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NOT WORTH
THE MONEY Day started out great, or should I say the night before. Had way too many cocktails at a friend's house while the Bosox took the first game from the Yankees Friday night. So I was still feeling the effects of the night before at 7:30am the next morning. I had to do the Daddy thing before I could get going anywhere and got out of the house for my trek into the city around 11:00am. Got into Boston to the Bayside Expo Center about an hour later, and was getting anxious to get inside.
I finally was done with Wizard World at this point and decided to leave. Honestly, I have never been bored at a convention like this one. I would have settled for a friggin' yard sale somewhere. I will not be attending another Wizard World in the near future at all. PHOTO GALLERY
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lines at all, barely any Wizard World Greeting other than a large
banner in the doorway. Now I know that Wizard World represents most
things towards the comic world, but the whole entire time I was
there I was completely BORED. I am not really into comics at all,
but do respect the art. I mean if I could draw more than my famous
stick figures, the dough would be rolling in. There were barely
anything Star Wars related. Some of the vendors did have some stuff
but 95% of it was the damn Marvel Legends Figures. Everyone had
them. Every corner I took there they were staring at me.
The
New England Garrison 501 was there and got a lot of comments on my
Sandtroopers.com shirt. Only problem was that I think I only saw a
very small number of folks dressed up and it seemed that no one was
paying attention to them. I really do like to check out all of the
vendor tables, and I did that and enjoyed it. Unfortunately, I
didn't buy anything. Nothing really caught my eye at all. I walked
around looking at all of the comic artists and this was when I was
so frustrated with being bored I said forget it, it's time to get
out of here.
While
ready to bail, I saw the line for WWE wrestler Mick Foley. This
actually was the highlight of my day. Nothing Star Wars related or
even some comic stuff, but wrestling's own Cactus Jack, Mankind, one
half of the Rock N Sock Connection. My, was this a sad day for me.
Honestly though I have always been a wrestling fan and looked
forward to meeting Mick. If I only new that THIS was going to be my
only highlight I would have went on local toy runs without a second
thought. I sat in line and then met with Mick and told him that I
enjoyed watching him beat the hell out of himself for my
entertainment the last 10+ years. (My exact words to him). Mick was
very polite, and enjoyed my brief conversation with him, but since I
am already complaining about Wizard World itself why stop there. It
was $10 bucks for an item signed and another $10 for a 8 x 10
glossy. Mick was money hungry. Everyone's conversation I witnessed
he must have asked 3 times each "Did I get your money?" Every single
dollar bill he got he put it in to his very dirty Seattle based
signature red and black flannels shirt/jacket.