The con is always good for pictures. Not always for the finely crafted costumes. Not always for hawties. But always for the innovative and ridiculous.
We will build this empire!
Out of little plastic blocks!
You don’t know the power of my mommy!
So, guys, after this want to get some new ciappatta burgers?
Surely more to come…
So we are in beautiful San Deigo for the Con and I have already accomplished the two major tasks I had planned:
I got my PVP Skull Plushy from Scott and I actually bought an offical CON t-shirt. I hope actually buying something at the con is not bad luck for me becuse I usually make out pretty well in the swag department and get to keep all my money.
Anyway, Wednesday night is preview night so we had a chance to see a movie during the day after setting up the booth. Of course F4 wasn’t showing, so we went to see Batman Begins.
SPOILER WARNING: (Though if you haven’t seen it by now you deserve to have it spoiled.) (Yes, yes I did just see it my self.)
1. The most disappointing part was when Tom “The Wacko” Cruise’s new GF of the moment asks the Bat who he is. The response should have been: “I’m Batman.”
2. Caltrops or a spike strip would have been sufficient for the police chase..or hell turn and leave the stealth on.
3. And I guess that city gets a real heavy snow fall because those buildings had some very strong roof tops.
Anyway, other than those and a few other similar minor issues, I rather enjoyed the film. The origin story was much better than Batman, which is why the Micheal Keaton Batman movie sucked, and Batman Begins was pretty good.
So I didn’t really have a chance to take a lot of pictures yet, but I did swing by the lego booth. The full size replicas of Vader and Chewy were awesome. What was super cool was the wanna be Star Destroyer from EP3 they had, damn that thing was sweet!
Well, I wanted to post lego vader but it needs serious work in photoshop; black legos, on laptop screen, and the camera flash..anyway we will be doing a real con post so here is a just a few pics.
You don’t know the POWER of the PLUSHIE!
And lego chewy, yes it’s big, that is some doods butt.
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Took a couple of hours over the weekend to see Miyazaki’s latest US release. Having heard nothing about the film, except that it got four stars, and having never read the book, I really didn’t know what to expect. I’m a long time fan of Nausicaä, though, so I expected it to be visually stunning, staunchly anti-war, and rather twisted from a US point of view.
It was visually stunning. The castle itself is clearly the Hut of Babba Yaga, and moves like a living thing. The flying sequences and shape-shifting transitions of the title character are clever, and very smooth. There is photo-realistic scenery that, by all evidence, is hand-painted.
It was staunchly anti-war. Unlike American films, it isn’t anti-this war, or that war, or whatever war it is in fashion to be against this week. It is flat out against all wars, everywhere, from and for all time. “There goes a battle ship… wow, look at all those bombs,” says Howl. Sofie asks him, “who’s side is it?” Which prompts the response, “it doesn’t matter, they’re all murderers.” I am no fan of war. The one in this film’s only purpose was flush out the title character to deliver his heart to a jealous witch. But, having picked my share of sides over the years, it does matter which one you’re on.
It was rather twisted from a US point of view. I don’t know how the same reviewers that thought As Good as it Gets was “unique and refreshing” could have even followed this one, never mind given it four stars. For fans of Japanese story telling, this film is a great break from the traditional conventions on which we were raised. For people who needed the flash-back sequences in The Big Hit in order to follow the film, don’t bother, you’ll only go home confused.
It’s San Diego Comic Con International Time!
Come visit us at the NEC booth and get a deformed Tick head or some pontification about why asking a writer for a sketch of something totally unrelated to the genre he writes in is detrimental to his ego. Granted I will do it, often just so there’s some hideous drawing of a whacked squirrel or something in between 2 fantastic drawings from legitimate and talented artists. Sketch book defacing is my favorite Con activity!
Better yet come by, buy something, or lots of somethings, and then hangout and leer, ogle, or simply admire the occasional hawtie that passes the booth. We are on a main road so we get plenty of traffic!
The yummy “Number 6” from Battlestar Galactica:
The cosplay is usually pretty decent also:
Another of my favorites from last year: This place is always crawling with storm troopers!
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