July 19th, 2012 at 11:44AM

HOW TO FIX COMIC-CON

areyouthatguy:

We all know Comic-Con is broken. All of us except the Comic-Con organizers, because from their point of view the money keeps rolling in.

But the show floor is dying, while the TV/Web panels are growing. 

Comic-Con should be ticketed like a film festival. Plain and simple. 

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Agreed, wholeheartedly. I would happily buy “show floor only” badges for my family, and more fans would get into their One True Panel of choice. Win-win.

One distinction I’d make: There are plenty of panels that aren’t in Hall H or the other big rooms. Keep those included in the basic badge, but clear them out between sessions anyway.

  1. bubstepmix reblogged this from areyouthatguy
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  3. wingedkiare reblogged this from areyouthatguy and added:
    I agree to all these points. I quit going because it became impossible to get tickets to go to the floor- which I tend...
  4. badinfluencespeaks reblogged this from sheliesshattered and added:
    True. We do clear the rooms between panels. Our panels go on until all hours. We have great fan led panels (I’ve already...
  5. bdsd reblogged this from geekyjessica
  6. xfkirsten reblogged this from geekyjessica and added:
    …and this is why we go to NerdHQ instead!
  7. sheliesshattered reblogged this from badinfluencespeaks and added:
    Or the simpler solution: skip SDCC and go to DragonCon instead. At a certain point they just don’t deserve your money...
  8. nerdcoretaco reblogged this from geekyjessica and added:
    This, and everything in it. I wish i could have had just a show-floor badge. I’d love to meet more independent creators...
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  10. globalspin reblogged this from areyouthatguy and added:
    Agreed, wholeheartedly. I would happily buy...my family, and more
  11. strangelikethat reblogged this from geekyjessica and added:
    Things definitely need to change.
  12. ryancrowley reblogged this from geekyjessica and added:
    I only go to attend the show floor. If I could just get a ticket for that and leave the panels for the people who enjoy...
  13. urbannerdsurvival reblogged this from geekyjessica and added:
    I totally agree with this. Having just been to my first Comic-Con, I have to say it was really disappointing to not get...
  14. geekyjessica reblogged this from spytap and added:
    Yes. This is absolutely true. Can we start a letter writing campaign or something?
  15. raelee reblogged this from areyouthatguy and added:
    Oh, agreed, I wasn’t clear in my comment (as I originally said more and then deleted it without fixing the rest). The...
  16. areyouthatguy reblogged this from raelee and added:
    Re: “nightmare”. CCI might balk, but there are plenty of world class festivals that use this kind of system. I’ve seen...
  17. spytap reblogged this from areyouthatguy and added:
    This would get me to attend again.
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