LA Comicon 2019

Today was the only day R2 and I attended LA Comicon, at the Los Angeles Convention Center. The main reason why I didn't go on Friday and Saturday is that for the first time ever, we weren't provided a booth on the show floor. Instead, they located the droid builders in a gaming room far from the show floor, far enough that I could tell it would get no visitors and there was no point in going. Instead, I went today because our R2 Builders panel was scheduled for noon.



Here's the room a little before show opening.



Since we had exhibitor badges, Michael McMaster and Mike and Amy Senna and I decided to do a quick walk-through of the show floor.




I should have yelled down to the people waiting to get in where they could find the droids.



This is the room the droids were in after the show opened. Pretty much the same thing as the before-picture; just us and a few other poor souls manning fan club booths.



David Annetta designed and 3D-printed this little figurine of Chris Romines, and Ed Perello painted it in minute detail, down to an accurate portrayal of Chris' tattoos. They had planned on presenting it to Chris at R2LA, but Chris wasn't able to make it, so Ed gave it to him today.



This was one of two visitors I saw at our booth.



Finally noon rolled around, so we went upstairs to do our panel. It too was lightly attended, because it too was way off the beaten path.





On our way out, I saw this neat Darth Vader TIE fighter for a man's daughter with Down Syndrome. It was very impressive.



And there was this as well (it was actually driving around under remote control and playing music).



Hopefully LA Comicon will have a better booth situation next year, we'll see.