Monday, September 14, 2009

Black and White View and D23

A nice view of Tomorrowland from the same series of black and white views. On the left hand side if the Flight Circle and the right had side is the Space Bar.
As most of you know, I was selling at the D23 Expo for the last 4 days. The event was from what I can tell a success. The crowds on Thursday were very good for a first time show, Friday was a little slow but Saturday and Sunday were busy with many attendees. In fact on Sunday, as I was packing up one person was still going through my boxes of stuff....
The events and talks were all very good from what I heard. I tried to get into the Sherman Brothers talk on Thursday, but it was full. I did attend two as I wrote in a previous post, and both were excellent. Several friends attended the seminars on Sunday and said the DeFore history of the Silver Banjo was informative and entertaining. I was a little underwhelmed with the display from the Archives, which mainly consisted of props and costumes and not much historical items. The Theme Park display of the imagineering models, the first Lincoln and Bill Justice's programming control panel were outstanding. The roller coaster and haunted house attraction being planned for Hong Kong Disneyland looked fun and make me want to head to Hong Kong when the rides are completed. For a first time event it was well run and load out was a breeze (I thought it was going to be more difficult.) I saw many of my friends and fellow collectors and had a fantastic dinner with John, the creator of the Secret Tour of Disneyland DVD, Tim of Vintage Disneyland Tickets, Amazon Belle, Major Pepperidge from Gorillas Don't Blog and Michael. Thanks and Hello to all the people who stopped by. I do appreciate the thanks and that is one reason all of us bloggers keep posting.

6 comments:

Major Pepperidge said...

Hey Patrick, it was great seeing you and all the guys yesterday! I'm glad we made the plans. We'll have to do it again someday.

Anonymous said...

You might be interested in the info at the following link which I found today. I thought of you and the disnel crew when I saw it. Share it if you care to.

best wishes.

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Hrundi V. Bakshi said...

I probably stopped by your booth (I was there Friday, Saturday & Sunday)and possibly chatted with you, but since I didn't know the name of your particular booth . . . . unsure.

Were you near or across from a vendor that was easily recognizable?

Vintage Disneyland Tickets said...

Great to finally meet you! Dinner was awesome - excellent company... The Expo was fun and I thought it went pretty good for a 1st time event. I'll see you at NFFC in January!

Matterhorn1959 said...

Hrundi- I was across from the giant painting of Daisy and Donald yelling at each other. Next to me was Hollywood Book and Poster.

Matthew said...

Hi-Ya PJ! It was great hanging out with you and the guys after the D23 event. Thanks for putting up with my Bos'n Steve story. I can’t find my Amazon Belle account so I guess I'll just go by name for a while.

Cheers!
Matt