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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.
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|   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.
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|   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.
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|   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.
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|   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.
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|   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.
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|   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.
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|   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.
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|   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.
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|   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.
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|   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.
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|   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!
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|   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.
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|   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.
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|   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.
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|   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.
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|   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.
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|   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...
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|   ...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.
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