Jesus!!!
Day 1 has proven to be quite the task! I swear that I must have lost at least 15 lbs of water weight. Note to self, instead of putting lemonade in a water bottle use actual water instead. Lemonade made me just as thirsty as I was before I took a SIP of my water bottle. You see, if I want a bottle of water at Comic Con, it will cost me about 5 bucks. If I want a cheap looking pizza or sandwich, it will cost me 8 bucks. So, I maded my own sandwich and made some Country Time Lemonade and put it in my water bottle.
Where to begin,
I arrived at the Convention Center around 9:30 am. The showroom opens up at 10:00am. People that had badges were allowed to go upstairs(That's where all the rooms that have the panels are held. The best quote about the San Diego Convention Center came from a visitor who said, "My God! This is an airport!" Yes my friends, the place IS THAT BIG. I decided to make my way back down cause the dummies upstairs created a line to get into the showroom at 10:00 am. In reality all you have to do is just wait downstairs and wait for the doors to open. There are about 15 doors that let you into the showroom, so over crowding is not an issue as far as waiting for the doors to open.
Once the doors opened I headed straight for the JoyRide booth. They are the ones that have the Halo Limited Ed Master Chief. It turns out that I could only reserve one and will try again tomorrow and see if I can get another. Funny thing is that when I arrived at the booth at noon to pay for my Master Chief, as soon as I bought mine a guy offered me 50 bucks. The thing costed me 20. The figure looks just like the regular Master Chief from the JoyRide products. I am not a big fan of it, but it is a Limited Ed. So it might be worth something. The plasma sword is sweet looking, but there is no rifle. What gives? The pic had a MC holding a camo rifle too!
After I grabbed my ticket to pick up the Master Chief at noon, I decided to walk the showroom. I ended up going to the Nintendo booth and what did you know? They had a huge Pokemon display with them. We all know that Nintendo is Pokemon's bitch. The Pokemon franchise alone has helped Nintendo from being knee high in shit.
However, they did have a PLAYABLE version of the new Zelda, and the thing FUCKING ROCKS!!! In this demo we get to ride as a grown up Link in a horse chasing after a boss who's riding in a mean looking bull. As you chase and attack the boss, you got other guys in horses chasing you and shooting burning arrows at you. The thing that I loved about this demo was this little detail. You can actually see the shadows of the clouds that are up high in the sky. This detailed just helped me become more entranced with the whole game. After you weaken the boos long enough, there's a cutscene where Link chases the boss to this long bridge. The boss is at one end, Link's at the other. You then proceed to play a game of joust with the boss. After enough hits, one of Link's hits is strong enough to knock the boss out of his bull and falls of the bridge....By the way it is a long fall.
Actually before I went to the Nintendo booth I stopped by The Transformers booth and took a picture of the massive truck. The movie is due out on 07-04-07. I got no idea if that is an exclusive, but I don't recall hearing of a release date for the movie before yesterday. At the end of the blog I'll post a link to an album with pics that I took today.
After the Nintendo booth I decided to go see the Broken Saint panel. If you do not know what Broken Saints is then go here.
http://bs.brokensaints.com/#
Meeting the guys was a blast. The creator of this show is very talkative and it shows that he has so many ideas and is really proud of the Broken Saint project. A real humble guy. Who made video games for EA before he did Broken Saints. We all laughed when he mentioned EA and said that he did not enjoyed most of his time there. I am paraphrasing, so he did not say that word for word. But he did tell an interesting story about him, EA and a game he was working on...James Bond Racing. I later was able to find their booth and told him that I would buy the Broken Saints 4-DVD set tomorrow since that's when I get pay.
After the Broken Saints panel, it was time for me to kick into high gear. I went to Copley Symphony Hall to buy tickets for the Final Fantasy concert. I first stopped home to eat something and then headed over there. Man was it hot outside. I was sweating like a pig the whole time.
Once I got back to the Convention with my FF concert ticket I headed for the Independent Film Festival Section. Today the theme was humor. I saw a film called The Fax, which was ok. After that they showed a film called Brave New Fear. All I gotta say is GO SEE IT!!! The best 15 mins you could ever spend. The film deals with a Superhero villain that is captured and then released 30 yrs later when he is all old. The film shows him trying to become the man that was once feared. Great stuff, I laughed the entire time. Also, this film is part of the 48HoursFilm competion where people have 48 hours to make a film. I was impressed by what was accomplished in the film in just 48 hours. Followed by that was a lack luster film called Big Bear Billy. The film sucked, barely funny and really boring. After each film played, some of the directors were there to talk about the film. It was pretty neat hearing their stories and how they came up with the ideas for the film.
I happened to see the Aeon Flux booth and I got to say that Charlize Theron looks incredibly beautiful as Aeon Flux. The look is radically different from the cartoon...Maybe not Trevor, the actor the plays him does resemble a bit of the cartoon character. All they showed were stills of the movie, but it seems that there are a total of 7 main characters in the film. Aeon, Trevor, and what I believe are 5 assassins.
After seeing those films and Aeon Flux, it was time to go to the EVENT of all events for Comic Con 2005 Day 1 "Spotlight on Bruce Campbell" I know the man is a legend, but I know very little about him. After spending an hour with him in a conference room I have determine that Bruce Campbell is the MOST SARCASTIC ASSHOLE I HAVE EVER MET!! And that my friends is a GOOD thing. The guy was fucking amazing, nothing but the best. When asked when certains movies would be released on DVD he said,"I...AM...AN...ACTOR!!!! THEY....DONT....TELL...ME....SHIT! You guys will know before I do when the film gets released on DVD!"
He also announced that his book is being released on 6 disc audio. He played a clip of it and I was able to capture it on my digital camera, which works also as an audio grabber. I hope that you guys can understand what he is talking about
http://members.cox.net/modous/DSCF1028.WAV
I also have a video of him talking about what irritates him the most about Hollywood, but I cant get my ISP to host the file cause is more than 10mb...I'll try my best to edit it and turn it to wmv.
After the Awesome hour spent with Bruce Campbell I walked the floor some more, by this time it was around 4:30pm. I then made my way to Cartoon Network's Adult Swim's panel which was schedule for 2 hrs. These guys are amazing and incredibly funny. Not like Comedy Central's Drawn Together panel that was here last year, corny and stupid was the best way to describe them. But as I said, the Adult Swim guys were amazing, and they showed some of the shows that are currently being worked on and should appear in Adult Swim in about a year(God Willing)
One show is called Lucy. She is the daughter of Satan. One of the episodes deals with her father having to deal with Lucy moving to San Francisco and meeting a Hispanic DJ called Jesus.
Another show is called (something) Orel. It is a claymation show JUST like David And Goliath, but with humor similar to South Park
And the best show:
MinoriTeam: 5 superheros that are nothing but pure stereotypes. One hero is Latino and called "EL JEFE" and with his "Super Leaf Blower" is able to fly. The most unpolitical correct show EVER!!!
By the way they showed clips for all the shows I just mention and believe me. They are worth watching!
Finally(no pun intended) Final Fantasy Concert.
The concert was right behind the Convention Center and it was great. The played Liberati Fatale, Zanarkand and a bunch of others songs. One of the highlights of the concert was that during the songs, they showed clips of the CG movies for whatever series of the game the music was playing. During "Love Grows" they showed the dance sequence where Squall is dancing with Reona(I dont know If I am spelling the names right...Anyway FF8...the two lovers...Is 1230am and I need sleep ok!) Right when the video shows that there are fireworks in the CG sequence, wouldn't you know! Real fireworks started going off.
The concert was in the Embarcadero Marine South Park...Which is an open venue right next to the bay. Truthly beautiful place, and when the fireworks went off, we were all surprised by it. When the concert ended we were abit disappointed thet Sephiroth was not played, but the conductor walked out and so did the choir and guess what...They started to play Sephiroth!! The conductor said that the song was so good they were going to do it again and we were treated to an encore of the Sephiroth song! (again I don't know if I spelled the name right so I apologize)
This is just Day 1!!!!! Tomorrow there's already more great stuff waiting to happen. This by far has been the best Comic Con I have attended.
As promised here are the pics I took today...Enjoy!
http://usera.imagecave.com/modous/ComicCon05_DAY_1/
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