Just as a preface; This will be a videoless post, as I don’t have a camcorder. No pictures at this point, either, but I’ll put some up when I find my card. (Or, I’ll link to the gallery, which has a shit-load, and of much higher quality than mine.)
Hal-Con was this past weekend. It was the first year for this convention, and considering the amount of people who attended it looks like it has a bright future. It was originally, I believe, envisioned as a simple, perhaps small convention, with maybe 500 people at the most. What they got was a frothing mass of at least a thousand, probably more. The hotel it took place at (The Lord Nelson, located in downtown Halifax. Very nice hotel,) was not ready for the amount of people it got. It was crowded, it was busy, and it was awesome.
Now, to be perfectly honest with you, I didn’t attend a whole lot of panels or anything. I mostly played games or had fun with the group I was there with, people I’ve known online for a while now. But there were some interesting things I went to see.
Firstly; There were two previews. One for Tron 2, and one for the TV series the Walking Dead.
I’ve never seen the original Tron, so I can only comment on how the new one looks on it’s own merits. It definitely catches my interest. The style is colourful (As you’d expect,) and the story (while a bit on the cliche side,) strikes me as, if not completely interesting, than at least fun.
Now, the Walking Dead. It’s a TV series, based on a comic-book series of the same name. A story and character-driven zombie series. It looks fucking brilliant! There was a Halloween preview on AMC (Which I missed, not having AMC in Canada, nor satellite TV.) It looks like everyone involved is having a great time, and that definitely means something. Plus, the author of the comics signed off on it completely. “This isn’t a version of the comic. It’s not an alternate telling. This /is/ the comic, as close as you’re going to get to it.” he said (Or something similar.) Everyone has enthusiasm, and I’m sure that will show in the finished product.
The costumes were amazing. There was an amazing looking Master Chief, a Boba Fett with working voice modulator, at least four amazing looking tuskan raiders.. Jokers, Batmen, the Doctors Who. I felt out of place not wearing a costume. I’ll finish this brief rambling foray into the best 3 days I’ve had this year with a simple link.
Take a look! There’s a lot of awesome stuff in here.
Edit: On reading this, it’s not a very good summary. Sorry about that. I’m tired.
