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Our first view of the con from our 26th floor room. |
One of the booth mascots. |
Kinokuniya had this great Azumanga poster, but sadly, we couldn't get it. |
The Nickelodeon booth. |
You can't have a con without five or more trading card games. |
Is it the Marvel booth, or the Iron Man booth? |
You, too, can ooh and ahh over the see-through Yamato toy. |
Whatever you think of HBO's True Blood series, they have some great ads at the con. |
Is there a secret hidden in these Laughing Man cookies? |
One booth had this great replica of the Saturn V rocket. |
It's the top half of Bumblebee from the Transformers movie! |
The Bioshock 2 game had this great replica of an in-game setting. |
Large numbers of female fans of Twilight |
... broke Comic-con records ... |
by camping out the night before to get into the big hall. |
Instead of having an expensive booth, the SyFy (blech!) channel had outdoor displays. |
This fan dressed up as the CNN web page. |
Many companies had tons of viral or ubiquitous ads, like this District 9 tank. |
We couldn't get one this year, but this is what one of the WB bags looks like. |
A pretty good Jessia Rabbit figure. |
Cosplay fans. |
A somewhat rare toy for the Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi show. |
Kotobukiya had one of their sculptors actually working on the show floor. |
One of the con exclusive items was this alternate timeline Enterprise, which sold out quickly. |
Marketing for Dexter was everywhere, on buses, pedicabs, signs... |
Another cosplaying fan. |
One company sold this special Trek item. Very funny. |
Someone on staff "volunteered" to buy stuff from J-List to get this great looking bag. |
The Acme (i.e. Warner Bros.) booth was selling this plush Alec from the Pixar short. |
The True Blood ads were everywhere, even on our hotel elevator call panel. |
The line to get into Hall H at 7:52am. |
The line to get into Hall H at 8:27am. |
The hotel got smart and started selling boxed lunches that were cheaper than the con food. |
Max Records from the upcoming Where the Wild Things Are film. |
Some of the cast from upcoming Book of Eli film: Mila Kunis, Gary Oldman, Denzel Washington. |
Jackie Earle Haley talking about upcoming remake of Nightmare on Elm Street. |
cast of upcoming Jonah Hex movie |
Robert Downey Jr. and Rachel McAdams of upcoming Holmes movie. |
beginning of Disney/Pixar panel |
John Lasseter and Miyazaki-san. |
John Lasseter and Miyazaki-san. |
It's Gordon Freeman from Half-Life. |
If you're a fan of Venture Bros., you'll know what this is. |
SyFy's (blech!) Cafe Diem, recreated at an actual cafe in the city. |
More advertising outside, for Warehouse 13. |
Part of the viral marketing for Tron2, recreating front of Flynn's Arcade. |
NCsoft's product waifs for City of Heroes. |
Apparently, anything can be turned into a cute plushie, even Cthulu! |
Pretty nice AV-98 Ingram from Patlabor. |
A great, detailed replica of the Starship Troopers ship. |
They may not have all actors finalized, but the car's done for Green Hornet. |
Another great cosplay costume, though we're not sure what it is. |
The Black Knight and... we don't know what. |
Another unknown (but impressive) cosplayer. |
The Paramount booth had a few "Orion" women helping out. |
Another shot of Transformers booth, with a (we think) cosplayer. |
Some nice life-size Clone Wars figures. |
The Revoltech/Organic booth got lots of excitement with their janken game. |
Yet another nice model we can't get, of the X-Wing Fighter. |
Possibly the most impressive model at the show: the Nautilus from 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. |
Here's Mark Brodeen, the man who crafted it and all 19,000 rivets on it. |
Who photos the Watchmen? This group hung around for lots of photos. |
Even Batgirl and Poison Ivy can get tired at this con. |
Emily the Strange photo-op. |
One of the upcoming toy version of the new Enterprise. |
And the really impressive Sideshow version of the same thing. |
The Sideshow version of the ship from Serenity. |
Sideshow Collectibles' versions of the Up characters. |
It's Kelly Hu! You may remember her as the one who didn't talk in X-Men. |
Is there anything you can't make out of Legos? |
A cosplayer dressed up as Fire from the JLA? |
NBC decided to push Heroes with this outdoor carnival area... |
...as well as this Nissan Cube. |
Yes, more True Blood advertising. |
Is Cloak and Dagger still going? Anyway, someone's making a figure of Dagger. |
A really nice (probably unaffordable) replica of the Millenium Falcon. |