Awesome! When Gandalf Paid A Surprise Visit To Comic-Con Hall “H” Line!

Sir Ian McKellen, aka “Magneto” and “Gandalf” made a unique visit to the Hall H line the night before Peter Jackson debuted footage from both of his new films, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey(2012) and The Hobbit: There and Back Again(2013) at the San Diego Comic Con. At around midnight the mega-star came down to the line of fans with no fanfare, body guards, or retinue of assistants and just told everyone he saw the line from his hotel room window at The Hilton. He knew they were in line for Hall H and that the film he stars in would be featured the next day as part of the Warner Bros. roll out of films coming 2012-2014.

He exclaimed, “You are all crazy!” to the crowd as he smiled and waved playfully to the swarm of fans.  I would have thought that after a few minutes of that he would have been on his way back up to his room but he actually posed with fans for pictures and signed autographs for at least a half hour in the line.

He even took this photo with longtime Geekscapist Alice Acheron!

Fans of the film were very respectful and no one at anytime rushed or pushed to be near the star. The only rude comment made in the half hour was myself yelling for him to turn around so I could get a photo with my I-Phone (see above) in which he obliged willingly. Everyone near me started snapping pictures and the shot would have been dark if it had not been for everyone’s flashes going off. The moment itself was really cool and just part of the magic that can happen at Comic-Con Intl.

Here’s a video I took of Ian’s surprise appearance: