SDCC - Trip report

Frank Castle · Post by **Frank Castle** » Mon Jul 26, 2010 10:58 am

Boy listened to the podcast panel today. John from WB really likes to talk and I think he likes to listen to himself talk!! Reminds me why I don't subscribe to his podcast.

TNPredsFan · Post by **TNPredsFan** » Mon Jul 26, 2010 12:48 pm

BobBretall wrote:Trip Report continued.......

* Walking by Joey Calafiore's booth, I saw he had a pile of "Cheap Art! $5-$20/page!!" Looking thru that I got 4 pages (#1,3,4,5) from Catman's Origin in Secret Six #21 for $50 total for all 4 pages.

Ok, now I'm jealous.

neenjah · Post by **neenjah** » Mon Jul 26, 2010 1:45 pm

BobBretall wrote:
neenjah wrote:Did either of you run into Dave and Micah on Saturday? Dave was signing at the DC booth that afternoon. Said he had a great time but it was a crazy day and night. Called me for a second on Sunday on their way home, but had to call it short to help Micah navigate. Said he should have some good news to announce soon.
Dave gave me a call but we were not able to synch up.

DC booth was very crazy during con, I spent most of my time with the smaller publishers.

That's my boy!

Listening to the podcast panel now.

Lin

atomic99 · Post by **atomic99** » Tue Jul 27, 2010 5:11 pm

Good times at the con! I had a great time. Bob, did you ever track down a Starro mask?

Does anyone have one of those free Comic-Con newsletters for Sunday? That is the one thing I forgot to pick up. They list the Masquerade winners in Sunday's edition and I use the info for my pictures.

I'll have a proper con rundown later but here are some pics I took of some cosplayers....

atomic99 · Post by **atomic99** » Tue Jul 27, 2010 5:27 pm

Also, there is a rumor that Preview Night was SOLD OUT for on-site 4-day registration last Sunday. Can anyone confirm? I know I bought my 2011 on Saturday.

Trev · Post by **Trev** » Tue Jul 27, 2010 7:52 pm

atomic99 wrote:Also, there is a rumor that Preview Night was SOLD OUT for on-site 4-day registration last Sunday. Can anyone confirm? I know I bought my 2011 on Saturday.

jeez. I think I bought my tix Thurs or Friday.

crazy that it would sell out before they've even publicly released any tix. You pretty much had to be there in order to get tickets, didn't you?

BobBretall · Post by **BobBretall** » Tue Jul 27, 2010 9:58 pm

atomic99 wrote:Also, there is a rumor that Preview Night was SOLD OUT for on-site 4-day registration last Sunday. Can anyone confirm? I know I bought my 2011 on Saturday.

Geez, I didn't even see where they were selling for 2011. I'm going to be pissed if they sold out Preview night on-site.

BobBretall · Post by **BobBretall** » Tue Jul 27, 2010 10:01 pm

atomic99 wrote:Good times at the con! I had a great time. Bob, did you ever track down a Starro mask?

Yes, walked by the booth on Sat with the boys while they were giving them out so I got 3......

atomic99 · Post by **atomic99** » Wed Jul 28, 2010 3:06 am

Preview Night 2011....SOLD OUT!!

Confirmed here....
http://www.collider.com/2010/07/27/comi ... -sold-out/

And here....
http://www.nctimes.com/business/article ... d5e0c.html

Sold out by 3pm on Sunday. I'm so glad I didn't wait until the last day like I usually do.

Bob, can you work that press pass for Preview Night?

Trev · Post by **Trev** » Wed Jul 28, 2010 7:37 am

atomic99 wrote:Preview Night 2011....SOLD OUT!!

Confirmed here....
http://www.collider.com/2010/07/27/comi ... -sold-out/

And here....
http://www.nctimes.com/business/article ... d5e0c.html

Sold out by 3pm on Sunday. I'm so glad I didn't wait until the last day like I usually do.

Bob, can you work that press pass for Preview Night?

Press or Pro gets you in to Preview night too. BUT one thing I saw this year that may catch on is a ban on selling to non-attendee badges for exclusives on preview night. The Mattel booth had an explicit policy that any pro, exhibitor, or press badge would have to wait until Thurs to buy exclusives.

neenjah · Post by **neenjah** » Wed Jul 28, 2010 9:28 am

Didn't see any exclusives I had to have this year. Nicki and I thought the Hot Wheels invisible jet was cool until we found out there was no jet in it. Would have been a funny promo to hand out, but don't know about paying for it, especially on eBay.

The last year I went I lucked out and was able to be first in line for a few of the exclusives I wanted because of being a pro/exhibitor. I walked by the booths each morning just as they would announce the show floor was open and beat the crowds. I was able to get a set of the Peanuts buttons that way, plus the Hot Wheels Batman 3-pak, some of the Flash Gordon figures (with Alex Ross sketchbook), and a Batman figure (they sold out of the Joker one preview night).

What pissed me off was seeing some dealers (and one really shady on I know) walking away with cases of exclusives in the morning before the doors opened. That sucked.

Lin

BobBretall · Post by **BobBretall** » Wed Jul 28, 2010 9:49 am

neenjah wrote: What pissed me off was seeing some dealers (and one really shady on I know) walking away with cases of exclusives in the morning before the doors opened. That sucked.

Yeah, there is something going on with that, because I always see people with big piles of the exclusives that they are just going to re-sell, as opposed to them going into the hands of fans who want one for themselves.

I really think it's out of hand. The people who make the exclusives just want to make their $$ off of them, so they price them high and let people/dealers buy piles of them so they can get rid of them at inflated prices.

BTW: The only exclusive I really wanted was the Mighty Mugg Iron Man, but I didn't want to jump through the hoops (go somewhere upstairs to get a ticket, THEN go downstairs and wait in a long line) so I just skipped it.

BobBretall · Post by **BobBretall** » Wed Jul 28, 2010 9:55 am

atomic99 wrote: Bob, can you work that press pass for Preview Night?

Yeah, works for me, but sucks that I cannot get Stephen in for Preview night & he has to sit in the hotel.....

Post by **JohnMayo** » Thu Jul 29, 2010 6:25 am

neenjah wrote:Did either of you run into Dave and Micah on Saturday? Dave was signing at the DC booth that afternoon. Said he had a great time but it was a crazy day and night. Called me for a second on Sunday on their way home, but had to call it short to help Micah navigate. Said he should have some good news to announce soon.

I talked with Dave and Micah after his signing at the DC booth. Had a great time talking with them for a bit.

atomic99 wrote:Also, there is a rumor that Preview Night was SOLD OUT for on-site 4-day registration last Sunday. Can anyone confirm? I know I bought my 2011 on Saturday.

Wow. That was fast.

BobBretall wrote: Geez, I didn't even see where they were selling for 2011. I'm going to be pissed if they sold out Preview night on-site.

They were doing this upstairs under the sails.

Trev wrote: Press or Pro gets you in to Preview night too. BUT one thing I saw this year that may catch on is a ban on selling to non-attendee badges for exclusives on preview night. The Mattel booth had an explicit policy that any pro, exhibitor, or press badge would have to wait until Thurs to buy exclusives.

I'm okay with that since I never get the exclusives anyway.

torchsong · Post by **torchsong** » Thu Jul 29, 2010 8:56 am

Geez. I guess I better put in for one of those "Pro" passes you can get, or I may *never* make it back to San Diego.