Comic Con Day 2

Friday morning, we were up and out of the door by 6 a.m. The plan was to go with our besties, Adam and Amanda, but their flight was cancelled the night before! Ugh! So, we had to entertain ourselves and stand in line for 4 hours in order to get into the famous Hall H. Hall H seats 6500 people and is where all of the big movie panels and movie stars are during Comic Con. Crazy people (like us) wait in line forever and once you're in, you stay in! If you leave for any reason, you have to stand in line all over again and may never make it back. The movie panels ran back to back from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Every panel had a moderator who would direct questions to the stars and directors. Then the audience could ask questions and they also showed tons of footage from their movies that no one else has seen yet. On Thursday, we stayed until 2 and by that time, The Moore's had arrived. So we left Hall H and met up with them!

Here we are at 6 a.m.!



1/20th of Hall H...notice how long the line is for the men's room. Probably the only event in history that the men's line was ALWAYS longer than the women's!



The first panel was Megamind with Will Ferrell, Tina Fey, and Jonah Hill. Notice, that Will came as his character. They were all just as funny in real life. Will brought one box of donuts for breakfast for all of Hall H.



Next up was JC's most anticipated panel...TRON. If you haven't seen the original 1982 flick, you should. It was basically the first movie to use computer graphics and pretty much inspired JC to go into his line of work. So, you can imagine how thrilled he is about the sequel (28 years later!) The director even recorded all 6500 of us saying certain things to be used in the movie. Here's Jeff Bridges...



Olivia Wilde...



The original Tron, Bruce Boxleitner...



Next was Guillerrmo Del Toro, who is rebooting a movie from the Disney ride, Haunted Mansion. He actually said, "We won't be taking calls from Eddie Murphy"...ha ha!



We were soooo excited to see the panel for Salt. Angelina Jolie was there! As was Liev Schrieber!



Next up was Battle: L.A. It looks like an amazing movie! Here is Michelle Rodriguez, who was quite feisty!



And Aaron Eckhart...



After we left hall H, we finally met up with our friends and toured the HUGE exhibit hall together...It was awesome to see all of these people dressed up and get pictures with them. I'm so mad that we ddn't get a picture with Doug Jones. We actually met him! He was the silver surfer (fantastic four) and abe sapien (hellboy). Doug is from Indianapolis and is friends with a friend of Adam and Amanda's. We just happened to run into him in the Hall and he was so cool! He totally had a crush on JC and was rubbing his head. Ha Ha!






The best part of the day came in the evening. JC signed up for these TRON tweets. He kept getting texts that would say "Be 1 of 32 people to run to Broadway and B streets, Take a picture with the red lightcycle and then run to (another location)." We never were able to go, but right after dinner, we were downtown and he got another tweet. So we started walking in that direction and all of the sudden, we see a few heavyset, geeked out guys running. So, JC and Amanda take off. Adam and I are running too, but we had all just eaten and were wearing flip flops, so we were struggling! We're cheering JC on and he makes it to the lightcycle. Amanda runs to the next location to save him a place in line. Meanwhile Adam and I are screaming at JC to outrun the geeks. It was hilarious! He finally made it and was the 2nd to last guy before they cut off the 32 people. I like to think that it was a team effort.

Here's the lightcycle...



Pretty winded after that run!



He ended up getting a light disc that's actually a USB...very cool. It had pictures and the new trailer on it. But the real prize was 2 wrist bands for an exclusive TRON party that night. I feel awful, but AC, Adam, and I were soooo exhausted from the day, so we totally crashed. And poor JC had to go to the party alone. I dont think he cared too much though...he was in TRON heaven! And a bunch of the cast was there. He forgot the camera, BUT we ended up getting to see this awesome TRON location on Friday, so I took pictures then...