My Geek Box July 2014-Animation

Hey Guys!

My first GeekBox showed up!! This month's theme was Animation and boy it didn't disappoint! 

This month's box included a super cool Adventure Time tee, a Funko Pop Vinyl figure (I got LSP from Adventure Time), a Simpsons Lego Minifig blind bag (I got Maggie), a South Park vinyl sticker, a Simpsons fold-away shopper with a 'Kwik-e-Mart' logo, Shaped Simpsons Plasters & a couple of Supergirl Necklaces

Loved this month's theme, not to sure what Supergirl has to do with Animation but its still pretty cool. My shirt was a little on the small side, which is fine if I don't want to breathe but I'm looking at a couple of larger ones on eBay cos ya-know, breathing is kinda sorta necessary! I've amended my shirt size on the site so that any future shirts will be bigger!

Next month's theme is Quests...roll on August is all I can say!!

More Pics from Comic Con :)

Ben finally had some free time to send us his pics so without further adieu here are some more highlights of our day :)

I seriously didn't spot this 10th Doctor & TARDIS Cosplay....HOW DID I NOT SPOT THESE GUYS!??!?

more pictures of the sherlock set

these guys were pretty funny, one of the guys we were with James started singing 'do you wanna build a snowman' and the girl dressed as Anna was singing along with him when the girl dressed as Elsa said 'no, fuck off' and walked off!

those sweet rides I mentioned before :)

Still Love Astrid :)

"Be our guest...under the sea?"

Thanks for the pics Ben!!! Wheres the one of you and Kahleesi??

Sonic Calendar Revealed

I was looking for a copy of the Sonic calendar that the artist at Comic Con was telling me about, mostly because I would love to own one and secondly to see if his story checked out (I know, I have trust issues)

I didn't manage to find my own copy but I did find a website that has scans of all the pages! Check out the link below to see the rest of the calendar

Sonic Calendar 1993

From the looks of it my print was used for the May/June page. I love the Jungle & Underwater prints too and I know Tachiko loves the Sonic 2 Cover print. Maybe one day we'll get lucky and find a calendar of our own but for now one print will have to suffice :)

Kart Klub Aldershot

Look what we bought!

We went to Kart Klub yesterday afternoon and came home with these lovely boxed (complete with manuals & inserts) games :)

We'd seen Tetris for the NES and Dr Mario & Tetris for the SNES before but Street Fighter 2 Turbo was a new item on display. Tetris was £12, Dr Mario was £20 and Street Fighter 2 Turbo was £30. We also picked up a rumble pak for the N64 (the controller feels so light without it!!) for £5 and the guy threw in a multi console adaptable scart cable for free :)

Boot Sale Bargains

Despite feeling shattered after Comic-con on Saturday, Tachiko & I headed over to Kingsley Boot Sale early on Sunday morning, I say early, what I mean is that we left early, got lost and after an hour found the boot sale that the sat-nav orginally said was 23 minutes away....but I digress.

We found a couple of stalls selling games, mostly the usual PS2 and Xbox 360 games but a couple were selling Nintendo items. One lady was asking £20 for an original gameboy and several games but we decided that the asking price was a bit high and left it behind.

Here is what we came home with instead :)

Yep a purple N64 with the matching controller! The guy selling the N64 was asking for £40 and the SNES games (complete with inserts & manuals) were £10 each but he gave us the lot for £55 :) Not a massive saving but for an N64 & 2 boxed games that's not a bad price. I also picked up a couple of gameboy game cases for £1, always useful as I have quite a few loose games and the cases are getting harder to find outside of eBay.

Of course as soon as we'd bought the N64 the heavens opened so we legged it back to the car as quick as we could and headed home. Once we got back we had a closer look at the N64 and found that the reset button was pushed down and seemed to be stuck. Tachiko was really worried that the main spring had gone and that it would be an additional cost having it fixed but after cleaning it up a little the button popped back up- I guess it was just dirty after all!

Comic-Con 2014

OMG I don't even know where to start, this year was my first ever Comic-con and I had no idea what to expect, being a cross stitcher I'd been to other conventions before but this was like nothing I'd ever seen.

First off the QUEUE! We arrived at Earl's Court at around 8.30 in the morning, we hadn't bought our tickets but we thought we'd probably get in around 9/9.30 buying them on the door.... Tachiko's friend Andy arrived at 10.30ish and we were still in the queue....

By this time the sun was shining in full force and everyone was getting a little bored of standing around doing nothing, thankfully the Cos-Players didn't mind posing for photos!!

Army of Spidermen

"I'm Batman!!"

this guy's Ironman suit was way too cool! He'd wired it up so that the faceplate actually lifted up and down at the push of a button!

There were some pretty sweet rides on display just outside the convention centre too :)

[Transformers pics will be here when Ben sends them....]

By about 11.45 we finally made it into the hall where we were greeted by a wall of people all trying to look at everything, the Stan Lee photoshoots were already sold out and we'd passed the signing queues on the way in, they weren't going anywhere anytime soon. We decided to make our way to the back of the convention and then work our way back to the front as we were hoping it would be less crowded, turns out the back of the hall was where all the other celebrity signings were going on. We saw George A. Romero and Anthony Head doing signings but couldn't really see anyone else over the crowd...

....that is until I spotted Mark Gatiss (Mycroft in BBC's Sherlock series) being escorted to the other hall for a Sherlock preview talk! We decided against attending as it meant battling our way back through the crowds to the other hall, instead we went and had a look at the Sherlock set and took some photos,

yes I was dressed up as Misty from Pokemon, Tachiko was supposed to dress up too but decided against it...

Soon it was time for us to head out and get some lunch, leaving the convention centre at around 1pm some people were still queueing to get in!! Walking around the corner to Burger King we spotted a familiar face in the traffic....

This guy was amazing! No only was he totally in character despite there not being many people around he was holding up the traffic behind him to do so! By far one of my favourite cos-players of the day :)

After lunch we headed back into the convention centre madhouse for some more shopping. We also headed over to the other hall where Stan Lee was at around 4.30 and the queue for people waiting to get in was still there!! We'd overhead someone at lunchtime saying the building had hit capacity and that they weren't letting anyone else in, so why people were still queueing I have no idea. We took a couple more cosplay pics as well :)

BAD ROBOT!!!!

does anyone know who/what this is?!

"Everything is awesome!! Everything is cool when...."

Lara Croft :)

The other hall was the comic zone & the game zone, turns out the game zone was just that, lots of retro arcade games for people to try and they had a mariokart tournament going on, giving people the chance to race against the mariokart world champion (or something like that, I forgot to take a picture of him and I can't remember what his t-shirt said now!)

The comic zone was pretty cool, I met one of the graphic novel artists for one of the Doctor Who novels I own (if I'd known he was going to be there I would have bought my copy for him to sign...) He was selling some prints of his work for £5 so I asked him to sign one of them for me. Turned out the print I bought was originally designed to be the cover when the story was going to run with the 10th doctor rather than the 11th.

I also bought this cool Sonic the Hedgehog print for £10, we got chatting to the artist and it turned out that he was commissioned by Sega to design a calender for the game stockists back in 1993 and that this was one of the prints he designed for it. He was lovely and signed the print for me too :)

The hall also had a couple of Batmobiles on display...random given that Stan Lee was there...I wonder how he felt about that!!

Pretty soon it was time for us to head for home, mostly because we were shattered but also because the event was closing. I had a great time, despite the queues and the crowds and I definitely can't wait for next year but next time I'll bring some more money with me! Saying that I think we came away with a pretty good haul!