Alk
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Have any you ever been to one of these? We went to our first one last weekend. Our whole family loves Stranger Things but our youngest son has a huge crush on Millie Bobby Brown who plays Eleven. It just so happens that she was going to be at the Comic Con in Denver so we decided that we would check it out. It was a three day event and she was originally booked for Saturday and Sunday only. We bought our tickets for Saturday and then she cancelled for Sunday due to filming. I started to panic a little bit at that point but it all ended up working out.
We picked up our passes on Friday night when we got into town. We knew we were getting close when I saw Darth Vader walking down the street. When we got there, it was complete chaos. I dropped my wife off at the door so she could get the passes and proceeded to circle the block. We got our passes and headed to the hotel for the night.
The doors opened at 10:00 the next morning so I decided that we should get there at 9:00 so we could find a decent parking spot. We were able to get a good spot about two blocks away for $40. As we walked up to the convention center I couldn't believe what I was seeing. Two lines that both wrapped around two sides of the convention center. As we were walking to the end of the line, our son had already found the Flash and wasn't shy about asking for a selfie with him. As soon as we got to the end of the line we found that we were right behind some guy dressed up as Deadpool riding a unicorn. That definitely helped kill time because the guy was an absolute riot.
10:00 rolls around and the line still hasn't even begun to move. It was close to 11:00 before we finally got inside. I couldn't believe it when we got inside. This convention center was huge with three stories and it was absolutely full. Every conference room had some sort of panel going on in it. We immediately got pulled into one of the rooms which turned out to be some kind of trivia thing where they gave out prizes for answering questions. When that was over we just started walking around and checking things out. The time finally arrived to go do the photo op with Millie Bobby Brown. My older son really didn't want to be in the picture and I thought it would be kind of creepy for a 41 year old man to be in the picture (I soon found out that I wouldn't have been the only one) so we decided that we would just let our youngest son be in the picture. As soon as we went behind the curtains it was like they were herding cattle. They just rush people up to her, take the picture and she was literally pushing them away to get them moving along. I was amazed that my son was able to get a good picture with her.
Later on they had a panel with her. It was supposed to start at 3:00 so we decided to get there at 2:00 just to be on the safe side. There was already about 1,000 people in front of us. I was beginning to think that there was no way that we would be able to get a seat. When they finally opened the doors we got in as fast as we could and to our surprise the theater was enormous. We easily got a seat fairly close to the stage even.
The only thing my wife was really excited about was that Ryan Hurst who played Opie in Sons of Anarchy was going to be there. I tried and tried to talk her into doing the photo op but she refused. His panel started in a different room about 15 minutes before Millie Bobby Brown's panel ended. We decided that we would pop over there and see if we could catch the tail end. When we walked in, the room wasn't even half full so we got really good seats. They were just starting the Q&A part so my wife was able to ask him a question and got a pretty hilarious answer so her day was made.
After about 8 hours we had all had it. I really have no idea how anyone could survive three days of that especially in costume.
Anyone else out there have any comic con war stories?
We picked up our passes on Friday night when we got into town. We knew we were getting close when I saw Darth Vader walking down the street. When we got there, it was complete chaos. I dropped my wife off at the door so she could get the passes and proceeded to circle the block. We got our passes and headed to the hotel for the night.
The doors opened at 10:00 the next morning so I decided that we should get there at 9:00 so we could find a decent parking spot. We were able to get a good spot about two blocks away for $40. As we walked up to the convention center I couldn't believe what I was seeing. Two lines that both wrapped around two sides of the convention center. As we were walking to the end of the line, our son had already found the Flash and wasn't shy about asking for a selfie with him. As soon as we got to the end of the line we found that we were right behind some guy dressed up as Deadpool riding a unicorn. That definitely helped kill time because the guy was an absolute riot.
10:00 rolls around and the line still hasn't even begun to move. It was close to 11:00 before we finally got inside. I couldn't believe it when we got inside. This convention center was huge with three stories and it was absolutely full. Every conference room had some sort of panel going on in it. We immediately got pulled into one of the rooms which turned out to be some kind of trivia thing where they gave out prizes for answering questions. When that was over we just started walking around and checking things out. The time finally arrived to go do the photo op with Millie Bobby Brown. My older son really didn't want to be in the picture and I thought it would be kind of creepy for a 41 year old man to be in the picture (I soon found out that I wouldn't have been the only one) so we decided that we would just let our youngest son be in the picture. As soon as we went behind the curtains it was like they were herding cattle. They just rush people up to her, take the picture and she was literally pushing them away to get them moving along. I was amazed that my son was able to get a good picture with her.
Later on they had a panel with her. It was supposed to start at 3:00 so we decided to get there at 2:00 just to be on the safe side. There was already about 1,000 people in front of us. I was beginning to think that there was no way that we would be able to get a seat. When they finally opened the doors we got in as fast as we could and to our surprise the theater was enormous. We easily got a seat fairly close to the stage even.
The only thing my wife was really excited about was that Ryan Hurst who played Opie in Sons of Anarchy was going to be there. I tried and tried to talk her into doing the photo op but she refused. His panel started in a different room about 15 minutes before Millie Bobby Brown's panel ended. We decided that we would pop over there and see if we could catch the tail end. When we walked in, the room wasn't even half full so we got really good seats. They were just starting the Q&A part so my wife was able to ask him a question and got a pretty hilarious answer so her day was made.
After about 8 hours we had all had it. I really have no idea how anyone could survive three days of that especially in costume.
Anyone else out there have any comic con war stories?
) daughter quickly realized we're stuck in the elevator, panics, and starts crying and doesn't stop until we get out (like 25 minutes later).
