The Ender’s Game Experience at Comic Con 2013

Yesterday, the staff of EnderWiggin.net attended a special press preview of the Ender’s Game Experience at Comic Con and we were completely overwhelmed by everything. We walked in and immediately you see giant posters and a big screen tv showing the trailer on the wall.

The first room you walk into is the Wiggin living room with a hi-tech tv and uniforms displayed. In the next room there was a replica of a shuttle seating area (Bernard arms beware!) with another large tv showing a Battle School video.

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Walk further and you see the Battle School army logos on the wall just before entering a classroom which people could sit in. Touch the screen and you could scroll through stills and screenshots of the trailer while watching a video about Earth’s hero, Mazer Rackham, which showed the mother ship exploding after Mazer fires a sit into the ship.

Past that comes what Bob Orci told us was his favorite of the sets in the Experience, the gate. There was Gate B, with a huge mural of Ender with the words “The Enemy’s Gate Is Down” on the wall. Turn to your left and there’s a HUGE gate serving as an archway to a moving digital mural of the Battle Room where fans could pose.

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Walk into the next room and you encounter a giant star about 10 feet high. No idea if these are actual sizes, but this one is massive. On the wall in that room was a huge mural of Ender flying in zero gravity.

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The final area features costume and prop displays including uniforms, Petra’s training ball set, Ender’s bracelet whole at the Veteran’s retreat, and the flash guns.

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There was a mannequin of Ender in his flash suit and the new character banners released online today hung from the ceiling. The final piece was the window to Earth that Ender states out of in the trailer.

I’m currently camped out for the panel tomorrow, better photos will come Friday!

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2 responses to “The Ender’s Game Experience at Comic Con 2013”

  1. MajorAnderson Avatar
    MajorAnderson

    Amazing! I can’t wait to pour over all the details in all the pics (and vids?) that you made. But these are already awesome. Love the flash gun. Had imagined the shuttle more … I dunno, cushy, I guess, and crammed. But it does go well with the rest of the look.

  2. Jason Avatar
    Jason

    It was nice to meet Crystal and Liz from Enderwiggin.net as well as Kelly from Endernews.com. I thought the event was a lot of fun. It will be cool to watch the movie, and see a prop that I got to see in person. I was evesdropping on the conversations around me. Most people who won tickets had not read the book. They signed up for the contest because they saw it on redit or some other site (other than an EG fansite). I got to tell Gavin Hood ‘thank you’ for making the movie. He was courteous and down to earth.

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