I did not dress up today as Sarah was busy (and not well enough to go with car crash injuries and a bad knee)...so I went incognito! (ie. not dressed up).
Oliver and I arrived late at the con today cause I had stuff to take care of in the morning and I felt like I got hit by a truck after running around everywhere and cleaning yesterday. As we descended upon the con (taking transit cause we didn't want to worry about parking), Oliver and I saw it was a little bit busy today. We arrived as some sort of panel or event was getting out and we got caught up in the crowds from hell. I fought the urge to punch someone as we moved towards the door.
Took a picture of these two here and attempted to enter the building. We were inside for about 2 minutes when we decided it was a bad idea and that I was going to suffocate in the human sea, so we went to the Big Four instead.
Checked out the gaming area to see what everyone was up to and what sorts of board games were available this year. The entire food court area was pretty full and the game area was radiating a distinct heat. I didn't find the LEGO display I was looking for, so we ducked out to actually try to attend the LEGO panel...for curiosity reasons.
We could actually enter the BMO Centre this time and we made a slow trek to the back of the hall and into the Palomino rooms. After taking some time to pet a dog, we arrived at the panel. Dave Ware was the feature panelist today who talked about his work as a LEGO artist specializing in mosaics and buildings. They were giving out LEGO minifigures for random things like answering questions, lying about attending things and coming in late.
I FINALLY found the LEGO displays after Dave Ware mentioned where his booth was. For some strange reason, this is the ONE aisle I didn't walk down. For something so big (and seems to get bigger every year), I always have trouble finding it. The first few pictures I took were really blurry and dark because I forgot to change my settings and clean my lens. I somehow smudged the camera during the panel.
Finally realized the pictures I was taking were messed up and cleaned the lens off.
You can see Dave Ware's art pieces in the back there, but everything here just has so much detail to it. After we found the LEGO display, I made a desperate plea for food ad we went to get pizza. There was a good collection of cosplayers (I THINK they were with the 501st), so I snapped a picture since a bunch of other people were.
After meeting up with Jay and Hayley as well as some of their friends, I proceeded to consume my pizza with gusto. It's probably the fastest I've eaten any pizza ever. We decided as a group to go watch people beat each other up dressed as Vikings, so we began wandering that direction. I spotted a crew of Batman characters, so I ducked over quickly to get a picture and promptly lost everyone. I spent a good five minutes looking for them and found them over by the vikings.
You can probably see how busy the con was today by looking past the viking arena area (they play quidditch here too). Not sure if you can see any cosplayers in the picture (I'll have to zoom in later to take a peek), but there were a lot of good ones out there. I would have taken pictures of a lot of them, but I was pretty exhausted by this point.
Oliver and I wandered back into the con for a bit to look at some merch and check out the booth with the robotics at it. We finished off the night at Jay and Hayley's by watching Galaxy Quest and Captain Hemlock Space Pirate. OH! FLOWER!
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