BIDDING ON A GOOD TIME
One of the first things to greet you on the Show Floor depending how you entered was the eBay installation. Rare items were rotating inside protected cases. If you wanted, screens allowed you to place bids. The more exciting part of the day seemed to be when you could scan your badge and snag a sealed box of lord knows what. Early Friday, the team members handing out boxes were telling people they had no idea what was in the boxes— they just knew they needed to get rid of them. There seemed to be no line at the actual counter, but that’s because of the delay in scanning badges. So I took a picture of a guy stuffing a box into his bag (right) and skipped getting in line myself. At one point Saturday, a line wrapped all around that end of the Show Floor.
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Women in line for the bathroom had to reassure each other that their line was separate from that mystery line—which was an issue Friday when the Funko line blended too heavily with the Reed Pop show exclusives line. The Doctor Strange posters on the back half of the eBay installation were the only hint they might be handing out something timely at various points during the weekend. —MV
Art Department Weekly • New York Comic Con 2021
