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!
After the Exhibition Hall, we went to check out Friday’s Pokémon meet up in one of the Portable Lounges. The first thing I noticed was the lack of tables at this lounge; in fact all it had were a bunch of huge pillow-bean bag things strewn across a corner of the convention center. This made it impossible to go around and see what people were playing. Unfortunately the turn out to this particular Pokémon meet up was low so we didn’t hand out as many of our ads as we would have liked.
Later on, after some dinner, we went back to Arcanator’s hotel room. For some reason they offered him a bigger room for less money when he checked in to the hotel. He accepted of course and so we had a pretty awesome room to hang out at night, complete with a kitchen, big dining room table, and a sweet couch. We sat around the table and had philosophical pokémon discussions and worked on some website content for the remainder of the night.
Overall it was a pretty fun day, but I’m super excited about tomorrow. It should be the busiest day of the convention. Tomorrow night we will likely record a WTPT episode, possibly some more video content and, of course, I will write another blog. Talk to you then!
