Comic Com Experience São Paulo 2014
Before I start, I still haven’t posted the cards, sorry. I barely have time to breathe lately. I’ll try to do it this week.
Okay, Comic Con Experience. It was EPIC! I only went on Sunday, even though it was a 4-day event, but I actually have a life, so, bummer. The pics talk for themselves. I was actually really surprised by how big it was for a first-time event in Brazil. I woke up at 4:30 to get the 5:15am bus to São Paulo. I got down at the first subway station it passes and went the rest of the way by subway. They had vans to take people for free from the nearest station to CCXP and I arrived just in time to get the first ones to leave. It was just a 5-minute ride. Walking would have taken twenty minutes top.
When I arrived there was already lots of people there, so I kissed any chance to watch The Hobbit premiere goodbye. I heard that at night, it was already packed. There were HUGE lines. I had to wait for more than one hours for the gates to open. There must have been more than 5,000 people waiting in line by the time it opened. I don’t know for sure because I was inside, but people said that the outside was equally full of people.
I took lots of pics, but not as many as I could have. I prefer to see things instead of taking pictures all the time. I also didn’t take the huge lines to have pictures taken at some places like the Iron Throne, the TARDIS, etc, etc. Everything was really organized, there were lines to get in line. Really, there was. The line to enter the auditorium was full, so another line was organized to get into that line.
I was actually glad I didn’t get to see the movie. The biggest complaint from people was how getting into the auditorium was disorganized. Over 150 seats were empty because they wanted to start the movie at the stipulated time and they closed the doors before filling the room. Also, the auditorium wasn’t stadium and was basically just a large room full of chairs and a screen that wasn’t as big as it should have been. I think I wouldn’t have liked to experience the movie like that. In addition to that, the movie is nearly 3 hours long and if I had watched, I wouldn’t have been able to see everything I wanted.
Highlights of the day was meeting Timothy Zhan. I read the Star Wars Thrawn Trilogy well over ten years ago and it is one of the best expanded universe books, so it was a joy. It was the official release of the Portuguese version of Heir to the Empire and I got my copy signed.
After this, I lined up for the Warner panel. There were lots of trailers and exclusive content for the new Mad Max movie. It looks really good. After that panel was Jason Momoa’s. Oh, the biggest highlight. He’s so nice! The best part was the instant translation on screen which avoided that annoying problem of having the interviewer translating everything to the public. At the time to answer questions, he said he wanted to see people’s faces and came down from the stage to talk to the people personally. It was a mess. People stood up, left their seats and he could barely walk. Security didn’t like it, the cameramen hated it because they couldn’t find him in the crowd and the interviewer kept trying to get him to get on stage again, but he didn’t, lol.
Mostly there was talk of Aquaman with a lot of Game of Thrones, but Stargate was mentioned a couple of times. He said that he loved working on Stargate and how sad it was when it was over but that was mostly it of SGA. There were only a handful of people who weren’t there for GoT. He said he would like Zack Snyder to direct the movie, he still didn't read a script and that he's commited to four movies. He ganranteed, Aquaman would be awesome as hell. But most of his answers was that he either didn't know or couldn't tell. As for GoT, he talked about the difficulties and challenge of playing a character with few lines, and which those few lines are actually in another language. He said he's rooting for Daenerys at the end. He told how he got his role on Baywatch and a bit about Hawaii.
After that, I went to get my autograph with him. I missed the lineup for the photo because I was in the Warner panel. No problem, the photo was too expensive anyway. OMG! Is he handsome and big!
I ended up buying way too many books and I could barely carry the bag back home, lol. How am I going to read it all?
Overall, it was worth every penny, even though I am extremely poor now. Now, I’ll start saving money for next year, from December 3 to 6, 2015.
Pics:
http://s57.photobucket.com/user/erikakobori/slideshow/CCXP%202014
Sorry, I recorded some videos, but the sound was really so awful it is beyond comprehension. I'll wait until they post the official vids.
Okay, Comic Con Experience. It was EPIC! I only went on Sunday, even though it was a 4-day event, but I actually have a life, so, bummer. The pics talk for themselves. I was actually really surprised by how big it was for a first-time event in Brazil. I woke up at 4:30 to get the 5:15am bus to São Paulo. I got down at the first subway station it passes and went the rest of the way by subway. They had vans to take people for free from the nearest station to CCXP and I arrived just in time to get the first ones to leave. It was just a 5-minute ride. Walking would have taken twenty minutes top.
When I arrived there was already lots of people there, so I kissed any chance to watch The Hobbit premiere goodbye. I heard that at night, it was already packed. There were HUGE lines. I had to wait for more than one hours for the gates to open. There must have been more than 5,000 people waiting in line by the time it opened. I don’t know for sure because I was inside, but people said that the outside was equally full of people.
I took lots of pics, but not as many as I could have. I prefer to see things instead of taking pictures all the time. I also didn’t take the huge lines to have pictures taken at some places like the Iron Throne, the TARDIS, etc, etc. Everything was really organized, there were lines to get in line. Really, there was. The line to enter the auditorium was full, so another line was organized to get into that line.
I was actually glad I didn’t get to see the movie. The biggest complaint from people was how getting into the auditorium was disorganized. Over 150 seats were empty because they wanted to start the movie at the stipulated time and they closed the doors before filling the room. Also, the auditorium wasn’t stadium and was basically just a large room full of chairs and a screen that wasn’t as big as it should have been. I think I wouldn’t have liked to experience the movie like that. In addition to that, the movie is nearly 3 hours long and if I had watched, I wouldn’t have been able to see everything I wanted.
Highlights of the day was meeting Timothy Zhan. I read the Star Wars Thrawn Trilogy well over ten years ago and it is one of the best expanded universe books, so it was a joy. It was the official release of the Portuguese version of Heir to the Empire and I got my copy signed.
After this, I lined up for the Warner panel. There were lots of trailers and exclusive content for the new Mad Max movie. It looks really good. After that panel was Jason Momoa’s. Oh, the biggest highlight. He’s so nice! The best part was the instant translation on screen which avoided that annoying problem of having the interviewer translating everything to the public. At the time to answer questions, he said he wanted to see people’s faces and came down from the stage to talk to the people personally. It was a mess. People stood up, left their seats and he could barely walk. Security didn’t like it, the cameramen hated it because they couldn’t find him in the crowd and the interviewer kept trying to get him to get on stage again, but he didn’t, lol.
Mostly there was talk of Aquaman with a lot of Game of Thrones, but Stargate was mentioned a couple of times. He said that he loved working on Stargate and how sad it was when it was over but that was mostly it of SGA. There were only a handful of people who weren’t there for GoT. He said he would like Zack Snyder to direct the movie, he still didn't read a script and that he's commited to four movies. He ganranteed, Aquaman would be awesome as hell. But most of his answers was that he either didn't know or couldn't tell. As for GoT, he talked about the difficulties and challenge of playing a character with few lines, and which those few lines are actually in another language. He said he's rooting for Daenerys at the end. He told how he got his role on Baywatch and a bit about Hawaii.
After that, I went to get my autograph with him. I missed the lineup for the photo because I was in the Warner panel. No problem, the photo was too expensive anyway. OMG! Is he handsome and big!
I ended up buying way too many books and I could barely carry the bag back home, lol. How am I going to read it all?
Overall, it was worth every penny, even though I am extremely poor now. Now, I’ll start saving money for next year, from December 3 to 6, 2015.
Pics:
http://s57.photobucket.com/user/erikakobori/slideshow/CCXP%202014
Sorry, I recorded some videos, but the sound was really so awful it is beyond comprehension. I'll wait until they post the official vids.