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I don’t know if you all know this but I love Mike Welch. No really. I fan girl over him more than anyone else. When I saw this on the Lex I just had to share!

Mike Welch entertained Twilight fans on the first ever Twilight Cruise. At the crowd’s request he reenacted the infamous “butt shake dance”. It’s a good thing that he didn’t reenact the volleyball at the head sequence…ouch.

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Sunday was bright and beautiful, but inside the twists and turns of the Westin Convention Centre, 500 girls and women hardly cared. When pursuing love with a vampire, sunlight is an easy sacrifice.

This weekend was the Toronto stop of the touring Twilight Convention, a gathering for fans of Stephenie Meyer’s rabidly popular tale.

Almost 100 million copies of the four-novel series have been sold, and three movies have been made about the teenager Bella Swan and her romances with the vampire Edward Cullen and werewolf Jacob Black. A fourth film is set to be released in 2011.

“I cannot wait for Breaking Dawn,” said Santyna Brar, 14, who attended the entire three-day convention with her cousin, Sonali Kumar, 15.

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While there was no Twilight movie panel this year at Comic Con, finding Twilight inspired merchandise was not a problem. Summit also had Dakota  Fanning’s costume displayed at their booth. It was an amazing event and I can’t wait for next year!

Twilight Dolls for $140 each

A wall of Twilight Posters

Jane and Alec’s costumes.

Even though the Twilight Saga was not formally at Comic Con in San Diego, CA  this year one of our favorite cast members was. Check out the photo of Kellan Lutz and Nina Dobrev from The Vampire Diaries. 

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Comic-Con 2010 Panel: Twilight Fan Fic Authors / Steven Lloyd Wilson

Here is a great article on a the Twilight FanFiction panel and I would like to add that he was very nice and respectful. Thank you for this.

The panel is buried next door to the convention center, in the basement of the Mariott. It’s a small room, seating maybe a hundred or so people at the most, the smallest one of I’ve been in at the convention other than the bathrooms. There are a handful of other events bumped to the Mariott, but there’s a palpable feeling that this particular panel is over here to limit the rubbernecking drop ins and give these particular fans some peace. Prisco and I loiter outside, it’s the first event of the day so the doors aren’t open yet.

It’s apparent that most people here already know each other, although they’re from all parts of the world. They do the internet handle tango, approaching each other, glancing at the meaningless name tags, and then pronouncing semi-random words and digits that signify their identity. The excited exclamations follow, shaking hands and hugging friends never before met. True names have power, it’s funny how just as some myths are disappearing, we build new worlds that incorporate their rules. An organizational sort starts passing around a sharpie so that everyone can write the handles on their name tag.

The convention gives out giant tote bags when you get your ticket, for stuffing freebies and bootie in. There are a few rotating around, WB, CBS. A few companies pass out their own at their booths, and there’s a neat one floating around from BBC America promoting Doctor Who, with that picture of Karen Gillan and Matt Smith floating in space outside the TARDIS. A few of the fans here are checking each other’s out and one woman exclaims “if anyone sees the Doctor Who one, please get it for me!” Not so strange after all, eh?

The doors finally open to admit us, and as the crowd squeezes between the doors, scarred from thousands of these sorts of crowds pushing in and out, one woman admires another’s “V for Vendetta” tattoo. It’s a representation of V’s iconic mask, filling all the space between her shoulder blades, the motto emblazoned beneath: “Vi Veri Viversum Vivus Vici.” Not so different.

The seats fill up quickly, until there’s only standing room in the back. There might be eight men in the entire room: Prisco and I, four guys in the back giggling and exuding a mocking voyeurism which was exactly the reason for burying this over in another building. There a sprinkling of other men scattered throughout, each making a point to have his arm around the woman he’s with.

One of the fans excuses herself to get around Prisco and me, and says “you guys are brave, there’s a lot of estrogen in this room.”

“We’ve got a lot too,” I say.

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While there will be no Twilight Movie Panel this year at Comic Con, those attend having the pleasure of meeting up with other fanfantion fans. Here are the details on the panel. I hope to see you there! NOTE: There will be no filming or pictures during this event.

10:00-11:00 Twilight Fanfiction Author Fangroup— A Q&A/dialogue with Snowqueens Icedragon (Master of the Universe), m81170 (An Introduction to Swirl & Daisy), MsKathy (The Trip Home), HMonster4 (Deconstructing Dracula), Giselle-lx (Ithaca is Gorges), ElleCC (A Murmur of Fire in the Vein), and Amethyst Jackson (Bonne Foi). Santa Rosa Room, Marriott Hotel and Marina

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by Darren Franich

Every year at the San Diego Comics Convention, you always hear the same gripe: “Isn’t this supposed to be about comic books?” From this perspective, Hollywood has turned what used to be a fanboy Mecca into a marketing platform for decidedly non-comic properties. (This isn’t exactly fair: as EW’s Lynette Rice noted a few weeks ago, an earlier Comic-Con featured a screening of Orson Welles’ Othello.) Angry die-hard comics fans have something to be happy about today, though: Summit Entertainment has just released their Comic-Con schedule, and in a surprising move, the Twilight franchise will not be making an appearance on the panels.

Which means: no more tweeny-boppers wandering around in glittery-white makeup wearing T-shirts that say “Team Jasper” or “Team Riley” or whatever. What’s a hater to do? Not to worry, PopWatchers, at Comic-Con there’s always something to complain about. We’ve analyzed the field and come up with the five things that will be annoying you at this year’s Comic-Con; take a poll after the jump.

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Peter Facinelli was the star of the day at the Twi Tour Convention in Phoenix today. Peter started the karaoke session off with a quick rendition of “We are the World”, and then danced with the crowd to Candace Charee singing her song “Comin’ to Getcha”.

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Saturday afternoon and evening at the LA Twilight Convention, as seen by Checkmate: (Click to enlarge)

After our small lunch break…we welcomed the little wolves from the Wolf Pack…Booboo Stewart and Tyson Houseman. They became fast friends while filming. They definitely had a brotherhood bond.

Next, was the Big Dogs of the Wolf Pack…Alex Meraz, Chaske Spencer, and Julia Jones

And lastly, it was no big deal. It was just THE EPIC TRIO!!! Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, and Taylor Lautner. Believe it or not…Kristen was a TON of smiles throughout the whole Q&A. She’s so pretty. Here’s just a little taste of the AWESOMENESS I experienced. It still seems so surreal…

oooops…Taylor tipped out of his chair while laughing…hehehe

Thanks to Checkmate for making them available to us!

Checkmate shares her Saturday morning at the LA Twilight Convention:

Saturday was SOOOOO SUPER busy…but SOOOOO SUPER fun!!!
We started the morning with the Cullen Family…well, most of them anyway. Ashley Greene, Nikki Reed, Elizabeth Reaser, Jackson Rathbone, and Peter Facinelli took the stage, bright and early

After the Cullens left the stage, the “Bad Vamps”, Bryce Dallas Howard and Xavier Samuel, came up next.

And just before lunch…we had a little taste of everything. From the Quiluetes, Gil Birmingham…From the “humans”, Christian Serratos…From the Volturi, Daniel Cudmore

And while on stage…Daniel lets us in on a little secret…he took ballet when he was 4years old. And so, with a little help from “Alice” from the “Hillywood Show” he gave us a little taste of what a 6′8″ ballerina looks like