I haven't managed to get internet set up in my hotel room (yes, it is very easy, what can I say? Late nights, too many blue lagoons, the rush of convention center madness...I'll do it today and upload pictures this evening. I swear).
Last night was Preview Night, and there was a surprisingly large crowd. It's bigger than I remember it being last year, and our booth is really cool. We have some books on display, apparently our calendar division will be doing the "Snakes on a Plane" calendar for 2007 (OMG! SOAP!) and our bookmarks turned out really well.
So far, I have seen the Burger King Jedi, a woman dressed as a Twi'leck (sp? the blue/green dancer lady from "Return of the Jedi"), a snow trooper, a clone trooper, an excellent Luigi and Princess Peach...in some cases, I managed to get photos, but sometimes they were just too far away. Next year, I'm going to bring a better camera. Occasionally, my current camera (one of those tiny one-shot deals from a few years ago) think it's more important to show a blank screen with occasional static than to take pictures of the wonders here.
The Nintendo booth is huge, and equipped with a ton of DS Lites. Actually, the gaming booths are pretty awesome, and I hope to get a chance to stop by some time this weekend. The dude from that VH1 show "Can't Get a Date? Yes you can..." is wandering around. I think he works for one of the RPG publishers (the one who always wore sunglasses and had two pairs of pants or something? can't remember the name, but it *must* be him). The TOKYOPOP booth looks really good, and I'll be doing my first presentation today at 4. I'm a little nervous, but I think it'll be fine.
We're in booth 1220, across from the Caveman Robot booth (it's very awesome, and babies seem to love Caveman Robot), right down the lane from Penny Arcade and Dumbrella.
Do you make all the people who visit your booth tear down a huge ad from directly in front of your display before they can see it, or do you do less to annoy your customers in real life than you do online?
Posted by: Bryan Mills | July 20, 2006 at 11:58 PM
Get a life, Bryan. Don't be such a jerk.
Posted by: bob | July 21, 2006 at 09:01 AM
Bryan's not a jerk... he's right: The "real world" (implying that people using the internet are not "real"...) doesn't put up with such obnoxious advertising methods. Why should we "fake" people, using computers, have to?
Posted by: Comics Without Flash | July 24, 2006 at 08:55 AM
I just got a DS Lite. Touch Tetris is the best.
Posted by: Betsy K. | July 25, 2006 at 02:45 PM