Okay, I kept quiet because I opened the box at my library so shhhhhh (I squee'd internally).
...now where am I gonna put this thing (and the Scully's Lab gift set) together?
I am thinking of doing a stop-motion like record of a piece-by-piece process, but I need space to do that with.
Oh no, there goes my monthly budget... Lego is coming out with an X-Files themed set this August!
And they've gotten Scully Gillian to promote it!
Ahem.
Update: I visited a Lego store in the Tampa FL area where they had set up a table and were working on putting a display model of the X-Files set. Oh ye GODS, the number of pieces involved. And the instruction booklet was the size of a Norman Mailer novel.
I can't wait!!! /drool
Follow-up to the Update: It's August 1st, and I ordered it online.
I got the extra gift: Scully Exam Room
/more drool
So the line to get into Orlando MegaCon is long (as always):
And the line to see Gillian in a large conference room was long (it filled up faster than I expected):
But it was worth it to see Agent Scully Gillian on stage!
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| This last one is Gillian laughing at a Q&A from a person who worked with LEGO to build an upcoming X-Files set! OMG! LEGO AND X-FILES! (dies) |
And of course the line for the photo op to stand next to Scully for 3.7 seconds was (at this point, not surprised):
And the line for autographs (attempting to drop off a print copy of my fanfic) was too long for me to wait any longer (as at that point I'd been standing for 6 hours or running around so much my step tracker app told me I had done 4 miles walking by then, oy my feet) that I decided against doing it (I went and sat in a corner of the West hall for an hour to recoop).
I wonder if I should share my photo standing next to GA. I hope she wasn't too embarrassed by my cosplay attempt.
All apologies for not posting here... since... (checks notes) 2023?!?
Granted, I've been distracted by other things: writing projects, getting books self-published, herding cats, coping with social anxiety and chronic depression, yadda yadda...
But When I heard that at this year's Orlando MegaCon that Gillian Anderson was planning to appear, well...
Yes, I am going to see her (there will be other X-Files cast members in attendance so the odds are they will have a round-table group for the fans). I even spent the extra money to pose for a photo with her. I rarely do for these 'cons, it always felt like an extravagance. But now? Yeah, I'm stoked.
I may even break out the trench coat and risk sweating it out dressed as a spooky FBI agent for the 'con.
