We’re still recovering from our weekend at New York Comic Con. On Friday, we checked out the “Greatest Movie Badasses of All Time” Panel and perused the floor. We even checked out the live gaming area where we spotted a few old men teaching young women how to use, swords, numchucks and other weaponry, it bordered on creepy.
Saturday, we were dying to get into the “Robot Chicken” Panel with Seth Green but missed out after waiting for an hour an half just to be turned away. After the panel we could see where Seth was signing autographs and watched through the door for a few minutes, he seemed really cool but then we were shooed away by a Con volunteer with some authority issues.
Actually, all of the volunteers seemed to have some kind of issue and none of them knew what they were talking about. The volunteer who wins my “tool of the year” award was seating people at the “Dollhouse” Panel. She screamed “I have one seat open, I need one ass to fill it” over and over again, just in case she didn’t make it clear the first 50 times.
Since we didn’t get into the “Robot Chicken” Panel we decided to head next door for the NYT Travel Show, there will be more to come on that trip soon.
Sunday, we were back at Comic Con for the “Dollhouse” and “Fringe” Panels. We waited for about an hour with 2000 other fans to see Joss Whedon introduce a sneak peak of “Dollhouse”. We were lucky enough to end up right behind Whitney who runs the Pop Candy Blog at USA Today. I was excited to meet her as I am a huge fan and link to her site often.
Then it happened. We were chatting with people in line when out of the corner of my eye I spotted THE Joshua Jackson walking by. Now, for those who are new to OLV you should know that Joshua Jackson is the cheese to my macaroni. I have been trying to meet him for months. I have gone to the set of “Fringe” but he hasn’t been there. I went to the premiere of “Fringe” but he was a no show. Oh, Josh Jackson, you are so elusive! Then there he was. The rest is a blur but I’ve been told I stood there waving my hand in front of my face before bolting after him. I do remember catching up to him and asking for a picture but before he said anything this small woman who was escorting him starting barking at me, I don’t know what she said, something about being late for an appointment, the gist of whatever she said was NO. I think I thanked him and waved and he waved back and said something but I don’t what. Then I’m pretty sure he went into a bathroom and I could have easily waited but I wasn’t thinking clearly and ran back to line, realizing we just lost our place. Thankfully the people we were standing with in line were kind enough to let us back in, if you’re reading this, thanks guys!!
After the “Dollhouse” and “Fringe” Panels we waited for two hours to try to get into the “Fringe” signing but never made it in (just as well, I would have been completely embarrassment if Josh happened to recognize me)!
Here is the picture we snapped of Josh heading into the bathroom! LOL!
We’ll be posting more pictures (and links to other stories I’ve written about NYCC) later today so be sure to check back!
