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San Diego Comic-Con 2012 ADVENTURE TIME!
I just got back from the SDCC. This was an odd year, as I'd almost decided not to go, but I wanted to help with our costume group's skit, so I made the prop and headed on down. I pretty much coasted the con: I did the masquerade and had the usual ton-of-fun with the AGSMA crew, then on Sunday I breezed through the dealers room and left the con at about 2pm. I was back in plenty of time to get the dogs from the doggie-gulag.
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As always, I am amazed that the convention can get bigger and bigger each year. It's just too much, really. Yet, there's still a ton of fun to be had and plenty of eye-candy. The convention has spread out from the convention center: there are now lots of events taking place off-site, including the zombie crawl and zombie obstacle course and similar distractions.
I got passes for two friends who were newbies to the con: seeing it through their Lemur-wide eyes was refreshing. To them it was THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH! A real-world Wonderland. So that was cool.
This year our group did an Adventure Time Mashup. The show has a huge following (heaven help anyone asking what time it was at the con). AT is the closest thing I've seen that matches up with "The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show" as being "adult"-- with writing that is as suggestive and clever and subtle as the Jay Ward show.
I got to make Lord Monochromicorn, the gender-bender opposite of Lady Rainicorn. Plus, I got to hold Cake!
The skit went off well. There were no catastrophic failures of my puppet (thank Ghod). We got "Most Humorous" (an award we have always coveted) and an industry award for "Audience Most Popular".
Here's the skit itself:
Full Flickr Set Here
As always, I am amazed that the convention can get bigger and bigger each year. It's just too much, really. Yet, there's still a ton of fun to be had and plenty of eye-candy. The convention has spread out from the convention center: there are now lots of events taking place off-site, including the zombie crawl and zombie obstacle course and similar distractions.
I got passes for two friends who were newbies to the con: seeing it through their Lemur-wide eyes was refreshing. To them it was THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH! A real-world Wonderland. So that was cool.
This year our group did an Adventure Time Mashup. The show has a huge following (heaven help anyone asking what time it was at the con). AT is the closest thing I've seen that matches up with "The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show" as being "adult"-- with writing that is as suggestive and clever and subtle as the Jay Ward show.
I got to make Lord Monochromicorn, the gender-bender opposite of Lady Rainicorn. Plus, I got to hold Cake!
The skit went off well. There were no catastrophic failures of my puppet (thank Ghod). We got "Most Humorous" (an award we have always coveted) and an industry award for "Audience Most Popular".
Here's the skit itself:
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Great costume work, as always!
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Those lines are just unreal. It's great that such a huge temple to geekdom exists, but I think it's gotten too large for me at this point!
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Trolls are indeed for The Hobbit. That was one of the big Hall "H" panels...plus WETA had a bunch of the figures in preview (but no sign of what the wargs will look like...dammit!).
Yeah, lines are off-putting. Even for some of the obscure panels in the smaller rooms: if you didn't get in line four hours before the panel there was no guarantee that you'd even get in. Amazing.
One scary thing I found out about the Hall "H" lines: once you get in, you can stay all day. That means that once the hall is filled, people are only let in as others leave. I can't imagine waiting in that kind of line-- with no guarantee that you'll even get in at any point!
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And with the exception of the initial badge lines, at least all of them are optional. I think the longest line I stood in was to get a burger and that was, like, 3 people. Choose your poison, I guess!
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That was so odd that we baffled the Costume Design Union people and got an award from them for being so uniquely weird and non-conventional.
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I was in the masq too. I was in the Scar costume.
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http://solarstory.tumblr.com/post/27303189595/costume-feature-scar-the-lion-king-broadway
(sorry if you've seen these already!)
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And thank you, we tried to keep it true to Adventure Time's nature
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I need to be more social and less stressed backstage. I keep missing out on talking to people like you because I'm usually either in a panic finishing a piece or stage-fright-ing.
Again, CONGRATULATIONS!
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Admittedly Performance is the LAST prize I ever expected to win, it was a real honor.
I'm usually too shy to talk to others backstage, I just sort of admire from afar
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It sounds like I should really check out this "Adventure Time". For the last year I've been really enjoying MLP:FiM, but I'm thinking it's time for a break.
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SDCC: You have to go once. And read any newbie guides to the con-- the usually have good advice. The best advice: don't stand in any line unless the event is SO AWSOME you have to see it live in person. Most of the big panels you can see the YouTube of later. Oh, and don't bring kids unless they're old enough to -want- to go, ie, they beg you to take them. Then they're old enough.
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Scott
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If you can find a con that we would all be at, I'll drag him out and re-inflate him! Maybe use a balloon for the Gumball shoot. What about ALA? At least that's mostly local for most of the group...?
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