The second day of PAX has been an adventure. We ran into a lot more Pokémon fans and did a lot of advertising for the site. Although, it has still been a bit harder than I was expecting/hoping. The easiest way for us to find people was to actually walk around with people in Pokémon costumes and give fliers to the people that stopped them for photos. Arcanator and Dragoon Master brought cosplay outfits with them. Arc dressed as a Team Aqua grunt and Dragoon dressed as Professor Elm. Needless to say, that worked out well.

We were also able to get interviews with a few cosplayers and other interesting people at the con. For example, we happened to run into a few people who work for a little company called Pokémon USA. Yep! Justin made quite a catch by talking to a guy with one of the new Dialga and Palkia DS Lites, who happened to have worked for the company. I don’t want to give away too much here, but you will learn more about our experiences with them on the next podcast and in a few videos we recorded. I will start posting that stuff on Tuesday.

Speaking of the next podcast, we recorded it in Arc’s hotel room tonight. It is mostly a random jumble of PAX thoughts and impressions. In addition, we did an interesting impromptu live Blaine’s Gym segment. Overall it was really cool being able to have multiple staff members on the show to record a regular episode. (KC was sorely missed though!)

We were really productive today and I hope we get even more done tomorrow! JoeC is leaving early though, so he said his goodbyes as we left Arc’s room. I am not looking forward to having to say my goodbyes!

Today was the big day! It was the first time I’ve ever met up with someone in person that I met through The Pokémon Times. Only, today I met up with four people that I know from the site! That’s right, Arcanator, JoeC, JustinV and DragoonMaster are all here at PAX.

Friday has been a day of mostly getting settled. The convention activities didn’t start till 2pm, so the group and I had time to hang out, and get to know each other over some lunch and coffee. We also continued work on our newspaper page ad that we made to promote the site. 200 of them were printed in total and we folded them in half to make them look even more like newspapers.

When we finally made it to the convention, JoeC Dragoon and I accidentally got on the line for the Exhibition Hall, so we were among the first to check out all the industry booths. My favorite booth was probably Nintendo’s because I got to try a handful of games that didn’t come out yet, including Animal Crossing: City Folk, Wii Music and Pokémon Ranger 2: Shadows of Almia. Look for some demo videos on WTPT-TV soon! more…

I decided to come across the country to Seattle a little bit early to visit some of my college friends who live out here. I arrived here Wednesday night after about 9 long hours of traveling (including the 2 trains to get to the airport, and my stopover in Chicago) and I haven’t stopped eating since! On Thursday, my friends took me around to all the landmark eateries in the area. I snapped a few photos on the way. Take a look! more…

In just a few days I’ll be flying across the states to beautiful Seattle, Washington. There, I will be visiting some friends and also attending Penny Arcade Expo 2008. Why is this relevant to you? Well, there are a number of reasons. First, I will be blogging from the conference. So you should check back here for updates that weekend.

Next, I will be meeting up with a number of friends from the WTPT community including Arcanator, JoeC and JustinV! If you plan on being at PAX, please send me an e-mail so we can meet up too. This will be my first time meeting any listeners or staff members in person and I’m quite excited.

Also, we are planning on creating a lot of content for the site while at the convention. I would like to record an on-the-road episode sometime during the weekend. In addition, we plan on making videos, writing articles and posting blogs, as I mentioned earlier. Even if you aren’t at the conference there should be a lot to look forward to!