I'll be coming in from Escondido, so what I've usually done is park at the lot at Broadway and Pacific Hwy. and hoof it to the Convention Center. If you get to town early enough, you may get a spot at the Convention Center's underground parking.

You *are* going to pre-register for that day, aren't you? Seeing as Saturday has already sold out, Friday could well do so too.

(I'm afraid I'm not sure about the traffic.)

Yeah, I would urge you to register online, so you don't end up as one of those folks that are shown the exit, due to the convention reaching the maximum capacity.

I already pre-registered, as I pointed out earlier. Friday and Saturday.

Oh, yeah -- that's right. Okay! :) Just get there as early as you can, then.

My bad, I missed that, then. I'm really glad you did that. :terrsmile:

Awwwww, I really wanna go, But I can't.

Foster's'll be there.... Mike Nelson will be there...

I have kept an archive on the previous three Worst Cartoons Ever festival, and this is what we were exposed to:

2004
Mighty Mr. Titan. This lengthy interstitial was intended to forward the effort of physical fitness to kids, even with the addition of a little squiggly mascot, whose timely appearance and gesture during Titan's sit-ups regimen had us rolling in the aisles. Horribly animated and campy as all get out.

Johnny Cypher In Dimension Zero. This 1967 product from Joe Oriolo (Felix The Cat, The Mighty Hercules) and Seven Arts was the first American syndicated cartoon that had its animation farmed out to Japan. Non-existent from storyboard to filming.

Super President.. From 1967, DePatie-Freleng (The Pink Panther) forgot to say "Mother May I?" when creating this Saturday morning debacle for NBC. James Norcross (voiced by Paul Frees) is president of the United States who is also a superhero. Ill-timed as well: Robert F. Kennedy would be assassinated the following June of 1968, prompting NBC to buy out the remainder of the show's contract and cancel it before the fall season started.

Captain Zammo was a segment of DePatie-Freleng's Super 6 series (NBC, 1966-69). Picture a beefed up Felix Unger in a sissy elevator operator costume and you have Captain Zammo. 'Nuff said.

Muggy Doo, Boy Cat was a comic book in the late 50s created by Hal Seeger, and in 1963 Seegar (who had already done made-for-TV cartoons of Max Fleischer's Out Of The Inkwell series) decided to make an animated pilot (Boy Pest With Osh). It went nowhere in a hurry, but when Seeger created Milton The Monster two years later, he refurbished the character and renamed him Muggy Doo, Boy Fox as an infrequent segment of the show.

Filmation produced a new batch of Tom & Jerry cartoons for CBS in 1980, and included was Droopy. The screened cartoon, where Droopy competes against Slick Wolf at a disco contest, received the loudest chorus of boos from the audience out of all the cartoons we saw. John Kricfalusi worked (in protest) on this series and his graphic influence can be readily--albeit fleetingly--detected.

Superkatt was a late 40s Columbia cartoon about a housecat that disguises himself as a superhero to fool a wisecracking mouse. The best animated of the lot but still dreadful dull and by-the-numbers.

Courageous Cat And Minute Mouse has the dubious distinction of being a bad cartoon show that was created by Bob Kane, the creator of Batman. It was produced by Sam Singer, widely regarded as the worst cartoon studio of all time. One look at Courageous Cat and you'll see why. Kane would create Cool McCool much later.

The unscreened pilot for George Of The Jungle was actually the quality of the festival. While George kept calling Ursula "Fella," she was actually identified in the narration as Jane.

Also included was material that Jerry wrote and recorded as part of an aborted special he was going to do for ToonHeads on the Worst Cartoons Ever. Included were scenes from such wastes of cels and paint as Turbo Teen (ABC, 1984), Mighty Man & Yukk (ABC, 1980), The Robonic Stooges (CBS, 1977) and The Super Globetrotters (NBC, 1979).

2005
We were treated to some good old stand-bys from the previous year--Mighty Mr. Titan, Johnny Cypher In Dimension Zero, Super President--with different episodes this year. A rose by any other name...

Rocket Robin Hood, or Six Years Before Josie & The Pussycats In Outer Space, was produced by Canada's Trilliam Productions and animated by Krantz Films in New York (1960s Marvel superheroes, 1967 Spiderman), A space age take on the tale (Sherwood Asteroid?! WTF?) that is mesmerizingly bizarre.

Spunky & Tadpole was an obscurity from Ed Janis' Beverly Hills Films that wanted to go one up on Rocky & Bullwinkle in the hero department in that it featured a boy and his pal--a goofy bear--sent on heroic missions from the President, of all people. Implausible doesn't even begin to describe it.

The Big World Of Little Adam was one of those 1960s educational syndicated features that must have had the lowest budget of any cartoon made. We just see the faces of two kids behind a book with the only thing moving being their eyes. Cute theme song, though.

Captain Fathom was from the notorious Cambria studios and featured the Synchro-Vox process--superimposing real human lips reading the dialogue over the cartoon drawings. Freaky and dull at the same time.

Bucky & Pepito has been deemed--by Jerry, anyways--as the worst cartoon ever made, by the Ed Wood of cartoon studios, Sam Singer. It just sits there and pays no attention to the star characters.

King Kong was by Rankin-Bass, animation farmed out to Japan's Toei studios(!) and aired on ABC from 1966 to 1969. Infinitesimal quality control of script direction and animation--when Bobby's dad talks, he doesn't close his mouth on consonants that require it, like "b" and "m"!

2006
We were, uh, treated to new---I take that back--different episodes of favorites from last year, Mighty Mr. Titan, The Big World Of Little Adam, Spunky & Tadpole, Johnny Cypher In Dimension Zero and Super President, while this year's crap was rolled before our unsuspecting eyes:

Paddy The Pelican has replaced last year's Bucky & Pepito in Jerry's eyes as the worst cartoon ever. This Sam Singer production certainly had the worst quality control I've certainly ever seen as the animation was never inked on cels or colored and the hilariously awful dialogue never matches the mouth movements. I'll vouch for Jerry there.

Pow-Wow The Indian Boy is another Singer craptacular that I actually remember from childhood. Dialogue is all narration, no character voices (that came later in the series) but really slipshod work on the animation and story.

Sir Gee Whiz was a 1960 cartoon by, of all people, Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising, makers of those Disney-esque MGM cartoons of the 30s. Sir Gee Whiz is a leprechaun who takes a little girl to where he came from--the other side of the moon. Brain cells are duly sacrificed here.

We saw a cartoon called The Mummynappers as an episode title of a series presumably called Sidney Backstreet. This was nothing more than live action actors in black silhouette composited on cartoon backgrounds. Nobody knows where this came from, and in this case, ignorance is bliss.

Luno was a theatrical cartoon from 1963 by the Terrytoons studio about a magical flying horse who starts out as a toy but comes to life at the whim of a little boy, Tim, and takes him on magical adventures. It was actually cute in a moronic way. We saw what we think was the debut cartoon; Tim's voice was furnished in the short by Norma McMillan (later the voice of Sweet Polly on Underdog). Bob McFadden took over that voice later.

I wasn't even aware that there was a show in 2004. We don't have that DVD, maybe its not available on Beck's site any more. (Government Man was the one who bought the other DVDs, and I'm sure he would have grabbed 2004 if it had been available).

Oh, yes, there was indeed a show in '04. The pain was exquisite. :D

I hope Foster's has some exciting news this year.

So do I. Rest assured, if we learn anything good we'll pass it along to everyone. :)

Unless we're sworn to secrecy, of course. :-X

Almost completely off-topic, but this year will be the 30th anniversary of Star Wars. The film was first shown publicly at the 1976 Comic-Con.

Here is a photo from that convention, showing comic collector Alan Light. I think I actually owned the shirt on the right when I was in elementary school.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/alan-li...7594258122660/

I believe the floor will be a little more crowded this year.

Er...um...I'm confused.

Never mind. I had a shirt like that too in the 70s, it either shrunk quick or I was growing because it was ridiculously small when I stopped wearing it.

I wish I was going to the Comic-Con.:(

Hmmm... I will be watching the con on G4 Canada, I doubt they'll show any of the toon's I'm interested in. Eh, never know.

Try to get you're Mac costume on the broadcast Sparky!

Just letting folks know that I've arrived in the city of San Diego. 8-) As of right now, I have not met with the others, yet, but hopefully, it won't be long.

Great, I'm glad you got out there safely, ORD. As for everyone else leaving today or tomorrow, God Speed. Have a blast for those of us who can't make it. :bloogrin: And I think it's safe to say that we who are left behind will be on the edge of our seats come Friday night/Saturday for the latest word from our favorite show. :up:

Here I am...but my car barely made it. Tomorrow we have to find a mechanic. :sadbendy: I hope its not bad, but its making a scary noise..

I'm here, and I'm exhausted, but I'm having a good time. It's been great meeting everyone. :)

Glad to hear you guys all made it safely! Have a great time at the ComicCon and have a great time for anyone who can't make it!

As for me, we're getting ready to go to Disney in a month, Woo hoo!

Little Baby IceCream :D

I made it in from Atlanta yesterday. I'm at a place at Horton Plaza called The Internet Place (previously Cyber Zone) where I am typing this at this very moment. The preview night for four-day pre-registereds is tonight. If anyone is there from this site, you'll see me in an orange Heckle & Jeckle T-shirt.

Our group just picked up our badges, and I guess we'll be hitting Preview Night kind of individually and/or in little groups. :goo:

Currently recovering from a long Wednesday. It was a fun day for the most part. Had a bit of a headache before leaving the exhibit hall, but I'm better now. I got my Bugs Bunny exclusive, saw the Cartoon Network booth, as well as Lauren Faust's booth (did pick up some stuff there). :bloogrin: Great evening; more to come later.

Let's see... yeah, big day. We got our Con badges, which took a little longer than expected because we spent some time standing in the wrong line. :cheesegrin: The Con itself is noisey, crowded, and exciting all at once, but meeting Lauren, well, that made it all worthwhile. Afterwards some of us hit one of the local Mexican places for dinner and took care of some personal errands. Definitely a great evening, as ORD said, and I'm looking forward to tomorrow quite a lot. :)

Oh, and right after we got our badges, I saw Sailor Moon. Okay, yeah, a cosplayer. I don't care. Me majorly happy. ;D

The Story So Far.......


Well for me what was to be my dream vacation has turned into somewhat of a nightmare, as my trip into SD was a cavalcade of turbulence, screaming children, delays, missed flights, a cell phone that doesn't work in Western America and to top it all off, my luggage got lost somewhere in between Phoenix and San Diego. (As of this posting it still hasn't turned up and I am waiting for a phone call from US airways which assures me that they are doing everything they can to find it.) However through it all my companions have been very supportive and done a lot to help me manage this crisis, with such beautiful displays of friendship which almost brought a tear to my eye.

Despite all that I did manage to make it to preview night and finally got to meet Lauren and Craig for the very first time. And garnered a tiny bit of Lauren's sympathy after she learned of my ordeal. Which was a very nice thing to do. :p

So anyways, I am now off to dry my clothes and buy some replacements in case my stuff doesn't come in today, Then head out and see if things will get better, which I can say with the up most confidence... they will. :bloogrin:

Yeah, that was the "personal errands" I mentioned above. In case you read this before I see you later, please know that if there's anything I can do to help, you need only ask. :)

Have fun guys! And be sure to keep us informed of all the juicy stuff.:D

The only kinds of bags at US Air are carry-ons and lost!
I really hope they find your bags soon! Anyway, I'll bet you'll have a great time at the Con! I'll be waiting for any update that comes my way!

Little Baby IceCream ;)

And had I known this little tidbit ahead of time, I would have made other travel plans.

Needless to say, if I ever do something like this again, and I really hope to. I know which airline I will NOT be flying with. >:(

I'm so sorry to hear of your misfourtunes, Taranchula. I'm sure they'll find your luggage, and surely hope they do so before your vacay is over. I can empathise with how frustrating, gut wrenching and helpless the situation is. I hope things lighten up for you soon. Thank Heaven for good friends, huh? ;)

Quick, last minute question: since I'll be going down on Friday and Saturday, should I buy a 2-day trolley daypass?

Er...I...I'm sorry, I'm not familiar with that so I couldn't say.

In any case, look for us outside the B&M panel when you get here. You'll um...see us. ;)

I'd consider getting a two-day trolley pass, if I were you. Make sure you're early, too.

Oh yeah, I'll be good and early. Can you buy passes at or near Mission Valley?

I believe you can. Visit http://www.sdmts.com for more information.

Awww.... :( I'm really sorry about your luggage taranchula. But don't worry, I'm sure they'll find it soon! :)

New Season Five episodes will begin in September. Season Six will feature episodes focusing on the "lesser" characters; Jackie Khones, for instance, will be getting his own episode. There will also be a movie at the end of Season Six but we don't know what it will be about.

AWESOME! I can't wait for the new episodes, and Season 6.

And, oh yeah since video taping the panels was banned this year, there won't be a video of the event.

So sorry. :(

Actually, Ridureyu somehow ended up recording much of what happened (except for the clip of an upcoming Season 5 episode. Give us some time to get it up.