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Another pleasant change is an enlarged Kids Track area. This area is designed as a combination day care and family break area. Yes, apparently enough of us gamers have bred, and conventions as a family outing is now a real concept. Instead of bribing the wife with the opportunity to go to Disneyland with the kids while dad wallows in dice, experience points and clicky bases, mom and the kids now come along and the latter spend half the budget on the latest Neopet card game.
But when the family needs a break, there is an area conveniently located behind the Upper Deck Yu-Gi-Oh arena. And what an area! It's bigger than shown on the convention map and it displaces the Paint & Take to the other hall (a better location, anyways). Of course, there are board and card games for the younger set, some of them graciously donated by the manufacturers. Three GameBoy SP's with Pokemon hardwired into them have returned from last year.
But the biggest toys are something completely different. From the right, there's an inflatable bouncy castle (dubbed Castle Grayhawk by the area staff). Next is an inflatable Velcro wall, where one can get in touch with one's inner dwarf by suiting up in a Velcro suit and tossing oneself at the wall to see if you can stick.
Next over is a inflatable jousting arena where the object is to knock an opponent or three off a pedestal with a padded pugil stick. Last is a bowling alley with human-sized pins. The ball is a steel frame where one is carefully strapped in and rolled at the pins.
The only downside to any of this is that anyone over 18 is going to have to wait in line behind the kids - and I suspect there will be a line of adults as well as kids.