puckace
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Love your stories about SDCC SDcomics. Great insights for those of us who have never had the privilege of attending one.
And thank you for your service
And thank you for your service
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Rish Outfield
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So, on a scale of the Hellfire Club set (which I got for less than retail) and the Book of Vishanti set (which I stood in line for over an hour waiting for, but it sold out), how hard is the Savage Land 3-Pack going to be to get?
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Beamish
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This is what happened to me last year, and I hope it will be as easy this year:
I could only go on Friday, so by the time I got there and went through registration, any product ticket distribution was done.
I went directly to the Hasbro product booth and asked how to get in. They were kinda wishy washy and didn't quite have a solid answer.
I told them I was a Pulse Premium member, and if I do say so myself, I have a way of being charming (used to get paid for being "charming" if you get my drift), so they sent me to the standby line alongside the product booth.
I waited maybe 5 minutes in the standby line then got into the real line and bought my Death's Head and some other stuff.
Easy peasy.
Chooch555
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Beamish: Comic-Con Jiggalo now soon to be streaming on Peacock.
From 2024, DC Films In Concert presented the Batman 35th Anniversary Concert.
So this was pretty cool. Last year DC Comics did a series of promotions where fans could watch one of their films on a huge screen while a live orchestra performed the movies score right in front of you. They toured the whole country and as luck or fate would have it, or hell, maybe it was planned, they were in San Diego during the weekend of Comic Con. A friend of mine heard about it and asked if I wanted to go. Well, shoot. I don't know. Let me think. Do comic book fans like comic book movies? Hell yes I wanted to go. He scored us the tickets and we were off to the races.
That was an amazing experience. Hearing an orchestra play Danny Elfman's iconic and timeless score while watching the movie is something I know I'm never going to forget. And watching it with the Comic Con crowd really made it awesome. The wonderful part was it wasn't just a bunch of gray haired old fogies in the audience. There were lots of young people there, too. That warmed my heart.
That evening was nostalgic to me for two reasons. One, it was a chance to see a timeless classic on the big screen again. I have a great deal of affection for Tim Burton's 1989 film. It came out at a time when we didn't have a lot of superhero movies so the anticipation for this one was through the roof. Ask most comic book fans who their favorite character is and Batman will be at or near the top of the list. This movie did not disappoint. Sure, looking back on it, it wasn't perfect. For instance, you could say this story was more about the Joker than it was Batman. There were other problems with it, as well. But in 1989 and in that moment, we had a Batman movie. And that was a great feeling.
The other reason I got washed in a wave of nostalgia that night was the venue. The concert was held in the Civic Theater down on C Street, which is right across the courtyard from the old Convention and Performing Arts Center. That's where we used to have comic con back in the 1980's. I kid you not. Luck? Fate? Coincidence? I have no idea. But here's the kicker: At the 1988 San Diego Comic Con, one year before Batman premiered, DC held a panel for the film. The panelists were Jeff Walker (a vice president of publicity at Warner Brothers), Julie Schwartz, a long time editor at DC Comics and a legend in the field, and Bob Kane, who, along with Bill Finger, created the Batman. The reason for the panel was not just to get fans hyped up for the movie, but also to get us to calm the hell down. A couple of months earlier, the studio had announced that Michael Keaton would be playing the role of Bruce Wayne/Batman, you see, and fans had a ... well, meltdown, I guess you could call it. There was no internet back then, but you could still feel the outrage every time you walked into your local comic shop. People were livid. Jeff got buried with a ton of letters. Yes, letters. The kind you had to write with paper and pen and put in the mail box. An actual physical mailbox. With a stamp. Warners got an avalanche of negative mail. I admit, I was one of the angry letter writers. My fear was this movie was going to be a comedy and I did not want that. I wanted a Batman that was dark avenger of the knight, like Frank Miller's Batman Year One, not a Batman like Adam West. As soon as I walked through the doors of that years comic con I made a bee line right for the DC booth and said "You've got to be kidding me! Michael Keaton? What were you thinking?" Mike Carlin told me "Just go to the Batman panel on Saturday. All will be explained. And calm down." Poor DC. They had to deal with that all weekend.
So the Batman movie panel was to give us a little preview of the film but also to set the record straight for the fans. No, Jeff said, this will not be a comedy. This will be the dark and serious Batman movie you've always wanted. Michael Keaton was cast not because of his comedy background but because he's a great actor. Bob Kane showed us some designs he did, and Jeff showed up early designs for the Batmobile and Batplane. He also showed us Anton Furst's design work for Gotham City and that was amazing. It had a real Golden Age feel to it. So I admit I did feel better after that.
And do you know where that panel was held? In the Civic Theater. The very same auditorium where I saw the concert 36 years later. As I was watching the orchestra play the Batman theme, I couldn't help but think that Bob Kane, creator of Batman, once sat on that same stage.
I love my life.
18 Days Until SDCC 2025!
So this was pretty cool. Last year DC Comics did a series of promotions where fans could watch one of their films on a huge screen while a live orchestra performed the movies score right in front of you. They toured the whole country and as luck or fate would have it, or hell, maybe it was planned, they were in San Diego during the weekend of Comic Con. A friend of mine heard about it and asked if I wanted to go. Well, shoot. I don't know. Let me think. Do comic book fans like comic book movies? Hell yes I wanted to go. He scored us the tickets and we were off to the races.
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That was an amazing experience. Hearing an orchestra play Danny Elfman's iconic and timeless score while watching the movie is something I know I'm never going to forget. And watching it with the Comic Con crowd really made it awesome. The wonderful part was it wasn't just a bunch of gray haired old fogies in the audience. There were lots of young people there, too. That warmed my heart.
That evening was nostalgic to me for two reasons. One, it was a chance to see a timeless classic on the big screen again. I have a great deal of affection for Tim Burton's 1989 film. It came out at a time when we didn't have a lot of superhero movies so the anticipation for this one was through the roof. Ask most comic book fans who their favorite character is and Batman will be at or near the top of the list. This movie did not disappoint. Sure, looking back on it, it wasn't perfect. For instance, you could say this story was more about the Joker than it was Batman. There were other problems with it, as well. But in 1989 and in that moment, we had a Batman movie. And that was a great feeling.
The other reason I got washed in a wave of nostalgia that night was the venue. The concert was held in the Civic Theater down on C Street, which is right across the courtyard from the old Convention and Performing Arts Center. That's where we used to have comic con back in the 1980's. I kid you not. Luck? Fate? Coincidence? I have no idea. But here's the kicker: At the 1988 San Diego Comic Con, one year before Batman premiered, DC held a panel for the film. The panelists were Jeff Walker (a vice president of publicity at Warner Brothers), Julie Schwartz, a long time editor at DC Comics and a legend in the field, and Bob Kane, who, along with Bill Finger, created the Batman. The reason for the panel was not just to get fans hyped up for the movie, but also to get us to calm the hell down. A couple of months earlier, the studio had announced that Michael Keaton would be playing the role of Bruce Wayne/Batman, you see, and fans had a ... well, meltdown, I guess you could call it. There was no internet back then, but you could still feel the outrage every time you walked into your local comic shop. People were livid. Jeff got buried with a ton of letters. Yes, letters. The kind you had to write with paper and pen and put in the mail box. An actual physical mailbox. With a stamp. Warners got an avalanche of negative mail. I admit, I was one of the angry letter writers. My fear was this movie was going to be a comedy and I did not want that. I wanted a Batman that was dark avenger of the knight, like Frank Miller's Batman Year One, not a Batman like Adam West. As soon as I walked through the doors of that years comic con I made a bee line right for the DC booth and said "You've got to be kidding me! Michael Keaton? What were you thinking?" Mike Carlin told me "Just go to the Batman panel on Saturday. All will be explained. And calm down." Poor DC. They had to deal with that all weekend.
So the Batman movie panel was to give us a little preview of the film but also to set the record straight for the fans. No, Jeff said, this will not be a comedy. This will be the dark and serious Batman movie you've always wanted. Michael Keaton was cast not because of his comedy background but because he's a great actor. Bob Kane showed us some designs he did, and Jeff showed up early designs for the Batmobile and Batplane. He also showed us Anton Furst's design work for Gotham City and that was amazing. It had a real Golden Age feel to it. So I admit I did feel better after that.
And do you know where that panel was held? In the Civic Theater. The very same auditorium where I saw the concert 36 years later. As I was watching the orchestra play the Batman theme, I couldn't help but think that Bob Kane, creator of Batman, once sat on that same stage.
I love my life.
18 Days Until SDCC 2025!
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Stoopid_Sandwich
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The only thing I want to see at SDCC is confirmation that the MvC Gamerverse line is getting a secondary assortment along with confirmation that the figures from wave 1 will hit before the summer is through q
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Beamish
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How many of you went to the Hasbro Pulse Premium Party they had a few years ago where they had appetizers and raffles?
I was there and it was totally fun! I had an uninterrupted chat with Dwight for about 15 minutes which was so much more causal and relaxed than on the busy convention floor.
It would be cool to know how many of us were there together and had no idea.
I was there and it was totally fun! I had an uninterrupted chat with Dwight for about 15 minutes which was so much more causal and relaxed than on the busy convention floor.
It would be cool to know how many of us were there together and had no idea.
Stoopid_Sandwich
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Based on this past photo spread I think we can almost guarantee that Gamerverse will be the big showcase for this year at the panel and on the con floor itself for preview night as well as what’s to come. It seems to be their biggest initiative for the year so there’s no reason why it would be omitted
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BasilElks
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I hope that this years reveals are absolutely amazing. I know that some years they are, and other years, they leave you wanting more, and saying to yourself (or on here) "Is that it?"
Again going back one year to 2024, the Deadpool and Wolverine movie premiered the same week as Comic Con.
There's just something really cool about seeing a comic book movie with the Comic Con crowd. The audience is so into it and that enthusiasm can be infectious. The scene with Jennifer Garner, Wesley Snipes and Channing Tatum walking on reprising their old legacy roles (Well, in Tatum's case, what would have been a legacy role) nearly brought the house down. It was a great night. And we're going to do it again this year. Fantastic Four First Steps premieres the same weekend as Comic Con.
It's happened a few times before. In 2011, Captain America: The First Avenger premiered during comic con. And back in 1991, Terminator 2: Judgement Day came out the same weekend as SDCC. A bunch of us walked a few blocks down to Horton Plaza to see it. When the T-1000 switched to his liquid metal form, the crowd started chanting "Silver Surfer!!! Silver Surfer!!!" Only at Comic Con, folks.
16 Days Until SDCC 2025!
There's just something really cool about seeing a comic book movie with the Comic Con crowd. The audience is so into it and that enthusiasm can be infectious. The scene with Jennifer Garner, Wesley Snipes and Channing Tatum walking on reprising their old legacy roles (Well, in Tatum's case, what would have been a legacy role) nearly brought the house down. It was a great night. And we're going to do it again this year. Fantastic Four First Steps premieres the same weekend as Comic Con.
It's happened a few times before. In 2011, Captain America: The First Avenger premiered during comic con. And back in 1991, Terminator 2: Judgement Day came out the same weekend as SDCC. A bunch of us walked a few blocks down to Horton Plaza to see it. When the T-1000 switched to his liquid metal form, the crowd started chanting "Silver Surfer!!! Silver Surfer!!!" Only at Comic Con, folks.
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16 Days Until SDCC 2025!