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My D23 adventure

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My D23 adventure

TheHapaOne

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Hey just thought I would give an overview of my one and only day at the D23 Expo today, so woke up brought and early, 6am, to get ready and drove down to Anaheim arrive at the convention center around 7. I was shocked to see that there were about 800 people already in line and the discussions with the D23 members around me start the dy with very low expectations as all of them said Friday wad terrible. Got let in at 8 and went straight to the arena for the Disney Studio presentation, wasn't expecting much. Animation began the presentation and the celebrities/upcoming movies were all excellent most notable was the movie based off an 8-bit video game character wreck it Ralph the opening was amazing. The brave presentation also made me want to see the movie even more. Then they gave out cupcakes to everyone to celebrate 25 years of pixar. Next up was live action all I really remember was Jennifer Gardner and the Tim Burton movie. Next was the chimpanzee movie which looked interesting but then, Avengers closed the show in amazing fashion with nearly the entire cast present, for about 10 seconds, leaving the arena was horrendous but after about 30 minutes of pushing I finally had my phone and camera back. After this I decided to check out the floor which was actually very nicely set up. Went to buy pins next but almost everything I wanted was sold out managed to get the stitch Hollywood stained glass and a piece of star tours. After this I traded pins for about an hour or two, got an AP kisses pin and a then and now thunder mountain off the trading board which was good enough for me. I met the greatest pin collector ever, he had all the masterpiece pins, real, and several htf older disneyshopping and auctions pins and got the jumbo stitch coin in a trade with him, the most pleasant trade I have ever made. I then spent the remained of the day buying stitch pins and then it was 7 so no more expo for me. I planned to go to DLR after but an "invisible" pole decided to hit my car in the parking lot leaving the convention center I didt even know I was parked next to a pole and it was in my blind spot, oh well life goes on. I decided to come home after this cause I didn't want to speed my grumpiness to the park overall I had a great day though and wouldnt change a thing. Except for that pole being there
 
Thanks for sharing. I'm glad to hear you were able to pick up some nice pins and that you had such a great trade while you were there! Sounds like a good time aside from the incident with the "invisible" pole.
 
Wow! That sounds like a fun time!

Did they show a longer trailer for Brave? Or was it the teaser trailer that they showed in the previews during Cars 2? If it was a new one, I can't wait to see it! :wiggle: I wonder when it will be released to the public.

Also, do you mean to say that the actors from the Avengers movie were there in person, or just on the screen? If they were there in person, what was the point of having them there for only 10 seconds? Did they talk?
 

They showed an actual scene from Brave and went in depth on a few character and the history behind the movie, they also showed a longer trailer.

The cast was actually there, they played a teaser of the movie, cast came out; Loki, Thor, Iron Man, Black Widow; Robert Downey Jr cracked a joke then said "hey you guys want to see the teaser again" then they left during the teaser
 
Thanks for sharing.. Sorry about the 'invisible' pole incident.. but it sounds like you had a pretty good time at the D23 event!!

I love that Jumbo Stitch Coin pin!! Congratulations on the trade / find!!
 
Aww, you mean the Hulk didn't show? LOL Oh wait... were they in costume?

Thanks for the recap... I feel like I was there!
 
TheHapaOne said:
It was quite chaotic but not as bad as i heard friday was only thing i was disappointed with was at how quick all the D23 pins sold out people had to have been buying more than 2
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They found more D23 Dalmations & Dumbo pins as well as the Dalmation box set and had them available this morning.
 
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