I'll try to do up a news article that should be more in depth whenever I get back home. This is mainly just some quickies, so everyone can see what's been popping up at the convention, so far.
Not a lot to report from today. I mainly spent today (Saturday) finally looking for some back issues of comic books and taking pics of all the costumes. Went to the masquerade ball, which was a blast. Never went to one of those before. It ended way later than it was supposed to, so we didn't get back to the hotel until 1:30am. There was a young boy in a very well done Boba Fett costume that actually won one of the awards they were giving out for the ball. So, score one for the Fett man tonight. Anyway, seeing as I've been going on only four hours of sleep today, I think I'm going to go pass out now. Have fun all.
p.s.--just remembered, the main thing that really happened today is mainly bragging rights. My wife and I went to the Star Wars Breakfast this morning that LucasFilms hosts every year, with artist Adam Hughes as the guest of honor. He signed some exclusive prints for everyone that attended the breakfast. It was actually very nicely done. There was only about 80 to 100 people there. A lot smaller than I though it'd be. Anyway, they were raffling off some prizes, and I actually ended up winning a Slave Leia print that Adam Hughes said they were only allowed to sell at Celebration Europe, that he had painted up for that convention over there. He said they couldn't sell them until Celebration Europe started and they weren't allowed to sell them after it was over, and they didn't have any left over for StarWarsShop.com to sell later on. Funny thing is, we were asking him, at his booth on the convention floor, about this same print the other day, as well as the Boba Fett print he had done. Neither of which was for sell. So, it was really cool, of all things to get from the raffle, to actually get the thing we had been asking him about buying in the first place. It's funny how life works out sometimes. Mr. Hughes signed it and even drew a little Slave Leia sketch at the bottom of the print, as well. Pretty neat. So, that pretty much made my day, right from the get-go. My wife didn't get a good pic of me having to go up there to get it (she doesn't know how to zoom my camera), so I'm hoping they have something on their website later on, that I can download.
:-P
Here's what it looks like.
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a85/Mandalorian_Boba_Fett/DSCF2126PosterwewonatSWbreakfast.jpg
Leave it to the RebelScum guys to have better pics than I can take, though. Here's what the original poster looks like.
http://www.rebelscum.com/photo.asp?image=http://www.rebelscum.com/c4/artprints/hughes.jpg&text=Adam%20Hughes,%20$75,%20Limited%20to%20250
They also have artists, along the "artists row" that will do commissions for you at the begining of the Convention, that you can pick up on the last day or whenever they get it done. My wife told me that's how some of them pay for their booths at the Con. Tom Hodges, the guy who drew the art in Karen Traviss' Star Wars Insider article about "The Mandalorians: People and Culture" had a booth there. So, I asked him to do an art piece for me with Kal Skirata and Walon Vau in it. Man, that cost a lot, though (about $150). But, since I haven't really spent that much on anything else, since I've been out here, I figured whey the heck not. I won't get a chance like this again, probably. I don't pick it up until tomorrow, but I'm hoping it'll turn out really nice.
Okay, enough bragging about my swag. I was just really tickled about winning the Adam Hughes Princess Leia print this morning. I'm one of those people who never win anything in contests like that, so that made my day. I really am going to go pass out now. I'm starting to fall asleep at the screen.
Take care all.
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