Anime Expo 2007 Recap

I attended just the Saturday event after picking up my ticket & badge on Day 0 (so no extra hour or so in line for that thing). Stood in line for about two hours to get into the Expo and got in roughly 15 minutes after 10 a.m. The con in Long Beach was spread out as noted by other attendees. I was able to view most of the dealers in about an hour and spent the rest of the day taking pics. I was staking out two Marcoss cels of the Roy Fokker VF-1S valkryie and came back only to find one left after walking around. Ended up buying the cel since Macross is almost gone from everyone's collection to sell except the expensive items ranging from $500-over $1k. I spoke to a cel dealer I bought some Macross cels from a couple years ago and he said that they're pretty much gone and only a few dealers still carry them. Same with Mospeada and SD Southern Cross cels.

This may be my last Anime Expo (attended 3 total) since 2007 will be in L.A. at the convention center and I dislike that area (I worked across from there before and I pity the kids in their costumes walking around downtown L.A. with the bums and gangs). Plus most of the anime products sold or cosplayed are the new ones and I don't watch anime apart from the new Guyver. So since most 80s cels are gone from the dealers at AX, I will be skipping AX for a while until it comes back to Anaheim where it's close to me and I can just hop on in to see all the wacky coplayers.

See you guys potentially as San Diego Comic Con in a few weeks which may also be my last SDCC.