We got up early and headed to Comic Con. They were going to sell next year's passes to those that had badges for today. Since we were earlier, we parked by Petco Park (San Diego Padres Ball Park) which is right by the convention center. We started looking for the hotel banquet room that was set up to process the sales of next year's badges. I knew the name of the room but was confused. We were searching all over the Marriott and it was at the Hyatt. Finally found the place and got in. It was a good thing that the ticket person on Thursday gave us our badges for Sunday. They turned you away if you didn't have your badge. Standing in line to get your badge and then trying to get tickets would not have worked. As it was we were in line for 2 hours to buy badges for next year. They sold out the 4 day plus preview night badges before we got up there.
Bridget thought she had a smart idea so she brought her Ringer stool gift from Thursday. It opens as a three legged stool with a cloth seat. It was held together by a plastic ring that allowed it to fold up and then open. There were several other people who brought theirs too. I didn't want to carry it so I stood. About an hour into the line with no movement I felt something brush my leg and a little noise. I turned around and Bridget was on her back. I helped her up and told the startled crowd the show was over. She was fidgeting in the stool and put additional stress on the plastic ring which broke. Now she had to stand and got a bruise in the the process.
Finally made it there and I bought 2 -4 day badges, one for me and one for Chris. Bridget bought 2 -4 day badges for her and Betsy. Next year is going to be fun!!
We walked around in the main hall that has all the vendor booths. It was really crowded. On top of that they have set up panels that do autographs to those that waited in line for a wrist bracelet and then another line to get the autograph. You can walk by and take pictures, but the security people yell keep moving the whole time. The Glee one was crazy. Bridget went over there but I stayed away. Every now and then a different vendor passed out some free stuff, Fox- sharpies, - buttons.
We finally made it to Hall H. It held 6,500 people and has screens set up in the room in case you are in the back. The first panel we saw was The Cleveland Show. The Cleveland Show is Seth MacFarlane’s third animation endeavor and is well on its way to a fourth season. We found out that Kanye West and Will.i.am. are confirmed to be revisiting The Cleveland Show soon. Also, Bruno Mars, Nicki Minaj, Questlove and Fergie will all be showing up at some point in the future as the show is hoping to bring in more musical numbers. They also stated that there were plans for a few cover songs that the main cast will be set to perform just for added fun. We also saw a short preview of an upcoming episodic spoof on the blockbuster movie Die Hard, titled “Die Semi-Hard”. It was funny and we were excited because we got a ticket.
Next up "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" They screened an episode from the upcoming season (entitled "Frank's Pretty Woman"), so there wasn't much time for the panel to talk. Rob McElhenney, Glenn Howerton, Charlie Day, Kaitlin Olsen and Danny DeVito all came out dressed in their respective characters' costumes from "The Nightman Cometh", the show's "musical" episode. The panel was pretty much like the show freewheeling and crude humor. When asked of their favorite moment from the show eveyone mentioned Danny crawling nude from a couch during "A Very Sunny Christmas" special with appropriate comments about anatomy. Maybe they were unappropriate but they got a lot of laughs.
On to "The Sons of Anarchy". We only knew the premise of the show since neither one of us had ever watched it before. We knew the actors from other shows. The panel began with a 4 minute clip from Season 4, which showed where everyone is after Season 3 ended. The men getting on their bikes and riding away from the correctional facility I guess tells you what they were doing. There is going to be a new sheriff, racial conflict, Russians and Mexican crime organizations. May have to check this one out on DVD.
The last event of the day in Hall H was "Buffy- The Musical. They screened the Buffy episode where everyone breaks into a song. The crowd seemed to like it, but we were exhausted. We went to the Fullfilment room to get our free gift from the Cleveland show. They gave us a button. Never so disappointed. But, I did get to exchange Bridget's broken stool for a new one. Can't wait till she uses it again!
We were hungry so on the way home we stopped at Fillippi's and had some good old fashion comfort food. Can't wait until next year.
