!*!*! 2014 LA Autograph Sessions !*!*!

The 2014 Los Angeles Convention was held at the Westin Hotel on Century Blvd. The autograph sessions brought out quite a few Mattel employees this year, with one session in particular having designers from the Hong Kong plant waiting in line for signatures from the Mattel USA staff members. I got quite lucky while having a Hot Wheels camp chair signed by a couple members at the autograph, Brendon asked the additional staff members if they wouldn't mind signing the chair, so I got an additional two Hong Kong employees as well as several members from the packaging staff at mattel, who were not scheduled for the autograph sessions to sign my camp chair. All in all, a great time with the autograph signing and some pretty good conversations. I even got lucky to get an original peice of work from Bryan Benedicts son, Braeler Benedict. I will bring this to a future convention and have him sign it again, hopefully he will be a future Hot Wheels Designer.

The autograph sessions included the following staff amd former employees of Mattel; Larry wood, Bob Rosas, Drenden Vetuskey, Steve Vandervate, Bryan Benedict, Mike McClone, Jeremy Cox, Jun Imai, Philip Riehlman, Manson Cheung, Abe Lugo, Mark Jones, Rob Matthes, Leeway chang, Jerry Thienprasiddhi, Miguel Lopez, and Ryu Asada.