MEGACON is Back - Opening Day Experience Orlando 2021 Convention / Cosplay Overload & Floor WalkThru
Transcript
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today's adventure
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brings me to the orange county florida
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convention center
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for the opening day the start
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of mega con
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2021
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it's
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happening looks as if parking is being
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routed over here into this field ten
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dollars
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that lot in the dirt and grass was cash
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only
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i didn't have ten dollars in cash on me
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so i had to park over here
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in this structure
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for twenty seven dollars
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should have had cash welcome everyone
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adam
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izzy wu here as the recording of this
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we're having a tough time putting
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my sunglasses on
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august 12
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2021 it's about 2 30 p.m
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the convention now
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i do not know which concourse
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it is located in so i could have
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could have been good parking where i did
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because that dirt lot might have not
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been in the proper area the convention
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center here is massive
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not really seeing a lot of signage
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nonetheless
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doors open at four for the first
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official day
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of megacon which sidenote is the first
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rather large congregation
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for a con con
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in florida in the last year and a half
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there have been smaller ones sci-fi
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some comic style some horror
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persuasions
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but this
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is a larger one it did not take place
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last year this year there was quite a
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bit of excitement in fact a lot of
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guests
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booked to be here
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a lot of celebrities
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and in the last do i okay now it gave me
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the walk signal back there
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i guess i have to
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press the walk signal again here
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a lot of celebrities that were gonna be
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here
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have dropped out in the last few days a
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heck of a lot oh
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car going by got the walk signal here
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got
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10 seconds to go by
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so it's going to be interesting to see
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if there are as many vendors as usual
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and what the crowds are like
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usually over the course of the entire
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weekend this is the first day of this
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whole weekend
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over a hundred thousand people
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might be a little different this year as
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always
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no matter what happens
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i'm inviting you to join me
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as i document
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mega megacon
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2021 opening day thursday
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join me
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shall you i already purchased my tickets
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online got one for the entire weekend
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not sure if i'm gonna be here every day
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definitely as a recording of this
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thursday
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we'll be perusing around the hallways
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checking out some cosplay
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seeing some panels if they happen the
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vendor room etc
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and things have changed
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in the state again and these
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are back indoors so i will be sporting
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one of these once again
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inside the convention this is the only
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day of the upcoming weekend
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that doors open later in the afternoon
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at 4pm currently 2 33 pm
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just thought it'd be good to get here a
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little early
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and just see what the vibe is like
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going through oh this is a priority
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entrance i
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am not priority
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it says no bags
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take a look at that no bag i didn't
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bring a bag
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but it does say no bags
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then some of the other
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some of the other rules here batman if
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batman if lego batman is not feeling
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well
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you should return home and when possible
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and keep your distance notice six feet
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is not a thing anymore
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and this goes without saying
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oh look there's superhero gloves right
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on there
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okay this is the priority you see
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there's really not a whole lot of people
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here yet
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this is
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a regular entrance a few different lines
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here i would imagine later in the day
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this will be a real beehive of activity
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gotta get my qr code and show it all
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right that was a totally different
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checkpoint didn't need to show the qr
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code yet i have to show that up here oh
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i see batman coming down the side the
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escalator up here
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oh yeah
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good to see you batman
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oh
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chucky
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chucky as well following batman around
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buy tickets
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pre-purchase tickets and re-entry
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through here and because i have
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pre-purchased them
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this is the door i need to go through
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this is a kind of a nice warm-up for me
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because in just about three weeks give
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or take a day i will be in atlanta for
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dragon con
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and this is this is not quite on the
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same level but
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well in the past pretty dang close crowd
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wise even though it's a totally
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different setup than dragon con but
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that's
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yeah look at all the different
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stanchions they have over here
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granted it's still an hour and 23
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minutes
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before doors open on the first day
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but nonetheless
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pretty mellow at this time this is my
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line pre-purchased
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i went down to get my badge
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you can also do a one day a friday or a
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four day i opted for the four day
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even though i'm not going to be here all
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four days but i do have them just in
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case
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badge is acquired this is interesting
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you must tap it at all entrances
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and exit it also says the show time was
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two today
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but on the website it said four
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it started at two then i definitely
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was not here in time
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as it focuses on people that are now
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other people getting their badges i have
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completed activation online i had to
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visit this website
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enter the unique activation code and now
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i'm good to go i just have to just tap
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it in
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at all entry and exit points and you can
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buy laners over here for five dollars
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but they also have some freebies
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that are just kind of kind of plain so i
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might get the freebie these are the five
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dollar land so these are the these are
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the five dollar ones and these are the
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free ones yeah yeah
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the five dollars are pretty they are
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pretty cool
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do they have a date on them is it just
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like a basic megacon
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one's here
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um
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does it 2122
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or yeah so it's just dateless yeah just
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dayless all right i'll grab one of those
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it looks like over here there is a queue
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developing for pre-purchase merchandise
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that everyone is waiting on
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looks to be some specialty merchandise
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here oh there's a poster right here
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take a look at this
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okay this is part of the united by
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fandom organization so it's not just
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megacon
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it's also a few other conventions in
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boston dallas calgary toronto denver and
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edmonton
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i never realized that before yeah
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my experience starts here according to
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that banner this is where the experience
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starts and if you need any elbow room
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you need to get away from
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from anyone or anything there's plenty
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of space right open over in this area
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basically what i'm going to do is start
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here on this first aisle make my way all
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the way to the end and then just go down
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the grid
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all the way back and forth back and
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forth back and forth this is the food
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court over here kind of getting a little
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a little pre-planning a little recon if
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you will just to see what they got looks
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like they have nathan's hot dogs i will
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be coming back over here and getting one
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of these nathan's hot hot dogs okay i've
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kind of changed my plan of oh there's a
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bunny house
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change my plan a bit i'm going to go
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down to this end and walk up and down
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each of the main aisles now i do see
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some doctor who oh my gosh some doctor
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who stuff over there but here's ace
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ventura pet detective these are pretty
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dang cool are they not wow oh on my way
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you're heading my way oh come on my way
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okay just uh oh he's point is looking
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right looking right at me there if you
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were driving this on the interstate you
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would definitely draw some attention
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from passerby traffic hello
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you ready for your the first day of
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megacon i'm terrified but it's okay
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you're terrified
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okay well best of luck to you you can do
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it thank you
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i was just briefly looking at the
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itinerary and doesn't appear to be any
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panels if there are they slip past my
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radar
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but there are going to be some cosplay
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meetups a little bit later in a certain
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cosplay designated area that i will
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definitely check out after i get done
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walking the aisles this is the celebrity
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autograph area you can see today as of
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thursday really no one no celebrities
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here a little bit of a line kind of
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formulating over here for william
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shatner william shatner's going to be
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here today he's not at a table yet but
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that's pretty exciting oh dang that is a
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good way to travel
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going by
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traveling in style granted it is only
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three o'clock oh yeah one of the nights
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from monty python and the holy grail got
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the coconut there
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you ready for the first day of mega con
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absolutely all right me too just like
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you were there on the first day of
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spooky empire
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that's true oh my goodness i wonder if
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any of these very illuminated bikes have
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gone down any sweet slides and cannot
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have a convention without i just almost
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tripped over that i was i was distracted
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by the lights the wielding of the
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lightsaber there i do believe that's
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macho man in front of me walking there
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macho man randy savage
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oh very cool check it out wally
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that is awesome
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delivering some pizza from the pizza
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planet truck huh yeah very nice what
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flavor pepperoni cheese well we have any
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flavor you want he's got little mini
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pizzas for you a little mini pizza are
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there stickers pizzas there you go oh
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excellent thank you green pepper and oh
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i
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this is going to fill me up for the
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entire day very very filling thank you
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all right have a good day you get one
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bite one bite's all you need
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all right thank you
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oh my gosh look over here check it out
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pikachu hello hello there
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i got i got a little piece of pizza
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yeah
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they said it's very filling so
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i am going to peel this off put it on my
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wallet
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right there
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pretty much my wallet is being held
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together by vinyl stickers
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i've had this wallet since
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1995. oh here we go something called
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comics coffee
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right through here
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oh look at the dark side roast coffee
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for comic book lovers i like it does the
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dark side roast have a lot of extra
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caffeine in it it does not that's our
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lowest caffeine color oh
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light roast has got the highest the
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white roast has it do you sell cups of
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coffee here or just the bags just the
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bags i can give you free samples yeah
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yeah can i try the should i try the dark
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side roast i've actually got just the
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light speed brewing right now i'll do
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the light okay light speed i get it it
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has more caffeine in it yeah you want to
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try it yeah i'll try a sample a very
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small piping hot caffeinated beverage
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you know i'll probably get a little bit
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of cream and sugar as well
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there you go
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comics on coffee here it goes cheers
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not bad
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i could almost taste the caffeine it's
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pretty strong
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light speed roast light roast
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it's toasty though you see the steam
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going off of it
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i'm really liking all the godzilla's all
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through here an overload of godzilla's
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with a little hidden king kong down in
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there too there is some sons of anarchy
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t-shirts there's also a harley right
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here on a little pedestal kind of spins
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around but it stops spinning it's just
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sitting here now
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it was spinning a moment ago i promise
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ended up purchasing some products from
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seven think they gave me kind of a bag
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to carry some stuff around in i'll show
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a haul at the very end when i got got a
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couple t-shirts but i'll probably end up
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buying a lot more stuff and i'll cram it
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all here in this bag and then show up an
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end haul at the very end of the day
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ultra sabres
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i see you have construct oh my goodness
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is that
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is that darth maul over there buying a
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lightsaber
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i believe it is
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also going to get a couple shirts here
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from motley kingdom a little couple
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couple punk rock style 90s style spoofs
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i'm going to get a few things here from
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from this booth
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as well some pretty cool stuff and
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here's a television on top of the torso
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over there oh my gosh look at this it's
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a shining high mansion spoof
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that's cool even a little miniature
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people mover here
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as well i don't know if wearing that
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oh they were cut all the cones cones has
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his own little social media following i
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don't know if i could wear this in magic
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kingdom though yeah
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that might be frowned upon
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maybe though probably get away with it
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okay thank you thank you see you guys
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oh yeah more stuff
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more stuff in the bag now i did tell
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myself before walking in here i was not
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going to spend a whole lot of money
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that's all out the window i found some
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very unique items and why not
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plenty of movie vehicles as well movie
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cars all scattered along through here as
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well as some masters of the universe
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photo opportunities you sit on battle
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cap and of course the ghostbusters
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also represented can't have a convention
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without the ghostbusters
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it's now 4pm i'm kind of wondering if
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this was like the opening ceremony and
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that's why everyone is flooding in now
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where
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i was here two and a half hours early
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and everything was already open
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i think i think it's officially started
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now
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it's official and as i stated i am back
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for my hot dog oh yeah nathan's hot dog
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i might get two of them acquired a seat
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over in this in the the food court
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seating area and this
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is what
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we're dealing with
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as i pop this open i went with a kraut
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dog which is just basically sauerkraut
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and the dog itself nathan
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hot dog and i went with a
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chili dog as well oh my goodness
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gracious
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nice little break consume a hot dog well
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two hot dogs
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so they get chili dog also kraut dog
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chili dog
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the chili looks to be
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but there's gonna be like maybe beans in
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the chili no beans it is a beanless
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chili
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i just learned why i was able to get in
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before 4 p.m when
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everyone else was getting in at 4 p.m
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because i had the 4-day pass
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and only those who have thursday passes
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to get in at four so a little perk i did
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not know about that's why i was able to
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get in here at 2 30. this is the
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official map here i think i'm going to
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get one of these
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as well see if i can
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see if i can find out my way around a
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little bit better than i already have a
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general layout of the land there are
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three levels
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one
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two
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three
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the exhibit hall which
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is the main convention area
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shown right here artist alley up at the
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top comet crow area over to the side
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you got the retailer area
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got all the different aisles
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and then the food court where i got the
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hot dogs now this is pretty dang cool
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over here in the star wars section got
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the band playing kind of you know
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jamming out also i have a little a
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little youngin down here in the stroller
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down here as well while the the band is
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playing it's kind of getting everyone in
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the mood and looks as if a few more
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celebrities showed up to sign some
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autographs and possibly take some
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pictures with those who are lined up to
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meet them is that toto in there yeah
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i know there's no place like home but
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first night no also nothing like the
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first day of mega con
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so that kind of works too you have the
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slippers on down there ah it seems like
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only yesterday that everyone had the
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inflatable blow up dinosaurs they'd walk
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around in oh how times have progressed
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quite a bit this seems to be the new
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inflatable thing
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taken over from the dinos dinosaurs are
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now extinct
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and that's all pokemon
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going through here they probably think
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they're looking for pop figures of
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themselves perhaps a possibility they do
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have this wild bills old-fashioned soda
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pop company where you can get free
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refill i think it's like 25 or 30 you
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get a a mug
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and you can get free root beer though
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the entire weekend now this line is not
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for that that's for a signing over there
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but from what i can tell the sign says
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35 for the mug but you get it the whole
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weekend if you're here with the four day
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pass aisle 700 seems to be the one with
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the red carpet
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rolling out the red carpet for everyone
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on isle 700 oh
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here's your friend right here
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this is a super stick man super stick
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man and he's got the appropriate facial
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covering on even though not wearing any
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pants
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i have seen a lot of spiderman around
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today i think i've seen more spiderman
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than i have in a long time there's one
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and don't tell gaston but there's bell
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she's trying to stay away from gaston
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look at these
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bb-8 or bb unit flower decor pot holders
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oh look at darth vader looking very very
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dapper very dapper indeed oh holding a
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bloody heart there oh and not really
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sure what's going on with these
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dastardly looking fellas okay either a
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wolverine meetup or a scene from top gun
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yeah definitely outstanding i'm going to
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reiterate myself a lot more people out
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here than i was expecting oh including
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jason voorhees has arrived hello jason i
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wasn't expecting to see you till
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tomorrow because today is the 12th
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thursday the 12th friday the 13th is
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tomorrow you're going to be here
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tomorrow
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all right well maybe i'll keep maybe
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i'll be here as far as you know i'll
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keep an eye out for you
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see you jason
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oh he has the full on adventure outfit
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going on oh and oh we gotta
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i was holding a 2x4 for a minute but
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it's just a poster board
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everyone really
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really in the mood
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for convention season
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they're back oh this guy's gone a whole
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other level when it comes to wearing the
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facial covering look at the full
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bodysuit oh here comes loki and iron man
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hello iron man hello loki hi
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thank you can i get a fist bump iron man
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follow along i saw you walking in
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everyone wants a photo with you oh yeah
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it was just the hassle to get i really
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want a photo with me but you know he's
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the hero he's distracting everyone and
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we've adopted mr walters
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you can just slide under the radar it's
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an illusion it's all an illusion none of
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this is real
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or something something like that see you
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iron man see you loki
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happy mega con first day oh you know
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mega con day one here we go you're at it
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look at this
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oh hello there
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oh wow that's pretty very cool right
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that's awesome okay they're working
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something out here trying to create a
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photo
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i believe the one over here is satan so
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that must be good and evil
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oh it looks like our two's decided to
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take a stroll around
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going out to check out some of the the
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vendor tables
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a little bit of a
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some little conversation going on here
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trying to figure out exactly how to talk
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to each other oh catching up like the
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joker again okay he's drinking some of
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that root beer though but all you can
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refillable root beer
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have a good one
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oh drinking root beer over here too
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everyone's drinking the root beer should
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i ask where grogu is
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have you seen grogu around anywhere
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you seen grogu around anywhere baby
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oh sleeping now i was not expecting this
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someone has
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formulated a really good world of micah
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cosplay here
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perfect perfection yeah
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how long youtuber how long have you
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studied the world of micah
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with the sideburns
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sideburns and then i got the glasses
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nice then i got a halloween shirt it was
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perfect a hat he nailed it nailed it i'm
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wondering if he's here i wanted to see
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him he might be walking around cool if
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you see mike uh tell him i said hello i
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will i'm his biggest fan i'll send it he
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said that you're sitting your way okay
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oh we got a mobile d and d set up that's
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not bad what's my modifier
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plus two four seventeen
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looks like we got a little meeting of
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got a meeting of some characters over
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yeah just uh got olaf
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and wally
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kind of sharing stairs back and forth
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sharing waves
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saying hello olaf and wally
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pretty cool and not just that
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but also
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bb-8 and wall-e yeah
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bb-8 and wall-e
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also saying hello having a little
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meeting of the minds if you will
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while olaf's over there in the distance
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that's what he's already said hello is
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kind of off in the distance watching
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watching this interaction
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pretty dang cool it is now 8 p.m
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convention closes at 9 today i've been
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here for a heck of a while
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walked
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more than i thought i would spent a
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little more cash well not cash but
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put a little bit more on my card than i
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had planned
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it's been a fun day i'm going to start
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heading out now
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i might come back at some point this
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weekend not sure if it'll be tomorrow or
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saturday or sunday i might stop back in
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or i might not
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just see what happens but i did attend
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the first day of megacon orlando the
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thursday edition
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first day back megacon
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2021. we'll see the next video the vlog
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oh yeah i forgot to show the t-shirts i
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bought got three from
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the motley kingdom booth
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got this tuned patrol with one of the
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weasels
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from roger rabbit
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ended up getting this one dated 1901
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with walt
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on the front of front of it
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and the third one country bears
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punk rock style
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t-shirt
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ska punk jamboree
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right there pretty
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pretty dang awesome and then
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from
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seventh inc
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got two other t-shirts
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i got this one
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a little representing some
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some coffee
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so i got that and lastly
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fifth shirt so i got five
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t-shirts get this one for the halloween
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season
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also from
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seven think little skeleton holding some
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pumpkins
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and a bag and then also oh the siren's
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loud
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that's it that's all the merch i got i
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got some stickers and stuff too