First meet was Phil Fondacaro. I split the combo price with former markedout board member OverTheTop. Next up actor Tommy Flanagan. He was wearing a hat and shades. I asked if he could remove the shades and he took one photo with the shades and one without.
Now to the room with Halloween actors. Got Sandy Johnson, Jibrail Nantambu, and Mickey Yablan. David informed me that Dolph Lundgren's daughter Ida is a model and actress. Here I have flashbacks of my Kate Upton blunder so now I have to get her. I ask her from a distance for the photo op she said "later". Then when they were leaving their table I asked again and she took a photo op with me.
Finally got James Jude Courtney AKA Mike Myers in that room (who had a huge line). Now it was time for my main want, Fairuza Balk.
I go to the table and a line is forming. Earlier they gave some people tickets so I stood behind the last ticket holder. One other combo hunter also joins me in line. Ahead of me in line was former markedout board member Andrew (he was first row I was second). There's also an empty chair where I set both my bag and my coat.
I stood in that spot for what I estimate to be 30 to 40 min. Meanwhile more ticket holders joined the line and lined up behind me. Now you know how lines swirl. Somehow Andrew advanced himself to a point where we were close in line. Essentially my corner of the line was next to him (if that makes sense). Here is a visual. Note this picture is NOT the line that day but another day.
Basically, imagine the guy holding the black poster is me, and the guy wearing the black coat in front of the guy in orange is Andrew.
Out of the blue Andrew lashes out on me and accuses me of trying to cut in line with him. I explain to him that I have no intention of cutting with him and I'm content with my spot. I then ask him to mind his own business. He then goes on and asks if I have one of those tickets that he had, I tell him it's none of his concern. He then yells to security screaming "line cutter" pointing at me, basically ratting me out to security.
Now here is where security saw a black mark. There were ticket holders behind me that were added after I stood there. With that security chose to believe I cut the line. I explained that I was standing here for the longest time and pointed to my bag and coat on the chair next to me. He went on to even say a handicap was sitting in the chair and that was the handicap's coat. I told him that no one was sitting on the chair when I got here and this is in fact MY coat not his. But he insisted someone else was sitting on the chair. I tried to compromise and tell him I'll accept to be after the last ticket holder but he wouldn't accept that and said I had to go to the way back. After more arguments all this was for nothing as she ended up cancelling Friday. She drove cross country from LA and would not make it in time. One guy in charge of her table then wrote me a ticket to come back get her another day.
Full list of Friday Monstermania photos
Phil Fondacaro
With this we went back to NYC where I would drop Vanessa and David home, park in Queens across the street from the Big Event convention. Report for Big Event and NYC will come later.
Fast forward to Sunday I had to come back to Monstermania. Me and David drove up to Philly where we picked up Vanessa at the bus station (who was in Atlantic City).
Waited at the con with a group of other people who were there Friday and we were escorted to her table without paying admission. We were also inserted in the front of the line. I got my photo op no issue. Vanessa and David got their group op, I dropped them to the bus station, and drove home.
Fairuza Balk
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