SDCC Day 2

Since Camden won tickets to Funday's, we were torn what to do the next day. When we didn't have tickets, we were going to spend the day in Anaheim and go to Knott's Berry Farm, Joe's and Fire and Ice. Brad and Camden had to be back by 5, but the boys still wanted to go to Knott's. We made a quick trip and it was a lot of fun. We were only there for about 4 hours. 

The first ride for some reason had to be a water one. It was fun though.

This was all of our favorite ride. It was a horse seat and went pretty fast. It was a really quick ride, but a lot of fun. 

Beckham and I went on this one. It was SO much worse than I thought it was going to be, a lot of fun, but so bad as well. We both had fun, but would never do it again. 

You are laying all the way back as you go straight up and then straight down. I'm glad Cam didn't do it, he would have hated it. 

Then Joe's Italian Ice! The main thing everyone talks about still from our Disney trip is Joe's. I really think it's the main reason the boys wanted to go to Knott's. It was as good as we all remembered and we wanted more the next day, but it was too long of a drive. 

Beckham and I spent the evening together, and it was one of my favorite parts of the whole trip. We tried to get into Conan again, but the line was about a half a block on one side of the road and about 3/4 a block on the other. We decided to just leave and walk to Joe's Crab Shack. Beck loves sea food, so we had to try it out. We walked through the next day's Hall H line and were very glad we weren't waiting. 

Beck got shrimp and it was peel and eat. It was so much work just for shrimp, and for someone who hates shrimp, a little nasty too. All of the leftover parts are on the second plate. 

From there we walked to a nearby hotel so we could get a Lyft to go to a movie. I've never used that app before, so I was nervous to do it. I sent Brad a screenshot of my driver. After a little searching we found our driver. I didn't know you could chose to share a ride or just be alone. So he went in the middle of downtown to get another person, which took him onto the main road for conic con things. Not a smart idea. We made it to the theater with minutes to spare, just to find out it was sold out. Beck and I just decided to walk around the mall, which closed 20 minutes later, but we found a cool sock store and he got some fun socks.  We took another Lyft back to the hotel and watched TV which we checked for announcement from Fundays.  It was fun to just talk and walk around together. I wish that the mall was open longer, but we had a good time. 

Brad will tell about Fundays.

Welcome to Fundays!!! To say that this is like winning the lottery of Funko, the Superbowl of Pop collecting, is an understatement. This is a very exclusive party that only has about 1,000 general admission tickets that go out with about 100,000 people trying to get in. (the general sale sold out in about 5 seconds) We tried all of the avenues to get tickets prior to our vacation. I joined the Funatics board (you get better chances of getting tickets), the general sale, contests...but that all failed. So when Cam won the tickets it was pretty awesome to say the least. I wanted to not like it a lot because I felt bad that the whole family didn't get to come. That way I could say, "yeah, it was fun but you didn't miss out on much", but it was the highlight of the trip.

These were the lei's we got when we arrived that let you know what section and table you were in.

It is held every year at the Grand Hyatt and it was huge, a lot bigger than I anticipated. When you first walk in you scan your tickets and then they give you your Fundays bag, which includes a box of 3 random exclusive Pops, a token for a prototype figure, and a token for a "drink".

We came in and sat down, at the wrong table, and opened our boxes of fun. Brad got a 520 piece Col. Sanders Freddy, a 520 piece Tiki, and a 350 piece Aquaman Freddy. Cam got a 520 piece Col. Sanders, a 520 piece Tiki, and a 350 piece Ant man Freddy. Cam was immediately in trade mode and made a questionable trade with someone getting rid of his Col. Sanders Freddy. He went around before it started, by himself, looking at peoples pieces and asking about trades. That is pretty amazing for a kid that is as shy and anxious as he is. Unfortunately no one else would trade with him. There were two people at our table that got a 24 piece Venom Freddy, a pop that is currently selling for about $6,000 on Ebay.

This is the ballroom, again a lot larger than I expected. We watched it online last year and it seemed so much smaller. We all had light sticks colored by our section, at the beginning it was bright but they quickly were all broken and deflated and the end of it was dark.

The theme was Freaky Tiki, so it was island/Hawaiin themed.

While we weren't close to the stage we were close to the entrance where all of the performers and guests came in, so that was cool to see them come out.

Guy dressed as a monkey climbing a pole. A banana would randomly run across the stage and the monkey would chase it.

This is Mike Becker. He is the original creator/owner of Funko. He sold it in the early 2000's but is still a big part of the company and usually the main performer for Fundays.

This was King Funkona, he was the "bad guy" that we were trying to get the Golden Freddy Idol from.

One of the performers that did a balancing act.

This was the main celebrity that showed up, Mark Hammill...aka Luke Skywalker himself. It was awesome to see him, and he gave out 80 Golden Luke's, unfortunately our table didn't win.

Every time something was given out a line of Hawaiin guys would walk out with bags of pops and they would play a prize patrol song. It was when the crowd was the loudest and craziest because that is the main reason we are all there...to get "Prized Up!".

We made out pretty well, we got 16 free pops between the two of us, some very cool ones. The value of which is pretty high on these things. Unfortunately a good portion of the people that get tickets to Fundays are there to just get the expensive pops for free and resell them in the secondary market. Which is a shame because it takes away spots from people that want to go just for themselves.

Because Beck didn't get to go he got first pick of Brad's pops. He chose the Aquaman Freddy, the Golden Idol Freddy, and two Tiki pieces. It was good to spend some one-on-one time with Cam. We both had a great time and plan to make it to this as often as we can. Next year though, Beck will be the one that gets to attend.