What a day for this Halo freaking freak boy. I had the best time in San Diego. I had to load up the minivan and brought my very excited son Jack. Unexpectedly I also brought my daughter Ellie along too. That required a stroller and a formula of about 3 lbs of 'stuff' per pound of kid. In other words I had to be Dad all day. Jenny was out fishing on a three day trip...that's all I have to say about that.
When we got downtown it was the biggest geek fest I've ever seen. We waited in an hour long line even though we had pre-registered with Storm Troopers, Darth Vader, Pokemon, Transformers...you get the idea. Here is the line outside.
My first stop was to try and get my
Halo Graphic Novel signed by the Bungie artist/writers and to chat with my favorite game creators. Success. I found the famous Frankie. He asked if I played multiplayer and I told him about all of the 2130 Clan. He said he recognized the Clan name. Probably from all the emails I've sent him. Being the nicest dude he says I should send him a friends invite and he would be happy to play some night with our Clan. "That might be cool" I said. What a great day and it had just started.
The next stop was the Joyride booth and Jack was looking for the Spartan.
We then ran into some friends from our town who where at the convention for their third day. It was a family vacation for them and they love geeking out. They had just been to the "Lost" panel and where headed to the Jetix panel next. Makers of Power Rangers and a bunch of cartoons like Yin Yang Yow. The writer is Steve Marmel a comedian and nice dude I talked to a while. After that we saw some Storm Troopers.
So Jack and his buddy Connor got a chance to chill with the Imperial grunts.
I had to keep getting my Halo fix so I headed for the Red vs. Blue booth. They had some cool red and blue Spartan helmets to check out.
The booths for Marvel, DC, Transformers all were incredible. The fans were even more insane. We couldn't believe all the fans dressed up. I had some favorites I wanted to share with the Clan.
I also couldn't believe the amount of gaming you could do. The DS booth had at least a hundred DS units to play with. Here is part of that massive booth.
And the SciFi Channel booth
After the show it was still cooking outside so the kids stopped to play in the fountain next to the convention center and Petco Ballpark.
To finish the day I called a taxi bike to take us to our minivan for the drive north and home. San Diego is a great place for this geek fest and I am definitely going back next year.
I also wanted to share with the Clan one of the pages from my Halo Graphic Novel that got signed. You can see the Frankie signature with a Mister Chief sketch on that right page in the upper left.
