WinterCon 2023

The weekend of December 2&3, 2023 marked the latest edition of one of my personal favorite conventions: WinterCon! Of course, I was on hand, on that Saturday, to cover it all for you guys, as well as have a great time, all while wearing my Rick Flag cosplay once again.

The first thing I did was go up to the two cast members of the always fun to watch  Jaws 2, Gigi Morgan and Gary Springer. As a fan of this movie, they were the two I was most excited to meet. As I have said in the past on here, my stuff was in storage (if anyone cares I finally have my stuff back). So, that meant that my Blu-Ray copy of this sequel wasn't with me. I had to buy it on 4K that very Friday. Anyway, I got it signed and got pics with them. They were both so incredibly nice and friendly and were a great way to start my day with legit awesomeness!

The only other autograph that I got that day was from the legendary Larry Hama, He is the longest running and most famous writer of the G.I. Joe comic, as well as the file cards from the back of the original A Real American Hero toy-line. This was the second time meeting him in just a couple of weeks, since I was at a signing for the release of issue #301, which marked his return to G.I. Joe, at Forbidden Planet the month before. As a lifelong G.I. Joe fan meeting him, however many times is both awesome and an honor. Also, he is super nice in person. This time around he signed a facsimile of the first issue of the comic. He also told he that when he broke into comics he wanted to write cartoon humor stuff and never imagined himself doing a military comic! Mind blown!

But, there was a ton more of cool sites to see, including, of course, lots of cosplay. Here are some of the favorite things I saw that day:

As always, it's great to see my friend Nelson D. Martinez, here with his finance. 

I actually got to partake in another DC photoshoot. Where I got to photograph a throwdown between Dr. Fate and the Flash! This is actually one of my favorites that I shot this con. 

Finally, I got some great deals including, one dealer who was trying to get rid of his NECA figures, so he sold him at $20! Even more awesome was one dude who was selling and trying to get rid of G.i. Joe Classified figures. So, he sold ANY that he had at $10 each to me! Honest to God, if he had more, that I didn't already have and wanted (he had some from the Snake-Eyes movie, but I don't collect that sub-line), I would've bought a shit more! 

Anywho, here is what I bought at the con. They were:
NECA Universal Monsters The Mummy (Boris Karloff)
G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero #1 facsimile (which Larry Hama signed for me) 

Peanuts Charlie Brown Hallmark Christmas ornament

G.I. Joe Retro Classified: Destro
G.i. Joe Classified: Cobra Viper

Lady Jaye
Cobra Trooper

I had so much fun, cosplayed, met some great celebs, and got kick ass deals. What more could one ask for? I already can't wait for the next edition of WinterCon! 

One more thing, I want to thank you guys for your continued support and readership. Moving had made to write last year, but I am hoping that I will finally be back to my usual often posting. I also want to wish you all a very happy and healthy New Year. May this be a good year for all of us!

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WinterCon 2023 this Weekend in Queens, NY!

WinterCon, which is one of my personal favorite conventions, returns to the Resorts World Casino in Queens, NY this weekend, December 2&3! And, I couldn't be more pumped for it, as I'll be there covering it for my site.

As always there will be some amazing guests including cast members from Galaxy Quest, Farscape, Lexx, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Jaws 2, and so much more! And, of course, awesome guests means that there will also be some killer panels featuring them. 

Artist Alley will also have some great guests, including some of your favorite from the world of comic-books.

Of course, there will surely be some really cool and awesome cosplay. I'll be in cosplay myself, bringing back my Rick Flag from The Suicide Squad. Also on Saturday, there will be a  cosplay contest, which is always fun to check out and/ or enter.

All of this on top of all the awesome dealers and after party, making WinterCon a must attend for my fellow cosplayers and sci-fi and comic geeks. I hope to see you there! 

For more information including how to get tickets go to: https://nywintercon.com/

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WinterCon 2022

The weekend of March 12 & 13, 2022 marked the return of WinterCon to Resorts World NYC in Queens, New York. The last time the event had been held was way back in December of 2019. Thanks to COVID it wasn't held the following year. Then, in 2021, it was set to take place in December, but Omicron changed those plans. And, it was postponed till this month. But, the end result was more than worth the wait! 

The guest list was awesome! With the main appeal, to me, being the Aliens cast reunion. That James Cameron sci-fi/ horror/ action classic is my second favorite movie of all time. I had been wanting to meet the cast forever, with Jennette Goldstein being at the very top of the list. She played the badass and tough as nails Private Vasquez, one of my favorite characters in a film filled with incredible characters. She was super sweet in person. 

The other person I was looking forward to meeting was the original Michael Myers from John Carpenter's Halloween, himself, Nick Castle! He also played him in parts of the last two entries in the franchise, Halloween (2018) and Halloween Kills. While, I had seen him at various horror cons, I never did go up to him till now. He was really nice in person.

Basically this means that I got autographs for two of my favorite movies of all time! You can see them in the pic below.

The Aliens cast was reunited onstage for a really cool and informative panel.

As you may have noticed, I was in my Captain America, Avengers: Infinity War cosplay. And, as always I was really excited to see other people's cosplays. While there wasn't a whole lot of them on Sunday, there were some cool ones on hand. Was there more on Saturday? If you know this to be the case let me know in the comments section below. Anyway, here are some of my favorite cosplays that I saw on Sunday:

I also got to run into my friend and all around awesome cosplayer, Miss. Cheng. We chatted for a bit catching up since the last time I saw her, coincidently was at the last WinterCon. As always, her cosplay was cool as hell! She was D.Va from Overwatch, this time around.

Finally, I got to buy some cool toys and got some killer deals on them! I picked up Funko Pops of Fantastic Four's H.E.R.B.I.E. and a Walmart exclusive of Chatterer from Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth (even though he isn't in that movie, but I digress) and an Ultimate Macready from John Carpenter's The Thing by NECA (which I actually scored for $25!).

I had an absolute blast at WinterCon, which remains one of my favorite conventions around. I hope this upward trend continues, and we will have more cons. Were you at WinterCon, and if so what did you enjoy the most? Let me know in the comments section.

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WinterCon Returns this Weekend!

This weekend of March 12-13, 2022, marks the return of one of my personal favorite conventions in the East Coast, WinterCon at Resorts World Casino in Queens, New York! After getting postponed from last December due to COVID, its back baby! And, it has one hell of a guest list!

Among them are a KILLER Aliens cast reunion, as seen from the above pic. Long time readers and followers may well know my love this sci-fi/ horror/ action classic. So, you can only imagine how freaking pumped I am for that alone! Plus, they will also have Nick Castle who played Michael Myers in John Carpenter's Halloween, as well as in the 2018 movie and its sequel, Halloween Kills, cast members from Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (including the lovely Kristana Loken who I met some years back at Chiller is so freaking awesome in person!), cast from The Warriors, and so many more celeb guests! 

Not to mention all the awesome dealers (I have found some killer deals at this show), artist alley, and, of course, cosplaying! The later of which has me pumped to get back into, as I have not done that since last year's New York Comic Con. I will be Captain America, once again. So, if any of you reading this are there, don't be a stranger! Come and say hi! 

Who amongst my readers will be there? What are you most looking forward to? Are you gonna be in cosplay? If so, as what? Let me in the comments section below!

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