D23 Lost Auction Booth

This was the Auction half of the ABC Lost Booth.

They revealed the new Poster for Season 6 with the cast lined up with Locke in the center with his back to us. That part was shown at Comic-Con. What was not shown was the word "The Final Season", if you look closely notice there are Hieroglyphics in those words. Also how in "The Final they are white and in "Season" they are Black. The whole Black and White theme comes back full circle. Just awesome! Maybe if we do get to see the Alternate Reality of 815 landing at LA Ex we will see a bit of the parallel realities going back and forth playing off of the Black and White opposites theme?
On the back of the booth they had all 6 season posters hanging up. I still like the season 3 poster best.

A giant cast poster with rocks to sit on for taking pictures. I overheard two marketing reps saying that they were planning on taking it to Hawaii to have the cast sign it.

The Autograph signing table a few hours before Little Ben and Chang arrived.

D23 Lost Auction

Im not going to take the time to label things since I did that back at the Comic-Con report. I like the glass cases and the whole set up better at D23 then at Comic-Con.

D23 Lost Auction

Lost University Dorm Room

For the Lost University they had an actual Dorm Room set up with tons of Lost, Lost University and Dharma stuff. It was awsome!

Back or the Dorm Display. This is where the line to see Little Ben & Chang was.

Lost University Dorm Room

I noticed that this was on of the skateboard decks that they were giving away during the Boston Damon, Carlton and a Polarbear event. I asked one of the ABC Marketing Reps who were there about Polarbear and he acted like he didn't really know what I was talking about. He said that different Marketing groups at ABC handled each Lost thing, Polarbear, Lost University and the Auction.

Notice that Benjamin Linus is on the Dart Board

Lost University Dorm Room

Unfortunatly The lights made my picture dark.
Season 5 Bluray Packaging

Season 5 Dharma Initiative Packaging

Calendar - Interesting that theres a message that says that he acidentally bought a 2010 calendar

Ad for a club event and Mr Cluck's Cluck Bucks. Also under the trading card at top is the button we recieved for signing up for the LU e-mail list.

Lost University Dorm Room

There were reps there from ABC Marketing how had people get onto the Lost University Website to sign up for e-mail alerts and when they did they received an LU pencil, card (both were given out at Comic-Con) and a pin with the Season 6 (Final Season) poster on it.

I asked the Reps if they were going to be selling these magnets. He said no, but that ABC would be flooding the marketplace with Lost related stuff.

The blue magnet says Quarantine.

Thoughts on D23 as a Convention

I had mixed feelings on Disney's first convention effort. On one hand I give them an A for all of the great stuff that they presented. on the other hand they received a D for organization. On their website it stated that people with a Disney Twenty Three membership would get in at 8am. Those that didn't have that could register at 8am and get in at 9am. Well we weren't allowed to to even register until 8:30 or 8:45am. Not a huge thing, but not what the website said at the same time.

The bigger issue for me was their policy that if you went in to big presentations that you had to turn in you camera and cel-phones. I could kind of see that because of internet leakages, but it seemed extreme. Comic-Con just patrols the room for that sort of thing. But to make it worse they weren't prepared. I got in line to see a 3pm panel on The Princess and the Frog at 2:15 I waited as they put us in a room and had our line snake back and forth. It was about 3:15 when I saw people come in with buckets to put our stuff in and they announced that they were going to start padding us down and checking bags. I noticed at 3:25pm at the line hadn't really moved at all. So at that time I started noticing people leaving the line and decided that it was getting pointless to stay so I went to watch a screening of the first episode of ABC's Flash Forward. I'm so glad that I did, because it was great and who knows how long I would have been there. Disney need to study Comic-Con before they attempt this next year.

D23 Disney Parks

Naked Abe, actually this was the original Abraham Lincoln that Walt Disney took to the World fair to prove that he could make an animatronic robot that could be used for rides and shows in the Parks. Which resulted in the Hall of Presidents. There were pictures of some of the Disney people in the Oval office with their special cameras to capture Barrack Obama's mannerisms for his entry into the Magic Kingdom Exhibit. This is the scale mock-up of two rides and a land that will be added to Hong Kong Disney. A Grizzly Bear Roller Coaster (I didn't know that China had Grizzlies) Mystic Manor their version of The Haunted Mansion/Indiana Jones, but different story and Toy Story Land. One of the Imagineers gave and actual pitch for Mystic Manor. Its a story about this Victorian Scientist/ Collector of Artifacts who allows people to come and visit to see all of his treasures. When you visit he shows you a cursed treasure that had just arrived. His pet monkey messes around with it and it brings everything in his house to life, The Armor Room, the Music room, etc. You go through 9 rooms before he fixes things.

They had a big presentation about the new Cars Land that will be placed behind the Mission Tortilla Factory. You walk through the city which looks just like Radiator Springs.

This was a life size version of Lighting McQueen to show his eye and mouth animation.

After you get through the town there's a desert racing ride.