Team Uni started the morning with a breakfast at Hennessey's. A breakfast of psuedo-Irishness, we were slowed down by the service, which resulted in Team Uni arriving at the convention center almost a full hour after the opening.
Preview Night should have been an indication of the things to come: large crowds, people packed in aisleways like cattle, and freebies "running out" mere minutes after their handouts started. The goal of today was to get a ticket for the Transformers line, and to get the signature of Charles Vess on my first edition of Stardust. Again thwarted by Hasbro, I succeeded in getting not only Charles Vess' signature, but also a small sketch inside.
kwc and I stood in the line for Hall H (Paramount Pictures), only to be told that the Hall was full. Hall H holds 6,000 people regularly, and on a Thursday afternoon, one would not have been expected to have been turned away, and yet, there we were, knowing that we wouldn't be going in. Instead, I showed kwc my Charles Vess sketch within my Stardust, and he made his way back to Vess to get a similar sketch.
I picked up a print by Mark Poole, and various other books and items, but nothing major. Towards the end of the day, I was feeling quite tired, and wound up at the Bill Plympton panel, where we were treated to his latest works (Shut-eye Hotel and Idiots and Angels. We ended the first full con day at Rock Bottom Brewery, where we had much food and much beer before winding down.
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