Anime Expo 2009 - Top 5 Moments

Hey guys, what up? It's Ernie on the bus on his way to Baltimore, Maryland for Otakon 2009. I said in the video that I was gonna make a blog on my top 5 choices and this is that blog, aren't you excited? cause i'm not. So, here are the top 5 and why they were my choices.

#5 - Anime-Walking
This was a video made by Dancing Queen from HowAGirlFigures.com (I should get paid for pimping them out as much as I do). She went around Disney Land in California and asked people about anime and what's a trap? I loved this video cause it was very original and creative. It made me want to do something like that on the East Coast. If that's alright with DancingQueen. I'm sure that she'll sue me if I do it. Well, "The Fan's POV" does plan on going to Disney World in the Summer of 2010, so it's possible. We might do that and then get kicked out for it. I thought it was funny when the guy who knew nothing about anime had to pause on the second question on whether it is a guy or a girl. I'm sure that he will be watching anime now to study up on his gender-confused characers. It was awesome and that's why it was number 5 on my list

#4 - Meeting Kel Mitchell
Alright, here's what happened. I was scoping the dealer's room to see what booth I can interview for the Dealer's Room report for "The Road to Otakon". I scored interviews with FUNimation Entertainment, Imagi Studios (who were promoting the new Astro Boy movie), TOMY USA Studios, and Atlus Studios. So, I found this other booth with all these people there to which sparked my curiousity. I went there and I was immediately noticed cause of my camera. There was a hypeman named Jay hyping up someone that I couldn't here. Then, when they were talking to the camera I realized at that point that it was Kel Mitchell singing "I'm A Dude", except it was rap version. It was alright, but still it was Kel Mitchell! That got me excited and I couldn't believe that he was at an anime convention. Also, according to Kel Mitchell, Touch Marker is the best anime marker there is. It was interesting and something I never thought see coming. However, Mad Mike from Pimp My Ride was suppose to be there too, but I didn't see. Kel Mitchell was awesome and gave away Orange Soda Boy Glasses. Those glasses alone were the reason why meeting Kel Mitchell was #4 on my list.

#3 - The Voice
During Battle of the Bands, they had the host (who was one-half of Team USA 2008 for the World Cosplay Summit) entertain the crowd. They found a way to entertain the crowd with a stagehand playing a sinister character called "The Voice", which was extremely epic. At one point, the host was charmed by The Voice. However, the voice wanted to do naughty things to the host and with what she was wearing I don't blame him. Anywho, my favorite line was "Do you like coffee? *pause* Do you like coffee from the hills of Colombia?". That brought me back to old days of early 90s television and watching 80s game shows on the USA network. I couldn't stop laughing, along with a guy who with a blog from San Jose. The coffee line was a good reasong why "The Voice" made #3 on my list.

#2 - Screaming Battle before Battle of the Bands.
Anime Expo has their own camera crew for the convention called AXBackstage, which is almost like "The Fan's POV", except they are more well-known then ourselves. Before the battle of the bands, they were trying to size up the crowd and have them scream for the camera. I thought they did a good job and I wanted to get in on the action. So, I started filming the crowd and they started to scream. As you can see from the video, I started up a screaming match between two sections of the Main Events. Afterwards, the people I was chilling with said "That was awesome". I knew at that point that I couldn't do it anywhere else, cause I would have gotten kicked out of the event and I didn't want to go through that whole drama again (Note: Look for The Journey: Ep 10, where I get in trouble for doing "Free Pocky"). The epic battle was exactly that...epic. That alone was why #2 on my list was the Screaming Battle before Battle of the Bands.

#1 - Meeting the Power Rangers
I love POWER RANGERS as a kid and still do to this day. (The older episodes are better in my opinion). When Krissy told me that the Power Rangers were having a panel at AX, I knew that I had to cover it and interview them. I covered the first hour and tried to get interviews with them during their autograph session. At first I wanted Walter E. Jones, but since he was in high demand I couldn't do it. I tried Steve Cardenas, but he was just as busy, in fact all of them were busy. So, I waited til the next day to get an interview with them, which is exactly what happened. I got interviews with the ones that I wanted to, the only exception was Patricia Ja Lee cause she wasn't comfortable which is completely understandable. As a side note, Barbara Goodson, who voiced Rita Replusa is mad short, I had to lower the legs of my tripod in order to reach eye level with her. However to make up for it, she did the voice of Rita Replusa during the introduction, which made it #1 on my list of top 5 moments from Anime Expo.

So, there you go that's my list and i'm sticking to it. What were your top 5 moments?