Over the last few days, Lucca Comics and Games, Europe’s largest Comic-Con, has been celebrating its 60th anniversary.
\n\nThe medieval city located in Italy’s Tuscany region hosted creative leaders, artists and players of games, authors of comic books, manga, showrunners and animators of TV series and anime, actors and directors of films. Around 80,000 ticket-paying fans per day flooded the city and visited the various pavilions, exhibitions and pop-up experiences dotted throughout the city.
\n\nHere are five takeaways from this year’s event.
\n\nQueues for HBO’s Harry Potter pavilion began in the early morning before crocodiling and winding around the pavilion. Visitors were treated to a peek at props from the show, were given temporary tattoos for the House of their choice and got to see a specially filmed message from John Lithgow and Nick Frost, who play Albus Dumbledore and Hagrid respectively. Given the obvious anticipation of the show, it was a pity that no one from the show was physically present nor were there any previews of footage granted. Many of the fans were cautious in their enthusiasm. A fan of the films, Stefano – who was confusingly dressed as a Jedi – told Variety, “It will be fun…
Original source: https://variety.com/v/tv/