He was at Binion's Casino in Las Vegas promoting his new vodka.

The ad I saw said he was going to be there from 3-5, but he didn't show up until 5. I had to pick up my girlfriend, so I figured that I was going to miss him. I got there at 3:30, and waited until 5, as I had to go.

Turns out he showed up at 5. I tried to say “hello”, but his bodyguard said he was “decompressing” after his day (whatever that meant).

He left, and I almost missed him, but I dashed through the casino to catch up to him. The bodyguard remembered me, and asked Dan to stop as the guy had remembered me waiting for a while. Nice bodyguard.

I shook Dan's hand, got a photo, and he autographed the locker part of my 12 inch Ray Stantz figure. I literally had a minute to catch him before the opportunity was lost, and I think I'm one of the very few who actually got to talk to him. But it was cool, and he was gracious enough to take time out for me, which was really appreciated.



Thanks, Dan (and Dan's bodyguard)! I went back to the area after dinner at the casino's cafe, and thanked the guy for looking out for me. I think he could tell I really wanted to meet Dan.

Well, between meeting him, and Ernie Hudson about 5 years ago, I've met 50% of the team. Bill and Harold, our paths will cross one day….

You're lucky. The closet I got to meeting Dan was at the Blues Brothers concert they had here in June. He didn't stay to sign autographs or take photos but Jim Belushi did (he was preforming as Zee Blues). Really nice guy. Too bad I didn't meet Dan, but the whole concert and everything was fun.

I think I DID see him earlier though, as my dad was driving I saw him in the back of the Casino having a smoke.

Yeah, he was supposed to be there for a while, but the times listed were WAY off.

He was only there for an hour, and one of the casino people who saw me from earlier came over and said that if I want to talk to him, get in line right then.

I tried to say hello, but his bodyguard told me Dan needed some time to relax, and I'll have a chance in a few minutes.

When Dan got up, he was GONE. There wasn't a huge crowd, but some barflies were just hanging around and in the way. I thought I wasn't going to get through them in time.

Really, the only way I caught up to him is because of the bodyguard, which I'm glad was a nice person (I think me not being pushy earlier helped my case).

Dan was nice, but you could tell he had other places to be. But still, I'm glad that over two hours of waiting around paid off, especially since the appearance time was wrong, and I had to leave and come back.

I think he has another appearance in Vegas tomorrow at a liquor store promoting his new Vodka. Lee's Discount Liquor, I believe.

Wow,I want to meet Bill(and Dan,if it´s possible),man.
Hey,haven´t you got some contacts to meet them all? xD

Congratulations and thanks for sharing your photo and story with us. I bet that was the highlight of your Halloween this year, I hope you had an interesting conversation. :-)

It was most definitely my highlight of the holiday. Oh, I so wanted to ask him some paranormal stuff, but I could tell he was pressed for time.

I wanted to see him at his appearance today, but I didn't want him to think I was stalking him since I just saw him the night before. Heh.

Happy Halloween to you guys!

OH MY GOZER!
Your so lucky!
I wish I could have been wherever you were.

Awesome story! I actually met him at Lee's discount Liquor yesterday!! He signed my Toy Ecto-1 and my mr.staypuft marshmallow man! I was so excited to meet him! He was signing crystal skull bottles from 11-1pm. I had to work until noon,I thought i was gonna be late. But i got there around 12:45 and there was a huge line that wraped around the whole inside of the store. I was really worried he would have to leave soon. But just as i steped in line he stood up and told everyone not to worry, and he won't leave until everyone got a chance to meet him. He was so nice!!
Later that night my friend called me and told me we were on a guestlist for some private party at Binions casino downtown. So i thought it would be fun to go downtown for halloween. We get to the party and I find out that it is actually a private party sponsered by Dan Aykroyd!! It was so awesome!! We had free Crystal Skull Vodka all night and I actually got to see my hero once again!! He came in for a little while, but i think he was really tired from a long day so he didn't stay very long. But still it was so awesome to see him!

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Turns out he showed up at 5. I tried to say “hello”, but his bodyguard said he was “decompressing” after his day (whatever that meant).

Must've been a really small venue.

I was there Saturday at the haunted casino. It was a really fun attraction. They really put the Vegas theme throughout the place. When I got up to the ticket counter all the staff were telling me he was there the night before, and I was kind of bummed I did not get to meet him. But what was really funny was that I was wearing my costume which was the generic inflatable proton pack one and EVERYONE wanted to go in the place with my wife and I because they thought it would be so cool to go into a haunted house with a guy dressed in a Ghostbuster costume. Then later I met another guy in the same outfit and the song played over Freemont street and we started dancing and people were taking pics like crazy and wanted pics with us. It was alot of fun and really shows how anything Ghostbusters holds up today.