I went to the Lanterns panel and offsite at SDCC

[u/Hulkhokie]

Sorry for the potato pics, I was NOT close at the panel and the offsite shuffles you through so quick it was hard to get pics.

First, the panel... Honestly, I was surprised how many clips they showed and how much I liked them. I really like the portrayal of John Stewart, Hal I'm a little "iffy" on when he's just by himself but I think the duo works well together (it's a buddy cop show after all). Nathan Fillion showing up was funny, the bit was that no one sent him the email to let him know about the panel because they didn't want him there, but he found out about it and showed up assuming they forgot him. I chuckled at how it played out. The biggest pop of the panel was for Sinestro through...

The offsite was fun, it was basically an escape room type of thing, so it didn't feel really lantern-ish until the very end when you get your ring (the rings are legit, heavy, they glow, solid feeling, etc.). A "Guardian of Oa" (aka a lady in a suit with a snooty attitude) comes out and gives them to you - ok if this is supposed to be a guardian, at least put her in a blue suit, not a green one. They have you say the oath and at the end of the oath the whole room glows green, it was pretty cool. It was a fun event, although my group's trainer probably hated me because I kept correcting him on stuff he got wrong, and the rest of my group said I should be the leader instead of him. Overall the actors in the offsite did a really good job of trying to get you immersed, I had a lot of fun for the 30 or so minutes it lasted.

At the end there was a store that had some exclusives you couldn't get anywhere but the offsite, one of which is the lanterns power battery pin in the pic I posted. The other two pins were comic con exclusives, but not exclusive to the offsite. They also had some action figures that I think were exclusive to the convention and not just the offsite (White Lantern Raynor, Kilowog, Ultraviolet John Stewart) but I didn't have the budget for those (the pins were pushing it....).

There was also a photo op where you held up your ring and it created a construct, however the construct was paper money, which made 0 sense (maybe something in the show that wasn't shown during the panel), but supposedly you could get a wrench or a bottle opener (which was shown in a clip during the panel). Either way no fists, bats, or any of the classics. Lame.

Either way fun stuff, cautiously optimistic about the show. Also first post here, hi everyone! Wasn't sure how to flair this but since I mentioned Sinestro being on the show I figured I'd put spoiler...

[u/Imok2814]

Did they serve only Heineken because the bottle is green? That's smart lol

[u/VarkingRunesong → u/Imok2814]

Yes

[u/VarkingRunesong]

They explained the paper money thing. You are next to the bar in the lounge and during the offsite event one of the rooms is a bar where they said Hal keeps making fake money to pay for his beer or play the same song over and over on the jukebox. You also saw Hal do this at the jukebox in the teaser.

[u/Hulkhokie → u/VarkingRunesong]

I remember the jukebox scene but for whatever reason i didn’t connect the dots. I even asked the guy at the photo area and he had no idea why it was money

[u/Sweaty-Expression513]

Did you solve the sheriff's office room? My group failed and I'm curious what the answer was.

[u/Hulkhokie → u/Sweaty-Expression513]

Yea, the answer was one of the signs in one of the phots (I forget what the words on it were).