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Beforehand

Three of our friends (Brahm, Charles, and Julia) decided they wanted to come to con on Sunday. Julia had two passes from her brother so she used one and so did Charles. Brahm had to wait in line. Going back to our normal parking space we nearly ran into Kevin on the way out. Since he was heading back to Phoenix we got to use his parking spot

Walking The Floor

We left Brahm to stand in line for a pass. He tends to run into friends of his when he comes to the con so it sounded about right. Charles and Jess headed off (Charles first time at the con) and Julia and I wandered around. Julia was interested in looking at the art and getting some photos of stuff.

During preview night this statute at the Kid Robot booth was completely blank — I thought they were just running late. Turns out they were decorating it as the con went on. As you can probably tell, the majority of the art is done with chalk.


Right next to the Kid Robot booth were these funny glow-in-the-dark, smoking bunnies. I have no idea what that’s from, but they’re kinda cool. As you can see, the glow-in-the-dark one is pretty pricey.



Julia wanted a picture with The Dark Lord Lord of Darkness from Labyrinth.

The guys at Penny-Arcade were nice enough to sit back for a moment while I took a photo of Gabe’s sketching. No doubt these will show up in an upcoming comic some time soon.


This kid had the highest costume-quality to age ratio in the whole place. I’m pretty sure he didn’t build this thing himself. I’m pretty sure he doesn’t even know the people who built it. A terrific suit anyway!


While we were waiting for Julia’s chance to get a photo with Lord Vader (lots of kids to beat up) I took a few shots of the (official?) Leia that was hanging out at the Sideshow Collectables booth.


A life-long nightmare/dream is completed when Julia gets her photo with Vader. For scale, Julia’s about 6 ft. tall with her heels on. The dude was big. He apparently got a little squeezy with her too. It’s good to be the Dark Lord of The Sith!

Wrap-up

So the con was pretty big this year. Apparently ~ 140k people showed up, a bit more were turned away on Saturday because the Convention Center was at capacity. Over all I had a great time and can’t wait until next year. I will get my masquerade photos!