TTT Irvine Line Party
Irvine Spectrum, Southern California, December 2002
Here are some costume pictures from one of California's biggest line
parties for the opening of "The Two Towers".
Picture hyperlinks will open larger shots of the costumes.
Luckily, opening night for The Two Towers fell between rain storms in
Southern California, but it was still mightily cold and windy. I arrived at
the Edwards 21 Theater at the Irvine Spectrum around 5pm to find about 20
people or more already in line. My first group had actually set up camp at
midnight the night before, so they were were all set with a tent and
sleeping bags. This line was for the first theater to have gone on sale and
sold out weeks earlier. By the time the theater let everyone in, we had 4
lines and 4 very full theaters. Final numbers are close to 2000 people
seeing the midnight screening of Two Towers.
As you can see from the pics, we had some fabulous costumers turn up to
win items provided by Sideshow/WETA and Houghton Mifflin. I also had helpers
run some games, including a Jeopardy style trivia game and a quotes
competition. These games were run in the lines, while inside the theater
lobby, we had some Decipher product champions showing people the ins and
outs of the LOTR TCG.
I ran a second Line Party event on Saturday, December 21. This afforded
adding games and activities for kids to participate in. We had coloring and
word games for the kids, a raffle drawing during one of the evening
screenings, and Dagohir, a combat recreation group demonstrate fighting
techniques. We also had a blood drive, which brought in 31 pints of donated
blood by the end of the day. Prizes for this day included more Sideshow/WETA
statues, Topps collectible card sets, The One Ring by Badali Jewellry and
some shirts and soundtracks provided by New Line.
All in all, both days went very well, and people truly seemed happy to be
there, hang out together, and see an amazing movie.
== Garfeimano
