Month: April 2014

Salt Lake Comic Con Fan Xperience

Salt Lake Comic Con Fan Xperience

I was able to attend the Salt Lake Comic Con Fan Xperience this last weekend. What does Fan Xperience mean? I think it means that because of the success of the first SLC Comic Con they decided to do an encore. The list of celebrities was extensive, and included such people as:

  • Patrick Stewart
  • Nathan Fillion
  • William Shatner
  • Karl Urban
  • Karen Gillan
  • Edward James Olmos
  • Billy Dee Williams
  • Jason David Frank
  • Jonathan Frakes
  • Chandler Riggs
  • Adam Baldwin

I went the first evening for a few hours and basically just walked around. They had panels and celebrity autograph signings, but because of my late arrival, I didn’t participate in any of those. This was the first Comic Con I’ve ever attended.

 

Crowds
Crowds

They say a franchise is only as good as its car, so I guess these are the top franchises.

The Delorean
The Delorean

 

A more modern version of Ecto 1
A more modern version of Ecto 1

 

The Batmobile (circa 1966)
The Batmobile (circa 1966)

 

Shuttle craft
Shuttle craft

 

There were a few good LEGO builds (in my opinion) from the local Utah LEGO group.

 

Ghostbusters
Ghostbusters

 

Isengard
Isengard

 

Helms Deep
Helms Deep

 

Bridge of the Enterprise-D
Bridge of the Enterprise-D

 

Some castle.
Some castle.

 

I guess there is a company that will built you astromech robots.

 

Astromech
Astromech

 

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I saw a couple really good costumes, and a lot of really terrible costumes. There many local arts peddling their wares, of which a lot was intriguing and fun to see. I think because this was something of a supplemental Comic Con it is smaller than the one that will be happening in September.

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Admittedly I might be a little biased because I got a lot of votes for my answer to it as well, but it’s something I think a lot of people who read the books wouldn’t have necessarily been clear on, and not just limited to those whose first language isn’t English.

It was kind of a Lord of the Rings quarter for the site, stats wise.

The question with the highest up-vote (by a huge margin) was Would the One Ring even work for anyone but Sauron? asked by Alexander Winn. Not surprisingly, this question also had the most views.

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