From the passenger seat of a Volkswagen Polo, Captain America is lowered, who then takes out his trunk shield. He accompanies him, behind the wheel, a geisha. And in the back two children travel: a hobbit and a ninja turtle that are shot from the parking lot. Wellcome Heroesthen receives the huge arc that gives access to the and where they melt with a crowd. The appointment is celebrated at the Palace of Fairs in Malaga until Sunday with a capacity of about 30,000 people daily. Those who have attended this Thursday have filled the enclosure, especially the interior, where there was no pin. “This is the tail with. There are tails for everything. But well, we were prepared and with a little patience, we are getting everything we wanted to do,” said Ismael Segovia, Sevillian of 38 years, while waiting in a long line to get his signature with the actor, an autograph that cost him 66 euros.
There is no doubt that the hopes generated by the event have penetrated. Since the doors opened at ten in the morning, thousands of people have pulled for the 80,000 square meters for the. There were people wherever the view would reach, many disguised. The illusion was evident. “We wanted to go to the United States, but it is impossible. And suddenly they do it here, so we couldn’t miss it,” said Francis and Chema Casas, Granada brothers, 47 and 48 years old. An official of the administration of justice and another commercial, looked with bright eyes everything that happened around them. “We want to have fun, see people, costumes. Whatever,” they added. “The American touch is a lot. In Europe there are other similar festivals, but not so great. There was also one of the around 200 creators of accredited content, surrounded by cameras and micros.
The enclosure is made, at times, unbeatable. There are so much to do and see what it costs to choose, with moments when they can coincide up to twenty activities. The majority of attendees – all ages – made their second tail of the day – – to enter the area where the stands are deployed and you can participate in workshops. Between narrow halls where it was difficult to walk and missing space, we had to wait for almost everything. There were queues to buy some of the four funkos limited edition at between 20 and 22 euros – which were sold out in minutes, such as the 1,200 special stamps launched by emails to euro each – and also to access many other t -shirts, cosplay objects or video games. There were not for the liquidation Catanas to 45 euros, but to take pictures of a or to enter the official store, of small dimensions.
“We want a t -shirt (19.90 euros), a cap (from 19.90 to 24.90) and we will see if something else falls,” said brothers Jesús and Jorge Barón, 33 and 43 years old, surprised by the rows of people who were everywhere. There were also tails for role -playing tables, so that Simon Bisley or John Romero signed – Gratis – to their fans. Tails to take photos on the motorcycle of Tron or to enter the reproduction of Andy’s room, from Toy Story. Tails on Penguin’s stand to overflow with comics, in the recreational machine of The day of the beast And to photograph himself with a giant Bowser – the bad one from the Saga of Mario Bros – of Lego. Tails to go to the bathroom and tails to fill water bottles in a small fountain. “Tails for everything,” summarized the Venezuelan Roberto Cañizales, 50.
Complaints for the agenda
“This is the comic with tail,” said another assistant while waiting with his group of friends from Seville for the signature of. Among them, Marina Mazuelo: “There are many people and we have to wait a lot in general, but it is what we already imagined,” he said, before ensuring that paying 55 euros for the autograph of the actress of the Wolverine saga was also something predictable. “In the United States it is much more expensive,” he said. And not only there. Beside him, Ramón Pérez and José Miguel Cárdenas recalled that for Carrie Fisher’s autograph – the mythical Leia de Star Wars– In a convention in Germany they paid 220 euros. “Here it is not the same level of actors, but hey, something is something,” they said. “What is regular is the agenda: it makes no sense that everyone who signs do so today. And what about those who have entry on Saturday?”
“I only bought Thursday and I was very lucky, because then nothing of the program was known,” said Angela Martín, 21, while waiting for his photo with Taz Skylar. “It is a lot of fabric to pay 90 euros for a photo, right?” Wondered the Malaga Toni Vega, 22 years old and Alba Romero, 30. “For some are expensive prices, for others it is fine., Because in the end there are few who do it,” added Aida Triviño, 30 years old and traveled from Barcelona to live the comic-with in the first person. “I was in San Diego’s and, of course, it was giant compared to this. I have feelings found, because there are good things here, but also bad: there is enough to improve,” he said. “It’s very good, but some Chicha is missing. Maybe a lot was played with expectations and those who come thought that this was going to be bigger … but it’s fine,” said another Venezuelan, Raúl Navas, 31.
They queued-some more than an hour-and around the expectation grew in the outer zone to see the best known faces of the Comic-Con, which in cases signed for few minutes, after some sunglasses and without losing the smile of who charges 66 euros every time his signature stamps (the organization clarified that the rate is complete for the artists). Meanwhile, numerous fans sweated to the Andalusian sun at the end of September with temperatures close to 30 degrees to see it from afar. At one step, throughout the external enclosure – bouting as a village – an assistant Aquaman dressed posed for the cameras with his trident, another under the skin of Pikachu droved in the shadow and a small Han Solo danced to the rhythm of the tune of the Simpsons. Beyond a Roman gladiator drank beer in another row to access the food stalls – 3,15 euros a coffee, 17 euros a hamburger and 20 euros the salmon poké – and hundreds of people formed another row to try to access, without reserve, to the first large panel of the day focused on heroes and villains with Luke Evans, and Pedro Alonso. Later, he touched the entitled Warrior women With the participation of Dafne Keen, Gwendoline Christie and Natalia Dyer for which, of course, we had to queue.
