Motor City Part 2

May 29, 2009 on 7:07 pm | In Uncategorized | No Comments

Well, after a quick jaunt to say hi to some old and new friends at the show, I did marvel at how much bigger the Motor City show has gotten over the years. I think the last one I went to was in 2001 or so, and in comparison, this show was 1,000 times bigger.

The Great Lakes Garrison of the 501st Stormtrooper Legion were on hand to take pics with fans and escort the Star Wars actors.

And I did manage to catch one Star Wars personality taking a break with a great read –

That’s everyone’s favorite choking victim, Richard LeParmentier (Admiral Motti) enjoying a Wizard Magazine!

Another great thing I found at Motor City was the Froggy Photo Booth!

For those that have never seen this, it’s basically a way to get a professional photo taken of you with your favorite celebrity at the con! Froggy then prints it out, and then you can take it over to the celeb and have them sign it! It’s a GREAT souvenir!

I know Froggy has been doing this for a little while, and in April Wizard signed Froggy up to work at all of our 2009 shows! So be sure to head over to his booth and check out the schedule of photo sessions, buy your ticket to the ones you want, and be there at the right time to get a great bit of memorabilia from the show!

Yeah, that was totally a plug for something at a future Wizard show, but I had to write it as the boss was looking over my shoulder.

Anyway.

One thing Motor City did have that Wizard doesn’t is…. Playboy Playmates!

Since Wizard is considered more of a Comics and Family show, suitable for all ages, we don’t have a Playmate area like some cons. Is it a good thing? A bad thing? Who knows.

I wanted to invite some of them to a Wizard show, or at least pretend I was going to invite them just so they would have to be nice to me, but I’m just too nice a guy and can’t do that to them.

Wow, I actually wrote that last sentence with a straight face!

HA! I totally pretended like I could get them a table at other cons! But I’m evil.

One of the models, Josie Lee, actually ended up picking up a Slave Leia costume from a buddy of mine that runs Leiasmetalbikini.com

I got a pic with Josie while she was wearing the outfit. I mentioned before the pic was taken that if she were my slave girl, I would totally be her Jabba…