#95 - Pokemon convention!

I liked pokemon when it originally was popular. The thing is, at the time I was about 7. I mean, I was pretty obsessed.. but I was 7. So it was not really a big deal for me. It's not like I would actually go somewhere, just for pokemon. I had a couple of gameboy games, sure, and I had a couple of hundred pokemon cards (oh dear, that's quite a lot actually), but I'd never been to a pokemon convention before. And that's where all new year comes in.. the pokemon summer day camp, toys-r-us cardiff, 18th August 2007. The whole aim of the day was to get a free mew download (for those of you who don't know, mew is a pokemon). I was invited - half-jokingly - by haz, who was going with rhys and rhys's friend, jack. Somehow, I think that none of them actually expected me to come, I mean, I don't actually LIKE pokemon.. nor do I have any pokemon games.. or know anything about pokemon whatsoever. But I could not turn down an all new thing opportunity such as this, oh no.

After an interesting car journey from caldicot, during which a small child was staring at me (it would seem that small children, medium sized children and in fact large children find me quite interesting), we arrived at toys r us to see a large queue. the first person that I noticed was a girl dressed in a home-made pokemon costume - a green thing with a large red spike on her chest. I was quite terrified. after quite a long time of queueing, at one point in the wrong queue, we finally reached the 'trainer cards'. We had to fill out our Name, age, trainer name (for which I put "monkey", I don't know what I was supposed to put..) and challenge completed (I left that one blank, it's fine.)

then we had a pokemon related quiz to complete. I left two of the answers blank, although I COULD have written banana and tom, in hindsight. I also had to fill out some personal details, e-mail address etc.. then we were told to go and collect our pokemon goodie bags. after about 10 minutes of searching the store (we took a nice photo in the high school musical section, 'cause we're cool like that) we eventually found a man handing out the goodie bags. we followed him around without saying anything for a couple of minutes - I don't really know why - and then we asked about the goodie bags. they contained: stickers, posters, a booklet of some sort and a school timetable that we can fill in next year. Jack and rhys attempted to download a second mew - they failed.

all in all, the pokemon convention was okay. We didn't get a chance to play "pokemon battle revolution" on Wii, nor did we have our faces painted. however, we did see this guy:



I thought he was dressed as a dead christmas tree with balloons on his head... but that's just me. anyway, he made it all worthwile.

lovelove
dani x