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Comic-Con After Thoughts

I've been juggling so many things lately that it's been difficult to keep up my blog. I did tweet, Facebook, and Fuse it up a bit during the event though. So, where do I start...

Wednesday
We arrive there was on Wednesday and recorded the first SDCC episode of Sync, which was on preview night, but not everyone could get into SDCC that night. I sported WonderWoman and Superman inspired stuff, too! A moment there after, they threw me on the stage (aka balcony overseeing SDCC) to kick off the Comic-Con stage show with Chris Watters and Ricardo Torres. Did you see that fancy super hero intro we had for Comic-Con this year?

Not long after that, Colin, Shaun. Sophia, Ryan headed over to this Activision press party, which some of you saw during Tonight on the Spot. Prototype 2 looked might fine! After all of that excitement I went with a couple of staff to SDCC to check out preview night. I skimmed most of the areas and since it was almost closing by then we went outside to find 400 yards of peeps camped out for the Twilight panel the following morning. Interesting enough, there must have been 80% older women, 15% female teenagers, and 5% male camping out. I always thought Twilight brought in teenagers, but I was wrong. I asked around later and was told that the line started days prior. I then headed over to the Sega Arcade, which looked to be the same building that had Flynn's Arcade to show off Tron during SDCC last year. Lots of Sonic games were there, for the most part.

Thursday
Thursday comes around and there was lost of Star Wars news, but I was obviously most excited for Star Was: The Old Republic. Maybe that's why the Thursday episode of Sync was about Star Wars goodies, too! I actually got asked about what I was wearing that day. I'd say that crown thingie I wore was almost villain inspired, but maybe I could have had more dramatic make-up for it. Either way, I think it worked. So, later in the day we attend Microsoft's press event, which many of you saw during Tonight on the Spot. I really enjoyed doing that tour, because well, I'm new at that kind of stuff, but after that tour was over, I had a chance to meet some cool peeps. One of the ladies I met there that night deals with a video game show as well, Andrea Rene. It's just awesome to meet like-minded people who love games just about as much I do.

Friday

This was a cool day because I couldn't wait to meet some GameSpot members in our meet-up that night. Sync's episode had the intro and exit with peeps at this event too! Good times. The replay of the community meet-up also streamed during Tonight on the Spot! It was nice meeting those who attended too! Oh, and this was the day I was about 3 feet away from the actress that plays Jess on Trueblood. I guess the cast was staying at the Hard Rock that year.

Saturday

Video staff wanted to have a special Saturday episode of Sync, so it was interesting to try to work on this show during the weekend, especially with a crazy awesome event like SDCC! This was the day I dressed up as a Sith, too. I think for a last minute costume, it was decent. Next time though, I'd like my face to have more work on it. I also interviewed some amazing cosplayers, and my obvious favorite was meeting chell from Portal 2. In that interview she explained tons of people got her mixed up with Samus, but she could definitely pull her off too!

That was the last night at SDCC excitement, and it couldn't get any better to have a Tonight on the Spot episode about War in the North (LOTR). Chris and Maxwell thought it would be fun to do a LOTR/Trueblood mash-up in the intro, it was hilarious.

Sunday

I had tons of fun on Sunday. Had a chance to meet up with some peeps, and well, some of what went down (aside from my tweets) is a Facebook photo gallery.

Alright, I've gotta get back to other duties, but that should cover some of the basics for this fun event. If I come across anything else I'm missing, I'll edit this blog with updates.