Breaking Dawn part 2 at Comic Con

So, I'm not dead. This blog is still alive-ish. I just haven't been up to much... well ok that's a lie, I just haven't found the time to blog about it. Bon fires, Twilight in the park, Spiderman premiere, etc. I have the job of keeping TheLitOfTwi.com up and running so I'm spending time on that instead of this...

Anyway, for what you came for. This is going to be my master post on my San Deigo Comic Con 2012 weekend. I'll fill in the info bits as I upload pics and such. I'm sure there are a lot of other blog sites with all this info on it already, I'm just documenting it for my and Google searches purposes. :P

Important Note: On Tuesday, July 10, my friend was killed in a tragic traffic incident just outside Hall H of the San Deigo convention center. I actually met her in Vegas for TFMU and again that previous Saturday (July 7) for a "Twilight in the Park" event. I had just met her and when I found out Tuesday, I was a complete wreck. But this fandom has really outdone itself by showing their support and how true the statement "Fandom is Family" really is. We set up a memorial fund for her family and raised nearly $9,000. Contributions in her name can still be made to the Alzheimer's Association for a Twilight fan fiction compilation and raffled prizes. For more information on this, please visit Fandom 4 TwiFan G.

Wednesday:

8:00 pm After checking into the hotel and getting my SDCC badge, I head to the end of the line to start camping out for the Breaking Dawn panel that is scheduled for the next day.

9:00 pm There were rumors going around that the cast would show up and guess what, it was completely true. After their party/event, the entire cast and Stephenie Meyer came to the camp out line. They handed out blinkie necklaces and mini SDCC Breaking Dawn part 2 posters. We lined up all along the ropes and the cast went down signing our posters. I think every single new vampire was there because there were a lot of unfamiliar faces. Stephenie stayed until really late signing and taking pictures with appreciative fans. The one person that I desperately wanted to see was not there, Lee Pace *swoon*. Hopefully he'll be at the premiere again and I can slip him my number.

Thursday:

All too soon we're up, showered and dressed. The humidity all weekend is 80% +. We're moved/scrunched up into lines by 9:30 am.

We're inside and we take our seats. I'm surrounded by fans and more importantly fan fiction readers and authors. I meet TKgel and GreenPuma and already my day has pitched from "good" to "AWESOME".

The room is also running late by the time they start the first panel of the day: "Trailer Park". They're basically showing a bunch of trailers from upcoming movies, all of which are in 3D.

Finally it ends and we're all excited for the Breaking Dawn panel to start. They place the name cards on the table and everyone whips out their cameras to zoom in to see where everyone is being seated.

[Insert panel here]

I took video of the entire panel but I'm sure by now there are a plethora of them out there on YouTube already. It was also being streamed online so by now, I think we've all seen it. Still, I'm taking my videos and making a DVD out of them to re-live the experience. Because of what happened earlier in the week, it was hard to be "super" excited. But I had a good time. I really like the 7 minutes of The Host that Stephenie Meyer showed us at the end of the Breaking Dawn panel. That was great! I'm really looking forward to that movie.

Here are a few of my pictures that I took during the panel.

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Later on in the day, Peter, Kellan, Ashley & Jackson had a Q&A with fans at Zach Levi's Nerd HQ that I went to. You can see the whole thing online but here are some picture highlights.

As you can tell, there really wasn't a bad seat in the house. It was a fairly small area and everyone was close. I took lots of pictures of the guys.

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That's all there was to my Breaking Dawn part 2 at Comic Con experience. I tried going to the Summit booth for freebies but it was too crowded and they were only doing the free stuff now and then and going upstairs to wait for a ticket to get a shirt or totes screen printed just wasn't worth the effort this time around. I feel like a bad fan but SDCC is exhausting and I still needed to eat.

I was at SDCC for Friday as well and got to be in the room for the 10th anniversary Firefly panel (the panel to end all panels). It was amazing. I kept crying :'D

Saturday I went down to San Diego for the TFMU meet up. I love meeting people that you only see online in real life. I met some really awesome ladies there. Chicago TFMU 2013 is in the works already so I'll probably flounce on SDCC next year to go to it instead.

Cheers!

Twi Tour / Breaking Dawn LA Convention

Update 11-7-11: All media is posted below. I'll do a full write up in a few days. Enjoy!

All media after the jump!

Grauman's Chinese Theater Ceremony

Friday 11-4-11 update: All videos are now on YouTube. Scroll down to view!

We did it! Strike me down if I ever complain about being too tall. My monkey arms came in handy today!

I arrived just after 4 in the morning and was 94th in line. *phew* The early birds in line slept there as evidence by the sleeping bags and cushions. At 6 am, they moved everyone to the back of Jimmy Kimmel Live (alley) then up to the corner of Hollywood and Orange. They took our names and gave us our numbers. Initially, they said that they would let in 120 people but after seeing the numbers and counting they went will 100. Good thing too because otherwise it would have been really crowded and uncomfortable. At 8:30 am, they started handing out wrist bands. Once you got these you were good to go.

S. Meyer

It wasn't much longer that they herded us behind the barricades. The sun started rising then and we weren't looking forward to watching everything with the sun in our eyes. Luckily, the sun went behind a building and I was in glorious shade.

The ceremony started out with Jimmy Kimmel saying hello and introducing Stephenie Meyer. She said hello and thanked the actors blah blah blah. She looked really great though. I loved her dress. It was super cute. Jimmy then introduced Rob, Kristen and Taylor. They said thank you, we're so grateful, blah blah blah.


This was our view for 99% of the hand and foot printing ceremony:

No amount of screaming would get these security guards to move. It was frustrating to say the least. I took hundreds of pictures and they basically as worthless as this one.

Thankfully, our heroes are super classy and turned around and spent some time signing autographs and taking pictures with the fans (just us 100). Check out the link below for all of the pictures I uploaded.

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Videos:

Hand and Foot print ceremony for the Twifecta

It's Thursday night and I'm preparing for tomorrow.

Tomorrow, Rob, Kristen, and Taylor will have their hand and foot impressed into the sidewalk in front of Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood. Ceremony starts ~10am but my friends and I are thinking of getting there at 4am. The line for the forecourt starts at 6am.

Based upon what I'm hearing from the back alley of Jimmy Kimmel Live where Rob is taping his interview, people from around the country and world have flown in and have invaded LA. This week is Breaking Dawn Press Junket Week.

Expect lots of pictures from everyone this week. I'll post what I can but other blogs are a lot faster than I am uploading and sharing their photos, fyi. They're all doing the late night shows and a few morning shows. Tonight, they're screening Breaking Dawn (I think at The Grove) for 700 odd people. Reading twitter and the excitement is depressing because I'm not there or in Rob's dressing room where I should be.

What I am doing and what you can expect a blog post about is the Grauman's event tomorrow, TwiCon on Saturday, and camping out and being at the Breaking Dawn premiere. I'm also going to a midnight show but that goes without saying.

Time to charge my batteries.

Sorry about my lack of updates and posts (especially on Comic Com but if you were there you know, shit goes down). I'm still alive. I update my website: The Lit of Twi and my goal is to record during "Tent City" at the Breaking Dawn premiere and using it as a podcast. We'll see how that goes.

San Diego Comic Con 2011

This will be my master post on this year's wonderful Comic Con. I was there for all four days but I'm only posting relevant "Twilight: Breaking Dawn" stuff.

Here is a quick slide show of some of the best pictures that I took. I also made a few gifs in there.

Yes, I'm still alive, I survived comic con, and will eventually spew all the gory details. I've recently bought a new MacBook and in addition to this blog, I also manage a website, podcast and local Twilight book/fan fiction club (LA County if you're interested).


Here's what you can expect to read about in this post (once everything is uploaded n'stuff):
1. Urban Camping on the grassy area waiting for Hall H.
2. Free Summit swag they handed out to people waiting in line
3. Visit from some of the stars of Breaking Dawn in the morning
4. The Breaking Dawn panal
5. Summit booth in the exhibit hall and what they were giving away
6. Overall reaction and is it worth to go next year.

Stay tuned!

Cheers!

Breaking Leaks

Wow

I'm still a little awed/breathless right now. We had shirtless Monday when Rob and the cast were in Multipulciano filming the Italy scenes in New Moon. Well today, March 31 2011, is Isle Esme Thursday. Photos and video were leaked earlier in the day and the Twidom experienced a simultaneous orgasm.

I'm afraid I can't re-post anything or share links because everyone has taken down their photos at Summit's request. Let's just say you should bring an extra change of panties to the theater with you... and some Handy Wipes.

Damn... Rob's looking good... hmmm back and arm muscles...

Here's an artist's rendering of one of the pictures:

I'm probably going to make them rotate as my cellphone wallpaper until official still are released. 

Rob and Kristen at the AMC in LA

This 4th of July weekend, several cast members showed up to theaters across America to say hello to the fans and introducing Eclipse. I was fortunate enough to attend one of these...

Ok, so it's hard to contain myself even hours later but literally a few hours ago after watching Eclipse in IMAX, Rob and Kristen walked into the theater. We knew before hand that "talent" would be at our theater but we didn't know who would show up. I was thinking Peter, Charlie and/or Jackson. Never in my wildest dreams would I think that Rob and Kristen would show up. But they did!

Cue freak out.

It's so crazy how this never gets easier with practice. I've seen them three times before but adrenaline is funny, it keeps flowin'. I'm chanting "ohmygod ohmygod" the entire time and panting. I have my video camera in one hand and my still camera in my other hand just holding them up and snapping photos every second. They say hello, thanks for making Eclipse have such a great weekend, and bye. There were there a total of approximately 2 minutes. I'm shaking for the next 15, still freaking out.

There was theater security, Summit security, and personal security (Rob doesn't go anywhere with out Dean). We could tell which way they left by the mob of security guards blocking an exit.

I'd have awesome pictures and video if I wasn't such an epic failure. My video camera didn't have its memory card (so I was holding it up for nothing) and my still camera didn't have the flash on so 80% of the photos I took are trashed. I managed to take 6 ok-ish ones. Still, I'm so thankful for a room full of other fans who managed to not be such big failures as I am. New pictures and videos are popping up all over the place.

To see these, I recommend you heading over to Robert Pattinson Life. I think they hire minions or something =D

Happy Birthday Kristen

I made this which pretty much sums up her day for her.

:0)

82nd Academy Awards

Kristen Stewart on the red carpet.

Taylor Lautner on the red carpet.

Anna Kendrick on the red carpet.

More screen captures here.

Michael Sheen did a wonderful introduction for Helen Mirren as an actress in a leading role category. I'm Michael's newest fan and he's just amazing in everything.