After months of planning and anticipation, our journey to our very first Comic-Con began very early Thursday morning. We left LA around 2 am (before Starbucks is even open!!), and with hardly anyone on the road, made it to San Diego a little after 4. (Note: The highway one takes from Los Angeles to San Diego, I-5, is the same one takes to Forks!) Since we had been receiving creepy Twitter updates about the Con all night/morning, we were not totally shocked to see a line wrapping around Hall H when we arrived at the Convention Hall around quarter to 5 in the morning. We decided to stop at Ralphs, where we straightened our hair and applied lashes in the bathroom and bought magazines and Snapples, then headed over the The Line.
Almost a thousand people were already in line for the Friday New Moon panel: Some were sleeping on air mattresses, some had miniature flashlights and copies of the Twilight books...we even saw one party that had brought their own hookah to the line. We were clearly not prepared for this: We didn't have our badges yet, and all we had were some Goldfish and two beach chairs: FAIL.
But all was not lost! Three Starbucks trips later, we got into another line to get our Thursday badges. One of our line friends texted us to tell us to run because the line was at the ocean...WTF. As we followed it...and followed it...and followed it...the line wrapped around the convention center and extended down the edge of the marina.Finally, around 11 am, we were herded into Hall H and found seats around the middle of the hall, although there were still two more panels to watch before the New Moon panel began at 1:45. The Disney 3-D panel showed clips from A Christmas Carol (bleh Jim Carrey) and Tron (who?), but of course the most exciting moment was when Tim Burton surprised the audience by bringing Johnny Depp onstage during the Alice in Wonderland panel.
When the Summit Entertainment panel brought the cast and director of New Moon onstage around 2, the screams were deafening, although I was surprised that the screams at the MTV Movie Awards were much more ear shattering. Since we had been up since the previous day and had been waited in line for about ten hours, Colleen and I thought we were pretty jaded at this point, basically thinking the only thing that could excite us was a Tylenol PM and a fluffy bed. Colleen even told me, "I'm calm."
Yeah, no. All I can say is OMFG. We died. It was seriously above and beyond everything we could have hoped for. The clips they showed were AMAZING (I believe Colleen shouted "oh baby!!" at one point), although they've been leaked onto the internet now by some crafty fan. (thanks!) Also, Taylor Lautner is so cute, and even though it's creepy for us to think that, the 45-year-old moms in front of us wearing homemade Team Jacob tees were even creepier.
After the panel, we checked into our hotel and had dinner with the Mirage team before getting some much-needed rest. On Friday afternoon, we headed back to the convention center for the TMNT Panel. Thankfully we didn't have to camp out for hours to get in this time, but it really put things in perspective for me to see so many fans lined up for the panel, much like we had the day before. I even got a little teary-eyed when they first started playing the old tv show's theme song and the interview clips came on screen. After the panel, I signed a few autographs and we were interviewed for a documentary about the Turtles: officially Comic Con celebs? Not as much as Keno the Pizza Guy.
Of course, Friday night was the big TMNT 25 party and debut screening of "Turtles Forever". No comment.
Saturday and Sunday were spent mostly wandering around the Exhibit hall...I still don't think we saw everything! We were tempted to buy the Twilight dolls, but resisted in favor of two old school TMNT posters which we will frame for our apartment ("Leonardo Leads" and "Raphael: Cool but Crude"). We also got some amazing cupcakes and Indian foods at a sweet buffet. Oh yeah, and of course the most retarded Twilight thing we participated in all weekend (No, it wasn't lining up before the sun rose-or the Dawn Broke- on Thursday). No get to the Summit booth, there was a line to wait in to get a pass to get to the Summit booth. BUT, to get in THAT line, you had to wait next to the line in time to pounce when the line moved. Yes, all this was to spin a Price is Right-esque wheel and for booth of us to win copies of Carlisle Cullen's crest ring. Oh yeah, and we also took pics in the Volturi throne from New Moon. Woo.
Our last afternoon in SD was spent at SeaWorld. After one dolphin show and walking through the sharxx exhibit, we decided to leave SeaWorld to go to Chili's because we were tired, hungry, and wet. And that's how we roll.
Komic-Kon Kount:
Hours spent in line...10 at least
Starbucks...9
Twilight themed t-shirts...too many to count, probably a million
Snape postcards bought...1
Dollars spent on parking...like, 100 probably
Ninja turtles...4
People dressed up as the Shreddar...1
Rob Pattinson...1 (!)
See you next year San Diego!
xo Emily & Colleen
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