Salt Lake Comic Con 2013

We were so excited when we heard Salt Lake was actually going to host it's own Comic Con this year.  It has been a secret geek dream of ours to go to the big convention in San Diego.  It might have been a favorite past time to watch the live feed on Spike before we got rid of our satellite (you don't know me!).  The tickets were pretty expensive so we went back and forth on it for a few weeks until I found out some people from work were going and I got super jealous.  I was checking out the website a couple of days before and when I saw that Nicholas Brendon from Buffy was going to be there that pretty much sealed the deal and we bought tickets for Friday.

 

There were about eight and a half billion people at the convention center which made my brain explode a little.  I really don't do crowds very well, it makes me angry.  To put the sheer number of people in perspective, the most successful first time Comic Con for any one city was New York and they sold 50,000 tickets.  Salt lake ended up selling 80,000 and had to move the venue from the Southtowne Expo Center to the Salt Palace just to attempt to accommodate the numbers.  It was wall to wall people.

First thing when we got into the building we happened upon master chief, Xander was in heaven.

 

The Convention Floor

 

They had a pretty sweet Lego section.  Steven loved the buffy mural

The Emerald City

 

Jurassic Park when the goat is about to get eaten

 

This is the exhibit for the Desolation Of Smaug

 

The guy in the blue shirt is Ben Hansen from Fact or Faked on the SYFY channel.  I actually stood and talked to him for like five minutes but didn't think to ask for a picture so I took this one after the fact.

Tracey Hickman is one of Steven's favorite authors.  He wrote the Dragonlance novels which we own a bunch of.  He was really cool, even though he had a pretty long line he talked to each person for three or four minutes and signed a book for us.

Here's the highlight of Steven's life.  We actually paid to get a picture with Nicholas Brendan.  Since Xander is named after his character on Buffy we included him in the photo.

 

 

 

 I was a little star struck when we were standing in line so I wasn't really prepared when it was our turn.  I wish I could have gotten a little more video of Nicholas talking to Xander about his name.

 

Xander is really excited for next year because he wants to dress up of course.  Steven says we need to go to all three days so that we can attend some panels this time but we will see what life when the time comes.