This year the Arizona Ghostbusters attended their 4th Phoenix ComiCon. This year the Con moved to the Phoenix Convention Center downtown and had a very impressive guest list. We had two booths set up and helped with many events. We had hourly raffles to benefit the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. We'll have the total collected soon.

Friday started with the Zombie panel on the spread of zombies in pop culture. This was a packed panel with alot of great discussion on the zombie fad. Later in the afternoon was the first of our daily Zombie Brain Eating Contests. These were alot of fun and the 2nd year they were held. People entered by winning some really hard zombie trivia. The brains are made from peach jello and condensed milk. Reviews on the flavor are mixed. At this we were the judges. Friday evening was the Zombie Walk and Zombie Beauty Pageant. Both went great. We had a police escort for the zombie walk so were able to lead the walk with the Ecto running full lights and sirens. We handed out zombie survival pamphlets to passers-by with the zombies behind us.

Here's a vid from the zombie defense team that showed up:

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Here's some vid from the Beauty Pageant:

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The end of Friday night may have been the best, when we played “Ghostbusters” on Rock Band with Wil Wheaton. There are several uploads on Youtube, this is the best:

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We played GB tunes out the sound system we set up and had a TV with a slideshow and our various TV interviews and appearances playing. We handed out info pamphlets, posters, our sugar-free ghost candy, buttons, Cystic Fibrosis info, coloring sheets, sold Twinkies and Marshmallows for donations, and had people posing like crazy with Vigo. Through the weekend we held a Slime Scavenger Hunt for kids. At select booths we put slime in a petri dish and gave the kids clues. When they brought back a sample we gave them marshmallows and a raffle ticket. Sunday morning we did a TV interview for our local Channel 3 and was able to keep the Ecto parked out front. We also held a Ghostbusters Trivia Contest Panel. We did several rounds for prizes and picked contestants by giving them the Zener ESP card test.

It was an awesome weekend and the con was much bigger than last year. Last year we had 5000 attendees. This year we had 15,000 attendees. We made alot of contacts and met the most kids we've ever seen in GB costumes. We can't wait for next year.

Booth Items:









Thursday:

Phil T with booth:



Vigo:



Coloring pages:



Buster in training:



The Invisible Man:









The team:



Friday:

PoopTart with Vigo:



Zombie Panel:



Carpathian Kitten by Stina:



One of our big raffle ticket buyers:





Brain Eating Contest:







Zombie Walk:



















Zombie Beauty Pageant winners:




Saturday:






















Scavenger hunt winners:



Kelli donating blood:





































Left For Dead:



Sunday:



With our own Mr. Stark:











A very coincidental spill in front of our booth:



Trivia Panel:









Basket winners:





Raffle:



Winner:

Kids in Ghostbusters Gear:

dude!

not only do you guys get the inflatable Stay Puft from time to time, but you get to use the Vigo painting too???

I am so moving to Arizona!

as always, looks like you guys had an awesome time.

Ha no that's a replica Vigo. It's the Captain's. Some of the guys made it for him as a b-day present last year. There's some pics of them putting him in the back of the Ecto at the end of the con floating around. He barely fit.

Awesome stuff, some really great photos there… excluding the Ghostbusters stuff which is already awesome, my favourite shots are of Hit Girl, Red Mist and Kick-Ass, and of that Whiplash costume.

well that is an awesome reproduction dude, color me jealous

The only thing missing was a Big Daddy. I figured I'd see one since it could easily be made by modifying a Batman costume. I'm sure we'll see plenty at San Diego.

We collected $700 for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

Just found this vid of the kid round of the first brain eating contest:

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Also spotted this on Wil Wheaton's blog yesterday in his Sunday con report, I was actually told this story by a few people that day:

“We made our way past the General Lee, KITT, and an amazing Ecto 1 that had the world's littlest Ghostbuster posing in front of it for a picture.”

From one of our team members over on GBfans:

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Speaking of Wil, Chuck and I(originally) were going to present Wil with a little momento for his support. In the end when I was unavailable, Chuck and Keith presented one of our member hats to him at his booth on Sunday. Good job you guys!

First the reveal…..




Then the show off…

We also gave Wil one of our yellow containment unit banks.