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Videos Added From San Diego 2011 Comic Con
Amber:
I used to go every year, but missed one, and haven't been able to get tickets since.
Hoping to talk someone who is going this year into buying me tickets for next year.
Murphy Fan:
Last year at SDCC 2010, I and my wife both had to provide Driver Licenses (CA) that they scanned in along with Visa CC as part of buy tickets for this year.
I understand they do it in part to prevent ticket scalpers.
A friend works CC in the Gaming Area. (Yes they have a few rooms for Role Playing and Board Games at CC).
I wonder if Jim will run a game at CC :> That would be a great party !
Brent and Karen
giapet:
--- Quote from: Murphy Fan on June 16, 2011, 09:41:31 PM ---I wonder if Jim will run a game at CC :> That would be a great party !
Brent and Karen
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That'd be fun, but I suspect you'd get too many people wanting to play! Maybe if you pitted a few parties against one another or something ;)
CrabbyRat:
--- Quote from: Murphy Fan on June 16, 2011, 09:41:31 PM ---I understand they do it in part to prevent ticket scalpers.
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What was happening was that people would get tickets online, and then sell that on eBay, get money for it, and then show up earlier than the person they sold the ticket to, and then that person's barcode would already be swiped as in. OR, they'd just sell copies of the badges. (The badges have a special cut for authenticity).
To get a press pass, you need to either show creds from the publication, or, if you write for a website, you have to show the website you write for and that you are a writer for it (business card, letter from site stating you're a writer for them, etc.). CC's idea is that the more press, and electronic FAR outnumbers regular press, the better publicity for CC. Of course, it's now sort of backfired, because they get SO much press, and Hollywood's come a-knocking, that the press aren't geeks anymore, but all the obnoxious pretty people from E! or Entertainment Tonight with their hair extensions and phaliic microphones. The incidence of creepy stalker types has grown as well, not to mention violence - someone got stabbed in the eye in Hall H last year, right before Harrison Ford came on.
But yeah, people buy tickets for the following year's Comic Con the year before now. Hotels are a total gamble. You have to wait until the day they announce rooms in March (Travel Planners is the company) and then everyone throws in with their picks, crashes the server, and then you get a room (hopefully) by lottery's pick. Which pretty much guarantees you don't get a hotel within walking distance, because all the studios have blocked out rooms for their peeps, shows, actors, etc.
125,000 attendees descend on San Diego that weekend, and that's not counting the exhibitors, press, professionals (studios, actors, producers, writers, publishers) and redshirts (that's what we call the security people, cuz they wear red golf shirts with ELITE on the back) that are there as well.
But the best advice of all for CC - comfortable walking shoes. ;)
giapet:
--- Quote from: CrabbyRat on June 17, 2011, 01:18:23 AM ---To get a press pass, you need to either show creds from the publication, or, if you write for a website, you have to show the website you write for and that you are a writer for it (business card, letter from site stating you're a writer for them, etc.). CC's idea is that the more press, and electronic FAR outnumbers regular press, the better publicity for CC. Of course, it's now sort of backfired, because they get SO much press, and Hollywood's come a-knocking, that the press aren't geeks anymore, but all the obnoxious pretty people from E! or Entertainment Tonight with their hair extensions and phaliic microphones.
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Speak for yourself! I am 100% grade-A geek meat-- and professional journalist. :)
That said, it sounds like there might be a slightly smaller Hollywood quotient this year; a couple of companies (including Warner Bros.) will still be present in the exhibit hall, but won't be making a big presentation of any upcoming flicks.
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