Blast from the Past- Avengers Release
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Friday, May 4, 2012.
That day I woke up, ready to go to my first DSF release. I had just moved to Southern California, and I was very excited!
I figured I could get there a few hours and be guaranteed my set of pins. I parked at the Highland garage with butterflies in my stomach, and this is what greeted me:
Phew! Not too many people! So there I stood, without a chair. Then I sat on the floor. The air had the faint smell of urine and McDonald's food. As the line grew, people started to pin trade. As I knew none of these people, I just looked on. Like a creeper.
Here come the pins! Here come the pins! See that Jack Skellington in the top left corner? Well they had run out of PTDs and substituted this pin for them.
Then the time came for the vouchers. The first 150 people in line could buy 2 sets of pins. I arrived about 3 hours before the store opened. This was my number:
A newswoman arrived in front of the El Capitan to do a story on the Avengers movie opening. She was wearing a Wonder Woman costume. People in line yelled at her for wearing the wrong comic company. (C'mon, this was a Marvel movie, not DC!!) What is all the commotion up front?
Is that?... no, it can't be!
It's the ice cream delivery! The line cheered. But who is that behind the ice cream?
No way.
Time to go buy the pins. What an easy first release!
Opening weekend of The Avengers, and I was going home with my full set of Avengers pins! My first DSF release, and everything went smoothly and perfectly. No camping out, no fights in line, no arguments, and the pins were of great quality.
..... Damn.
I just thought I would share this old trip report to show people how much these releases have changed in just a few years. Tomorrow is another BT release, bringing with it lots of people and Im sure some surprises as well. Good luck to all of you, and remember to be courteous to one another at GSF tomorrow.
- Alex
That day I woke up, ready to go to my first DSF release. I had just moved to Southern California, and I was very excited!
I figured I could get there a few hours and be guaranteed my set of pins. I parked at the Highland garage with butterflies in my stomach, and this is what greeted me:
Phew! Not too many people! So there I stood, without a chair. Then I sat on the floor. The air had the faint smell of urine and McDonald's food. As the line grew, people started to pin trade. As I knew none of these people, I just looked on. Like a creeper.
Here come the pins! Here come the pins! See that Jack Skellington in the top left corner? Well they had run out of PTDs and substituted this pin for them.
Then the time came for the vouchers. The first 150 people in line could buy 2 sets of pins. I arrived about 3 hours before the store opened. This was my number:
A newswoman arrived in front of the El Capitan to do a story on the Avengers movie opening. She was wearing a Wonder Woman costume. People in line yelled at her for wearing the wrong comic company. (C'mon, this was a Marvel movie, not DC!!) What is all the commotion up front?
Is that?... no, it can't be!
It's the ice cream delivery! The line cheered. But who is that behind the ice cream?
No way.
Time to go buy the pins. What an easy first release!
Opening weekend of The Avengers, and I was going home with my full set of Avengers pins! My first DSF release, and everything went smoothly and perfectly. No camping out, no fights in line, no arguments, and the pins were of great quality.
..... Damn.
I just thought I would share this old trip report to show people how much these releases have changed in just a few years. Tomorrow is another BT release, bringing with it lots of people and Im sure some surprises as well. Good luck to all of you, and remember to be courteous to one another at GSF tomorrow.
- Alex