Well, Tuesday is the day before setup day, and I did spend some time today helping out at a booth or two moving boxes and the like. In my breaks, I did take a few pictures, and I’ll post them here so you can get a feel for what the halls looks like empty. Setup this week is a bit disjointed. Today is a national holiday, and many of the local folks were on holiday, and thus not setting up. This does mean that plenty of work was already done – most of the big boys in Hall 6 are all complete and ready to go. Additionally, while there were plenty of trucks in the cargo area; they had pretty much come in yesterday. From what I gather, due to the holiday, the truck drivers union takes today off – and that means no new trucks arrived today.
The East Lobby foyer is all set up for the press conference tomorrow (I’ll be there at 10am).
The doors also proudly advertise the new SPIEL app – which is pretty cool. You can load your badge in there, you can look up exhibitors. You can even store favorites (i.e. places you have preorders), and then tell it which door you are entering from, and it will guide you Waze-style through the halls so that you don’t spend too much time back-tracking!
Pallets of games everywhere!
some places are seriously building their own house – this place had ladders, spackling together drywall sections and witing electricity within
Despite the spiel preview from WEM, you never are entirely sure what you can get at the Japon Brand booth until they show up – here is the list
Found an old friend, Holger, who runs Spielbar, my favorite used gamed booth. Found an old game that I needed to replace and a surprise find indeed!
Had a nice tour through the Matagot booth (I wrote that up separately earlier in the day); then time to see my old friends at Bezier…
Aww, pallets of my babies. Well, they’re Ted’s babies; so maybe I’m like the uncle?
There’s a pun here somewhere…. OK, more pictures tomorrow – it’s bedtime now! You can also check out our instagram to see a few more pics of booth art I ran across today! https://www.instagram.com/opinionatedgamersblog/?hl=en
Until your next appointment,
The Gaming Doctor
Dale wrote : “From what I gather, due to the holiday, the truck drivers union takes today off – and that means no new trucks arrived today.”
It s much easier. Trucks are simply not allowed on German Streets on Sundays or Special HoliDAYs . Exception: They are carrying food like milk, fruit, fresh fish etc.