Paleontology Lab. Come on, I like that kind of stuff to.

You know what, I had a lot more fun then I expected I would.

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Comikaze ’12 – Day 1

So the day started off heading down the convention center with a couple of friends of mine ready to cause some mayhem. It was rather hot out to. So we get in line and for our passes. I was going to ask them about a problem I was having in which that I emailed them asking about the possibility of getting some kind of press or professional pass and never heard from anyone, but then I had someone come up to me saying they had a bunch of extra tickets and gave me one of them so I used that for the day. Mainly what I did was take photos of people and talked to those I was hanging with. Wasn’t exactly a big con but then again it is still relatively new so it very much has room to grow.

Sundays photos will be up late tonight or tomorrow.