Dublin Comic Con 2016

This is another one of those posts that should've been up ages ago. I genuinely need to get back on track with blogging again as it's so easy to fall behind. Also going back to University soon means I really need to prepare and stay on top of blogging even more.
Anyway, since I'm sure everyone's sick of reading me apologizing for slow posts (and also no one cares except me) so, moving on; I attended Dublin Comic Con a few weeks back and thought it might be a good post for fellow nerds like me who might be interested in my experience.

Last year I went to the same convention, I have a post from last year here if you'd like to check it out too. They put it on in the Convention Centre and it's such a pretty building. If you've never seen it before it's a six or seven story building that has a huge glass side with such a pretty view over Dublin City centre. It also lights up so nice during the night, it's one of my favourite buildings to be in in the city.

     

    

I attended with my boyfriend and met up with some friends and family. There was only one talk I wanted to attend that was in the afternoon so we spend most of the morning exploring and checking out all the stalls, We bought the above Doctor Who artwork as we both fell in love with it. I love the idea of mixing David Bowie and Doctor Who together, it just works so well, plus the art is so good. I also got really tasty strawberries with chocolate and marshmallows, yum.
The Comic Con's in Ireland are no where near as big as the one's in America, no surprises there, so there's not much to do and not too many stars to see but there was a few guests that I really wanted to meet.

    

I met Michael Biehn who stars in the Terminator and Alien and also Robert Maschio who plays the Todd in Scrubs and they were both lovely. We got to talk to Robert for a little bit and bought an original script from him, how cool is that? 
The main thing I went to comic con for was to see Jim Beaver, who plays Bobby Singer in Supernatural, which is like my favourite show ever. I went to his Q&A session and it was genuinely so funny. He's such a down to earth and funny guy, literally like he is in the show and I enjoyed listening to everything he had to say. That was the only talk I went to and I kind of wish I went to more. I didn't have the most eventful comic con experience but it's so much fun meeting and seeing people that you watch in shows and movies in real life surrounded by people who have similar interests.

Has anyone ever been to a Comic Convention before? Have you any cool experiences? I'd love to hear about them! 

Dublin Comic Convention 2015

I was super excited for this event. I'd been to one comic convention before, last year and loved it! I knew I definitely needed tickets for the next one. This is going to be me rambling on about nerdy stuff for a little while so if you're like me you might enjoy my ravings.

The event started at half ten but the queue was so large we went to get coffee and waited for the queue to die down. It was held in the convention centre in Dublin, which is a huge, extremely beautiful building in the city centre. The event covered three floors and I have no idea how many people attended over the two days but I know it was a lot. I only attended one day but I would've happily gone to both. There was everything you'd expect to see at a comic convention there, an abundance of cosplayers, amazing art work, nerdy merchandise and famous people to meet. The atmosphere was so amazing and everyone was bonding over their love for certain shows and movies etc, it's such a great thing to see and be a part of.

     

One of the main reasons I wanted to go to the event was to meet Nicholas Brendon, who plays Xander in Buffy, one of my favourite shows. It was expensive to meet any of the special guests there regardless of the fact you bought a ticket in. I didn't really mind though because I was pretty excited to meet him and when I did I literally said nothing to him. All I remember doing is saying thank you and giving him a thumbs up after he got a photo with myself and my friend. I am smooth. I don't think my friend Niamh will mind me sharing our photo since it's already been on social medias previously.

 How cool is he still? Even though he looks so different since he was in Buffy. There were other guests I got to see but not talk to that I'm also a big fan of like Michael Rooker, who my mam got to dance with, safe to say she was delighted by the way and Emma Caufield. I also got to meet Gates McFadden from Star Trek, which I have seen but not watched a lot of and she was so inspiring. She was asking me about what I want to do in college and giving me advice on what to do and it was super nice of her to actually spend the time to get to know her fans and that she's actually interested. After I had met her we went to her Q&A talk for about and hour where she talked about her life and films and she was just a great person overall. She's humorous and honest, things I really like in people. I guess I'm going to start watching more Star Trek now.

There were other things to do there aswell, like games which I actually didn't even attempt to do but seemed like fun. They had reptiles there too which was a little odd but cool. There was huge snakes, lizards and spiders, which I stayed at least five feet away from.

Of course there was a life sized T.A.R.D.I.S.which meant I had to go inside and take a photo. It was disappointingly the same size on the inside. I'm pretty sure I should be the next companion really.

I really enjoyed my day, I was surrounded by extremely enthusiastic creative people and it always puts a smile on my face and inspires me  

I cannot wait to go again next year!

Anyone ever been to a Comic Convention before and what do you think of them?