Pages Tagged “SDCC Tickets”
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- Convention Inflation
Next year’s WonderCon tickets are available now, and SDCC goes on sale next week. I noticed something interesting about the WonderCon price, because ten years ago, I compared a lot of convention prices. How do they stack up a decade later? WonderCon 2018 costs the same as Comic-Con 2008 did: $75. (WonderCon in 2008 was […]
- Not Going to Comic-Con This Year (But I Feel Fine)
I tried, but couldn’t get tickets to SDCC for the first time in years. Oddly, I’m only mildly disappointed.
- SDCC Lottery: The Least-Bad Option?
SDCC is moving to lottery-based pre-registration for 2014 to even out the crush of everyone hitting the site in the first 10 seconds after launch. Instead of first-come first-serve, you sign in anytime within a window and it randomly assigns your place in line. Looking back, the turning point for crowds and being able to […]
- Don’t Use Third-Party Links in Email – Object Lesson: Comic-Con Registration
A click tracker that couldn’t hold up to the strain of Comic-Con registration prevented thousands of potential attendees from getting into the system in time.
- Comic-Con: Down the Barrel
Comic-Con International sold out this weekend. The convention isn’t until July, which makes the January sell-out surprising enough…but tickets didn’t even go on sale until this past Saturday, and were all gone by the end of the day! In past years, tickets haven’t been a problem. This year, they’ve become as hard to get as […]
- SDCC Ticket Meltdown
Comic-Con 2011 ticket sales crashed under heavy load shortly after going online. I think we’re seeing another shift in the process of getting to Comic-Con. It used to be that, as long as you were aware of the onsale dates and could both plan your trip and pay for your tickets far enough ahead of […]
- Comic-Con Sellout
Crazy: 9 months ahead, full-event Comic-Con 2010 tickets are already sold out. 1-day tickets haven’t gone on sale yet.
- Comic-Con – Get Your Tickets Now!
7 weeks to go, and Comic-Con is out of 4-day memberships. Single-day tickets are still available, but it looks like it might sell out this year.
- Comic Book Convention Prices Compared
On a per-day basis, Comic-Con isn’t actually that expensive compared to other big conventions like Gen Con and Dragon*Con.
- Badges? You don’t get no stinking badges!
There was no line by the time we reached Comic Con, but we had to bounce around to multiple tables before we could pick up our badges and get inside.
- To The Con: Getting into SDCC 2004 at the last minute
Back in the day when you COULD get Comic-Con tickets and hotel reservations a week or two before the event. It still wasn’t easy, but it was possible.