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Hello Everyone! Finally joined as an official member since I've been stalking this forum for months. This is my first time going to the Mothership and it's already been a mind blowing experience dealing with badges, hotels, etc. Didn't get a badge for all the days but did luck out and got accepted as a Volunteer so I'll miss Preview night but will still get to be there for the rest of the week. Got a hotel but like a lot of people not on my "wish list" - still hoping for a downtown location.My partner and I are coming from Alaska (I know the heat is going to kill me!) and really hope we get to meet some or all of you!Thanks so much to everyone who posts here regularly on all subjects - you don't realize how much you've helped this newb!!!"I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see it's path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain."
Hi, Zero, great to see you here!
Zero - You can call me anything you want as long as you don't call me late for dinner!! HAHA (gasping from laughing so hard) Sorry, that was pretty bad.Thanks for the welcome messages - we have been consumed with Con Craziness since we made the decision last year to finally go instead of watching the coverage on G4 or jealously reading about it on the internets. We keep saying this will probably be the only time we go because of the cost but I have a feeling I'll be on the plane heading back North in July and I'll be mumbling to myself as I pat my bag of cool swag - I want to go to there - Again!!
but I have a feeling I'll be on the plane heading back North in July and I'll be mumbling to myself as I pat my bag of cool swag - I want to go to there - Again!!
Don't worry Rain, the first decade is the hardest, after that its an easy decision to come back to The Con! And congrats on the volunteer, you will be on the early entry list for the volunteer pool now for future years, and will be able to sign up ahead of the crowd.
It's great to see you here, Kevin! I've been going to Comic Con since 2008. Some years I go alone, some years I take some of my family. But I always meet up with friends while I'm there. For some of us, this is the one time each year that we see each other!Geek Chic... really, who thought that up? Geeky stuff has *always* been the best! I mean back in the good old days, playing Nethack and D&D, reading comics that were actually fun instead of 'dark', collecting toys that were actually designed to be played with... *That* was cool!
Don't get me started on collecting toys that you play with, my mother gave away all of my Star Wars, He-Man and Transformers toys.
Oh, it's always been fun but there was also an undeserved social stigma attached to it, as if you couldn't be a normal and fully functional person if you were into scifi and comics.
Just so you don't think I'm in with the geek chic crowd I want you to know I've been collecting comic for 28 years (mostly Marvel, I have a full run of X-men).
i have been thinking of that a lot recently--of how it was and the general acceptance of peoples oddity's at the modern con's