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| The Hard Rock Cafe, as seen from outside the convention center. |
Thursday ended up as kind of mixed bag of experiences. Erin and I volunteered in the morning, a Comic Con first for both of us! We worked in Artist’s Alley, which I’ve never really looked at before, so it was a double first! Mainly all I did was walk up and down the rows of artwork, helped an artist put up some of his artwork, and guard an exit. Super exciting stuff. After a very long 4 hours, it was over, and we went back to the condo for lunch.
In the afternoon, my mom, aunt, and bff went off to explore the Gaslamp District, the area in front of the convention center that is full of hotels and condos, restaurants and bars, and companies both large and small trying to market their products to passers-by. It’s gotten so extensive in recent years that it’s almost a whole separate experience outside of, though still complementary to, Comic Con. Sega, for instance, had a whole gaming experience set up, where you could try out all of their new games in the comfort of their air conditioned arcade. (Nintendo had a similar thing in the hotel next to the convention center.)
HBO went full throttle with their Game of Thrones experience there. There were artists that would sketch your portrait into. They had areas where you could try out their new X-Box and Facebook games, and check out their Funko Pop exclusives, like this headless Ned Stark. You could also get a shirt customized with your name, which I thought was the coolest part!
The one panel I went to on this day was about a documentary called I Know That Voice, made by John DiMaggio (more commonly known as the voice of Bender from Futurama, and Jake from Adventure Time). Tom Kenny, Rob Paulsen, and other actors whose voices but not faces you would know were on the panel, talking about the doc. They talked about how voice acting is not taken seriously by some, as though it's not 'real' acting, but rather something they do until they become a real actor, like being a waiter.
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