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So! Went to Comicon. Took a bunch of pictures. On my cellphone, because my camera broke. Now I do not know how to get the pictures off my cellphone. I can use a USB to plug it into my computer but all it wants to do is sync music and I didn't even know I had music on there and...anyway, my point is, pictures later (or not); here is a post about Comicon!
It is interesting how fandom things can stick in your head. For instance, I glanced at the Bandai/Tamashii Nations booth, and my fannish hindbrain kicked in so hard I was already at the counter with three blind-boxed mini figures of Tiger & Bunny and a question about a Barnaby figure. before I remembered I am not actually in the fandom any more. And then the next day I slunk back and bought three more blind-boxes and, in fact, the Barnaby figure, so. I just wanted to balance out my three Kotetsus! And the blind-boxes were civilian clothes and I managed to not get any doubles although I did not get a tuxedo-Barnaby which was really the second-most one I wanted. (The first being tuxedo-Kotetsu, which I did in fact get, much to my surprise. But I guess a 10% chance sometimes works out in your favor.)
I managed to not buy the 1/8th scale Wild Tiger, though. Even though it for some reason only cost the same amount as the 1/16th figures. Which is probably the cheapest it will ever be anywhere and no bad brain I am not in the fandom any more. Only by the grace of god was I struck by the financial fortune of not being able to go back to the dealers' room on Saturday or Sunday. Well, I say fortune...
...but what I actually mean is that I spent 9:30 AM to 6 PM waiting in line to see the Iron Man 3 panel and then I got cut off about fifty people behind. So, y'know, panel I most wanted to see, panel whose waiting period got in the way of several other panels I could have gone to, panel in which Robert Downey Jr entered from the back of the audience--which is where I would have been--giving high-fives to people. Also I got big sunburns on my arms and face. I'm not bitter.
So not fortune. Well, it saved me money. But saving money on a previous fandom compared to a joyous experience in a current fandom does not really add up in a satisfying fashion.
I did get a Hawkeye figure, though! One of the only two purchasable pieces of movie merchandise for him! So there's that.
It is interesting how fandom things can stick in your head. For instance, I glanced at the Bandai/Tamashii Nations booth, and my fannish hindbrain kicked in so hard I was already at the counter with three blind-boxed mini figures of Tiger & Bunny and a question about a Barnaby figure. before I remembered I am not actually in the fandom any more. And then the next day I slunk back and bought three more blind-boxes and, in fact, the Barnaby figure, so. I just wanted to balance out my three Kotetsus! And the blind-boxes were civilian clothes and I managed to not get any doubles although I did not get a tuxedo-Barnaby which was really the second-most one I wanted. (The first being tuxedo-Kotetsu, which I did in fact get, much to my surprise. But I guess a 10% chance sometimes works out in your favor.)
I managed to not buy the 1/8th scale Wild Tiger, though. Even though it for some reason only cost the same amount as the 1/16th figures. Which is probably the cheapest it will ever be anywhere and no bad brain I am not in the fandom any more. Only by the grace of god was I struck by the financial fortune of not being able to go back to the dealers' room on Saturday or Sunday. Well, I say fortune...
...but what I actually mean is that I spent 9:30 AM to 6 PM waiting in line to see the Iron Man 3 panel and then I got cut off about fifty people behind. So, y'know, panel I most wanted to see, panel whose waiting period got in the way of several other panels I could have gone to, panel in which Robert Downey Jr entered from the back of the audience--which is where I would have been--giving high-fives to people. Also I got big sunburns on my arms and face. I'm not bitter.
So not fortune. Well, it saved me money. But saving money on a previous fandom compared to a joyous experience in a current fandom does not really add up in a satisfying fashion.
I did get a Hawkeye figure, though! One of the only two purchasable pieces of movie merchandise for him! So there's that.