I had to work today, and I only saw a few costumes. I did see some pretty neat trick or treaters, like a Golden Guard from The Owl House in a group with Chucky, The Nun, and Jack & Sally.
I guess when you go to NY Comic Con for years, Halloween just doesn't do it for me anymore.
And why would it?
It's not every day you see a full blown Sentinel walking around.
Or Mr. Bean walking around in his car.
Or Robocop Captain America
Or Anakin's force ghost
Or a whole
Lotta
Barbies
Blankie from Brave Little Toaster!
Madam Leota!
Jedi Green Lantern!
Steampunk Green Lantern!
A pair of Hootys (yes, they did the voice. It was creepy)
The Spot and an ATM!
Joker henchmen!
Spirited Away!
The best couples costume I saw.
Puerto Rican Mando and a badass Namor!
Wrestlers were popular cosplays this year, especially Macho Man. Pretty sure all three of these were the same guy: themachoverse on instagram.
Would you believe that there were TWO Mewtwo cosplayers walking around this year?
This Bruno Mars cosplayer was a different mashup every day: Captain America on Friday, Spider-Man on Saturday, and Sailor Mars on Sunday (didn't see that one)
Mandolorians were definitely popular this year, here's two of them with signs.
And of course Spider-Man was as popular as always. Some other variants, like Hobie Brown (Spider-Punk) and Miguel O'Hara (Spider-Man 2099) got big pushes thanks to Across The Spider-verse.
It was good to see Prince of All Saiyans again. I missed him last year.
And I gotta give a special shoutout to this Buzz Lightyear. I didn't check if he had the wings, they would've been incredible if he had them.
And let me show you some other cool stuff I saw!
I got to meet Bryan Lee O'Malley again! He was signing exclusive prints from the new Scott Pilgrim anime.
And only that print. Everyone in line (including me) brought stuff to sign. Mostly books that were heavy to lug around the city all day.
It's a pretty sweet print, though.
Even got to go to the panel! We were the first people to see the new trailer, the opening, and a scene from episode 1! It looks rad.
The Archer panel screened the last episode (which I already saw three times)...and then announced a three episode finale. Archer: Into The Cold. We got to see the first ten minutes and it was great.
And finally, Kenan and Kel showed up to the Good Burger 2 panel! They're producers, that's how they were able to be there despite a SAG-AFTRA strike. Gotta exploit those loopholes! I'm shocked Kenan was even lucid, he was up to who knows when after SNL the previous night.
We got to see the first ten minutes of Good Burger 2! It's a fun one!
And something for the "why did I buy this?" pile. I already got the picture, why did I spend $15 on this McDonalds (3D printed vinyl) brass knuckle? It was Sunday, I was exhausted.
Happy Halloween, everyone! See you all in November!
Aww man, Jimmy Buffet died at the beginning of the month. I hope he's enjoying a Cheeseburger in Paradise right about now. And hopefully at a Cheeseburger in Paradise, as the last of those restaurants closed in 2020.
It just so happened that I was in Manhattan the day he passed and decided to mosey down to the Times Square Margaritaville to pay my respects.
But it turns out that loads of people were there for the very same reason and I couldn't get near the bar, so no overpriced Landshark as a toast for me.
Well, I didn't leave empty handed. I didn't find Bort, but this was close enough.
Speaking of things I found, I went to the flea market again and found some good treasures!
A disco ball!
A genuine ballot box! (That may or may not have been tampered with)
A novelty license plate!
Buttons! I was hyped to get that Bennigan's one, but as soon as I took that pictured I found a fraternity pin.
I don't know how an APD button ended up in this guy's hands. Apparently, the buttons came from an estate sale. In any case, I liberated it and gave it a shine and now it looks as good as new.
But the winner was this picture of Brutus "The Barber" Beefcake signed to the NYPD Auto Crime division.
It had big Tom Landry Hat energy.
I saw it sitting in a box and it was only two bucks. What a steal!
That's it for September, folks. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go wake up Green Day.
He came as close to 100 as he could without going over. (Yeah, yeah, I'm not the first one to make this.)
To folks of a certain generation (ie, anyone older than 25), The Price is Right was synonymous with sick days and summer vacation. It certainly was for me. My grandma and I would watch him all the time. He was old in the 90s, and he managed to outlive Nana by 13 years. It's still crazy to think about.
Day in, day out, you'd hope that they'd play Plinko.
Or, barring that, Cliffhanger.
But usually they'd play High or Low or that golf game and I'd tune out until it was time for the old ladies and college students to spin the big wheel.
And we can't talk about Bob Barker without mentioning his appearances in Futurama
and Happy Gilmore.
He was also a filthy old man that harassed his Barker's Beauties, so he wasn't leaving behind a stellar personal life.
But with that out of the way, some positive stuff!
I met a duck! Well, not just any duck, it was Wrinkle The Instagram Duck! You might know her as the duck that ran the NYC marathon.
This was at a small convention called LI Tropic Con a couple of weeks ago. I had no idea they were even gonna be there!
I might've been a little too excited to get a picture with her. I even got to pet her! She was really soft.
I also got to see a real Kid's Choice Award. I did not pay the thirty bucks to pose with it. It was a bit steep to cross off "hold a Kid's Choice Award" off the bucket list.
I also met Matt Hill, the voice of Ed from Ed, Edd n Eddy! He was real nice and surprisingly cheap (only twenty chickens!) His Ed voice is not too far off from his real one, either, and kept talking in that voice. I got to talk to him about Captain N and Cartoon All Stars to The Rescue.
And finally, I managed to fill up my pin board! And this isn't all of my pins. There's still the ones that hang on my NYCC lanyard, plus a few more I couldn't fit on this one. So that means a trip to Michael's to buy a new pin board is coming soon.
