The con took care of Ernie. Ernie put us in touch with William and we all pitched in for him to come. He's been awesome and very successful at our booth so far this weekend. This is his first convention since 2007 Dragoncon.

The con was unbelievable. The attendance was record setting and they ended up having to limit the number of people in the hall and extended the hours because of it. Our booth was considered one of the most popular thanks to Puft looming over the entire hall. Anywhere you were you could see him. A lot of people used it at their meeting point.

William Atherton was only supposed to be there Friday and Saturday but because he was doing so well with autographs he stayed all of Sunday too. Ernie stopped by to see us and William Sunday. It caused a media circus and was an amazing moment. I was getting pretty teary eyed.

I’m still waiting for a total of what we raised for Cystic Fibrosis but I know we raised $100 from the arcade machine. At $.25 a play that means it was played 400 times over the weekend.

All of our panels went great and Ernie’s was filled to capacity. We had tons of kids come in costume and a mom and her daughter came in Stay Puft costumes. We handed out 600 AZGB buttons and held the Slime Scavenger Hunt and Ghost Trapping Game for kids. The Zombie walk was also a huge success. Elvira also stopped by which caused another media circus. We set up our sound system speakers behind Vigo so after every few songs we had a Vigo quote play. It scared quite a few people, especially when they were in front of him for a photo.

Here is all of the pics I have so far: http://www.flickr.com/photos/56352803@N00/sets/72157626718528723/

ABC15 video, Ernie and the booth is at the end: http://www.abc15.com/dpp/news/region_phoenix_metro/central_phoenix/comicon-wraps-up-successful-weekend-in-valley

First 5 minutes of Ernie’s Panel, William tagged along: e0xoZo-LUFY

Zombie Walk photos from the newspaper: http://www.azcentral.com/photo/Entertainment/Events/19046

Here are my favorite pics from the weekend:

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For the fanboy win!!!

It was awesome. There's a couple of vids of him rolling around on youtube. One of the R2 Builders has a pack and wanted to have some fun with us.