Letters From The Loft
Stuff From The Desk Of Chuck Thornton
DAY THREE - PAGE 2
Here's something you don't see every day: Wonder Woman posing with some Storm Troopers and R2D2...
It looks like this lady put a lot of work into her Wonder Woman costume, as did some other ladies floating around CCI. Unfortunately, about a month prior to the Comic-Con, DC had announced a new costume for Wonder Woman:
I would have hoped that, in deference to all the ladies at the Con who had worked so hard on their "classic" Wonder Woman costumes, DC could have held off on announcing the new look until after the convention was over. Instead, there were some surly Wonder Women walking around with the realization that they could have gotten by with some black capris, a red blouse, a jacket, and a few accessories from a renaissance fair. Granted, not all the Amazonian princesses I saw at the Con seemed dejected, but I'm thinking that those were the ladies who had been busy down in their sewing room for the past few weeks and didn't get the memo about the new costume.
We reunited with Ben as he emerged from the registration area and formed a huddle to figure out a game plan. Before security intervened (we were chalking X's and O's on the concrete floor), we'd roughly figured out our schedules and where our paths would cross during the day. It was clear we weren't going to see much of Ben today, as he tried to check out things we'd already seen, and attend panels that were aimed at folks whose artistic ability isn't limited to the aforementioned X's and O's.
Still, we had some time to cruise the Exhibition Hall before we went our separate ways, and saw a couple of more interesting exhibits. I thought this was pretty cool...
Kenner/Hasbro set up this giant package that you could step into and pretend to be a fully-articulated action-figure. I really wanted to get my picture taken inside this thing but the line was pretty long and Ben and Sam were bothered by the hypocrisy of me posing as an action figure.
We also saw this:
It was a sandy-looking sculpture in the WETA booth. WETA are the folks that produced the props for the Lord Of The Rings and other movies and also make a living producing and selling figures and weapons inspired by movies like District 9, King Kong (the newest one), Doctor Who, the Chronicles of Narnia series, etc. I'm still not sure what this particular piece was promoting --- maybe a line of depression-era ray guns?--- but it was distinctive enough to attract my attention.