On The Road Again

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Comic-Con is well and truly over now, and we are packed and preparing to flee the city before the workmen pull down the Comic-Con trade dress from the convention center, thus exposing San Diego for what it truly is: a simple midsized American city with a heavy military presence, and a climate tailor-made for junkies, crackheads and homeless alcoholics.

We will be in the air most of the day, but we’ll try to post more photos and videos later this evening, once we are safely reensconced in the Crisis On Infinite Midlives Home Office in Boston.

Categories: Geek Culture Tags: SDCC SDCC 2013

July 22, 2013 by Rob

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Lance Manion

Jul 22

Ah wants mah zerglin’!

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- Rob
  
  Jul 23
  
  It is in a giant box, being UPS ground shipped, along with the rest of our stuff from SDCC. We should have it in our hands here at the Home Office on Friday. Be prepared to open your wallet and practice relaxing your gag reflex.
  
  And that stuffed toy is an object lesson in the planning you have to do to get exclusives at Comic-Con (planning and blind luck). Believe it or not, this is the first year that we bothered to get anything that was an exclusive giveaway at Comic-Con. We wound up getting four things: your Zergling from the Blizzard Software booth, an A-Team van Hot Wheels car, and a Shazam / Captain Marvel and Superman / General Zod action figure pack. And we learned that, unless the items you want are exclusive and not to be restocked at all during the convention, you do not go for them on Preview Night or first thing when the convention floor opens.
  
  For everything but the Zergling, we were able to wander to the booths, stand in no line whatsoever, and pick up what we wanted around 2 p.m. any day from Friday on. For the Zergling, it was a little tricker – we went by Blizzard every day of the con with no joy… but were able to get our hands on one by getting to the booth around 10:30 a.m. on Sunday, in a line that was about five minutes long.
  
  Long story short: we have finally learned, after eight Comic-Cons, that you don’t need to kill yourself to get your hands on most exclusives… which I just realized I am telling you, Lance, before you have paid up for the Zergling. So forget what I just wrote; I had to stomp three cherubs into oblivion and risk extreme personal danger and incarceration for that damn stuffed toy. Let’s double the price, shall we?
  
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