Comic-Con 2009: Around the Exhibits

Booths, displays, celebrities, and oddities! Here are literally tons of photos from the Exhibit Hall of the infinite wonders at Comic-Con 2009…

Be aware that if you click through the “more” link, the page you will get is HUGE with almost 200 photos!

Instead of a booth, this year Syfy (formerly Scifi Channel) branded a local restaurant

One of many promotional pieces for the movie District 9

High. Way. Robbery.

Lego Rock Band

Warner Bros. booth

Recreations of instruments from Lego Rock Band made out of real Lego bricks

Tobin Bell, aka “Jigsaw” from the Saw movies

Star Wars chess

Marvel Superheroes

The Batpod from The Dark Knight

This booth offered to make you a monster using professional prosthetics & makeup

A glove worn by Michael Jackson, to be sold at auction in the future

I think it’s meant to be flattering, but you’ve got to wonder how Barack feels about this

The next movie from Mike Judge of Office Space fame

The Black Beauty from Seth Rogen’s upcoming Green Hornet film

One of many posters promoting Fox’s new hit Glee

AMC’s highly anticipated miniseries reimagining of The Prisoner

“Angels with guns” movie Legion, starring Paul Bettany

Where the Wild Things Are

Wolverine wax figure

V recruitment center

Heroes booth

Summit Entertainment’s booth had a big emphasis on New Moon

AMC’s booth for The Prisoner

Life-sized replica of Bumblebee from Transformers

Storm Shadow and Snake Eyes from the G.I. Joe movie

I don’t remember ever seeing a Hallmark booth at Comic-Con before

Lego will soon be releasing toys from Disney properties like Prince of Persia…

…and Toy Story

Entrance to the Mattel booth

Mech-walker thing from James Cameron’s Avatar

Toys based on James Cameron’s Avatar

Another view of Summit Entertainment, this time for the horror movie Sorority Row

Nickelodeon’s booth

MGM’s Stargate booth

DC Comics booth

Xbox booth

Yours truly (center) with author Peter David (left) and Shadow Complex video game producer Donald Mustard

A tower o’ Spongebob toys

G4′s booth

A replica of the Nautilus from 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

The “sails pavilion” at the San Diego Convention Center, where everyone first enters

On the streets of San Diego, Syfy’s giveaways were denoted by these giant balloons

Sony’s booth, where District 9 had a big presence

Special, one-of-a-kind PSPs given away at Comic-Con by Sony

The cast of Spongebob Squarepants

Photo booth for New Moon

Clever marketing for the movie 2012

Nobody messes with the 501st! (Star Wars video game reference, sorry…)

Yes, there’s actually enough of a niche market for this

Replica of a squidee from The Matrix

Character replicas from Disney/Pixar’s Up

Replical of the new Enterprise from JJ Abrams’ Star Trek, complete with built-in lights

Best ship in the ‘verse

Model of the Tick

Herbie the Love Bug

The Rocketeer

The Nazgul from Lord of the Rings

An Uruk-Hai from Lord of the Rings

Legolas from Lord of the Rings

Zombies, zombies, everywhere

Models based on the Indiana Jones movies

“You throw me the idol, I throw you the whip!”

The ever-present Avatar

Some really creative and funny variations on Storm Troopers

Love the Optimus Prime Storm Trooper!

Grand Admiral Thrawn from the expanded Star Wars universe

Count Poopoo, I mean Dooku

C’mon, that’s just cool

An iconic moment in film history

Who doesn’t need a life-sized bust of Admiral Ackbar?

General Grievous

Bust of old man Anakin from Return of the Jedi

Venom Spider-Man

Captain America

The Angel of Death from Hellboy II

The “Big Baby” from Hellboy II

Iron Man Mark One armor

Galactus, the World Devourer

I am ze Governator

Tron Mickey Mouse

Captain Jack Sparrow Mickey Mouse

Gentle Giant booth, makers of film replica statues

Apparently the DVD was on sale for $10 at Comic-Con; I’m bitter that I missed it!

New Moon merch

Yeah, you know you want it

More Lego Rock Band

Rizzo

Kermit

A Dalek from Doctor Who

Sony Online Entertainment’s booth

THQ booth

PlayStation booth

Capcom booth

NCsoft booth

Activision booth

Sony’s booth

Fox’s booth

Lionsgate’s booth

Imagi booth

B.O.B. from Monsters vs. Aliens

BBC’s booth

Star Wars outfits

Lucasfilm booth

The police motorcycle from Star Trek

Sideshow Collectibles

A fan-made South Park character made entirely out of Lego bricks

A steampunk version of a Naboo fighter from Star Wars, made of Lego bricks

The Bridge of the Enterprise, made out of Lego bricks

No idea what this Lego creation is, but it’s very impressive

The California Browncoats, keeping Firefly/Serenity alive

A vendor that’s here every year, where you can satisfy all your poster needs

You know you want this too

Just thought this was funny

Marvel Comics booth, where it was all about Iron Man II

Gollum made out of bronze

Master Chief and the Arbiter, from Halo

Replicas of the ornate, detailed weapons from Lord of the Rings

Eowyn vs. the Witch King, from Return of the King

Smaug the Dragon from The Hobbit. Will the movie version resemble this?

A mosaic wall made out of tiny Lego bricks that fans got to help build

Paul Hogan (Colonel Saul Tigh) of Battlestar Galactica

James Callis (Gaius Baltar) of Battlestar Galactica

Edward James Olmos (Admiral William Adama) of Battlestar Galactica

Dexter was big at Comic-Con this year

Dexter toys

Peter Mayhew, aka Chewbacca from Star Wars, is a Comic-Con fixture

All photos by Robin Parrish.