Why was it christmas for us? Well we were going to our second wizard world convention on March 19th. As you recall we had the best time at last years wizard world and we were treated like gold. Would the same hold true this year?
We had a good idea it was going to be awesome as soon as we were given notice that we would get free press passes again. So the score card now is wizard world 2 fan expo 0. So even if the day sucked at least we were going to be getting in free as legitimate press again.
We piled in the van with Rob and Nickle and Anthony and his friend Felix. Get your geek on was going back to Toronto!
We arrived shortly before 10 and picked up our passes. It was a little different this year. There was no press room and it was a litte bigger than last year. The lay out was better--all the celebrities were in one area. There wasn't a lot of vendors selling comic books but there were plenty of graphic novel dealers seeling books at discounted rates. I finally picked up the Superman earth 2 book and 3 avengers trade paper backs. Got them for 30 percent off of the american price--yeah it was a lot cheaper.
Rob and i found Jerry one of the runners of the event and asked about interviews--while we did this Kath and Nickle were having a similar experience with a woman named Andrea. We had submitted a list of people we wanted to interview. We were told that Scott Thompson from The kids in the hall and Liana K would be willing to do interviews. Billy Dee Williams was a long shot but we knew that when we wrote his name down. It was really wishful thinking. We all met up and we were asked if we wanted to interview the kid from the walking dead. We are fans of the show but we didnt know what to ask a 10 year old kid so we politely said no. If it had been anybody else from the cast we would have said yes.
We did a bit of shopping and unfortunately Kath's knee gave out so she sat on a booth near the entrance. She insists she was ok with this and spent the day people watching and texting whenever celebrities showed up. She was also sitting where everyone was taking pictures. Long story short she was in a lot of peoples photos.
Rob and i did some interviews with some sci fi organizations. We spoke with some people from the polaris con thats coming up. They will be featuring Ben Browder from Stargate and Adam Baldwin from Chuck at their con this year. We were told we could probably obtain some press passes and take part in the press q and a. We probably wouldnt get any 1 on 1 time with the celebrities but it would still be cool to be in the press room asking questions.
Several interviews followed with the firefly fanclub and ad astra--another sci fi con coming up. Then Rob decided he wanted me to see boobs. So we went and interviewd some women running a medieval role playing game where people dress up as knights and battle each other. There were women in corsets to that Rob wanted me to check out. Rob is a good friend so what was i gonna do say no? This was followed by a trip to interview the Toronto roller derby girls. They were skating around all day and rob being the good friend he is had me speak to a few. Nickle took some pics of that interview that i can't wait to see.
By the way just so you know i was going out to check on Kath every few minutes and she claims she was having a good time. Rob and i were about to conduct our 2 celebrity interviews. More on that next time true believers!
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