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Just a quick update today to tell you about a great gaming convention our family went to. When I say gaming, I mean all types of gaming. Board games, video games, LARPing, role playing, collectible card games, miniatures, lots of special events and plenty of shopping.

The Main Hall

The main hall is where most of the tournaments, and open gaming are. They have a massive games library where you can check out any of several games. It’s perfect to try out a new game to see if you like it, or to just introduce a friend to one of your favorites.

Here's what in the game library, so you have a few options there . .

The second floor is where the LARPing and role-playing games were. Also a pretty cool Rock Band stage was set up there. If you’re into that sort of thing.

Rock Band Stage

Shopping is set up so that gaming stores can have a booth, or there are ‘flea market’ tables available that anyone can get to sell their new or used stuff.

Game Ogre, Ha! I just got that

Events and tournaments take place during the day, but open gaming is open all the time. Literally the whole time. You want to play Settler of Catan at 2:00 am, go ahead!

This was the main hall at 11PM

Gamex is one of 3 gaming conventions under the Strategicon name in Los Angeles; Orccon on Presidents Day weekend, Gamex is Memorial Day weekend, and Gateway over Labor Day weekend. It’s definitely worth checking out if you are a fan of any type of gaming. Check it out for anything from simulated naval battles . . .

To a simple board game like Wits and Wagers.

Here’s a few pics from the comics exhibit at the Skirball. It was mostly Golden Age stuff. The start of comics, how that adapted to rapidly changing world. As such, it mostly focused on DC comics.

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Sorry I don’t have more pictures, my camera battery died =(

There was another room that focused on Comic book movies, but we weren’t allowed to take any pictures there. Odd since everything there had been seen before on the big screen.

THey also had a fun ongoing Noah’s Ark exhibit.

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All the animals from the Noah’s Ark Exhibit were made from recycled materials further promoting the fragile state our land is in. When you visit the exhibit you are placed in a room where the Noah’s ark story is told to you, they hand out rain makers to the children so they can reinact the noise of the 40 days and 40 nights of rain. We then walked into the exhibit itself, as pictured above they made a large (not quite life size) model of the Ark which is amazing to think about all those animals in such a tight space. The had various stations where you can ‘make it rain’, float a boat, and even clean up animal droppings (why the kids had so much fun with that I’ll never know). We left before the concert in the ampitheatre but overall it was very fun and very educational. I highly recommend it, especially for those with young children.

We recently went to the Skirball to see the super heroes exhibit they had there. It reminded me of a very different exhibit we went to at the California Science Center a few years ago.

It was fun for adults, and educational for kids.

They had this room you had to get through in the dark too see what it’s like to be Daredevil. The had a Doc Oc area with prosthetic limbs. And Iron Man area where you could lift a car (a real car, not like the A-team van like Universal Studios used to have). There was a Magneto are where you learned about, . . well magnets, and if human mutations could actually be so extreme. They had a Storm area where you could lean about the weather. Some cool optical illusion and mind tricks at the Invisible Woman section, and much more.

Then for the growed up Marvel fans, there was a lot of great art and prints for sale.

There was a Marvel Comics time line, and a movie about Stan Lee. I don’t think it was a touring exhibit though, which is a shame because it was a lot of fun. I learned a lot about super heroes.

and a little about my self, HA!