Another one of those crazy trips where sleep wasn't on the schedule to begin with. Starting Friday around 10am to go see Horton Hears a Who, than going crazy with getting stuff together for the trip. Be it grabbing things we needed, shopping, packing, getting last minute baths... instead of leaving at 11 or midnight like I was hoping for, we left closer to 2:30 or 3am. Car fully packed and on our way.
The best part of the drive goes to the interview going into Canada...
First Question:
Does your License Plate stand for "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles"... which set the mood for the rest of the interview, which is your favorite TMNT series, what did you think of the new movie, who's your favorite Turtle, oh and yeah... why are you coming to Canada... Oh is that the voice for the old 80's series?... I have to say this was one of the most amusing interviews we had going into Canada. She was so nice and she was a TMNT fan. Yay for the beginning of the trip!
The drive was ok for the most part but than the fog kicked in. Usually on this drive there's a few semi's I can follow to help through the fog but for most of the fog there was no other cars on the road... a lot of dead animals... but no cars. When a Semi finally passed me I kept up with it, for most of the 401 I was behind this Semi but I had to get off a few exits away and decided to pass the Semi showing I wasn't really following it, to my surprise when I pass the Semi was the exit they were getting off at. Hehe... I do like Semi's on the road, they help through bad weather like no one would believe. If they realize it or not. I didn't like stay in the same lane or right on the tail of the semi, but kept it in sight for it's tail lights through the fog... by time we split ways, the fog was lifted so I could see. To my surprise though, the sun never once blinded me on this drive.
We got to the convention center and sat down starting the line for badges. Lady Phoenix joined me shortly after we got there, and many other people started to come. For a small convention... it's a surprise to see all these people... a lot more than what was there two years ago. And I do mean a small convention.... they only have three rooms. The Schedule was handed to us when sat down, so I study it right than. This is how simple the schedule was....
..... of course now I can't find it... so I'll fill this part in when I find it... even though parts of it will be filled in during the review......
There's only three rooms (the Dealer room, the Video room, and the panel room).
The convention opens at 11am, though there was two things I wanted to do go to started at 1pm... a panel with Chris S (Voice Acting 101) was going on, at the same time as the autographs for Trevor, Brian, and Chris P.... that wasn't working with my plans.... so I choose the panel as my first stop. Where Chris had no clue really what was going on, I'm so use to Voice Acting 101 being actors talking about it and teaching, though this con really felt a bit more loose on where things were going. When he said it was a Q&A panel I mentioned this is Voice Acting 101, the Q&A panel for him is next with Michael S. So he did pick on me, acting as if I said he can't take questions, but I was just trying to help since otherwise it was going to be two hours of Q&A with him. Though Chris I think misunderstood and thought I meant no one should ask questions, he went a bit with no questions after that but than he went on how he needs questions... really it was a fun panel. I really think they should of gave him a break between panels, he didn't realize he was in a panel with Michael right after that panel.
I noticed Mike in the back of the panel and waved to him.... that's when Chris took notice to him and introduced Mike, so Mike joined the panel 10 minutes early. We had a lot of laughs as the two of them goofed around. Mike did mention that they are recording the new season, he was on the West Coast for a bit so he was doing the 7am recordings with Sam out there. He also mentioned that they're done voicing Venture Brothers Season 3 and will be starting to do the voicing for Season 4 soon. So there's updates on a few shows Mike works on
I didn't have many questions at this con, I was just too tired to think of any... since at that point I was just without sleep.
The next panel came up and it was Chris Patton, Brain Dobson and Trevor Devall. What surprised me here is that Chris Patton remembered who I was from Anime Next! I barely got to talk to him, so I was surprised there. This was my first time meeting Trevor, and my second time meeting Chris and Brain. So I don't know these guys as well as I know Chris Sabat and Michael S. So it was a lot of fun watching their panel and getting to know them. Trevor is one of the Vancouver voice actors, and he does a podcast where he interviews other voice actors. He kept telling us about that. Brain is also from Vancouver, for TMNT fans he was the voice of Dragon Lord (uncredited). With Chris Patton the voice I know best out of his work is Greed on "Fullmetal Alchemist". This was another fun Q&A.
After the Q&A we went into the dealer room to find that the autograph line with Chris Sabat and Michael S was still going, so we jumped into that line and waited. Once we got up there, I got to say hi to Michael, and let him know what's going on with the surgery stuff. I got him to sign my Season 2 Set 1 of 2, DVD cover. Now he's signed All of my 4Kids DVD covers
Going to have to find something else for him to sign *G* After getting him to sign some stuff, Miki and I decided it's high time we eat... it's 15 minutes after 5pm and our next panel is at 6pm...
We go to Union Station, anyone who knows where that is or how far of a walk... knows that this was not an easy trek... as we made our way to the top floor of the convention center, took the sky walk over to Union... we get there and buy 2 hamburgers, 1 large fries, and two shakes... total... $19!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That killed me inside... and personally I didn't care too much for the taste of the shakes so, yeah... I wasn't happy with the outcome of that meal... we took the food to go, Miki went down to get us a spot at "Cosplay Idol" as I ran to the car to put some things away and pick up other things... than I go down stairs.
At this point, I hear my name and look up... it's Mily!!!! Mily than tells me the story of how she was sent to look for my sister (whom she's never met before) and bumped into someone else with the same hat as my sister... which happened to know who I was... but hasn't seen me yet. The person she bumped into is Spud, who I've met at many Toronto Cons and have made friends with. Than I saw Spud and sure enough her hat looked like Miki's! Hehehe Though we get in for Cosplay Idol and to my surprise Miki didn't just get the right part of the room, but got us front roll seats! YAY Miki!
There was SO MANY COSPLAY Skits that I was starting to wonder when it was going to be done... though I wasn't there for the coplayers... I was there for the judges... who were all given a different name for this contest.
I'm going to wrap it here for now, next post (hopefully tomorrow) will be about Cosplay Idol... just who Michael played as one of the judges... and even some mentions of favorite skits... oh and I will be posting pictures as well!
