CNN 2010-07-27

Well, listen to this. 163 million dollars. That's the estimate, right now the latest estimate for what kind of impact this one convention, this just lasts several days, has in San Diego. In fact, San Diego itself is now on a battle to hold on to this convention up against Anaheim in L.A. and some other cities that really want it cuz even if it means some Klingons running around your town for a while, who doesn't want that economic impact? We have someone inside right now, our most viewed iReporter ever, Chris Morrow who is here with us, joining us by Skype. Chris, are you there?

 

I'm right here. Thanks for having me.

 

There you are. Awesome². Thanks for being here. All right, set the scene for me. Tell me what's around you. What are people doing? What's everyone excited about?

 

Well, I have to tell you, I am in geek central, and I'm so happy about it, you know. These are my people. And this is a lot of fun. There are over 130,000 people here at Comic Con¹. It's just about to start this morning for the entire weekend, and you're going to see costumes and you're going to see different designer toys. You're going to see platform toys, things that you've never seen before, as well as, you know, comic books, digital comic books, apps for your iPhone. You're going to see a lot of other things, like movies of Angelina Jolie, who knows, maybe Brad Pitt will show up.

 

I know people are excited about Angelina being there. Tina Fey is going to be there, Sylvester Stallone and Harrison Ford³. What are you holding? What are we looking at? What's in your hand, what is that?

 

This is what you call a do-it-yourself toy. You buy it. This is from Jermaine, it's called a veil. And you buy it and you paint it up yourself. So do-it-yourself toy. It's a lot of fun. I think it's about, I don't know, 200 dollars.

 

Two hundred dollars for something you have to paint yourself?

 

Two hundred dollars, something you paint yourself and you know in five years, this could be a thousand dollars. These are going like hot cakes, the do-it-yourself toy. There's a brand new platform toy out and this is from Monkey King. And this is something to wear, you can take it and you can put it on a wall. It's got a little peg⁴ right here, and you can put different ones together, you know. It's a kind of little fun thing. And then you've got the kid robots and, you know, you've got fun little toys exhibited with kid robots. So, uh, what?

 

And these sell big time. There are people lining⁵ up to get these. Actually, let's go to some of this video that you gave us, people lining up last night. Because the way it works is you have to get more than 130,000 people expected to come, but there is only a couple thousand that fit what's it called Hall H into where a lot of these VIPs are going to be with the movies, so you are outside, you saw all of these people already lining up to try to get in early, right? Talk to me about that. How long have they been there? What are they doing all night

1 con   

n.反对的观点，反对者，反对票，肺病；vt.精读，学习，默记；adv.反对地，从反面；adj.欺诈的

参考例句：

• We must be fair and consider the reason pro and con.我们必须公平考虑赞成和反对的理由。
• The motion is adopted non con.因无人投反对票，协议被通过。

2 awesome   

adj.令人惊叹的，难得吓人的，很好的

参考例句：

• The church in Ireland has always exercised an awesome power.爱尔兰的教堂一直掌握着令人敬畏的权力。
• That new white convertible is totally awesome.那辆新的白色折篷汽车简直棒极了.

3 Ford   

n.浅滩，水浅可涉处；v.涉水，涉过

参考例句：

• They were guarding the bridge,so we forded the river.他们驻守在那座桥上，所以我们只能涉水过河。
• If you decide to ford a stream,be extremely careful.如果已决定要涉过小溪，必须极度小心。

4 peg   

n.木栓，木钉；vt.用木钉钉，用短桩固定

参考例句：

• Hang your overcoat on the peg in the hall.把你的大衣挂在门厅的挂衣钩上。
• He hit the peg mightily on the top with a mallet.他用木槌猛敲木栓顶。

5 lining   

n.衬里，衬料

参考例句：

• The lining of my coat is torn.我的外套衬里破了。
• Moss makes an attractive lining to wire baskets.用苔藓垫在铁丝篮里很漂亮。