I went to MegaCon for the first time in my life. I'm not really huge into conventions because it's just so much money that I don't have to go somewhere where I'll spend even more money in the dealers room. Especially, since most of the conventions near me are more anime geared. Don't get me wrong, there's nothing wrong with anime or those who watch it but I just never really got into it besides the ones that would come on when I got home from school on cartoon network (Dragonball Z ftw!). I'm definitely a nerd but I'm more of a television/film/comicbook superhero nerd. Even comic books I don't really read unless it's Batman but I have seen every TV show, cartoon, or film version of anything superhero DC or Marvel. So I really want to go to Comic Con or DragonCon.
Anyways, my sister, two other friends and I decided to go to MegaCon but not buy entrance. Basically, sneak in if we could because we weren't really interested in the panels anyways and we'll be spending that money in the dealers room. Furthermore, we all had free tickets to PlaylistLive a youtube convention happening 15 minutes down the road. Friday, Saturday, and Sunday we successfully went to Megacon for a couple of hours each day. We went to PlaylistLive on Saturday. I wanted to go on Sunday to see All Caps but the drive and paying for parking was too steep for just 30 minutes. The event was an awesome concept but I don't know if it was very well carried out. Basically you either had to be a huge YouTuber or a big fangirl to be able to truly enjoy it. Unfortunately I was neither. I did see Mystery Guitar Man so that was cool.
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| Mystery Guitar Man |
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| Red Hood, Batgirl and Nightwing (ignore the phone in my pocket) |
The highlight of the whole weekend was meeting James Marsters! He's probably best known for playing Spike in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. He was charging $45 an autograph and I definitely couldn't afford it so my sister asked the guy running the table if we were allowed to wait in line and just talk to him (since I never go to conventions I don't know the protocol on these things) and the people in front of us got out of line assuming the answer would be no. We were and went we got to him my sister told him we couldn't afford an autograph but we wanted to say hi anyways. James Marsters told us that it was a rip off anyways. You can't blame a man for trying to make money from his time, and being honest about it. The jist of the short conversation came from when I told him I was listening to him read the Dresden Files he seemed pretty relieved that somebody was mentioning something other than Buffy or Torchwood. Basically he said that acting was easy because you could feed off of everything and everyone around you, but reading a book and making it interesting...it's all you. I said that doing the female voices must be tough too, but he just laughed and said it was fun. Females are just like men. Just like Shakespeare knew: we're all human, just different pitches of voice. I thought that was pretty neat. My friend got a video of the encounter but it didn't really pick up the sound of what was going on. =[
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| James Marster (and my sister's back =p) |
The only swag I picked up from the convention was a bunch of Japanese candy, snacks, and soda as well as some fake badges. Bought one for the Green Lantern Corps, Torchwood Institute, Serenity, Daily Planet, and a Shield Parking pass. Saw this guy in the past and I had an X-Men, Bone Jeffersonian, and Shield Agent badge to add to the collection.
See you tomorrow! I promise the rest will be shorter and more interesting. Less of a recap.
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