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THE EVENT
Me and friends went to APCC on it's 3rd and last day - Sunday. Actually, we have been planning on going to this event since June that we've rented an airbnb room near the SMX Convention area. Our original plan was to go there on Saturday to get some waiver for the Hall M by Marvel on Sunday. Marvel requires all comicon goers on Sunday to get some waiver the day before the actual event, for us it was a bummer because the SMX Convention area is so far from our home. SMX Convention is on the south side of manila while we reside at the far north and beyond manila. I just wished that they had an online waiver of some sort for folks like us. You might be wondering why I mentioned it was a bummer when we will be on an airbnb room, your guess is right, We didn't end up on that room. Agoda which is an app/website for booking rooms in reasonable price had made a huge mistake on our booking. It hadn't booked the room which we paid months before the event. My friend who booked the room also has a fault on it by not checking or contacting with the room owner if the transaction went thru. He only checked on the room, on the day that we were going to check-in. So, that's a goodbye for the Hall M by Marvel access. But we've managed to booked a last minute hotel around Manila but we needed a ride to be able to go to SMX and we've booked it around 6pm, everybody on our group was pretty much exhausted. I'll be posting another blog on where we've stayed so stay tuned for that.
Next day, we went to SMX around 8am got there within 20-30 mins. The line for the people without tickets and people with tickets are separated in two lines, so the line wasn't that long, I can say we were probably the 20th person in the line of people without tickets, that's pretty much in front of the line.
While at the Convention, First on our agenda was to buy the Jollibee Funko POP!
We managed to snag this elusive toy, currently in high demand. I did a blog post about this on my other blog PancakeCarrot you could check it out on that link. Meanwhile, here's a video of our unboxing
It was a successful haul, other than that our next mission was to go to the Hall D by Disney, luckily this doesn't require a waiver to be able to get in but all electronic devices was confiscated before entering the Hall D.
HALL D by DISNEY
Our Hall D by Disney experience consists of exclusive trailers on shows that they will offer on their new DisneyLife App. Me and Paul already had a free 6 months subscription via Globe Telecom and we've been using it for a month now and I may say so, it's better than our Netflix Subscription. It has Star Wars and Marvel exclusive behind the scenes video and complete Clone and Rebel Wars series on it. and of course, a lot of Disney Princess.
"They had us at Star Wars"
At Hall D they showed us the working title of the new Star Wars: Clone Wars series, New 101 Dalmatian series, New freaky friday series, A sneak peak on the behind the scenes of the Descendant 3 and a new toon.
Besides that they had a guest speaker, fellow filipino, the award-winning artsit - Kenneth Cobonpue, who revelead his new Star Wars Inspired Furniture Collection.
Mark Henn a long time Disney Animator, who created hand-drawn animation for Beauty and the Beast, Mulan, Moana, Lion King and many more shared exclusive first look on the Ralph breaks the internet.
It has been said that the Hall D by Disney at APCC was the first one held in Asia. I'm so glad to be a part of it.
Meeting Simone Legno
My APCC experience it's complete without my Simone Legno interaction.
Last year, was my very first time to meet Simone Legno, as mentioned on my previous blog, I have been a huge fan of Simone since college and have just been too broke to attend his events here in the Philippines. He has been in the Philippines for so many times but last year was just my first ever encounter with him.
This year, I didn't made the cut off on the line on meeting him. I was just 6 person away from the queue. But that didn't stop me on having my Palette signed.
Luckily, I had the chance to ask for another person in front of me who made it in the queue to signed my toy. This year, Tokidoki booth was same as last year due to some customs issue at his area, he didn't managed to bought stuff here in Manila. Usually, he releases same SDCC exclusive at APCC. I hope next year he'll be having no customs issues and bring some merch here.
The Experience
In Genereal, We did have some issues here and there but we still managed to have a good time at APCC 2018. I'll do some video collage of some parts we did get by video and post it here on my blog, In the meatime, Thanks for reading my long blog and be sure to follow me on various social media sites!
We will be back for APCC 2019!
