I spent most of my time in the Exhibitor’s Hall - which was huge! It took me maybe 20 or 30 minutes to get all the way across, though this is factoring in the amount of people I had to lemming my way with. There was so much to see! I felt like a squirrel just looking and seeing everything all at once. I even lost my friend in the first 10 minutes of entering the Exhibitor’s Hall. Trying to keep an eye out for friends and cosplays, looking up at all the huge signs for the vendors, and looking at all the cool toys everywhere was just overwhelming at times. I really liked having some mainstream comic publishers as well as a lot of artists who write their own comics trying to get out their name out there. People were giving out free swag all over the place, buttons, stickers, comic strips, and even comics.

I went into SDCC not expecting to buy anything...yes, I know it sounds like a very noob idea. I really didn’t like the idea of long lines for exclusives or toys. What ended up happening was I bought so much that I almost needed another suitcase! A lot of things I picked up were for friends who requested them, and my one stipulation was that the line can’t be long. The longest line I waited in line for exclusives was as a little as over an hour for the Super Deformed Voltron on Preview Night, which was on Wednesday night. Preview Night is pretty much an evening to be the first to shop the exclusives, and you still need a ticket for that night. Everything else was less than 10-15 minutes to get an item. I learned that some lines (NOT Funko) had a lot to do with timing; all the lines that I went into at some point during the day just always had really long lines.