Dragon Con 2019 Takes Over Atlanta - Opening Ceremony / Convention Tour / Wrestling Kick Off & MORE
A visit to Dragon Con in downtown Atlanta Georgia . My 7th consecutive year at this convention and this year I decided to kick off the video series with a general layout of the land and overview of what you can expect upon arriving . The first day is mostly set up for registration and opening festivities but a few panels and other activities do take place . Seems like each year it gets busier than before . Enjoy !
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this is a sign it can only mean one
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thing when the fountain outside would
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respond
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has been dyed purple
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first priority is to pick up your badge
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when arriving that is done here at the
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Sheraton Hotel one of many on site but
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the congregation of folk arrived here to
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get their lanyards and their badges it
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seems to be getting busier and busier
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each year I don't think I've ever seen
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it in the past stretch all the way down
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to this point and then turns the corner
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and wraps all the way around
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into the building above all else
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patience is
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he
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they have a very good organization
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system in place which tape do I follow
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whether you have already purchased your
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credentials or need to the corresponding
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colors which line you get into
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children under seven are allowed in for
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free but do not call them babies they're
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referred to as little sharks this is
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where also upon x-ray you can pick up
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two different books a program and your
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QuickStart guide just to give a general
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layout of the land and all the events
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celebrities and all the stuff is taking
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place nice assortment of food trucks out
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here as well
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which is good because you never know
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when hungers going to strike sometimes
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even before the events gets going in
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order to get to the next location you
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got to take surface streets now make
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sure you look out for pedestrian you
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know not not a bunch of them just one
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which is one pedestrian
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ice cream truck
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good news and bad news the bad news is
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the Hilton garage is already full the
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good news is once we're inside this
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hosts hotel we could take tunnels to the
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others and stay out of the elements many
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guests are still checking in this is the
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first day this states that you have to
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either be staying here or be a guest of
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the con to enter I like how this year
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the individual spot has gone all out
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with the theming Hilton wars
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after taking the escalator to the second
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level a lot of the commuting will be
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done through these sky bridges
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you burn your way around pretty quick
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the best way to describe this is the
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calm before the storm thus it will get
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much much busier they've added these
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screens up here where they can post
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photos of people who have posted on
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social media
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fans yes and everyone for coming
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welcome to Dragon Con 2019 433 if you're
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counting here we have the president's
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Dragon Con this year Dragon Con is a
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convention of five days friendship
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fellowship fun music assorted family
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sessions parties celebrity yes
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constantly people watching photo-op
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shopping exhibits that oh yeah we got
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afraid all the official information of
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the Dragon Clan universe is in them you
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can also coordinate with your friend
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schedules and most importantly for us
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you can give us feedback on what you
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thought of various mammals and believe
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you're hot
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we read all of them we wanted them this
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is it it's not for nothing that we call
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ourselves a fan convention if not for
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you guys we don't need this is drek
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comic you're gonna see a lot of things
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you may understand and there'll be
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something down but as with everything in
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our society if you see something
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suspicious please say something
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the inside of the Marriott always
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reminds me of skeleton I refer to it as
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centralized point
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for most people meet and congregate I'm
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going to head from here through another
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one of the corridors over to the Hyatt
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but not before mentioning how amazed I
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am and how many people are already here
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when the festivities really don't kick
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off until tomorrow
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the spot always reminds me of
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having a martini glass
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inside handing up past it
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really like the elevators as well in the
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bottom level of this as I pan back down
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see over here on the left martini glass
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and if you follow the escalators and
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stairs and that center portion downward
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they do some wrestling
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action-packed and I always signify that
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as the official kickoff
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of DragonCon did the doctor
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done
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at least for me it is the reason I
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decided to focus on this specific
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subject matter for the convention first
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and foremost just show the layout of the
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land and just give a general overview of
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where everything is there will be plenty
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of cosplay up close and personal as the
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weekend progresses and panels
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but since I will be doing a quite an
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overload of content
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from this convention I wanted to mix
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things up and start off with
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kind of a video version of a map too so
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you know how expansive everything here
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is
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and you'll be able to use this as a
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template
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now this place fills up this time goes
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on I just saw Patrick Bateman dance by
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many like Celia with them
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we just reiterate this is just the tip
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of the iceberg
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crowd wise
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prepare thyself naturally there are a
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lot of rules in place scroll down to
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read them and commit some of them to
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memory but to be honest the easiest way
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to go about things is don't be a jerk
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pretty easy
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his Walley world open this weekend no
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sir who's that freshman told you
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bars closed it's closed yeah I can I
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write a coat roller coaster no roller
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coasters unless you're on the way you're
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not getting in if I do ride one we ride
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with me okay all right
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there's two people say right through a
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lot of people understand business
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give it up for Justin Rose
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Oh
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there are also shovels taking you all
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around downtown this is one of the maps
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that you can hook the information booth
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and kind of get a general idea where the
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shovels pick up and drop these stands
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are all over and great if you're not
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using the app or one of the booklets
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that you got it registration
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looks like those fellows are a little
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late the wrestling match or in Captain
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Obvious as well there are a couple of
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different ways to get to the food court
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one of them is the head towards the
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radius tower in Peachtree Center once
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again utilizing these very useful
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tunnels you can see they just stretch
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all over downtown known as the hub it's
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like this entire section has been
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renovated since last year a lot more
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open than before and considerably less
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tables or at least so it seems like
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according to this over 25 million
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dollars in renovations yeah a little bit
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of difference there are plenty of
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options in here and it leads directly to
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the Marta train station and according to
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that signage the doors remained unlocked
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and open till - well not open they're
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closing but unlock till 2:00 a.m. from
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here you can either go up to street
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level or down to the Train
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even if it's not required I encourage
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you to take this escalator
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is massive
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well now at the bottom
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so go
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I have taken this mode of transportation
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on more than one occasion
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you have to get a breeze card you load
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it up with the amount you want
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pretty simple looks as if nightfall has
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reared its head heading back over to the
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Marriott now through the tunnels
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something is a little different given me
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the creeper peepers I don't think that's
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supposed to be like that
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they like all the corresponding signage
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and comic book style coloration and a
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lot about food places are you
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the Masters of the Universe
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Wow this escalated quickly Marriott in
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full-on party mode as if
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con weekend was in full swing but in
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reality
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only just begun
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if it's this busy on the first evening
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on registration day what's it going to
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be
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the next couple
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those couple spider-man
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dancing
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trying not to focus on too much cosplay
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because that is not the purpose of this
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F
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still got a long way to go before this
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thing is over
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but I will devote quite a bit of time to
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individual cosplays or interviews
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just not just not in this one
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wait a second am i it am I in this
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casino Ronald you're supposed to be a
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Swiss on your son of a [\h__\h] no way
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you're very angry to get your kind of
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another boarding school this is a good
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hands across America it's off you really
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know you use these tunnels a lot when
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you get down surface street area and
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don't realize where you're wandering
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because you're usually 30 feet up above
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the cars it's a little confusing because
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I kind of got those memorized but ground
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level not so much
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kinda hard for me to believe if this is
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my seventh continuous year showing up to
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downtown Atlanta for Dragon Con I have
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to ask myself what is it about this
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particular convention that separates it
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from others why do I keep coming back I
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think the answer for me anyway is very
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unorthodox in its layout based on what I
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showed you throughout the course of the
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day obviously it's not a traditional
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aisle by aisle type of setup
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it's immersive it's all over the
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downtown area you just can't escape it
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all the host hotels cosplay everywhere
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which I will be I will be heading down
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that rabbit hole
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the rest of the weekend I think that's
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it more than anything it's just a
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mishmash of everything
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elbow to elbow with pop culture comics
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movies television you name it
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