Last Saturday I went to JoeCon, the annual G.I. Joe convention, with my girls, one of my students, and Nooby.
It was pretty good, but (not to denigrate it), it was just a toy show. We got some sweet stuff and we got to meet Larry Hama, and he was pretty cool.
While JoeCon rates pretty high on the nerdcore scale, it was mostly just a crowd of normal-looking people sprinkled with a few stereotypical fanboy nerds (obese guys in cool T-shirts, unbuttoned plaid overshirt, glasses, long hair, shorts and sandals). We only saw two people in costume besides the fun-sized Sgt. Slaughter working the Hasbro booth.
So overall, a good time, but not the best ever. In the future, I wouldn’t pay that much to stand in line to gain entry to a place where I can then stand in more lines to buy stuff.
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