Batkid movie panel at San Diego Comic-Con 2014

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!

Room schedule

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.

Chris and Patricia

Me being animated about something

Talking, and EJ demonstrating the "Riddler box"

Penguin Waddling demo for the crowd

Me and Patricia

Dana, Patricia, EJ, Sue, Me

Our Comic-Con Panel

Awesome day with awesome people

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.

With my Uber Gotham City Police Car, no big deal ;)

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:

Friends or Foes?! :)

EJ, Sue, Me

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.