Wow, today was incredible.
As always, it's so fun to reminisce about all the special and unexpected and crazy moments of the Batkid Day (Nov. 15, 2013) with some of the incredible people who made it a reality. What was REALLY crazy was that today we got to do that on a panel at San Diego Comic-Con International!
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Room schedule |
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OMG |
Earlier today in San Diego, California, we presented a new trailer for the upcoming documentary film Batkid Begins. Most of the "cast" of the Batkid day was there, along with Patricia Wilson from Make-A-Wish Greater Bay Area and Dana Nachman, the director of the documentary. Our panel was moderated by the illustrious Chris Taylor from Mashable. That dude is totally awesome.
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Chris and Patricia |
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Me being animated about something |
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Talking, and EJ demonstrating the "Riddler box" |
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Penguin Waddling demo for the crowd |
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Me and Patricia |
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Dana, Patricia, EJ, Sue, Me |
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Our Comic-Con Panel |
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Awesome day with awesome people |
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The Bat-team |
At one point in the panel, I demonstrated the different kinds of "Penguin waddles" and why we chose the sillier, waddlier one:
At the end of the panel, Michal and I headed out and managed to snag one of Uber's special "Gotham City" police cars for a cruise around San Diego's downtown.
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With my Uber Gotham City Police Car, no big deal ;) |
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Michal cutely posing with a rough news headline (thankfully, it's the fake "Gotham City News") ;) |
Here's the new trailer.
(Aside: a major purpose of the Comic-Con Panel for Batkid Begins was to promote the documentary and also give a shout-out to the Indiegogo fundraising campaign. The film producers are reaching out to the community to ask for fundraising to plus-up the film with aerial shots, sound editing, a cool animated sequence, etc. See here for more details:
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/batkid-begins)
A few more fun pics:
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Friends or Foes?! :) |
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EJ, Sue, Me |
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EJ showing off his awesome homemade Bat-tech from the Batkid Day |
It's been a long and fun day. Back in San Francisco now
and time for some sleep after a fun and over-stimulating weekend of
Comic-Con madness: on the expo floor, in line for panels, and...
somehow... doing our OWN panel?!?!!! Wow, I still can't believe that
just happened.