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marinessSo, C and I headed to Megacon on Friday, a process made considerably more difficult by my failure to read the website properly and find out exactly when the con opened and by Orange County's failure to put up signs explaining a) where the con was (same building as before, instead of the new South Building, but this was Not Clear) and b) where the disabled parking was, and further complicated by Orange County's failure to create parking lots that people can actually, you know, enter.
This is mind-boggling, because it's not as if the Orange County Convention Center is not, you know, RIGHT NEXT to three, count them, THREE, major tourist destinations (Disney, Sea World and Universal) all of which have created nice large parking areas that are easy to get into if not exactly out of. You can even see Sea World from the convention center. But I digress.
After going round and round and round, and then, for fun, round, we did manage to park. It was our little MegaCon miracle. AND we found an elevator, for a second MegaCon miracle (don't get me started on the disabled parking). But that alas was the end of the MegaCon miracles, for lo, we had found the MegaCon line, and lo and woe, the line was even less well organized than it had been in previous years. (I sense skepticism from MegaCon attendees but really. We timed it.) And then at last we had our little MegaCon bracelets and all shone brightly if not quite enough to dazzle our eyes from seeing the sad truth that the convention center was charging $3.50 for a Pepsi. And even this was a gesture of beneficence on the part of the convention center since apple juice was more.
Greatly chastened, we entered the exhibitor area, and immediately cheered up. For lo, before us appeared
DROIDS!
These were the droids we were looking for.
As were these.
I, of course, was mostly there for the Legos:
And this:
What you are not seeing, because my cheap camera sucks, is the Wizard of Oz Lego display. Trust me I am sadder about this than you are. You are also not seeing most of the costumes (although if you are curious, The Orlando Sentinel took better pictures than I did) because my camera was complaining about the light quality. About all I managed was this:
Which as cool pictures of costumed characters lacks something, I know.
Failed pictures aside though, I had a good time, chatting with a couple of illustrators and artists, popping in for a bit of one of the Emerald Rose concerts, which was the usual awesomeness, and getting to (all too briefly) catch sight ofgargoylerose. I took it easy, resting a lot, drinking a lot, eating carefully, taking a rather long nap, laughing at the final evening event. I was a little woozy, but I figured I was in decent shape for the next day, especially since CD and I had agreed to only do a few hours of the con on Saturday, enough for me to pick up a couple of items and meet up with gargoylerose and for him to attend a couple of panels he wanted to see....
Alas, the dizziness/vertigo slammed in, and that mostly ended MegaCon for me. Hopefully next year.
This is mind-boggling, because it's not as if the Orange County Convention Center is not, you know, RIGHT NEXT to three, count them, THREE, major tourist destinations (Disney, Sea World and Universal) all of which have created nice large parking areas that are easy to get into if not exactly out of. You can even see Sea World from the convention center. But I digress.
After going round and round and round, and then, for fun, round, we did manage to park. It was our little MegaCon miracle. AND we found an elevator, for a second MegaCon miracle (don't get me started on the disabled parking). But that alas was the end of the MegaCon miracles, for lo, we had found the MegaCon line, and lo and woe, the line was even less well organized than it had been in previous years. (I sense skepticism from MegaCon attendees but really. We timed it.) And then at last we had our little MegaCon bracelets and all shone brightly if not quite enough to dazzle our eyes from seeing the sad truth that the convention center was charging $3.50 for a Pepsi. And even this was a gesture of beneficence on the part of the convention center since apple juice was more.
Greatly chastened, we entered the exhibitor area, and immediately cheered up. For lo, before us appeared
DROIDS!
These were the droids we were looking for.
As were these.
I, of course, was mostly there for the Legos:
And this:
What you are not seeing, because my cheap camera sucks, is the Wizard of Oz Lego display. Trust me I am sadder about this than you are. You are also not seeing most of the costumes (although if you are curious, The Orlando Sentinel took better pictures than I did) because my camera was complaining about the light quality. About all I managed was this:
Which as cool pictures of costumed characters lacks something, I know.
Failed pictures aside though, I had a good time, chatting with a couple of illustrators and artists, popping in for a bit of one of the Emerald Rose concerts, which was the usual awesomeness, and getting to (all too briefly) catch sight of
gargoylerose. I took it easy, resting a lot, drinking a lot, eating carefully, taking a rather long nap, laughing at the final evening event. I was a little woozy, but I figured I was in decent shape for the next day, especially since CD and I had agreed to only do a few hours of the con on Saturday, enough for me to pick up a couple of items and meet up with gargoylerose and for him to attend a couple of panels he wanted to see....Alas, the dizziness/vertigo slammed in, and that mostly ended MegaCon for me. Hopefully next year.