Apollo Leader

The Arch was just a few blocks away, so I went over to see it late Saturday afternoon before it got too dark.

There were a few gaming rooms and a room set up for PC LAN game playing. They had a few newer games like Tekken 5 and they even had a few import PS2 and Gamecube games up for play.

Morgan from Darkstalkers.

Another dealer stand. Lots of figures!

Even more swords and weapons.

Some Goth looking cosplay chick.

Lots of swords! Supposedly, some kid got cut by one of these swords on Friday.

More Gundam models!

This same dealer had both the Rei and Asuka bed sheets. Also, they had a nice big Zeon (Delaz Fleet?) flag. They had quite a few art books too.

I just wish I had more money and I would have bought the PG Zeta, the PG Mark II. I did buy my first Gundam Fix Figuration figures at this show - Full Armor Double Zeta, and Ramba Ral's Zaku I (with the additional stuff to make it a Zaku II).

Back to the dealer's room. First of all, here is a Revolutionary Girl Utena cosplayer I ran into.

I tried using my camera's night mode to get a better picture of the screen. The colors now stood out better, but things got a blurry. This was a shot of the command bridge of the so called SDF-4. According to Tommy, everything that was presented to us in the Panel and for some of us in private represented the project over three months ago. A fully rendered still shot was presented (unfortunately I had put my camera away by then).

Tommy shows some of the CG models (in their primitive, non textured form) from The Shadow Chronicles.

You should see all the stuff that Tommy keeps on his laptop (past stuff from the comics and stuff for robotech.com, The Shadow Chronicles, etc.)!

(Picture courtesy of Andy "Azoric" Zoric) And the winning streak continued! The question came up regarding what Hikaru/Rick's name was originally in the Macross English pilot. After a bunch of people got it wrong, Tom finally pointed to me and I blurted out "Rick Yamata". This time I got a a Lancer Alpha! Funny thing was I had just gotton my first one via the Valkyrie Exchange a week earlier. Now I got one I can play with and one to store away. Fortunately, I didn't stick around for the Panel on Sunday, cause I surely would have needed a shopping cart to carry off with the loot!

A bunch of MPC VF-1 Ben's and a number of MPC Alphas were handout out at the three panels throughout the weekend; of course there were plenty of Ben's to handout since they are still trying to get rid of them at robotech.com! Friday night I had won a VF-1A Ben type for answering a question correctly (which voice actor who did Khyron and Scott Bernard in the old series is now voicing Scott again - Greg Snegoff). Now I got three of these things! The first Ben I bought in early 2003 for $50. A few months later I got one for $30. Now I get one for free! Next I'll be PAID to take one!

Kevin, Tom, and Richard Epcar start the Robotech Nostalgia panel.

Mr. Carradine let me take this picture of him. He didn't seemed too energetic and was pretty soft spoken.

With a few minutes left before the Nostalgia panel, I finally got into see David Carradine.

I have absolutely no idea where this costume was supose to be from, but I'm not complaining!

These are familiar, but I'm not sure where I've seen them (one of the recent Final Fantasy games?).

While I waited, I got in a few pictures from some of the female cosplayers passing by. I recognized seeing these two characters from some where, but I'm not sure the exact series (Cutey Honey?).

Now for Saturday's pictures! I finally got back down to the convention at Noon. With the Robotech Nostalgia panel to be at 1:00, I decided to get in line to get my Kill Bill Vol. 1 signed by David Carradine. The line took forever to move!

Memo, you surely mean this picture! I guess whoever took those two pics took them a few minutes apart from each other. That is me at the window AND on the far right hand side of the picture next to Azoric. Most of my time at the party was spent by myself sitting up against the windows trying to get fresh air and get some rest. I had been up since 5:00 Friday morning and I didn't get to bed until about 3:00 in the morning on Saturday. I was (and still am) pretty beat!

Better get your eyes checked, Graham. I don't remember a Hikaru, Max Jenius or Britai in The Sentinels. They were clearly based off of the original Macross characters and they did look quite silly in the Sentinels (especially poor Britai/Breetai).