Comic Con: Characters (part 2)

And it wouldn't be right without a photo op with Darth Vader...

(This was not a live person, but that didn't matter to the boys.)

Nor did they care that they attempted to kill sweet little Ewok models...

And we just had to get a picture with Professor X, Magneto and Jane Grey...

We wish we'd thought of it sooner but only managed one picture with another Loki. We saw a handful of other Loki and Thor's at the convention, but no other Frigga's. :)

Whew. Comic Con rocks! 

Comic Con: Characters We Posed With (part 1)

We didn't realize it ahead of time, but apparently it's the thing to do to stop complete strangers and ask to take their picture or to take a picture with them while at Comic Con. ;) We missed a number of opportunities toward the start but managed a number of fun shots...

Admittedly, some of these aren't live characters. They still count. ;)

First up was Azog, the big ugly Orc in the Hobbit movies...

(This was pretty early on, so I couldn't convince them to cower and pretend, lol.)

They also particularly enjoyed Gollum:

(For some reason, Micah reserved his smiles for when he was pretending to attack people, lol. When posing as Loki, he had a strictly serious face.)

And we got stopped by a SHIELD agent who even asked to see Asher's hammer and then pretended she couldn't lift it. :)

And Micah chased down this Gandalf after the cartoon voices panel to get his picture taken with him...

This is Allen Bellman. He was awesome. The boys were quite impressed that he actually knows and is friends with Stan Lee. We purchased one of his prints, had him sign it and got this great picture with him:

(He managed to get Micah to smile. He was quite insistent, lol.)

More coming...

Comic Con Pictures: Things We Saw (Part 2)

...and then there was the Batmobile...

...and Star Wars droids...

...And a surprising number of Deadpools and Wolverines (these two were actually together, though)...

And we went to a panel on cartoon character voices. It was quite impressive with

• Jim Cummings (voice of Winnie the Pooh, Tigger, the Tazmanian Devil, Darkwing Duck and many more...hilarious guy!), 
• Kevin Conroy (voice of Batman and full of fun stories), 
• Veronica Taylor (voice of Ash from Pokemon...a character the boys were actually quite familiar with), 
• Jennifer Hale (voice of Aayla Secura from Star Wars Clone Wars among many others...another voice the boys knew), and 
• Michael Dorn (Lt. Worf on Star Trek and a voice in several Star Trek video games and others...the boys were most impressed by him, obviously, lol)

Back upstairs, we found a droideka from Star Wars...

...and a vintage Batmobile where you could sit in it for a photo for a mere $20...

And that was a taste of things we saw at Comic Con. ;) Stay tuned for more photos of people we posed with and things we learned...

Comic Con pictures: Things we saw (part 1)

I've posted most of these over on Facebook and haven't edited or anything but wanted to share them here so you can get a taste of the many cool things we saw at Comic Con...

Here's Gandalf at a Lord of the Rings/Hobbit booth. I liked how the lighting was just behind him, lol.

Among many other cool things at this particular booth, they had these knitting kits for Gandalf's hat and dwarf scarves...

And the boys spotted this Borg on display at a Star Trek booth...

...along with some sort of chess game played on Star Trek...(I had no idea, but the boys seemed quite excited about this...)

And we found these movie replica vehicles...here's Indiana Jones' motorcycle...

And Herbie...

More in the next post... ;)

#22 Dress up for Comic Con

Last Friday, I took Asher and Micah to the Denver Comic Con and we had a blast...definitely want to go again next year! As per the boys' requests, we dressed up...as Thor, Frigga and Loki. (For those unfamiliar with the storyline, Thor's the big brother, Loki's the mischief maker little brother and Frigga is their awesome mom.)

We opted to forego wigs, as they were itchy and hot, lol. People still figured it out, though. I'm not even exaggerating when I say that at least two dozen people stopped us to ask if they could take the boys' picture. And a couple people even immediately recognized who I was supposed to be (before I added the name tag!).

And that was #22 on my list. :)

More Comic Con pictures and stories coming soon!